for a spec that highly revolves around having flame shock up as often as possible on as many targets as possible, bliz decided to make spreading flame shock as horrible and tedious as possible.
Why is there a 45 second cooldown on the only skill that spreads flame shock? (capped at 3 targets because of course it is) Yes I know totemic recall exists but you have to wait another 2 minutes for that to cool down. and god forbid the enemies die before you get lava burst off, at that point, congrats, now you have to wait 40 seconds for primordial wave to come off CD to do any significant AOE damage again
So now your only option while waiting for these to cool down is the archaic tab between targets to apply flame shock, 1 at a time, which 90% of the DoT classes dont have to deal with anymore, but ele shamans do, for whatever reason. Its so easy to spread flame shock on Enh so I have no idea what Bliz was thinking here.
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Would be nice if they added something that turn earthquake into molten dmg and apply flameshock to its targets
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You can spread flame Shock:
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By casting flame Shock after casting earth Shock/earthquake with surge of power.
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Liquid Magma totem (which can be reset by totemic recall).
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Primordial wave.
The issue is, it feels clunky to have three different methods of spreading that none of which are particularly reliable. I wish they would focus on just one, either make surge of power spread to 6 targets or make liquid magma spread to 6 targets and have a shorter cooldown.
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Yeah but none are good. Take lock for exemple, Seed will proc corruption(Or wither) on all targetwith no cooldown. Cataclysm will do the same but with a cooldown this time. But none of them are limited in term of target afflicted.
Shadow priest can apply both of their dots to 8 targets with 1 button, and that button only has a 20 second cooldown.
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There should be a choice node, either Chain Lightning spreads Flame Shock to every target it hits, or Chain Lightning hits every target it can chain to. Infinite Chain Lightning, or Flame Shock spreading on limited jumps.
Elemental shaman needs a raid buff honestly. How about 5% spell crit, or 5% mastery?
Not only is spreading flame shock frustrating even with the multiple methods available, I swear to god the game goes out of its way to make it even worse. So often the surge of power spread will go onto some nothing little trash mob that dies a second later rather than the big actual mob that you are trying to cleave onto, or onto the mob you literally last flame shocked instead of the last remaining mob without the dot. Magma totem has the same issue, just another problem to add onto the pile elemental has.
Flame shock is a spell with ZERO redeeming qualities. Everything that could be bad about a spell applies to flame shock. Short duration, long cooldown, little damage, difficult to spread, mandatory to apply before doing damage, and a weak visual effect. Rework or delete it
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It’s the #1 reason I preferred the lightning build before it was basically phased out of existence …
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brother its super easy spred the flame shoock the fire totem… and the surge proc if you cant do that play bm hunter
the same fire totem do the same and its easy to use…
If Liquid magma totem had a shorter cooldown then that would be a reliable method of spreading flame Shock.
/targetenemy
/cast Flame Shock
/targetlasttarget