Elemental Shaman Volcanic Regalia in Firelands and Beyond

Hello!

In preparation for the Firelands raid, we’ve been working through some adjustments we might make. One frequent topic of discussion is the Elemental Shaman “Volcanic Regalia” 2-piece tier set bonus. This bonus saw a large change during original Cataclysm, along with class changes to the Shaman themselves, between the Firelands and Dragon Soul raids. Here’s a look at the original bonus, and how it was changed:

  • Volcanic Regalia 2-piece bonus (original version - patch 4.2): “Your damaging spells have a chance to reset the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem.” (8% Proc chance, 105 second internal cooldown)

  • Volcanic Regalia 2-piece bonus (adjusted version - Patch 4.3): “Your Lightning Bolt has a 30% chance to reduce the remaining cooldown of your Fire Elemental Totem by 4 seconds.”

When original Firelands was current content, the Volcanic Regalia bonus felt appropriate and in-line with the power level of other sets at the time. However, when 4.3 was released with class adjustments and a new dragon soul raid, it became clear that this set bonus scaled far too well and vastly overperformed, even when stacked against higher item level tier gear from the Dragon Soul raid. As a result, the decision was made at the time to retune the set bonus.

Now that we’re in Cataclysm Classic, we’ve been reviewing this set and have decided to revert this change and restore the original Volcanic Regalia 2-piece bonus for the Firelands Raid tier. We think that this was a very fun set bonus and in the context of Cataclysm Classic, allowing Shamans to experience this powerful set in its original form makes sense in this specific case.

Nonetheless, we will revisit this with the launch of Dragon Soul raid next year. We’re planning to restore the patch 4.3 version of the Volcanic Regalia 2-piece bonus with the launch of Dragon Soul, as the 4.2 version will certainly create the same issues it did in original Cataclysm.

Thank you for your feedback and commentary on this issue. We’re looking forward to everyone heading into Firelands and getting their hands on this and all of the other awesome loot when the raid releases on November 7!

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How about no!!! shamans dont need anther buff!!!

how about buffing feral druid dps ele shamans dont need a 100% uptime on there fire ele!!! this is absurd buff an S tier dps class while keeping F tier dps F tier and ignoring that class/spec is stupid !!!

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Okay Burning, step away from the forums.

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Blizz how about instead of buffing a S tier class you buff a F tier dps class known as Feral you know the class with the most complex rotation but is ranked #20 out of #22 instead of buffing a class that is ranked #4 out 22!!! Where is the logic behind this?

can you do the same for shard of woe then?

Um… It’s how it was supposed to be… Burning…

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holy crap boys we did it!

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It seems that feral was expected to be S-tier as it was in the original Cataclysm, but that hasn’t been the case.

No? We knew we were getting Patch 4.3.4 tuning from the getgo, as with every other version of Classic. Feral DPS was not S-Tier then.

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Thank god we got a buff

no feral buff because feral is fine!!! i know its crazy!! :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head:

Thats cool and all but maybe you could fix joyous journeys? You are still advertising it on the launcher

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Confused… so which one is the set effect that will be used now? Remaining or 4 sec cd off fire ele?

Any chance of the elemental AI being fixed like was claimed in the June 21st hotfix?

remaining, 4s is the one we’ll get after DS drops

Could the fire ele targeting AI get looked at as well so the fire ele will actually target things with our higher uptime? Ty.

Feral druids do need some type of buff.

I know burning is out there spamming.

His opinions to the side, the class is in a horrible state, and at this point if you aren’t tanking , theres no point to be a cat.

This is why they buffed the class in wrath, and this is why in pandaria they separate druids as guardian for tank, and feral for damage. why?, because feral druids in cata are meant to be the raids pet, at this point, make the feral druids the elemental shamans pet, since ferals are going to be fire elemental kittys either way, its not like they aren’t doing pet damage already

But isn’t that bad…? Fire ele totem is 10 min cd ( doesn’t that get reset after boss wipe/kill?) so whats the point in that sense.

I’d rather get a dps boost to some other spell or something with another interaction instead of fire ele at this point

In a 5m fight you go from 53% uptime to 100% uptime. Assuming you run the real spec for elemental shamans. Fire elemental represents around 10% of the elemental shamans damage assuming it targets the correct target and doesn’t die to mechanics.