There’s been so much talk about how ele shamans can only either do AoE or ST and one of the largest contributing factors is the value of secondary stats, so how can we make both Mastery and Crit viable secondary stats for both damage profiles.
Lava Burst
I think one of the simplest solutions is having lava burst scale with our crit stat just as it does in ascendance.
Echo of the Elements
I mean I feel like it just been repeated over and over again… When is this going to be baseline for us.
Ascendance
If lava burst were to gain ascendance’s buff I think there are a couple of different options for a new buff.
- Lava Burst always overloads during ascendance.
- Some sort of multiplier to keep scaling with our crit stat.
Further Beyond
If the suggested changes to ascendance happened I this talent would make us a bit too reliant on receiving PI. A suggested change for this would be instead of extending the duration of ascendance, reducing the cooldown when casting EQ, ES, or EB.
Deeply Rooted Elements
While this might be an unpopular opinion, I think this talent should just flat out be removed from enh and ele. As far as I’m aware Enh only uses this in their Physical build and Ele currently uses it in both ST and AoE and while it feels good to get a proc, I would rather the devs actually put some effort into expanding on the on use CD rather than being able to fall back on a pretty strong proc.
Helping Out Our Spenders
Eye of the Storm
I think this should just be baseline it’s kind of crazy we have to spend 2 talent points to make Ele Blast not cost 90 maelstrom.
Mountains Will Fall
Just another talent that should be baked into our mastery already, providing some value for mastery in AoE without having to spend talent points.
Something that’s common among the top performing specs in the game right now is that most of them only have 3 capstone talents… Elemental Shaman has 5 we have to spend a lot of talent points to get them. Baking this into our mastery would at least alleviate one of those capstones.
Echoes of Great Sundering
How the mighty have fallen, maybe it’s just due to the initial nerfs to Earthquake but this talent is not what it used to be. One suggestion I saw a lil while back was to replace this with Tectonic Thunder from BFA which I think would be a great change to give us some more burst AoE.
Icefury
To be honest I’m not really sure what to do about this talent, I’ve always loved Icefury as a talent, but I don’t really care for Electrified Shocks or Flux Melting. Blizzard has done a great job building out frost shock talents for enhancement maybe taking some lessons from Icestrike and Hailstorm to make frost shock another option as a spender to maybe give us an option for 2 target cleave. Elemental shaman is already so bloated with spells that are casting X buffs the next cast of Y I think the current talents are unnecessary.
Primordial Wave
I’ve seen someone suggest combining Primordial Surge and Splintered Elements which I think would be a great change as well allowing us not have to choose between AoE and ST.
Final Thoughts
I know this is a lot to ask for, but I think a lot of these changes are necessary for the spec. Would love to see some additional thoughts about these suggestions.