I am writing this in hopes we can get something changed for enhancement survivability. Pre-patch and we are dying with earth elemental and earth shield on me to a single rogue. We need 1-2 more defensives or tweaks to help us survive better. I am aware that this is pre-patch and things are kind of busted because we are now tuned to the character level of 60 instead of 50, but the same thing is happening at level 60 on beta. So I am here to get some support and see what you guys think on how we can change our defensives for better enhance shaman gameplay.
My first suggestion is to make the feral spirit talent baseline removed the stacking debuff of damage reduction but cap it at 10-15%. Let us make some skilled gameplay moves like preemptively swap when we are about to get stunned. Druids do this with the bear form but they can heal with frenzy regeneration and swipe or thrash. they can do this much more effectively than what I am suggesting for us. This change will help us survive better and add a skillful gameplay component for the enhanced shaman.
Another thought came to mind to help us is making a enhance gameplay more engaging and tactful is to make a PVP talent that overloads our lightning shield for 10-15 sec on 45-60 sec cd and make the lightning shield do a lot more reflective damage during that can help detur melee from attacking us for a short time period. this again activates a skill play move using it a the correct time to help us survive. This also will not make us overpowered or top because it does not affect our actual damage done just a defensive.
We have seen this one being asked for is to bring back shamanistic rage. We are going back to a warlords playstyle so it makes sense that we get it back and I would like to add this to the suggestions of what can help us in PVP. This can even be made into a PVP talent so it can help diversify our talent choices.
Lastly, we need astral shift useable during stuns. This is such an easy fix and effective.
IMHO we need to have the astral shift/shamanistic rage changes i suggested along with one of the other of the first 2 suggestions i made and enhance shaman will be in a good spot in PVP without breaking PVE content. I am open to other suggestions and lets see what we can do as a community to get something changed