Hi, since I started playing wow I’ve always liked the style of enh shaman. I find it to be unique but every time I’ve played its not in a good spot on pvp.
One of the aspect for which it’s not reliable to me is the rng in damage. I think windfury enchant being based on a chance per hit is bad and hard to balance. Windfury weapon should be a buff like annihilation for wars or demon blades. It should add dmg to every light attack which is more balanced and easier to adjust.
If windfury dmg is fixed, balancing instant abilities via maelstrom would be easier.
I’m down to having heavy burst nerfed, but rng is just as bad as heavy burst.
Just my thought on the spec.
Or just make it PPM.
Yep, I was getting to a similar conclusion as far as pvp goes at least. I think windfury has been a part of the spec for a long time, and I’m ok with it being RNG, but stormbringer not. Stormbringer is the passive influenced by mastery where your stormstrikes can reset its cd when you use abilities. It completely messes up enh potential in arenas. Since the Ele blast nerf, that I believe was necessary because of how toxic back to back 200k+ ele blasts were, your win condition seem to be your physical burst. Like, you need to press Doomwinds with 10 maelstrom, and pray that either the first or the second stormstrike (after using the 10 maelstrom) will proc stormbringer and hopefully that second stormstrike will proc stormbringer again and, you know what, if for some miraculous designation that second or first stormstrike procs ascendance…the planets are now starting to align…
Whatever, you get my point, in pve you’re ok, you’ll get your procs anyways, but its another story in pvp. Its kinda sad to see top enhs in pvp calling a kill target in arena and then nothing procs and they just wasted cds and can’t even kill a target that has 25% hp with no one to save him/her for 3, 4 or 5s and enh is just there…autoattacking or even worse, ice strking or lava lashing…
Its weird because ele has now the possibility of having forced lava surge procs. I think that might be the issue, they designed Primordial wave around the big ele blast with 10 maelstrom procs, instead of around stormstrike. They though that in this iteration of the game, where big damage is the meta, that the 10 maelstrom ele blasts was going to be enh shaman win condition, but they failed to realize it was going to be a nightmare to balance in pvp. I don’t really know what brought blizz to think that the most powerful attack for a “totemic warrior” should’ve been a ranged magic attack…I like ele blast, as a complement, as a finisher perhaps, as an increase in damage, in fact, I like how much it hits right now more than before the nerf, but it doesn’t kill anything anymore, and stormstrike RNG is just a nightmare to play around.
So instead of Primordial wave giving 10 maelstrom (that you were probably going to use to not die anyway), what about giving 2 100% chance stormbringer procs? I don’t know, just an idea, that way I can primordial wave, doomwinds and have 3 assured stormstrikes for kill windows.
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100%. I rly wish for the best for the spec and I don’t see it coming as it’s right now in pvp. You can either do a lot of dmg or do no dmg.