While I don’t think it would ever happen, I mulled on the idea of bringing back Rockbiter Weapon and Stonefist as the main focus of a 2-handed enhancement build.
One side of the tree could be Wind+Fire dual-wielding with Windfury and Lava Lash, the other side of the tree could be Wind+Earth with Stormstrike and Stonefist. DW would be all about speed; while 2H would be big, slow hits.
That’s how I’d do it anyway. I like the idea of having a big mace or axe and calling upon the earth for big, chunky hits that cause earthquakes and eruptions.
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The no isn’t so much “bah 2-hand” it’s just the implementation and Blizzard being big poo poo with trying to make things work. The loot acquisition thing is a huge factor in that, even with potentially having bullions during the whole season and crafting shoring up missing slots as you previously suggested. I think if they can guarantee weapon slots then it would be fine if it was in and wildly unbalanced since there’s a good portion of the player base that just wants to vibe out and could care less about DPS numbers. But just having it in a further increasing the chance of getting bricked vaults would have a good number of people mad.
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And reduce the range of transmogs I can collect on shaman? Over my dead body.
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So you’re either saying it’s fine for 2h to be massively better - in which case screw the loyal Enhancement playerbase yeah? - or you’re saying you & others wouldn’t care if 2h wasn’t good you just want it back, it’s totally fine if DW is always better.
Now I wonder where I’ve seen that last one before, hmmm…
Feels like you have only chosen to read one thing I’ve said this whole post.
Most people who play this game are giga casual Andy’s who couldn’t care less about what is good or not. And those that do care about what is good don’t care what shape those results take just that they are performing well.
If enhance 2h is performing so well then people would play it and not care. If Enhance 2H is forming poorly then people would play it and not care. Theres a tiny margin of people in the middle who would care that 2h isnt as competitive or that are upset that it is better then DW.
It could be as simple as 2H has more burst but less sustain over time. Which give it value for different content. PvP = 2h PvE = DW. I feel most people would be just fine with that.
And once again, my stance is actually:
That is my opinion on the matter. Everything else is for the sake of discussing the topic.
I mean for those that care about performance it mostly comes down to being able to guarantee wanting to go for weapons. Season 2 where BoS and Oblit were holding parody on single target and BoS being an option to play to be a big parse monkey on like Echo and Sark, I ran into a situation where I got Echo weapon for Oblit and was super happy but never got good weapons so a whole host of Crest went into making weapons. I particularly not jazzed about seeing 2 handers show up in my vault 2 weeks in a row with the 2nd week actually having one of my raid slot taken AND a M+ slot. After I got DW weapons crafted I started seeing one handers in my vault when I was hoping for an Anvil.
I wish there was a secondary loot sar would be also really nice for say Ele/Resto if you want a one hander and mace instead of a staff. I will say as I was typing out this idea I would swap to which every is the “smaller” loot table. For example, if was going for Main Hand/Off Hand, I would swap back to 2 hand if there less 2handers in the loot table of the vault in order to maximize loot acquisition.