How do you feel about the changes so far? Spreading flame shock has been nice, but I still feel like we don’t hit that hard unless we are running doomwinds. I would love to use primal lava actuators or the frost witch one (tbh I haven’t used wolf bones) in other settings like PvP. I have wondered about using a primal lava build with the hot hand and whatever the talent is called that doubles flame shock damage, but don’t know if it’s viable.
Anyone tried anything besides doomwinds yet and seen success?
I’ve mostly been running lashing flames+hot hand+elemental spirits while swapping around the aoe talent row and going between primal lava actuators and wolf bones as necrolord in m+ and night fae in raid. Overall It feels really good lashing flames for single target isn’t a massive loss and the second you can multidot its noticable to the point where I am generally fine with using it over elemental blast except in like pure patchwork.
In m+ its a bit of a pain to do the whole whack-a-mole dot game especially since sometimes the adds won’t last long enough, but my sustained damage over a key feels pretty good, except with uncapped aoe situations, and when the multidotting does matter it feels really really good. I’m looking forward to being able to go actuators and necro legendary since I think that will allow for some real big focus target damage. Beyond that I’m still trying to figure out whether hailstorm or fire nova are overall better. I feel like fire nova works really well with the flame shock spread, especially with the new affix, but there are still places where it has a dead zone. Also without double legendary and tier we have more empty globals that tend to be filled with frost shock so hailstorm feels respectibly strong right now. Even so we definately don’t seem super bursty we just do big damage all the time but can’t compare in burst to classes with real cooldowns without doomwinds/ascendant. it doesn’t feel bad though.
lashing flames isnt too bad in ST, but i do prefer elemental blast, and honestly prefer elemental blast rotationally overall, kinda wish it was baseline
to compete with burst classes youll have to run doomwinds, but you dont need to since so many other specs can cover that
only other thing i can really say is that hailstorm feels good/right but is just strictly worse with more than 3 targets than nova
I’m currently waiting for double leggos to get necrohancement going in full swing with primal lava / fire nova funnel build in m+. Its looking really good in m+, not overly bursty but consistently high which I find satisfying.
The major haste buff + hot hands was seeing some pretty juicy damage too, cant wait to try it out when it goes live