With the pre patch being so close and the actual expansion being 5 or 6 weeks away I don’t imagine we will be seeing many changes, additions, or removals from the shaman kit. With that in mind there are some reasonable minor fixes I would like to see before pre patch or the expansion release. Trying to be realistic…
•elemental assault and storm flurry - make the additional storm strikes also proc maelstrom weapon stacks - reason: it adds synergy into the “stormstrike build” and helps the flow of combat providing moments of small burst with additional stacks to follow up
•earth shield and lightning shield - allow these to be active at the same time - reason: it feels awkward to have a conflicting talent ability with your base kit especially when there are legendaries and conduits that work for the talent. Would also help survivability by a marginal amount and quality of life change
•shamanism - remove from gcd - reason: one of the builds I’m excited to try out is the doom winds legendary. I want to use it in tandem with shamanism and ascendance but that would be 2.5 globals before I really do anything. (I would be okay with 1.5 globals with ascendance activation effect now)
•numbers - buff chain lightning, lightning bolt, windfury, and healing surge numbers - reason: the lightning spells feel like fillers in terms of damage right now, healing surge is no longer spamable and should heal for a nice chunk when used with msw, and windfury… I just want to ensure the doom winds build is fun and can properly fill an 8 sec burst window (windfury has to do damage for that)