Is enhance shaman anything besides just dmg? I’m a resto shaman who wants to love my melee spec but it just doesn’t feel like warr/DH/ret/Feral/DK. Is it a lack of MS? Is it that our CC is either never used or it’s weird? Can enhance shaman have a stun that isn’t lasso or a skill shot totem that doesn’t insta activate when casted? Like maybe give an option to either have lasso or a 3-4s stun like DH/warr. And can hex be insta that lasts 4s and has a 45s CD or something like DH incap or ret blind DK blind?
Am I wrong for feeling like Enhance feels slightly weird for being a melee spec? I just want to enjoy my shaman in all specs is all 
I’ll take lasso if you don’t want it
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I’ll trade you leg sweep and we have a deal!
Giga disruption with well timed knocks shears grounds hexes and tremors.
Does some of the highest single target damage in game if you are connecting.
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Somebody is going to be very disgruntled when he sees this.
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Probably the most utility out of any melee in the game.
Ranged kick, ground, thunderstorm, sunder, static totem, root totem, cap totem, tremor, hex, purge, very good healing, bloodlust.
Granted a lot of these things are choices, but enh + ms/stun is very very good and can make any caster’s life absolute HECK.
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why don’t you play one of those specs instead of trying to turn enh into garbage?
Enh feels basically as good as the other melee imo, it can die a little bit easier than some of them but it also has the most utility out of any of them via grounding, tremor, ranged kick, mass root, spammable purge or greater purge, etc. It also can do some of its damage from ranged depending on which build you play, totemic is slightly better due to not being as easy to shut down but stormbringer does allow you to do a lot of damage from 30-40 yard range via ascendance windstrike and tempest.
Lasso is a pretty good cc mostly for either creating distance/peeling for your healer or other dps, or just shutting down a major CD. Lassoing on incarn for example is pretty big, and depending on map you can just line any interrupts. I agree that shamans other cc isn’t great, hex is easily broken but I think thats mostly the tradeoff to having very good utility.
enh also has very good offhealing too. It gets even more insane if you are able to play stormweaver (totemic can take it more so than stormbringer builds). AG is a really nice group CD, but surge does a ton of healing and if you take stormweaver it doesn’t consume maelstrom wep but gets the benefits of however many stacks you used on ur dmg spell which is pretty nice. and its instant.
Not every melee dps needs an MS either. It does suck not to have, both ret and enh kind of need to seek out a dps with ms more times than not but both ret and enh also have more utility than any other melee dps (or really any dps) in the game. Sometimes I feel that they should scale back the amount of MS’s in the game rather than adding more, I really like only unholy dk and arms war should have it.
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Stormweaver feels awful though, you have to drop a normally far better talent (grounding/RTL) and you don’t have enough spare globals to heal regardless, at that point you’re just delaying the loss, through damage loss and being so much on the back foot that you are having to offheal.
That aside, enh does feel great and has never been so easy and braindead to play, aside from DF S1.
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Deoends on the build. A lot less punishing for elementalist than stormweaver obviously. That being said, static also got a huge nerf, which feels bad for the spec.
Bfa s1 disagrees, but enh is very VERY good atm.
I think stormweaver is mostly taken into melee comps where you may not need grounding as much like fury/ww right? Depends on the healer you vs as well but thats usually where I see it played to help alleviate some pressure. I think its mostly okay for totemic builds to give up RTL though since you dont really press stormstrike nearly as much as Stormbringer build, thats usually what they do if they need stormweaver.
I do think static totem should probably be a bit better, the CD is too long imo at least for ele/enh, can maybe stay that way for resto.
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Enhanse shaman is actually the most dangerour meele in the game, its hard to play but work the pain, its not as recisten like a war, but is faster than Dh, and the burst is the second most powerfull burst of the game.
if you want to play whit enhanse shaman for pvp, you have to practice a lot, becouse it has a lot of skills, for controll, if you dont use all your skills, enhanse shaman its no working.
but a pro enhanse shaman is a monster.
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I’d say so, I personally never take it, probably to my detriment but there is always something from the healer to ground, unless it’s a mw.
re: static totem, such a shame they nerfed it like that, it was a huge carry in early DF, tossing warriors around like beyblades
it’s actually a nobrain spec idk where people get that idea, I guess those people have limited brainpower to work with from the get go
very disruptive with a ton of really unique utility
you can pretty comfortably play cap too; it’s actually really satisfying
the on demand burst you have with elementalist/surging totem this patch is addicting
play with bm/demo/outlaw that bring an overwhelming amount of cc to set you up to throttle
i would say it feels more unique than weird
but in a good way
i personally am glad it exists exactly how it does
game would be boring with dh/fury/frost 4.0
should be 60 for enh ; 90 for ele; and 120 for resto imo
i assume you only play stormstrike stuff?
ss in general is super mid rn but elementalist is one of the best specs in the game
rtl is obv completely useless for elementalist
i think in general you should avoid stormweaver if you can but it’s defo better into some aff splay type comps than burrow imo (elementalist)
unless it’s shuffle
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i assume you only play stormstrike stuff?
ss in general is super mid rn but elementalist is one of the best specs in the game
rtl is obv completely useless for elementalisti think in general you should avoid stormweaver if you can but it’s defo better into some aff splay type comps than burrow imo (elementalist)
unless it’s shuffle
All true and valid points.
Right now I main stormbringer but I agree elementalist is superior, I just don’t enjoy it all that much.
Ascendance is absolute garbage into anyone who has any idea, I just wish DRE was viable again.
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I totally hear what you’re saying, but I think it’s really unfair to say it’s totally garbage. It’s still arguably the best offensive cd in the game, it’s just EXTREMELY telegraphed and very easy to trade around. That being said, I’ve died to beast cleave through painsup from 100-0 to COTW + Ascendance.
I personally don’t like RNG things that are SUCH high variance like that where you randomly 1shot or do nothing.
Precisely why I specificed against anyone who knows what they are doing. That’s when it becomes complete garbage.
The same reason DRE is so good, you can’t trade effectively around it.
In it’s current state it would be too strong though. The DRE proc should be a slightly less potent version, imo
That’s not fair, though. That’s like saying call of the wild, icy veins, non-whirling stars-incarn, darkglare, combust, deathmark etc are all “complete garbage”.
you have 15s of some of the biggest ST damage and its 90% ranged. I agree that it’s extremely telegraphed and it’s far from broken, but ascendance definitely isn’t garbage.
Ya, 100% fine IMO. I still wouldn’t like it, because it feels awful to win/lose based on RNG procs, but I hear what you’re saying about a class having only 2minute CD as their main form of damage being frustrating in this current state of the game.
Alright, its not complete garbage but when you pair it up with our truly garbage mobility, a dose of plentiful pillars plus an abundance of 50+% snares ingame…(many of them baked into rotations)…it really is a joke that anyone with half a brain can avoid.
It’s the shaman equivalent of demolish. Just walk away from it and nothing happens.