Here’s a fun take on Ascendance for Enhancement in Midnight.
Merge it with Thorim’s Invocation baseline.
Since the damage on Ascendance cast has been removed, it basically means Ascendance alone is now just a slightly better Aspect of the Eagle (the Survival ability that makes your Raptor strike gain 30 yards, if you don’t know). Now now yes, I know, it gives Stormstrike a shorter cooldown and bypasses armor but let’s be honest here, when was the last time we saw Windstrike not being like the 16th, or lower, line on the damage meter at the end of a fight. It truly just give us the ability to cast Stormstrike at a distance, that’s it, and yet it is supposed to be our burst.
Is Midnight a good time to revamp Ascendance for Enhancement?
Just some food for thoughts.
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I’ll take it a step further, I don’t really even see the purpose of ascendance anymore.
with thorims baked into dw, like u said, asc doesn’t really bring much to the table.
and with them now sharing a cooldown i don’t see why they don’t just take it one step further and completely consolidate them.
playing around 2m cds vs 1m just for wind strike and a bit more ss spam doesn’t really seem worth it
just add wind strike to doom winds. It even makes more sense thematically.
they could add the asc forms as a glyph if they wanted to
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I’m glad to see I’m not alone here.
You know what if they want to keep Ascendance as is they could just make it a pvp talent, I mean I’m no pvp’er but the range and the armor bypass must be good for them.
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Honestly, I say they should just remove Ascendance all together. Lets be real, well far all of about 10 seconds anyway. I would just much rather put the Auto Ascendance as a mechanic to Windfury Weapon. Increase the amount of MW when it procs. Since they took all the Highlighting away, Enhancement just doesnt feel fun to play. I dont care mostly about the numbers being spreadsheeted into the ground. I care about having fun with the spec I play. Without visual queues, its boring.
Maybe use the Ascendance Animation as a queue for LB or CL being instant cast, or when Tempest reaches max charges. I changed most of my stuff in my Spec Tree to be mostly passives and im having more fun with it. Did the same with my Pally and switched him to Herald with mostly passives and it seems more enjoyable to play.
I think we have been min/maxing so much lately that we have forgotten how to have fun with the gameplay. It really hard now to find a build that you can have fun with. Instead people are getting berated and chased off because that 1% damage increase has become more important to some. That “Mighty Parse Score" doesn’t really mean that much anymore if you arent having fun.
I dont know, maybe I’m just ranting. I would just like to see the game being fun again in Midnight.
Thought I would bump this thread since Windstrike just got a 350% buff on the last beta build.
Worth a try.
*Test edit: Not a M+ pick. Windstrike being a single target ability doesn’t bring much to aoe. Also the overlap of Storm Unleashed procs during Ascendance dilutes the Windstrike count so it’s not that great but certainly better (numerically) than it was before the buff.