Consider these Abilities’ Cooldowns:
Enhancement Talents;
- Elemental Blast - 12s
- Ice Strike - 13s
- Fire Nova - 13s
- Earthen Spike - 20s
- Feral Lunge - 30s
- Sundering - 40s
Shammy Baseline Abilities;
- Lightning Bolt - nil
- Chain Lightning - nil
- Flameshock - 5-6s
- Frost Shock - 5-6s
Baseline Enhancement Abilities;
- Stormstrike - 6-7s
- Crash Lightning - 8-9s
- Lava Lash - 11-12s
Looking at this, Enhancement is now a ranged spellcaster. The main abilities are obviously centred around Flameshock DOTs and using Lightnings as filler spells.
Trying to fill with Lightning as a melee spec playing similarly to BFA disrupts your autoattacks which otherwise seem useful for proc’ing stuff like extra swings. Not filling with Lightnings leaves you seconds at a time to ponder how so much is on CD and why Elemental has the Primal Strike filler ability and not the ‘melee’ spec.
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have u tried playing better
also did blizzard give u all ADD or something
it’s not that big of a deal, and is even beneficial to have small amounts of downtime. which is exactly where the spec is if you’re playing properly.
it lets you do things like press a utility button or refresh windfury.
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It really depends on how much haste the spec has, the more haste makes it flow better. Remember though, if you’re playing pre-patch your haste would be at a insane level right now. Come Shadowlands you’ll be in for a shock when you don’t have as much, also stacking haste now will be detrimental with the recent changes. So as much as it’s easy to tell someone to “play better” perhaps you should get a better understanding on what’s going on.
nah actually it really is that easy
it’s not significantly slower in SL
so yeah play better still works
or rather, a better way to put it is it won’t be once you get everything
borrowed power sucks and a class being unfun without all of it is pretty lame but that’s the name of the game now and it’s not changing
It has a lot of ranged abilities but the bulk of an Enhancement Shaman’s damage is in Stormstrike to give them the melee focus. This isn’t a bad thing, Enhancement having these ranged abilities and a big focus on ranged spells gives it a fairly unique identity. The most similar spec is Survival Hunter, but I’d still say the two are both fairly distinct from each other.
And before somebody says “elemental warrior should buff their melee attacks-” Why should an elemental warrior not be actively also using his spells just to wound the opponent?
For @Razaron:
In Shadowlands beta, I have about 9% haste on my Enhancement Shaman. The downtime per minute is low, probably lower than current Enhancement in BFA.
Playing better? OMG that is absolute genius! I never once considered that option. Where on earth do such amazing contributions as this truly come from? It’s like the light on the road to Damascus, it really is.
Thanks for reminding me why I don’t interact with the forums for years at a time.
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