The significant changes to the Enhancement Spell Alerts don’t seem great to me - they don’t really alleviate the need for addons/WeakAuras, and they will sometimes highlight procs that don’t have any real effect on our desire to use abilities.
- Arc Discharge is a damage loss to use reactively. None of the changes revealed would appear to change this situation. You’re creating a flashing light that suggests you should play the class incorrectly here.
- The Static Accumulation refund should already be triggering Maelstrom tracking. This feels targeted at helping players avoid overcapping, but this is probably not going to be the main cause of overcapping, especially because…
- Removing most Maelstrom highlighting, and setting most of what does happen at 10 isn’t going to help prevent overcapping, which is a significant play goal of the spec. It’s also going to suggest to players they should be holding to 10 for some abilities, when they probably shouldn’t.
- Setting the more general highlight of spenders to be customizable or just 8+ would encourage closer to ‘correct/optimal’ play in general, and customization would allow for shifts without needing to change the threshold in the background.