Feedback on Jul.2 shaman change

Since somehow I cannot post in the TWW forum, will post it here, hopefully not into the abyss…

General -
Lots of great changes!!! Couple of potential improvements:

  • Nature’s swiftness is a really really weak capstone at the end. If this could reduce the CD of Ancestral swiftness to 30sec, that’s more like it…
    -Stone bulwark, great step into the right direction. Balance wise, please please compare this to Dark Pact (which is more than twice the shield, with half the CD, and castable while stunned!!!). Which makes it over 400% better than stone bulwark… If stone bulwark can be 70% as good as dark pact, we’d be happy!!!
    -Spiritwalker’s grace leading to AG… Useless for Enh.
    -Earth elemental: add earthquake on this as a capstone!! And take away the taunt…

Ele:
1- Storm keeper’s bonus need to be rebalanced, because of the massive overload dmg reduction. In AOE it does 1/3 of what it used to.
2- Storm elemental needs total rework. If we need to be forced to sit and spam LB, it’d better be worth it…
3- Stormbringer hero talent is dead atm… This entire hero talent tree is focused on nature dmg, where most of the Ele spec talents revolve around lava burst, which counter-acts the stormbringer tree.
potential save: Make lavaburst nature/fire.
4- Mountains will fall… Need to be balanced to 200% of mastery effectiveness, based on current mastery dmg.

Resto-
1: Tidewaters - The frequency of this effect is less than 1/2, if we go totemic. May need some adjustment.
2: Improved earthliving - This is still very very sub-par compare to other talents.
3: Wavespeaker’s blessing - ditto.

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