Feral Spirits might be the lowest impact dps cooldown in the entire game. They do terrible damage, don’t do any AoE, and generate a measly 6 Maelstrom Weapon.
The obvious place to start improving these good boys is their use in AoE. Make them cleave. There’s really no excuse, especially since they did back in Legion!
Next would be to either improve their damage, or make your damage significantly better. You could even do it in a roundabout way; make them able to proc Windfury, Stormbringer, Maelstrom, et al. The fantasy of enhancement has always been the flurry of attacks–dual wielding windfury-imbued weapons and getting attack speed from crits back in TBC is what most people think of when they think of enhancement shaman. Making your Feral Spirits essentially act as two extra attacks every swing is a cool way to embody that fantasy.
Lastly, the Elemental Spirits talent needs some work. Starting point for that, in my opinion, should be to make it summon in one of each element. This gives it more punch baseline, and keeps its overall dps increase consistent between presses.
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I wish they’d make feral spirits deal real damage and return the 150% healing they used to do.
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Damage and heal please.
Plus give Sham rage back.
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They nerfed Feral Spirits dmg as they stated they did not want shamans to be a pet class…But yet we have elementals and feral spirits. They removed our healing from the wolves I do not remember the justification they used for that one. Also feral spirits used to have a stun when they charged to the target it would stun the target when they hit it. I want all 3 returned. Return the damage, stun and healing to feral spirits.
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It may not be a perfect fix, at this point it’s better than nothing!
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They’ve already stated that Feral Spirits and the Elemental Wolves talent needs some work. At this point we’re just waiting for them to implement the changes or at least put out the intended changes for some commentary on it.
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Is there a blue post that I missed? As far as I know, it’s just community consensus that Feral Spirits need work.
There was a blue post saying feral spirit damage was a little low and ele spirits was bugged/not working with stuff it was supposed to.
Whether/when/if they will do anything about it who knows.
The pace at which adjustments are being made feels like there is one employee who works at blizzard on class/ability/tuning stuff and he/she only works part time on the weekends at night after the kids go to bed if they feel like it and there’s nothing better to do.
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