They kill demos main burst/2set, but ele free casting has no counterplay, how are they still not nerfed?
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because they are glass cannons
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not really
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If iam not mistaken, one of the leading pvp devs stated that ele was their main in a recent interview. Dan something can’t remember his name. So prob not.
They have been nerfed several times along with other specs who even after the nerfs are still strong. The problem is I believe, how these classes talent trees are set up and function. You have overloaded talents/capstones that do too much for singular abilities or worse, multiple abilities. Now its being compounded with tier sets.
Their burst is pretty easy to ruin, they’re very easy to train, and they did receive some nerfs…primordial wave burst was nerfed last week along with shaman 2 set, magma chamber was nerfed 2nd week.
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Ele is not a glass cannon.
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Found the ele main. How exactly do you shut down a caster that doesn’t have to cast but every 1 minute and even then they can just los cast it and come back out? Don’t be delusional the fact ele doesn’t cast at all basically alone warrants a nerf. At this point ele is just a 40 yard range melee.
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Because we die in one stun.
Most classes die in one stun, and shaman is not one of them.
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wtf are you talking about. I have no way to reduce Damage while in stun? Like none. I have a pvp trinket and thats it. Every other class has basically a way to mitigate or get out of it.
Only other class build thats in the same boat is Balance Druid.
At least shaman has the knock back, other classes has absolute nothing (besides trinket) in a stun, that goes for Rogues, Dhs, Warriors, Monks, Hunters, Druids and I’m probably forgeting some classes here.
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The knock back is often silenced about 60% of the time. And every class can insta teleport back to us. So that doesn’t work at all. Mitigation outweighs a knock back on a 45second timer. Its why Ele’s are basically free kills. Stun and dead.
Ok dude, keep crying, Ele shaman is not squishy at all, if you’re dying in a stun is time to git gud.
If you think shaman is squishy, I’d suggest you try other classes.
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lol git gud. Great post man hahahaha
Anyways, absolutely Ele are squishy. I trade burst for survivability any day.
Uh, buddy, Elemental literally got buffed with 10.0.5.
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Elemental
- Flame Shock damage increased by 10%.
- Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%.
- Lava Beam damage increased by 10%.
- Earthquake damage increased by 10%.
The only nerf Elemental has recieved was to their 2 pc Tier set. That was it.
Not even a regular damage nerf.
ele could prob use a slight nerf to it’s damage output, but i think the spec is balanced in the same way a warrior is
all of it’s utility is based around supporting and it’s only true defensive isn’t usable in a stun. the damage the spec does is pretty much the reason you bring it; if the spec doesn’t do crazy damage you don’t see it that much because it becomes more of a liability than a benefit
when we start seeing stuff like ele/rogue we can start calling it broken
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They also nerfed Primordial Wave. Btw not of those buffs affect pvp in any way unless you thing Flame Shock damage is scarry.
They might get nerfed but in the meantime, kill skyfury totem and kite/cc Stormkeeper/Primordial Wave and you have yourself a win.
Primordial Wave lava burst damage was decreased, unleash shield was nerfed, healing stream was nerfed though not every ele ran it
None of those buffs matter for arena PvP aside from flame shock which is still pretty much just padding
Dispel flame shock on kill target, kill skyfury, cc/line stormkeeper if they’re even able to get one off while being trained outside of aura mastery
Ele is very trainable. It has one 40% wall if they spec into it, literally the only defensive they have to trade.
40 yard range melee sounds more like hunter to me imo
Except mm does more casting than ele does 
of course you can train stuff there isn’t an invisible wall preventin that but even dispelling the flame shocks doesn’t stop them lol they’ll eventually get them up and go.