How are you Elementals getting on?

Classes Shaman
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as if chain lightning into earthquake spam is much better.

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43

The current rotation is a ton better.

44

For PVP since I don’t do mastery now I’m thinking of getting out of ascendance.

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45

I dunno I liked ele better when it was sustained damage instead of being a 3 minute cd class. I also liked ele better when primordial wave wasn’t this patches garbage variation. Sure casting lava burst to cast lava burst wasn’t the best rotation, but I can’t say I’m fond of the direction ele went this expansion compared to how it was at the start of tww.

Especially with all the reworks and changed talents and of all things we kept echoes of the great sundering and lost most of the fun talents that worked with lava burst.

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46

I absolutely get not liking what happened to PWave. I hate it too.

I dont mind being cd based with asc. But I absolutely get liking a sustained approach over the peaks and valleys of being cd based.

But I never want to return to “I think I just pressed lightning bolt 14 times in a row”

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47

I can sympathize to a degree but my limit gets hit when we enter the “keeping flame shock up is a dps loss” zone in various forms of pve content.

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Sure. But they never decided to give us an adequate way to spread it.

In light of that, I am just. Whatever. Make it not important then in AE.

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49

What are you doing? Haste?

50

Elemental feels ok still. Just not if you’re planning on firing off a lot of meatballs.

I still do great damage, and honestly I hadn’t played elemental in a while and I was surprised at how hard PW hits.

I am a little dissapointed it has such a wimpy animation for the damage it deals lol.

Listen … I know someone worked hard on remaking that animation but … it either needs to go, or it needs another reskin lol

I sorta feel like it should be something rising out of the earth, or a lightning bolt coming from
The sky, but … a trio of wimpy colored ribbons? Cmon now …

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51

It’s not as much as being very ascendance dependent that is the issue it’s that it’s 3 min. I just wish the 2 min was baseline even if it meant losing asc power put back into sustained damage.

main issues ATM :

  • 3 min asc
  • Lightning rod spreading
  • Losing pwave I can live with but I largely preferred the previous iteration
  • The insane variance created by DRE. The chance to proc should be cumulative until it procs like +x% each time you use a spender
  • ST damage

This list used to be way bigger pre rework so it’s going the right way if we forget that pwave and blp on DRE have just been removed for no reason.

52

Haste/Crit focus. With all the modifiers to crit damage and crit chance for lightning bolts it hits like a truck. Tempest crit into a LB crit in PvP is almost half someone’s life.

53

At the moment? I’ve rerolled.

Like you said, it killed the flow and doesn’t feel quite as fun anymore. :pensive:
It feels clunky and unsatisfying.

I’ve quit my subscription

Albeit 6 month package has a while to tick for the time being, lol – So unless a new class boggles my mind & tickles my fancy to keep me adventuring — or there’s greatly intriguing content – This may just be the straw that broke the camels back and tore me off the game for good.

  • At this stage? I’m starting to be convinced it’s less about Blizzard hearing the community & playerbase and more about their pride … That they’re too proud to listen, acknowledge and change it back, at the very least for elemental shaman.

If they later commented with a blue post and state they’ve simply been really busy and are making the change — Honestly? I’ll admit I’ve been humbled by them and would be celebrating … But I’m not exactly holding my breath. lol

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