i can tell in the current state of the enhacement shaman , no one want them as a parner in dungenon or arenas. it fun and all but a time will come when you want to do some pvp or progress in dungeons and then you will realizes no one want you cause your are a enhancement shaman. its sad.
said all what you want about our ok damage and all but in the end people see us like the 10 option
and thats make a fun spec not worth it right now
Thatâs Blizzardâs fault, not ours.
WoW is one of the worst MMOs to play if you want to progress as the class and spec you enjoy the most.
The game and the more stickler of players will actively punish you for trying to enjoy the game to the fullest as anything but a small selection pool in an ocean of possibilities.
Thatâs just terrible game design.
Final Fantasy 14 succeeded in so many fronts where WoW has historically failed⊠And itâs just plain sad.
Well considering one of FFXIVâs key issues is âyou arenât allowed to mention dps parsesâ its no wonder that every class is âallowedâ to progress.
Its really disappointing to hear about shamans dps wise because I love the class also. I plan to lvl an alliance one and undoubtedly still will despite this perception but posts like the one above showing all the nerfs sucks.
What would genuinely be nice. but unlikely, is for Blizzard to address these kinds of discrepancies. If somehow the community is wrong on all of this, for any class not just shamans and we simply arent playing the class/spec properly, maybe we could get them to break down how we achieve the damage Blizzard intended for the spec. I suppose in doing that though that it would be made clear that they are not in as good a place as they could be. But Im talking a dev with the full ins and outs of the class demonstrating this for everyone. I just dont get where the numbers come from for Blizzard that indictate nerfs like the one above are necessary.
How does Blizzard come to these conclusions???
And yet players actively use parsers, and even then the various classes(jobs) we have are all balanced on the scale of utility__damage.
The more utility a job has the less damage potential. The more pure damage the less utility.
Thereâs some discrepancies such as summoner reaching and in some instances eclipsing black mageâs damage potential and the whole warrior vs paladin thing back in Heavensward however none of the differences are enough to make a significant imbalance where you have to choose x job over y because x is utterly underperforming.
You play what you like, what youâre good at, and what spots are required of your static raid strat - (ranged, melee, heal, tank).
Being able to quickly change your job on the fly and level multiple jobs on the same character is fantastic as well.
No one knows. Especially not us.
I donât know, orc lass.
Itâs like they just donât care and were told by some shaman hating chairman to âmake the shamans suffer. Make. Them. Suffer.â
Its been said before and Iâll say it again. Parses? irrelevant! unless your a world first guild parses mean nothing. If your guild canât down a boss and is struggling it is not an enhance shaman or BM hunterâs fault your group just sucks and is looking for any reason to justify the struggle.
Mythic+ irrelevant! every spec can do 10+ unless your doing 17+ specs are irrelevant. Canât beat your current key? struggling? its is not an enhanceâs fault your group just sucks and is looking for a scapegoat.
tell that to m+ and getting denied just because you are an enhancement shamanâŠthey will take a bm hunter over a enhance shaman any day.
I find Enh fun for the first time this expansion with the Primal Primer build, but now I think thereâs too much setup at the start.
Totem Mastery
Flametongue
Rockbiter
Frostbrand
Feral Spirit
Then you can Stormstrike/Lava Lash.
But Iâm still enjoying it more than I did earlier.
Everyone has their own opinion and everyone wants different things from a class/spec.
What might be fine for you is not fine for someone else and vice versa.
enhancement shamans need pruning and to be reworked.
Sure
No
any rework of a spec will require pruning they go hand and hand.
Spread content out maybe? I mean i know im stating the forehead slapping obvious here but yea you dont have to finish all content the day and week it comes out. Pacing is everything. Youâre asking them to balance around people like you wanting everything to be hardcore competitive and the vast majority of us dont play that way. So while you people yelling that enh and other specs arent top end viable are yelling quite loudly, youâre still a pretty small minority asking for a majority change to suit your playstyle.
I think its because in ff14 support is just as important as dps. Some specs that may do less damage on paper offer enough support that they will be brought anyway.
Parses are spec specific.
Also just noticed this is a month old thread, why bump, lol
Nice try, Ion.
I know thatâs you in there!
Enhance donât really need MASSIVE changes but they do need buffs.
-Make Windfury great again. More damage. Old graphics. Profit.
-Make weapon enhancements like they were before (self buffs)
-Pretty much all their skills need to do more damage (stormstike, lava lash, overcharge LB, etcâŠ)
-Hex given the âhealing surge treatmentâ instant at a cost of 50 maelstrom. Needs to be hard cast <50 maelstrom.
-Defense / Healing NEEDS to be better.
if theyâŠ
Buffed Windfury and gave it the old animation
Brought back the Flame Shock > Lava Lash > Fire Nova AoE in some way (talent instead of Crashing Storm maybe?)
Brought back the enhancements as self buffs and replaced Rockbiter with LB castable while moving, Flametongue with Flame Shock and Frostbrand with Frost Shock.
Made Overcharge have the Stormblast animation from MoP
Brought back Shamanistic Rage and buffed Healing Surge
Reworked a few talents like Landslide, Searing Assault, Hailstorm, Earthen Spike, etc. to make them more interesting.
Added some sort of group utility
And raised the Maelstrom cap to 150, I think the spec would be perfect. A lot of changes, but I think most of these could be doable.
Iâd also love to see Gust of Wind for Enh, but thatâs obviously never gonna happen. I donât like Feral Lunge since itâs pretty much a ripoff of charge.