Enhancement feels like garbage. There’s too much downtime and the rotation doesn’t flow well. Having frost and flame shock share a cooldown makes hailstorm very unsatisfying to play with. I kept telling myself “they ruin shamans every expansion, you’ll get through it” but I really hate these changes. It’s going to take me a while to swallow this pill.
Yay Shadowlands… I guess…
reroll then lol
welcome to how classes have been the last 6 years now
you don’t like it, reroll for the expansion cause it isn’t changing, don’t sunk cost yourself
i’m only partially trying to be a jerk about it too, that’s just how wow works now
We can also make noise and cause change so that we can play the class we want to play and do so competitively. Why acquiesce and roll over when we pay $15/month on top of base game and expansion cost to play whatever god damm class we want to play in an RPG where balance should exist?
We have been making noise for months now and so far it has fell on deaf ears, not saying we should stop but its definitely disheartening…
dude clearly doesn’t like the playstyle
how is “balancing existing” going to help that?
the playstyle isn’t changing back and if he isn’t a fan, he’s not gonna have fun the entire expansion
would you play a caster if you decided you don’t like playing a spellcaster?
The downtime is a balance issue, and can be resolved by altering cooldowns then adjusting damage accordingly. No other class sits there and auto attacks for 4-5 seconds with no buttons to press. That is not a playstyle; it is a problem.
If you are ever auto attacking and nothing else for 4-5 seconds as Enhancement Shaman, you are horrible at the spec.
how to reveal u dont know how to play the new version in one single post
I’ve seen enough gameplay videos in the past hour to know that downtime is definitely a serious issue.
i’ve played enough in the last hour to know that you’re watching really bad players lol
Would you say it is competitive? Better? Worse? Bottom of the barrel as usual?
No idea what numbers are like. Don’t really care cause it’s a pre-patch lol.
It plays infinitely better than it did before because maelstrom as a resource bar and stormbringer were garbage (still is but way, way less so).
Regardless of whether or not it’s competitive, it isn’t having that much downtime unless you’re bad at hitting your buttons.
Legion and BFA have trained a lot of Enhances to be exactly that, lol.
Blue players have always been trash but the last 5 years rotted brains :^)
Numbers are currently a bit low but can be fixed. The awful playstyle the blue rage bar provided couldn’t have been made into something fun.
Thank you for the analysis. I will not know my thoughts on it for sure until I am able to play it myself when I get home… but my frustration level sure is high, and I’ve been reading A LOT of negative reception on these forums.
that’s because enhance players are both unskilled and unbrained
don’t thank me, i’m really only here to trash talk enhance players like they did back when legion alpha came up and i said maelstrom was a poor system and the reworked sucked and if you liked the big shiny stormstrike button u were dumb :^)
This had no bearing on any topics but I was reading the forums and noticed that everyone was showing as lvl 50 which is to be expected but a couple minutes ago everyone is showing 120 again, hope that’s not something telling lol.
I haven’t liked enhancement since WotLK, but I am loyal to the class and thus have been relegated to a caster spec for far too long.
Even if it does not play perfectly right now- I believe it is about a million times better a playstyle than the blue rage bar. Shadowlands Legendaries also could easily patch out whatever “deadtime” people are experiencing.
But I am 100% serious when I say I’d rather have constant 5 second downtime windows with this version of Enhancement than to be playing a spec that literally just presses Stormstrike a billion times.
Glad to hear that, but I hope Blizzard is not balancing classes around legendary items. That is just begging for yet another @%#&show expansion. If there is one.
The bigger issue is that Stormstrike is currently far too much of Enhancement’s damage, and while I find the spec plays amazingly currently, if damage does not get re-distributed, I assume later in Shadowlands it will become mindless Stormstrike spam.
I do not want it to just become a different version of Stormstrike spam and want to see them re-allocate damage to other parts of the spec.