Enough maelstrom to instantly cast? Button glows. Love that. Made decision-making really easy for my rotation on the fly.
Now it’s gone, and it feels that much worse to play. Yes I know about the lightning bolt indicators. No I don’t like them. Please at least make it an option- this one little change makes the class feel awful to play.
Could it be more obvious NOBODY on their development team actually plays a shaman!? This had to been one of the most boneheaded things they’ve ever done, I love having to look at the top of my screen constantly or just press and pray or rely on my always late weakaura for something that used to be extremely simple.
Really, everything else is fine. The fact that they haven’t made it available for players to customize what lights up when is absurd to me. Hell I’d make everything light up under certain conditions. Customize that hotbar like my steelseries keyboard.
Feels a lot harder to manage maelstrom after this update. I’m constantly having to look at my charges to make sure I’m maximizing my maelstrom charges because of the glow removal. Feels like a major step back in terms of smooth gameplay.
I’ve been having the same thoughts. Might get used to it eventually, but in the meantime I might try searching for an addon that puts the glow back.
Completly agree… I thought my maelstrom charges where just not going up since the lightning bolt wasn’t lighting up…
Still way too much button bloat and now even less defensives… I think this may be the Hunter patch for me sadly…
Title says it all.
An addon that puts the glow back would be nice, but I don’t want to encourage Blizzard’s poor design quality decisions by making up for them myself.
This is a terrible change, we already have so much going on in raids and keys and other content we now have to constantly be monitoring the top of our screens so we don’t waste maelstrom.
And why are only shamans losing this ability you still get highlighted spells on classes like my boomkin, and hunter why do this to shamans, not spending maelstrom at the right time is a serious dps loss.I generally use Hekilli but even that doesn’t seem to be showing the casts for bolt and chain as much as it used.I really hope blizzard reverts this change because other classes arent suffering with their spells and other spenders.
I posted this in another thread but its just as relevant here:
Maelstrom weapon should become a full fledged resource with its own UI. We have many associated talents for what is essentially our resource, and 20 different proc iterations. This is a simple fix that other classes simply do not have a problem with.
Maelstrom buttons have glowed at 5 Maelstrom since the Enhancement rework in the Shadowlands prepatch. Please allow us to continue to have our buttons glow at 5 Maelstrom.
Imposted this exact same thing yesterday
Was this even posted by devs as a change?
It definitely is making the rotation not as fluid.
Furthermore, for storm ringer
Why doesn’t chain lighting also morph?
Why do we have to have such a random bunch of 6 million keys to press.
Some just needs to make a blinky flowy weak aura now for when the insta casts are ready.y