I play ele, and every week i open the beta dev notes hoping to see the “further iteration” they said was coming after the rework.
Was that just a lie?
Is there something cooking behind the scenes that’s coming out later?
I dont know, and im really tired of not knowing. I hear people gush about blizzs new communication all the time but what is that really? A road map? I dont care when the next patch will drop, I just wanna know if my spec will be fun or not. Stormbringer feels dead in the water and almost all of our lightning talents are useless after the mastery change.
Why is the company policy on communication just silence?
Is ele going to recieve further changes or is it not?
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I think there is more to come in TWW. Any additional noteworthy changes are likely to be cosmetic which will be very welcomed.
To be fair, they used to have community managers that talked to their players and their players often told them to eat bags of D. But I have some potentially good news for you, there was some datamined details found suggesting Enhance was gaining a few talent points, three two point talents being made into 1 point talents and cooldown on doomwinds dropping to 1 minute, along with P-wave being made into a 30 sec cooldown.
Pwave is already 30 secs for Ele with the rework.
I didnt realize they said the “further iteration” was going to specifically happen by today.
It would honestly be a little silly to throw more iteration on ele right now, before all the bugs get fixed. Gonna be hard to balance, tweak things, and see what needs to be changed when too much is not working right.
The company policy on communication is because you all will whine and carry on like children because theyre not going to implement every idea you have, so its better to let you whine without wasting the effort
Well, I said enhance, so… Whats your point? I am just letting him know they are iterating so they are keeping to what they said.
They are working on it. Let them cook, it’s undoubtedly crunch time
The last change in the new was a blanket buff to see (or encourage) players to play the class more. In my mind, it’d be like roughly carving out of the damage space you’d like to imagine it fills and then working backwards to figure out the composition of abilities.
One of the things that is so weird about lightning elemental is that Tempest has a capstone that is just a straight periodic cycle of 5 procs per minute, while the base ability has some scaling components based on resource gain. I’m also hopeful that storm (and fire) elementals make up a more significant contribution to gameplay than just “makes flameshock tick faster”.
I’m hoping for at least a partial rollback of the ms generation nerfs.
Then i want tempest to always generate 30 malestrom or 3 msw baseline and regardless of target count.
Then i want lava burst to spread flame shock and increase or refresh it’s duration.
Then i want windspeaker back.
And a few other things.
I must have missed something. Where did they talk about future iterations ?
It was when they first announced making talent tree changes for class and spec. They said they were making some changes, with more reworking to come during TWW.
It’s getting there. The new enhance changes are good.
I suspect a lot more number tuning and iterations are going to come during pre-patch and during heroic week once TWW comes out.
I thought it was 30 secs for enhance now too and was just pointing that out because I didn’t realize it was 30 secs for Ele until I logged in and tried it. I didn’t remember seeing it communicated…. Sorry for saying anything