I am quite confused here, how can this be a thing?
Elemental
All damage reduced by 8%.
Lava Burst damage increased by 20%.
Earthquake damage increased by 17%.
Elemental Blast damage increased by 12%.
Erupting Lava now also increases Flame Shock damage by 25%.
How can all damage be reduced and yet given a buff at the same time?
Also, does this mean we would be going back to throwing meatballs constantly instead of Lightning bolt? I thought they just nerfed crit and buffed mastery. Yet these changes would do the opposite, right? Not often I see a patch notes so confusing.
It means ALL of your damage was nerfed, but they buffed specific spells to counter-balance the nerf on those specific spells.
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So is that a 12% buff then to Lava Burst for example?
Also, is it really a buff with the crit nerf? Way back I remember days when Blizzard did things like this and it ended up being a huge nerf but looked like a buff since the thing they “Buffed” was trash due to being one of the worst stats for a class. As in the 8% nerf to everything else is a huge nerf to main damage sources while 20% of 0 is still 0 kind of a thing.
It looks as if they’re trying to make lava and lightning both viable options as well as nerfing elemental damage a bit.
Well throwing meatballs is IMO most Ele shamans favorite way to play. Back when they changed to a Lightning Bolt main skill lots of shaman came out against it since LavaBurst had been our main DPS skill for years. I hope to see Lava Burst make a come back.
It’s a 12% buff after the 8% all damage nerf. I’m not going to go into math, but It’s a slight nerf overall to Lava Burst but not as bad as the nerf to Lightning Bolt that did not get a damage buff.
Kind of crazy since the logs aren’t showing Ele blowing up the charts like everyone said was going to be the case. Ele is only doing better than average on the first two bosses. After that logs are showing more mid tier so far from what I see. Maybe they scale harder?
I don’t know, I’m not in a raid yet but I feel like I absolutely blow up everything I encounter no problem lol.
I’m going to be doing my first TWW raid tomorrow. I’m apprehensive about my performance, but it’s a casual learning run.
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