It’s such an iconic Enhance ability so why is it one of our weakest hitting attacks?
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Stormstrike as it is now acts as a “builder” ability that generates stacks of Maelstrom Weapon for increasing the damage of Lightning Bolt or potentially triggering your Ascendance form through Deeply Rooted Elements, specifically if you are using Enhancement’s Storm build. It’s still “Iconic” in the sense that it’s the ability you are pressing the most often in this playstyle.
Almost all of Enhancement’s damage scaling comes from our Mastery, which increases all of our Nature, Fire, and Frost damage dealt.
Stormstrike does Physical damage.
That’s so stupid… They want enhancement to be more of a caster instead of melee by the sound of it. Melee being filler. So dumb.
@Lokka yea and thane warrior will do Stormstrike damage which does both physical and nature. They might as well just revert it back to primal strike since there is nothing nature there unless you add a proc talent.
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Stormstrike not doing stormstrike damage is definitely one of the dumbest design choices imo, both thematically and mechanically.
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It does little damage but it causes like 40 things to happen and is the sole reason why you do damage which is what it’s balanced around for Storm Builds.
Theres probably some dumb reason Blizzard has for it and they do the dumb workaround with Stormblast. IMO it needs to be Stormstrike damage for the sake of the whole spec. I prefer Elementalist Builds personally but it still irks me my mastery doesn’t scale Stormstrike’s damage.
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Stormstrike damage is fine, becuase it procs a lot of things, in reality the damage contribution of stormstrike is way higher than it seems.
But if there is something they should do is to make legacy of the frost witch proc stormbringer, and make your next stormstrike deal froststorm damage, or stormstrike damage, depending on how they wanna approach this. As well as the damage increase.
This could make a few stormstrikes deal relatively good damage, while not making it overpowered. It would also help elementalist stormstrike a bit, that is… If you can actually take legacy, which would require further work on the talent tree. But i already said my piece about that on other discussions.
Also, legacy could use some help anyway.
Clearly missing the piece where enh is an uptime fiend that needs to be in melee else msw gen plummets
I agree but I don’t see them changing it, although they did make ele mastery benefit physical so who knows what’s coming in a later patch. I also mildly called out / predicted they wouldn’t change this back in December:
They’ve introduced the brand new “STORM STRIKE” damage type but yet “STORMSTRIKE” does not do nature/phys damage?!?! Even though shamans are intimately tied with nature/lightning theme type abilities?
I cannot believe how daft Blizzard is sometimes.
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They are just very stubborn about certain things. They have a lot of pride, and not the good kind.
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Yeah. It’s called hubris.
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I don’t see why stormstrike couldn’t hit a bit harder and have a larger nature damage component so it scales better with mastery and makes mastery a better stat for storm builds.
Short of making stormstrike into stormstrike damage, they could build on the stormblast approach. Expand stormblast to cause stormstrike to do 50% extra damage as nature in all cases, not just on stormbringer procs.
If that’s too much for one talent, make it a baseline ability for enhance and make the stormblast talent cause stormbringer to turn the base stormstrike damage into stormstrike damage.
Stormstrike doing purely physical damage is a big part of why the storm build doesn’t scale very well, and Lava Lash doing fire damage is a big part of why the elementalist build scales as well as it does.
Agreed. I loved having stormstrike do good damage, it always felt satisfying to press. now it feels meh. Feels like we are a confused ranged caster sometimes
Is the reason they don’t want to make stormstrike scale with nature damage modifiers that in their mind, the stormbringer procs from mastery already let stormstrike scale with mastery?
I hope that’s not the reason because we have clear evidence that storm builds don’t scale with mastery nearly as well as elementalist builds and a large part of that is because physical damage doesn’t scale well.
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Blizzard has tried making stormstrike do nature damage in past betas and then reverted it. I’m guessing because it caused mastery to be too valuable.
Stormblast, tempest strikes, and other bits of nature damage proc’d by stormstrike are ways to provide a partial mastery benefit to stormstrike but I think they could go further.
Which is why I suggested expanding stormblast to affect all stormstrikes and not just stormbringer procs plus maybe bumping the % to 50% instead of 25%.
Maybe all nature damage is too much (although who knows because they haven’t tried it recently as far as I know) but stormstrike seems like needs a larger nature component than it has now so it scales better over the course of the expansion.
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Yeah stormblast’s value is so low compared to the other mid tier talents right now. I’m trying to create a single target storm/hailstorm hybrid and at the middle of the tree I can do flurry/stormblast, or flurry/swirling maelstrom, or crash lighting/converging. I’m desperately trying not to add another keybind with crash but even the aoe splash crash gives ur ss out values stormblast. Our maelstrom economy is good rn so im not dying to have swirling either