The devs came on here and said ‘don’t worry we won’t nerf you as bad as you think’. Do you know what everyone did? Thank them.
A bunch of players replied to the post and said ‘omg, Thank you!’ “Oh, you are the best!” “Oh, our hero!”
Are you serious?
It’s like an abusive relationship. The abuser beats the crap out of you…then comes to you and says “hey, I’m sorry. I got out of hand. I love you and won’t happen again”. The abused concedes and tells the abuser “It’s ok and Thank you.”
There were complaints about the update, about 11.05 and about the updates after 11.05. Dev came on and said “we will nerf you to the ground…but not as bad” and you Thanked him. HAH!
You Thanked him! now the class is absolutely unplayable. Have you ran a dungeon since today’s update? single target damage? aoe damage? compared to other classes.
but hey…you guys Thanked the devs for this. Good job you! keep on cheering them while they gut us!
It is disappointing for sure. I don’t feel like these changes made the game better, were needed and honestly give me little faith that the dev team is handling balance and design well.
I read this comment, but you have to have some understanding and empathy that the class is in such a bad state. They took a look at Ele over performing Day 1-3 of last week. They fixed the bugs, now we were, I would say fine on ST but a bit over powered in AOE. Did a nerf feel warranted? Sure, to a degree, but keep our ST.
Instead ele has, and always will be the class that gets mistreated by blizzard and misrepresented. Half the Devs are relentless with this.
But for that reason, I will be touting grass. I’ll slowly unwind from WoW, having spent 20 years playing elemental and hoping Blizzard would 1 day get it, that’s on me. Not Blizzards fault.
Outside of ascendance it feels like a dead class doing terrible damage, it’s literally a lottery machine class reliant on DRE procs. I want to be rewarded for rotationally being good, not because I got the most DRE procs in a fight.
Im thinking with my wallet, I’ll crack a beer with the boys and do some dumb stuff on Hell Divers 2 amongst other games.
Being upset (which I am) about the litany of balancing, tuning, and bug hotfixes that have led to the current state of the spec is very much warranted and understandable, considering this is rework number 3 they introduced and then messed with since Beta.
But insinuating that people are just going “OH THANK YOU DEVS” and nothing else is either poor reading comprehension, trolling, or being so blind from rage. Because quite literally the whole thread is people saying “thanks for not gutting our mastery and Ascendance, but we need comp buffs for ST because the Ascendance bug is a 9% gain”. And insulating this is the playbase’s fault (either theorycrafter or regular players) is such a glue sniffer take.
Agreed tenfold. I definitely think Blizzard keeps missing the mark. The developers or whoever has the largest sway in tuning / developing elemental shaman should find a new hobby. I say that with sincerity because they’re definitely (or collectively) are not as motivated or ambitious as they once were when they started.
For me, for ele, which is a spec I alt when I’m bored with enh I have only 2 complaints.
1> wtf can’t my crafted weapon change into an int weapon. I mean seriously it’s 90 crests either way, anyways that’s not even a shaman problem but I hate it.
2> I miss the fire build. Not the DF fire build, but the one I tested in the beta with stronger ice fury and still a focus on lava burst. I miss wind speakers . The lightning build is great for those that want it, but why gut the fire build? I can’t play lava lash builds on enh , and now I can’t do lava burst farseer builds with my fire ele as ele.
Why can’t you do Farseer fire build? That’s what I play and I feel like a machine gun with all the instant casts. I focus haste and mostly PvP with some casual pve.
What are you even rambling about? We showed appreciation for them reverting 2 nerfs that would have been very bad, and then gave further feedback about what else ele will possibly need due to fixing the Asc bug and for pvp specifically asc also getting a big modifier nerf.
Its possible to praise someone for doing something that is good while also telling them that there is more to do. Some of you really need to go outside lmao, its sad. If you look in that thread you will see a lot of feedback explaining what ele will likely need to help compensate for the bug fix and also the modifier nerf in pvp.
you want all mastery mow. Haste does not one shot fools.
and for the rest of you complainers, go try some pvp. Feel the power of being an elemental god and one shot enemy healers without dampening. Ele doesnt even feel nerfed in pvp. I was grinning ear to ear last night as i removed player after player from existence.
TBH i’m more concerned that a bunch of unpaid dude on discord are doing a better job at predicting what the impact of the rework / nerfs will be than paid professionals