As the title said, lava lash is by far the worst low cooldown damage ability in the game, i have been waiting for weeks an adjustment that makes lava lash a decent ability compared with the others low cooldown filler abilities.
All the the other classes have 1 or 2 of these new runes, with better damage and synergy ( bleed effects, combo points, healing) and the worst part of this: lava lash will hit less for future phases because shamans will be using windfury/flametongue and no double rockbitter which means less base damage in the off hand weapon.
The damage of lava lash is very poor because it scale with the off hand weapon and the lastest adjustment wasnt enough, even with the best scaling weapon and good gear the damage is very pity. i consider that a 250% offhand scaling is good to solve part of the enhacement damage issues for this phase.
im not asking for crazy buffs just a good offhand scaling, im sure that blizzard will add new runes and stuff to balance classes for next phases, but in the current performance of the rune it cant pass through to next phases without an adjustment.
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Whilst I agree it’s not amazing I don’t think it’s the worst hand Shaman has been dealt, unfortunately it’s one of the best. I would be for a rune that makes it refresh flame shock and the dot stack 3x for easy rotation fixing but let’s see what they do.
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They needed to give us something for this phase. Its complete garbag,but its something.
That is close, but not actually enough. Lava Lash damage wasn’t considered good until it got buffed above 300%.
For reference: Mangle is 300% main hand combo point builder. Even at 300%, lava lash would hit less than a mangle because it is off hand damage, and that’s on a 6 second cooldown.
Correct number would be 350% sir.
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I want to disagree in general principle that there’s a ton of runes people aren’t using or plan to use. Every class has runes that I question the inclusion of at all.
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I hope you get what you want in Phase II.
I dont think you’re getting it before then, sadly.
There are some of them you just know were added at the last minute to give everyone 12 runes.
They should have just gone for 2h enh
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Right? Some of the placements make no sense, too.
Rewind could be great, but if you’re doing healy mage, you are 100% obligated to use Arcane Blast. Arcane Surge -could- be competitive with Living Flame if it was on a 30sec CD and benefited from Clearcasting.
That would have been more fun, I can play 2 handed enhance in later versions.
I do it now, its more fun even if you cant stack rockbiter and die
Well some classes just need go straight to the best damage/synergy rune for the class and spec that are they playing, off course with it some runes will be best of worst and more or less played than others.
In the shaman case every spec have a designed rune, you can’t use water shield, molten blast or lava burst because you don’t get any utility or synergy with your spec.
Maybe on targets that have flameshock it could be a guaranteed crit or stack a fire dot. It could work like the chimera shot rune and have different effects based on the last shock that hit the target.
2x rockbiter will be used forever, it’s too good
May I introduce you to Druids living seed?
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The OPs hyperbole shouldn’t make you reference living seed though. We’re talking about our only damage ability for dual wield enhance.
The real comparison is Starsurge. You know, the ability that USED TO do less damage than a Wrath? Yeah, we’re talking about a similar issue, where our 6 sec cooldown ability deals about 75% of the damage as a main hand white weapon swing. It should be dealing at least double the damage it currently deals.
Ya’ll got your starsurge buff, let us get our lava lash buff.
Nah he called it the worst rune. It’s not. Living Seed is the worst. “Oh but it will be better at 60 when you have Crit”. No, it won’t. Hots, which is most of Druid healing, can’t crit in classic.
Classic was all about Healing Touch, but okay. Now, go ahead and make your own topic instead of derailing it to be druids. Your class is in a better spot dps wise.
Just make it so Lava Lash increases the duration of Flame Shock by 6sec when used and also make it similar to Chimera shot where it instantly deals… let’s say 25% of Flame Shocks total damage on top of it’s normal damage.
If it did double the damage it does now, so 300% offhand damage, and did something fun like refreshed the duration of flame shock, then that would be cool. Right now it’s a super boring rune that does garbo damage, but for enhancement spec, it’s all we have.