how hard is to have a lava surge proc in the tww beta? rn in live, Iam always getting procs and almost never cast lava burst, but in beta its just feels…slower…not to mention that I barely see any icefury proc too
most of time Iam just sitting there hardcasting lava burst, Iam running farseer talent tree, whats wrong? elemental just feels worse for me
I only had 15 minutes on PTR the other day before it shutdown (and is still shutdown). It didn’t feel too problematic but I was focusing on pvp build with lava surge talent.
I think what we’re going to see for Shaman in TWW is hard casting, low mobility, but hard hitting. I was getting 300k+ earth shocks on the pvp dummy @ lvl 70.
the problem is that if we are hardcasting it will be difficult to play against melee focusing on you, a pain that I currently don’t have in dragonflight. no matter how hard we’re hiting, the playstyle for a caster is to have more insta casts abilities, since everyone have tons of self healing and defensives, even non-hybrid classes
Here is a quote from the Blue post about the shaman changes
" * The trigger rate of Lava Surge and Searing Flames now scale based on the number of targets Flame Shock is on. In single target, it should trigger slightly more often, and in AoE, it should trigger less often."
That’s why it feels worse. You also don’t have Windspeaker’s Lava Resurgence which gave you an instant lava surge proc after using your spenders, and you are generating so much less maelstrom than before.
This was one of the bad parts of the ele changes.
Fair point and totally get it. It will be an adjustment for sure, only time will tell. Can’t wait to see how set piece plays out with 25% increased dmg to ES
Not to mention I think our LB cats with have near 30% chance to crit before gear. We’ll have half second casts pretty often. We’re going to have a lot of built in stats before putting on a single piece of gear.
well that explains whats happening, It felt so slower than elemental in DF…
I also tried some crazy stuff like the pvp talent that makes your lava burst deals 45% more dmg but you cant proc insta casts, it hit hard for sure but I did some matches and its not worth it…its very situational and you need to get lucky
idk I just prefer the DF elemental than this, I know shamans asked so much for a rework but Iam gonna miss the lava burst machine gun with old icefury, until they change that hardcasting shamans have in the beta
My earthshocks are hitting for like 230k at 80 and i have 4mil HP wheres the hard hitting?
I was testing it on the pvp target dummy on the pre-patch PTR @ lvl 70. I am not sure what happens at 80 with stats and such. But they were hitting hard.