I still have some hope for seeing 2h enhancement in TWW. Mainly because of how popular it was in SoD, retail team really needs to pick up on this! It’s just frustrating seeing Stormstrike require two weapons to attack so the option to use 2h appearances is completely out the window. I’d love if they were to give us the holy paladin treatment and allow us to mog a 2h over any weapon in the game. I don’t think many 2h enjoyers are looking for that windfury oneshot nonsense (at least I think we’re all about class fantasy here) I just want a tmog option so my enh shaman can feel less like a monk, rogue, dh kind of guy. (although I wouldn’t want those guys to lose their two-weapon thing either.)
Oh man, doesn’t it seem like a crime that the two caster specs can get away with transmogging a badass giant mace? Even though there are melee talents in the shaman talent tree, I feel that primal strike just can’t take advantage of those in it’s current form. (Blizzard literally said to use this ability when mobs got close in the tutorial, so actually, it’s all of you that are wrong.) I love the thought of using melee filler as resto, allowing me to weave maelstrom weapon procs and having all the melee in range of my totems as I place them. It’s good stuff maynard.
Nah, I want 2h in our loot table. A modern design for old WF already exists in our tree and it’s not 1-shotting anyone. I do wonder what Stormflurry could be like if the proc did increased damage Stormstrikes rather than 40% versions.
It isn’t as big of an issue as drama queens on the forums make it out to be to implement 2h, Blizzard just doesn’t want to. Whatever, it’s their game after all, they know what is best for it. (Totemic)
The game director who plays a Shaman said that 2h Enhancement’s era was over with not to return. We have hasked for years for how many expansions… They do not want this and to be honest looking at how frost is until they can learn how to balance 2h and dw it should not be returned.
Look at how much of a hot mess Frost DK has been since 2h was reintroduced. They cant balance it because they do not want to add the means to make it work. All they had to do with frost was to add a new rune and make it 2h only but they did not want to do it. We will have the same issue and so no it is not worth it.
I have wanted to see but I do not want Enhancement to be a worse version of Frost dk.
A nice bandaid fix would be to give us a new artifact like weapon that’s coded in that same overwriting manner.
I can wield a staff, but magicalliy turn it back into a Fist of Ra-den and offhand.
Why not the same thing, but in the opposite direction like Holy Paladins and their big 2 handers?
It could be why we haven’t seen the Shaman changes. They did code in 2h damage scaling for Crash Lightning at the start of DF after all. Surely this time they’ll do it.
Ok so knowing this is blizzard and knowing how shamans are treated…And just for context I was a heavy advocate of 2h returning to the modern game… But seeing all of the issues do you trust blizzard to do this and not to mess up enhancement so bad we are practically useless? Cause I don’t. With how long we were hot garbage and then it got better for us I do not want to return to a time where we are a joke again. At least now we are in a decent spot.
Yes we could use a few tweaks and to have our tree looked at but again I just do not trust blizzard to not turn us into a steaming pile of…
Change happens. Our current design is going to change. Otherwise it becomes stagnant and boring. This fundamentally means that enh is going to be a steaming pile again in the future. It’s not about trusting them to do it right. They won’t at first. I just want them to try. It will iron out over time like everything in this game.
I am just quoting the game director when he was asked about 2h returning. Unlike with Frost DK where he said we would like too. It was stated 2h Enhancement era has passed. So as stated unless he is gone or something Drastic happens I do not see 2h returning.
And again if it does I do not trust blizzard to do it right. I feel if it returns it will be as bad or worse than when 2h Frost returned.
And the president of Blizzard at the time said, “you think do, but you don’t” and had to eat crow.
It may be quite bad in the first iteration, but the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Ya gotta start somewhere or you’ll go nowhere.
yes, this guy is right. Please take the solid foundation we now have for enh and absolutely brutalize it with some dumb 2h implementation that’s sure to cause a plethora of issues! Rather than address actual issues!
It would not be difficult to come up with a concept and insert it into the current system without compromising the current builds(which are going to change anyway). Claiming it would do so is just fearmongering.