With the upcoming changes regarding lightning shield, which wasn’t even on my bars. I decided to look into it a little. But I’m still left with questions.
Does it have an internal proc cool down?
Can it proc off of something when the user is LOS? Like a dot for example.
Can it proc while stunned like earthshield?
It can proc when stunned. It has an internal cooldown of a few seconds (or at least used to so I imagine still does).
I also think it only procs of being struck in melee.
It has no synergy with anything except a dead elemental talent.
Earth Shield is superior in every way.
Internal cool down, if it’s still there, is much less than a few seconds. I was getting procs in less than 2 seconds back to back. If they stripped the ICD, and are increasing its damage by 400%+. It may be a viable option against certain classes in arena.
Lightning shield for ele is mandatory in 2s even if you go earthshield pvp talent. It helps you setup maelstrom as you gain it quickly with a melee whacking you for burst combos. It’ll be a nice addition to have actual some damage from it going forward in 9.0.5
I hear you. But 400% boost of 5 dmg is just 20 dmg (straw man argument I know but you get what I’m saying).
20% extra healing on yourself or your target, which benefits from our pvp healing talent that heals again after 3 sec (useful for when we are kill target), benefits from 20% surge conduit, benefits from the defensive earth shield leggo (again when we are focus target), and the healing stream conduit (another 25% boost to healing surge) outweigh what Lightning Shield brings.
If LS had it’s old 10% dmg reduction from the glyph, it might compete.
What are the upcoming changes regarding lightning shield?
From 3.6 (i think) to 15% of spellpower
That depends entirely on the internal cd. If there isn’t on, LS would be great against WW/DH and other fast hitting, lower damage per hit classes. I need to do more testing tonight. FoF would be the perfect candidate to test it. The in town target dummy was proccing it with ever melee.
As far as I can tell, every melee attack procs lightning shield, with no internal cooldown. Using the Tanking Dungeon Dummy once you hit it it will hit you every 1 second, and every hit procs LS. If there is an ICD, it’s lower than 1 second.
It’s also hitting for 330 - 360 ish for me, and crits are 650 - 720. That’s probably pretty strong vs feral druids, windwalkers, and other enhancement shaman.
And it’s getting a 400% buff in 9.0.5.
Those numbers you provided tho are much higher than I got. I was getting 100-150. What spec did you test on?
Because i tested on PTR. That’s with the buff.
Ohhhhhhhhh yeah that’s not awful. 