Maelstrom weapon seems slow

Classes Shaman
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Watching some video from alpha, maelstrom stacks seem to build kind of slowly. At least in non-aoe encounters.

In some past expansion(s) maelstorm weapon used to also increase damage and healing by 10% x number of charges. So a maelstrom instant cast heal or damage would do 50% more than baseline.

If maelstrom charges are going to be slow to stack and not proc from stuff like shocks and rockbiter, then maybe it should also have the old +10% damage/heal effect it used to have. Either that or maybe increase the proc rate and or make it proc off spell attacks as well?

Also, although the blizz explanation of enhance changes highlighted that stormkeeper could be instant cast using maelstrom, an alpha poster is saying that’s not the case…

If that’s right, hopefully that gets fixed. Ideally maelstrom weapon would go back to being the version where it made any nature spell that wasn’t already instant into an instant cast - so not just heals and lightning but also hex. If they made it all nature then that would presumably work on stormkeeper too.

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Also keep in mind secondary stats will be crazy low on the alpha so that could contribute to the slower building of stacks. But of course I could be wrong and it could be not working quite as intended, in which case I hoped that is fixed. Also a damage boost really needs to come along with it especially since they dropped the damage boost to Stormstrike procs

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As Lurungar stated, it’s alpha with players not at max level with low stats. I would be more curious when they lift the level to 60 and see how everything plays out.

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It would be nice if stormbringer procs made SS generate 2 MS stacks

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Or worse, it is working as intended lol

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I really dont know.

It seems that Shamans in general (or at least Enhance and Elem) are not being changed but completely reworked. I dont have too much faith in the Devs seeing the last 2 years of work. Lets hope they dont screw it so much.