It’s kind of wild that mountain thane appeals to me more as an enhancement than the actual enhance shaman we have today? Maybe because in my mind I associate being a melee class with more melee buttons and stormbringer big hook is around the lightning bolt for enhance and not really around stormstrike, the melee ability , for enhance.
Why does mountain thane abilities do stormstrike damage… but enhance stormstrike does… physical? Just seems odd to me.
Also elementalist and storm builds BOTH use stormstrike, if anything it being lightning bolt feels kinda meh for Enhance because now I have tempest strike, ele blast, chain lightning, and lightning bolt. It’s kind of… dumb? Maybe tempest strike should have just str8 up replaced chain lightning and it work as a combination of CL and LB… idk I’m likely horribly off and on one but after looking at all the hero trees this evening I am hella underwhelmed.
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I’m looking at this from an Ele perspective, and everything is just kind of bland. The instant CL procs are nice, but they could do so much more. feel like Mountain Thane does a better job at expressing the lightning fantasy than Stormbringer which is absolutely insane. With Stormbringer, Blizzard highlighted that Shaman are the only lightning casters in the game. With Mountain Thane, that’s not really true anymore.
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Ohh def i have a zandalari troll warrior thats pirate theme and when decidinf weather to go enhance or moutain thane i went warrior.
I still use lightning, i get to use sword transmogs and im not squishy. Its a better enhance
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There’s overlap, that’s why dwarves make good shamans since cataclysm.
But Mountain Kings have Avatar, Stormbolt and Thunderclap as their kit.
That’s all entirely Warrior.
I would be shocked if Stormstrike/wind strike made it to war within launch still being physical damage. The stormbringer hero tree specifically buffs nature spells in several spots and I just don’t think the devs would plan to launch that without making stormstrike benefit from it.
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Might want to take off your jewelry and put on rubber soled shoes.
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LMFAO he is gonna be shocked for sure!