Shadowlands has basically reverted enhancement shaman back to its WoD playstyle with some legion elements squeezed in as well. My experience with this expansion was that the class was back to its awesome cooldown based roots, but was a little raw in certain areas. There are many gameplay and thematic elements that show to me that enhancement was pretty half baked going into SL. This spec aged finely throughout the expansion and overall got much better, here I just want to give my wishlist for how my favorite spec in the game can be made better in the future.
With dragonflight gutting the current talent system, I hope they craft enhance’s new talents as a culmination of all of renditions of enhancement throughout all the expansions. I think by taking the best qualities of this spec from each expansion this spec can be perfect without much work having to be done. With all that being said here’s my wishlist:
Big Stuff
- Remove Frost/Flame shock and replace with Unleash Elements
Frost/Flame shock provide no exciting gameplay and for most of SL were a giant inconvenience as they could not be casted in succession until 9.2. Even now both spells feel very impactful and feel disconnected from the rest of the enh rotation. The return/redesign of unleash elements can allow for a filler ability that not only provides a better flow to the spec, it helps build the enhancement identity.
Unleash Elements - (5 sec cd / 2 charges / 10 yard range) Blast the target with the power of the elements through your weapons, dealing X amount of damage, increasing your next stormstrikes damage by 5% and causing your weapons to deal ticking fire damage.
- Bring back rockbiter as a slow now that frost shock is gone
Shamans to me should be using earth much more than they currently do now, and considering enhancement has ZERO earth-based spells outside of talents. Bring back this awesome animation as a slow to replace boring frost shock, which has a “slap” animation and is of an element that many other classes have access to. This is an aspect of legion class fantasy I really miss, even if the initial rendition of rockbiter was boring
- Replace Lightning Bolt with Stormblast/Something new
Lightning bolt feels, looks, and is weak. I see Enhancement as a melee spec that can dish out mid range abilities when empowered, and using elemental’s filler to do mediocre damage as a high point in the rotation does not exactly scratch that itch. I would suggest replacing lightning bolt with an awesome enhancement exclusive mid-range ability: stormblast. I would also really want this ability to be able to do double damage using 10 stacks of MW, as it adds a better feel to the spender as well as allowing for stormbringer procs to not be wasted on 2 GCDs.
- Make ride the lightning accessible in PvE
Ride the lightning is a beautiful ability. I just want to see it as a baseline part of enhancement without being restricted to only PvP
Smaller Stuff
- Racial Feral Spirits
Feral spirits really only make sense for orcs and maybe tauren so having the racial beasts for each shaman race can flesh out all the different races practice of shamanism
- Draenei - Riverbeast
- Dwarf - Rams
- Tauren - Kodos
- Orc - Wolves
- Troll - Raptors
- Goblin - Snapdragons?
- Pandaren - Windward Tigers
- Dark Iron Dwarf - Flamesabers
- Kul’tiran - Deer/Wicker Beast?
- Highmountain Tauren - Eagles
- Mag’har Orc - Dire Wolves
- Zandalari Troll - Raptor
- Vulpera - Krolusk
*** Cool New abilities**
These are just some ideas for potentially new abilities in dragonflight, not married to anything just some fun brainstorms.
Healing Storm - A version of healing rain that spawns under you after spending 5 stacks of MW, deals damage with lightning and provides healing with water.
Windrush - Updated version of spiritwalk with windy animation
*spirit walk is very boring and has an uninspired animation
Shorebreak- Summon a wave to push all enemies in a cone in front of you back, dealing moderate damage and slowing them.
Unleash Doom - Ability from legion, please bring back in DF
This is all just a wishlist for what I want enhancement to be. I understand most of the work is probably done but I just wanted to share my ideas.