For those who don’t know, Omen of Clarity was change so that it can proc from non-instant spells, meaning that it finally does something for balance druids. That’s really nice and corrects what has long felt like something of an oversight. It’s the 11-point talent in the spellcasting tree and literally only did anything for feral druids.
It’s especially nice because there isn’t anything for balance (well nothing much) in the first two tiers of resto or feral, so it gives us something to spend a few talent points on.
With that said, it feels really bad to be putting 5 points in Natural Weapons to get it, a talent that again, does basically nothing for traditional caster playstyles. 10% increased physical damage just… ugh, it feels so gross, LOL. Like one of those pre-rework talent trees from early WoW.
So like, balance is currently predicted to be fairly poor in terms of DPS later in the phase and there’s room for changes here, so you could do something like, make it give some spell crit (even half a percent per point or something), I don’t know. Just something that makes it feel less like a point sink that does nothing.
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The physical damage is fine since it helps your melee weave damage. The problem with omen of clarity is that its pretty bad for balance and good for the other two specs. It almost always procs when you need to cast wrath or starsurge which makes the limited procs wasted.
Level 50 using the gnomer gear brings the OOmkin in to full view even when using the new bracer rune to lessens our dot casts. So we need those omen procs to be useful
I think its less of an issue in raid if you bring enough shaman, but in the world i have to innervate myself now and even then its not enough.
Hopefully new gear will help too but a lot of items removed spirit which really hurts.
Yeah I get that it’s OK for meleeweaving but frankly I don’t really care for that playstyle very much, it seems like a mathematical quirk more than that intended playstyle. That doesn’t make it less worthwhile or anything, I just don’t think that’s what Natural Weapons is designed for. NW/OOC was made mostly for feral druids. On top of that, there’s nowhere else to throw these talent points in a PvE build unless you want +3 to each stat on Imp MOTW, which is a truly awful talent
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big news!!! my omen of clarity is no longer going away when casting wrath!!!
I thought wed be complaing about the mana cost of hurricane.
The intended playstyle of Balance was to be a true hybrid. A mix of caster, healer and melee. Hence the name “Balance”.
Some examples.
- Natural Weapons were originally near the bottom, preventing feral from getting it.
- Nature’s Grace did not reduce the cast time on offensive spells, only heals.
- Moonkin form wasn’t a thing.
- The Shapeshifting talent removed the GCD on forms, allowing you to instantly go into a form, use an ability and then go back to caster.
- Omen of Clarity only procced off of melee attacks.
That’s amazing! Love to hear that!
Spending 5 talent points for +3 DPS and I’m probably being generous, lmao.
(1 DPS on the sim I’m using).