The new changes may be a buff to Lava burst, but they are a NERF for Earth Shock (Fusion of Elements Elemental Blast) with Mountains Will Fall and Lightning Bolts with more than 1 overload.
Lightning Bolts can overload up to 5 times depending on talents; Stormkeeper, Surge of Power, Power of the Maelstrom, Mastery stat, and Stormbringer (Supercharge). Every overload after 1 is an overall nerf to damage. If you include Lightning Rod its an even bigger nerf.
I played Stormbringer all of S1 and the start of S2 these changes are NERFs on top of the PW change. So now we play like garbage and do no damage.
Yeahhh, ruining primordial wave for no reason made farseer ele invalid, and these most recent changes make ele even worse. Really bizarre we’ve had 0 correspondence whatsoever.
Blizz doesn’t even understand the Class / Spec that THEY designed.
Our Mastery gives us Overloads, there are numerous talents for overloads: Surge of Power, Power of Maelstrom, Echo Chamber, Ascendance, Stormkeeper, and Mountains Will Fall.
Then we have support talents for the Overload talents: Lightning Rod which triggers off of Lightning Bolt Overloads and Erupting Lava which triggers off of Lava Burst Overloads.
The entire spec is built around OVERLOADS, so what does Blizz do? The buff the initial spell and NERF OVERLOADS. Dumbest I have ever seen. I have played 2 solos today and my damage is even lower than it was after the PW nerf.
Yup… Been running today with my elemental and is literally the worst class in game right now. Which is weird, we started off so good! Worst gutting of a class in maybe WOW history.
60% nerf to ANYTHING in a class, is death. How did they justify that big of a nerf with the decent buffs to LB and others??? Its still an incredible (not overstating) nerf to a class I have never seen before.
It’s like they don’t understand the Class / Spec that they designed. A big portion of our damage comes from overloads not from the initial spell. By buffing the intial spell and nerfing overloads it’s a net nerf to a Class / Spec that is struggling to do damage.
I explained the Math in another post, but increasing the initial damage of Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Icefury, Tempest, and Frost Shock you would think we were getting a buff, but the nerfing Overloads by 60% is a net loss in damage. I think the Post was Math is Hard. I don’t care to go find it to link.
I played some today and did see a couple big lightning bolts and lava burst, but my overall damage was down from last week which was down from a couple weeks ago with the PW nerf.
Blizz wont change our PW back even though they screwed up big time and now they are trying to save face but they are making it worse.
Blizzard’s lack of communication is seriously frustrating. If it weren’t for priest being enjoyable, then I would’ve taken a long break from the game by now lol.
The spec was doing great last patch with minimal complaints, but they had to nuke it from space to save us all from having too much fun. smh
The ironic part is if Blizz had reduced the damage of all of our main spells by the amount they increased them, but increased our overloads by 60% instead of reducing them we would have had a nice overall damage boost, and we could put together a couple builds that don’t have the garbage PW talent in them and use Overload talents. Now PW is still garbage and all of our Overload talents are garbage and there isn’t much left in the tree to put together a good build. For example why do Surge of Power where you can Earth Shock followed by a fast casting Lightning Bolt that Overloads when the Overload hits like a wet noodle? So instead you could do Aftershock, but why do a bunch of Earth Shocks if you can’t take advantage of Mountains Will Fall because the Overload will only tickle your target?
Blizzard deleted Ele Shaman from PVP…. Destroyed all the progress made with the spec. Just to turn around and probably rework us again into the next expansion and destroy us again.
I have ever seen. I have played 2 solos today and my damage is even lower than it was after the PW nerf.