For Enhancement.
Oof, im blind. nvm
Sigh…I’ll test it tonight and post exact numbers.
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LC +35% dmg
EQ +70% dmg
The aoe buff is massive.
The single targer dmg balance change will hurt primal elementalist but could be slightly better for Icefury.
Stormkeeper is being made to affect Chain Lightning only for Enhancement not Elemental.
Hmm now you made me curious to try out Elemental Equilibrium as Enhancement with dogs to see how high I can cheese Elemental Blast dmg.
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why would they delete stormkeeper for ele. its the only talent worth picking for pvp. and i know thats why they nerfed it but come on why didnt they just nerf it for pvp. and lets be real when gear increases and health goes up then lightingbolt with stormkeeper will nerf itself
I’m confused as an ele player why people are crying nerf when almost every one of our a abilities was buffed. Stormkeeper and Lavaburst changes only apply to enhancement and resto, respectively. Am I missing something?
the lava burst nerf is to ele and resto. enhance dosnt use LB my dude
Lava Burst nerf applies to both Ele and Resto, but Ele is moreso getting a changing of its’ damage profile since Earth Shock is getting a nice buff which should mostly counteract the nerf.
AoE is getting extremely significant gains for Ele (stormkeeper CLs and echoing EQs are about to be really nice) and Enhance too (the CL buff will be nice, stormkeeper could finally be worth picking up also).
I never suggested enhance uses LB. I’m just trying to understand if this is another sensationalist post where we should be celebrating rather than dwelling.
As a pvper I was a bit worried about this and from testing an echo/primordial wave lavaburst->earthshock combo with skyfury active I repeatedly got around a 3-4% less damage per set up each time on ptr. I only counted the three lava bursts and follow up earth shock damage. Did not count crits/overloads in my study. So appears to be a slight nerf to the ele burst combo.
So while testing how high I could get Lava Lash to do damage I started digging into its AP coefficient, and noticed that Lava Lash is dealing half the damage it should be doing at 54% of AP.
Now this is NOT including the FTW buff I’m speaking strictly about base Lava Lash itself here.
After removing my character’s gear I had 518 AP (I had a flask on at the time) at this amount of attack power Lava Lash should deal 279.72 or 280 rounded before my base mastery was added. Instead it does 140 dmg before base mastery is added. Its dealing 50% the damage it should be doing. I dug around for hidden modifiers, but I just can’t find any the “hidden modifier” for being Enhancement actually buffs this damage by 3%.
When FTW was made to double the damage of Lava Lash (to encourage us to have FTW on our OH) they nerfed Lava Lash’s scaling by half from 108% to 54%, but they never mentioned anything about it realistically only doing half of 54%.
What I’m getting at is that right now instead of FTW buffing Lava Lash to deal damage as it would have in BFA (108% of AP) its in reality buffing it from 27% of AP to 54% of AP. No wonder the bloody thing does no damage!
Edit: It was at this point that someone reminded me of something. Its an Off Hand attack so its being nerfed by 50% for being an OH attack WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?
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I misread the patch notes. It’s enhance’s stormkeeper that’s being changed, not elemental.
idk if I missed a post somewhere but earth shock going from 210% scaling to 273% of spell power is not a 30% buff, it’s ~17%. Did I miss a post somewhere?
On that same note Lava Burst scaling going from 108% to 97.2% is not a 10% nerf but closer to 6%. I understand they said those numbers are all subject to change, but didn’t think they’d change something from the spell power coefficients to the actual blue post of buffs/nerfs.
There was no chain lightning buff on PTR. However with the other changes my single target DPS was the same but my AOE was about 35-40% higher.
You might want to recheck your math.
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210%*30% = 273%.
Check my math…I went from 5.7k dps to 8k dps AOE on 4 targets. Which is a 40% increase.
Don’t think Lava Burst needed the nerf, but love the EQ change. Don’t know about anyone else but damage felt low even with kiting.
Echoes being nerfed is funny because it is always going to be clunky design and not taken on that reason alone for me.
Earth Shock buff is clearly a redistribution, but can maybe be a boon for encouraging more Maelstrom generation with things like Haste/Mastery builds.
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