Overcharged - Engrave your bracers with the Overcharged rune:
Your Lightning Shield never loses charges, now has a 1 sec cooldown, and deals damage to all enemies within 8 yards.
Static Shock - Engrave your bracers with the Static Shock rune:
Your Lightning Shield now has 9 charges, and your melee attacks have a 6% chance to trigger one of those charges, immediately damaging your target.
Is there any particular reason for someone to pick Static Shock over Overcharged ?
If you aren’t tanking and being hit, you take static shock. Overcharged reads like it still requires you to be hit to proc the lightning shield.
Essentially, tank rune vs dps rune
Overcharged will deal damage to all enemies within 8 yards … auto ! lol
Yeah but you still need some one to hit you don’t you? Like how lightning shield already works, except with the rune the damage is aoe and not ST
With windfury(probably double windfury next phase) along with flurry axe/extra attack weapons, you will be doing a lot of autos. 6% on each of those to do an extra 400-500 nature damage is going to be absolutely nuts. Static Shock will be insanely good as is, mental dexterity really adds a lot of spell power making everythin hit harder. People have enh/war as the only 2 classes at the moment consistently simming over 2k dps…so yea kinda wild.
We don’t know how much damage this will do, it won’t do the full damage of lightning shield charge per hit, if it does then yeah, obv that’s better. But I doubt that will be the case, a perma 400-500 damage aoe storm around you would be gross.