I was pretty happy at the start of DF to see at least 2 different Enh builds, one being Elemental based and one being physical/nature / LavaLash vs Strom Strike.
Right now we just have a few gigantic problems.
The Ele playstyle is extremely competitive with Physical (Gamba) while inherently being able to cleave or AoE.
Meanwhile in comparison, Physical is extremely restricted to ST while not really being ahead on ST to justify the restriction.
I have no idea why the last 3rd of the Enh tree gets thematically swapped from left to right, while right is obviously Elemental while the left is physical with WF etc.
We also need either significant changes to how Crashlightning & SS work together or their related talents to actually work in AoE or buff/rework them significantly to be actually worth to pick.
Converging Storms is a joke of a talent, Stormblast sounds cool, but has anti-synergy with the physical playstyle as stuff like Legacy of the Frost Witch, Feral Spirits etc buff physical only, so why is there a talent that gives it nature damage that isn’t even attractive for Elementalist Enhance players?
Another gigantic problem is that Doomwinds is a joke of a CD, I have no idea how it has no inherent CDR with WF hits or SS to drastically reduce it’s CD, similar to how Ele Shamans reduce their CD of PW.
The second biggest problem is the absurd talents we have to pick right now as physical shamans (ST), how in the F*** are we as physical shamans, the only ones that actually care about physical amps, the ones that at most put 1 SINGLE point into Legacy of the Frost Witch?! especially when it’s second point has 5X THE VALUE?!
Or having to pick Elemental Weapons, eventho the idea is to NOT focus on those elements, but physical stuff?
We do deal a good amount of damage with LB’s with Ascendence proccs, but there is no direct way of actually just going for nature amp either.
And at the end we as physical shamans don’t even have enough points to at the very least take each SS related talent and are starved for points in the last 3rd.
Static accumulation should be 1 point at most, if not baked into Thorims Invocation or combined with the last point on this list, which is the biggest problem of physical Enh.
HOW THE F*** IS THE RNG STILL NOT FIXED?!
The absurd rng we have is laughable, I legit went through some 5-6min fights with 1-2 proccs of Deeply Rooted Elements in TOTAL, which means for like 95%+ of the fight I was actually missing 4+ talent points.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, make it give us a buff that increases the chance to procc by 7% each time SS hits until it proccs which resets the stacks to end this absolute clownfiesta we have to deal with so often.
There is a reason almost all physical raiders where chinese, because they have controlled RNG in their client which makes it so you cannot get that unlucky with proccs.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the moment it proccs & trying to get the max out of each of them, but please for the love of god, buff it’s procc chance significantly or make it give us a stackable procc-buff to buff it & get rid of these self-harm inducing dry spells.
A simple hotfix could be a drastic increase of it’s procc chance to at least give us our ST-niche back without having to wait for the absolute god-pull where we get a stupid amount of them.
Especially in a raid where we have 1 single ST boss, if you make us play such a cursed talent-build, then at the very least let us actually be good at it if we sacrifice so much.