Please fix/update Lightning Strikes - Enhancement

Classes Shaman
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Lightning Strikes currently requires you to consume no less than 10 stacks of MSW to get the buff, you cannot consume 5 MSW+5 MSW to get the buff, it has to be exactly 10 stacks. This works entirely against the way the spec is designed and is counterintuitive to many talents in the spec tree that all builds of ours play.

It works against Thorim’s Invocation, it works against Totemic Momentum and it works against Elemental Tempo. These 3 talents have us spending below 10 all the time to get some form of CDR (elemental tempo), Hot Hands uptime increase (Totemic Momentum) or automatically spends MSW during Doom Winds when you press Stormstrike or Crash Lightning (Thorim’s Invocation).

Not being able to really play this talent in PvE is a bit of a hit to our potential single target damage. We just don’t have it up nearly enough to make it worthwhile since we consistently spend below 10 stacks of MSW. Talents like this one in the past always added up MSW stacks spent to get to the total required for x or y buff, like Legacy of the Frost Witch previously.

Please bug fix or update this talent so it works additively like everything else. Ie if you spend 5 stacks and then another 5 stacks that totals 10 so you get the buff.

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Not to mention tracking Maelstrom stacks with the current UI is miserable.

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I had to get an addon for this, Arc’s Maelstrom Weapon Resource. Puts boxes or dots on the screen (that I can move) for each stack, and turns yellow (or color of your choice) at 10. It’s made the class feel so much better.

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Yeah there are ways to track MSW, its not a huge deal. The problem with Lightning Strikes is just that it barely has uptime because again its counterintuitive to the way the spec is designed via the talents listed above.

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Yeah, Lightning Strikes not stacking below 10 MW needed to be fixed when they fixed the heal not cumulatively stacking below 10 stacks too. Hoping it’s just an oversight and they will fix for next patch at least.

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This still isn’t updated/fixed in 12.0.5 to be additive like every other version of this talent has been in the past.

Please update Lightning Strikes to be additive, ie you get the buff if you spend 5 msw+5 msw instead of how it works now where you only get it if you spend at exactly 10 msw and no less.

It has very low uptime because of this and works against the rest of the spec (Totemic Momentum, Elemental Tempo, Thorims Invocation).