Please rework enhance

[Remi-tichondrius]

@Shiftstepx-atiesh

Saul seems to disagree with this. He says its really unfun that enhance only does satisfying damage when the enemy team has pets or multiple targets to hit to funnel converging storms and if there is only 1 target, then the damage isnt good enough.

so bubblebuddy very generally disagreed with the idea that enhancement shaman needs a rework to which i completely agree because the spec is REALLY fun to play and feels REALLY good

however that’s a general take disagreeing with the idea of a rework

my more nuanced opinion of what enhancement shaman needs (not a rework) aligns with exactly that, and here it is posted on the shaman forums a couple weeks ago or something

@Remi-blackrock

This is a really big issue, the crash lightning buff is a really cool mechanic but it suffers from being WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too strong in the right conditions or making stormstrike feel WAAAAAY too weak in the wrong conditions

like pure single target enhancement shaman damage is actually extremely underwhelming
once you have access to 3-4+ targets the damage is more than competitive, even overwhelming

here’s about 200k damage in a single global with both wolves and frostwitch ontop of a demo with crash cap imps

here’s about 160k damage in a single global under the same modifiers except with dk pets bringing me just under the crash cap i believe

here’s an average stormstrike with modifiers and no crash buff

the swing from one end to the other is really frustrating for both the player and the enemy

IMO i wish they’d reduce the crash buff to 15% per target (down from 25%)
and buff stormstrike at it’s base (in PvP) by probably 10-20%
additionally i wish they’d buff windfury by 10-20%
and potentially increase the duration of forceful winds to 20 seconds

it would be nice to feel like my damage with all modifiers was consistent and threatening vs a singular target like a caster cleave elemental shaman or affliction warlock sitting 40 yards from their partners and not almost exclusively strong vs a bmhunter/unhdk/demolock or stacked melee cleave

like i cannot stress enough how poor the actual damage can be without the powerful hits even against 2-3 targets from crash buffed stormstrikes every 8 or so seconds
i’m personally really worried they look at the crash buff and cut the top end without realizing how much that impacts our damage outside of the obviously overwhelming extreme scenarios (10292974297 pets) and they compensate us with sustained damage buffs

while i’m ranting i’d really really really like to see an honor talent that reduces doomwinds cooldown to 60 seconds
i’m fully aware making doomwinds(off global) and 60 sec + 5 sec on forceful winds would impact PvE but an honor talent doing both of those things seems like an insanely good fix to a spec that’s functionally pretty underwhelming right now

then since you’re looking for more nuance

@Bubblebuddyy-tichondrius

Defensively it isn’t bad but it’s defensive skill floor is too high for most of the player base so maybe it could use a rework in how it plays defensively

to this i agree to some extent

shaman has a lot of utility that has a high skillfloor and a moderate skillcap
the skillfloor is the reason you see a majority of the complaints though they aren’t without merit

most other melee specs are passively more durable or have to do significantly less to enable themselves (arms dh unh primarily)
i do not think we need a rework of ANY kind
i DO think the defensive utility is VERY strong and most of the people not succeeding right now aren’t stuck solely because of balance but more because of mechanical gameplay

but i do think some form of minor mitigation would not push enhancement over the top and would not only bring the skillfloor down to a friendly level but it would provide an actually needed boost to the skillcap where enhancement is still fairly underwhelming