Please let us keep primordial wave in its current form by changing the name of the ability.
There is NO world where the PTR version feels good for anything and is severely lackluster in terms of damage, burst windows, and flameshock spread.
This change was done baseline for Enh/Ele and there was NO compensation for Ele when compared to what it does for enhance.
Completely agree. If this change launches as is Ele shaman losing so much while enhance just gains and gains. I have nothing against Enhance getting cool stuff, but Elemental losing the massive Lava Burst cleave is absolutely abysmal. Please revert the change for Elemental, it is awful!
Revert the change for Elemental and rename the skill Enhancement gets to make it more distinct.
This is 100% the way to go. Please listen Blizz, nerfing the fun factor of a class is never a good thing to do.
New primordial wave needs like 4 changes to be made acceptable - mastery scaling, maelstrom compensation to account for how much more you got in the old design, a noticeable damage buff, and flame shock compensation to account for the loss of one of our few ways to apply flame shock quickly. Instead of slowly putting that work in over the next three patches please consider just not reinventing this wheel. Primordial wave for ele as of the lava burst proc change has felt fantastic. As it stands ele got two changes this patch one of them was a utility nerf which I’m actually ok with and one of them was a spell rework so bad it makes me seriously contemplate playing something else for a patch. Even if I stay on my shaman I might just play stormbringer without primordial wave for all content I can reasonably get away with it.
Also, even if primordial wave is made as good as it was before the change I’ll still dislike it because I liked the graphic of mass lava burst going out better than the aoe primordial wave because lava burst just looks better.
I would prefer they actually just delete the spell from the talent tree, or give it the same treatment as Resto Shaman with it being a full on passive of: “Your Lava Burst, Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt spells cleave X% damage to all targets with Flame Shock on them.”
That or even if they just made it so only Lava Burst does it, that would be fine, too.
I’m also someone who hates CDs so the more CDs a spec has the more I find that spec to be very terrible to play and in design.
As long as primordial wave is tethered to farseer that isn’t happening. Also, that would have the same problem of not giving a maelstrom infusion on cast. Primordial wave is in a solid place right now, reinventing it now is actually insane.
Reworking Prim wave for ele did not have to happen. If they wanted to simplify it for Ele, they should have focused on Flame Shock applications because that is the “complex” part of this for Elemental. Making blanket changes like this to make the ability work the same between both specs is a bit ridiculous, it is fine for an ability with the same name to work slightly different for different specs, players can at the bare minimum read the ability.
Pressing Lava Burst was the best part of Prim wave for ele, removing it really sucks. This is also a massive nerf to Prim wave regardless of how much damage it does. We lose maelstrom generation from Lava Burst (8 per burst sent out) and then Lava Burst overloads. It was also visually exciting.