Rolling Thunder feels awful to play atm. Between the underwhelming 30% proc chance to get a charge tied to a 2 second cast, and losing a charge whenever you take any damage. I have found myself unable to get any use out of this rune on multiple occasions in ST. I would love to at least see the removal of the damage on hit aspect of Lightning Shield when using the rune to ensure the ability to stack for that big hit and it’s mana regen.
It’s not only rolling thunder. Elemental sucks overall in PvE, tha damage is bad , got no runes whatsoever last 2 phases and mental dexterity is must play resulting in a tedious melee weaving play style. What’s worse is that in group PvP elemental is still pretty solid (not broken as people like to claim) and any DMG boost to PvE will affect this as well. Gonna take some work to balance this out.
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It’s unironically better to run Overcharged while melee weaving. Just about every fight in ST has something hitting you to proc lightning shield. It just lets you not have to recast lightning shield at any point too, and any fight with adds (Eranikus) you’re splashing damage onto adds for big numbers.
The real issue I have is that melee weaving means you aren’t ranged dps anymore. You don’t fill that niche, your job is now to be a different spec melee dps.
It’s straight up better to be Enhance in PvE now.
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Definitely another issue, I’m currently getting 200 sp from mental dex and its too good to pass up. If i wanted to be melee I would just run Enhancement. Decided to stay ele for SoD and it feels like I’m just gimping myself atm.
My favorite is when your lightning shield times out when you have a near full stack built up. Couldn’t adding an orb reset the duration for this painfully slow build up?
Another thing that bugs me… you don’t get earth shock damage + orbs over 3, when you have more than 3 orbs, you -only- get the orb damage (i.e. a 500 damage earth shock does 250 damage if you have 4 orbs)… so you basically gotta downrank your earth shock if you have more than 3 orbs… stupe