Thoughts?
https://www.wowhead.com/news=316395/upcoming-dps-shaman-changes-on-shadowlands-alpha
so many of these changes are bad
instead of reworking rockbiter to be an interesting ability that interacted with the rest of our kit they just removed it
so abilities now almost mirror mop era just minus unleash elements and plus stormbringer
so it’s up in the air if we’re just afk waiting on globals or not
the stormbringer change is also kinda dumb imo
a lot of problems have come from stormbringer from legion -> now but it also feels like it’s one of the few windows enhance has relevant single target pressure since the removal of static cling and singletarget chainlightning
though we’ll likely just take stormfury and with the 30 yard range change to windfury totem we’ll likely still just be stormstrike spam bots that rng cds like in early legion
having access to hot hand and stormfury together would probably make the spec feel more engaging since i’m gonna bet we’ll be sitting on our hands waiting on cds to come up until we get stats mid/late xpac
fury of air and lucid being removed means we get to play sundering and not feel bad about it which is a step in the right direction
but stormkeeper vs sundering will come down exclusively to which ever one is tuned better which makes it an uninteresting choice
ascendance still isn’t baseline which means we most likely WONT get to play interesting talents like earthen spike which IMO was one of the most fun things about legion enhance and is only made more interesting by things like stormkeeper being brought over to enhance
we didnt get root back, astral shift didn’t become sham rage, feral lunge will still be unplayable because lmfao natures guardian on the same tier?, and nothing new or unique was added
overall i’m not thrilled going forward but i’ll still happily play enhance for the 6th xpac in a row regardless of what blizzard does to it
who knows maybe stormkeeper earthen spike will be crazy damage every minute that forces things to happen between ascendances and we wont feel like gimped demonhunters with a third of the utility