Shaman class changes 11.05

With changes coming in little less then a month i wanted to talk about some changes for both dps specs for shaman. In the past few days i was looking at some of the new talent choices coming to shaman both Elemental and Enhance. What i noticed was insane that the two new talents Voltaic Blaze for enhance shaman and Erupting lava for elemental should we swapped. Voltaic blaze puts out 5 flame shocks at once after casting a lightning spell why the heck does enhance need that when they can spread flame shock easy with lava lash. Also you could make Erupting lava effect lava lash and eat flame shock up and spread it would be a better mechanic for melee class. All im saying is its clear the class designer for the shaman team clearly dont know what they are doing cuz some of these talents make 0 sense for the class they where given too. Double check your work blizz and read what your actually putting in what class.

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I don’t know if Erupting lava is good mathematically, but the design of that spell is just garbage. Absolutely no one wants to have to cast flame shock more often.

agreed. w/ pw, you don’t even have to cast fs and then spread with LL. I don’t get why we need a specific spell that apparently adds yet another key bind (if I understand correctly) that does the same thing as PW LL combo. And, since you’re spamming LL (which refreshes FS), why do we need that change? maybe I’m confused??

That was my first thought on reading Voltaic, too: “This sounds like it should be on Ele…”

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I think they thought since destro has a similar mechanic with bolt / immolate that it would work?

Well, it is not a awesome change, but it will improve our target swap on mythics a little.
I hope we had something better, but at least they didn’t make it worse.
I’m glad that we still can cast Feral Spirit, even having the passive version now.

I wish they have updated the shaman shields as well. It looks old and that is too much spinning.

if you look at where it is in the tree, it’s clear its made for storm build and not elementalist. As is stands for the totemic elementalist that i play, I wouldn’t even pick up this talent because it is too deep into the stormstrike side of the tree. I don’t mind if they want to make some QoL changes for storm build frankly, I think some talent disparity is good.

I’m super pumped for the rest of the changes to totemic though, it’s gonna pump