Shaman Rune for Two-Handed PvP

Just a weekly reminder that the rune is very bad and needs to be reworked to be somehow on par with the dual wield rune.

This week dual wield is being buffed, further creating a gap. I have this beautiful epic totem from the blood event that I’ve wanted for 20 years, but it’s essentially useless right now. Double Rockbiter is better in every way, way of the earth, insane mana regen when using Shamanistic Rage, massive Stormstrike crits, earthshock on its own cd, it’s not even comparable.

The only solution is two rework the rune as follows:

Two Handed Mastery: Two handed weapons can now be imbued with Rockbiter and Windfury, Stormstrike now does 125% weapon damage and it’s cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds, and your hit and spell hit is increased by 3-5%.

The weapon speed increase I feel isn’t particularly great. I’d rather hit hard and have a chance for big damage then do a flurry of weak hits with weak windfury’s. SOD has completely changed the game and the traditional windfury Shaman doesn’t stand a chance.

This is the only time two-handed Shaman will get a chance to exist and be strong to some degree. Please find a way to make it work!

Best we can do is faster weap speed

Yeah, the big problem with the 2h rune is that you lose an imbue, and you lose lava lash. Being able to put 2 imbues on a 2h and lowering the cooldown of stormstrike slightly would solve those problems, but it could end up too good.

Worst case they could revert the SS change or something, it’s just as it stands a nerf to yourself lol.

Or if it’s too hard to make it so 2 imbues can go on a 2h, maybe the imbues could just be better on a 2h, sort of like how there are better enchants for 2h. Like have a 40% chance to proc windfury, and double the AP from rockbiter.

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Also a very good idea.