Stormbringer Hero Talent Tree

Classes Shaman
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I’m really excited to see what this brings because as far as elemental is concerned I’ve always preferred using lightning over lava burst. Not that lava burst isn’t nice to twist into the elements and honestly with all 3 feels great.

I really hope they lean into Stormkeeper as the node talent they pivot off because calling out literal trees of forking lightning just feels great. I’m really hoping to build into the lightning even more, since druids lost hurricane and went all cosmic, maybe bringing back hurricane clouds that spawn off our chain lightnings would be cool =D.

I just want to see more lightning and back in the old talent trees back in the way back time, some of the coolest moments as a shaman was pressing our Elemental Mastery button and just blasting a full critical chain lighting out at mobs.

Heck, earthquake has been a great way to add AOE for our spec on top of what we have but it’d be nice to see all the elements at play at once again as a major cooldown or something that can happen once in a while. Like an earth quake under a cloud of lightning with a volcano erupting and an icy wind blowing.

Anyways, excited to see when they do it but really hoping the spec goes full “Unlimited Power GIF” for us lol

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Fingers crossed they actually include stormstrike into some of these mechanics. Would love for the button to have cool hooks that isn’t “just smash more!”

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So far, the datamined stuff, did not include stormstrike, but we’ll see.

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You are 100% right and it’s 100% wild that it’s not in there.

It’s the VERY FIRST talent point in the tree for enhancement that you can’t not take, and both storm and elementalist builds press stormstrike.

Lightning bolt is pressed but then it just makes the rotation even more muddy because it’s

  • oh I have ele blast up
  • oh but I also have tempest up so I’ll go tempest this time ele next time

Idk elementalist doesn’t need any additional complexity to it imo.

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All my shaman hopes and dreams lay in Stormbringer. I absolutely loathe the braindead fire build for elemental that’s been forced on us for 2 seasons in a row.

I do hope Electrified Shocks goes away though. Would also prefer just having Earth Shock as a spender. I like Elemental Blast, but I don’t like it as a spender that replaces Earth Shock.

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smash more was my favorite meta for stormstrike shaman. Legion expansion felt glorious watching everything get cleaved, attacked by wolves, and ticked away from static ground.

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Hey they can certainly also make a choice node be smash more as well.

But stormstrike not being in the tree is lowkey, criminal.

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Just saw the stormbringer talent tree this afternoon. First, I must say Stormbringer Hero tree if the best hero tree ever, change my mind! YES, YES, and More YES. Double, triple down on this forever and days to end.

THIS

The Stormbringer is all about the celebration of being the only lightning caster across all classes. > Blockquote

And THIS

Our goal is to push that fantasy forward with enhancements to your existing lightning spells as well as access to a new spell

AND THIS

For Stormbringer, we’re working on emphasizing the uniqueness of being the sole lightning caster as much as possible.

But more of this

lightning caster… push that fantasy forward

YES, YES, YES. excited, excited, excited!!! HAS ALL THE MONEYS!!!

Something about the lightning spell that make you feel powerful! It is going to be extremely hard picking between Enhance and Ele now.

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Well Awakening Storms, the Stormbringer capstone does include Stormstrike and increases its value insanely aswell, as it helps proc Tempest. So it’s something!.

And it adds a chance to do Nature Damage which with all the modifiers we getting may be decent!.

Personally I’d like to see Storm Swell to boost Stormstrike, its choice node Arc Discharge grant 3 free chain Lightning at 75% increased damage, great for AoE, but Storm Swell as the Single Target node just only grant 3 extra MSW, it could use a little more.

Like Stormstrike gets an additional charge, which personally I think would be great especially in a single target scenario.

  • Storm Swell - When Tempest only strikes a single target, gain 3 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon, Stormstrike gets an additional charge and does 5% more damage.

Similar to Farseer’s Elemental Reverb, giving Lava Burst/Riptide an additional charge and 5% Damage/Healing.

For Elemental it could Stormkeeper making Lightning Rod more attractive in the spec tree, as you’ll still have 2 charges of Stormkeeper.

For Ele aswell they could even remove the choice and have it only Lightning Rod, as you’ll get the 2nd charge regardless through the Hero Spec and the 50 sec Stormkeeper effect too via Rolling Thunder. So essentially you get a free Talent with no drawbacks and guarantees Lightning Rod.

Thoughts?

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I would love for it to eliminate the cast time of stormkeeper altogether somewhere, and ideally keep it off the gcd.

Maybe a deep ele talent somewhere where it could replace echoes of great sundering.

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I really hope they change Tempest a bit so that it replaces Lava Burst… I dont wanna cast fire spells when im suppose to be a LIGHTNING guy

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From watching someone play it on the Alpha, for AOE it is lightning and nothing but lightning, all the time. Full-time sith lord.

For ST it looks like you will hit lava burst to help generate but you still will be hitting lightning more.

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Its trash, it takes too long to ramp, you don’t get a second lightning rod. Spell interactivity is still not addressed, our squishiness is still unaddressed, and we still don’t have a $%^'ing raid/party buff. They are phoning this one in, its over, they are going to spend a lot of time paying lip service to do nothing…again.