It’s just a little clunky to be spamming chain lightning in AoE then have to swap to your lightning bolt button to keep damaging when you’re also pressing earth shock, eq, frost shock etc. I think this could be a simple yet effective QOL change.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I actually like the current changes that Ele Shaman has. Forget about the numbers and how strong it is, it just feels like all of the buttons are actually useful and the buttons I didn’t like pressing, like Prim Wave or Liquid Magma Totem, are no longer really needed. This is coming from me who really enjoyed S3 & S4 ele shaman lava burst spam. Ascendance kinda feels strong enough to be a 3 minute CD now and worth hitting something other than just Lava Burst and EQ.
Looks like we’re not getting separate builds for Fire, Lightning, and Hybrid that Blizzard had mentioned before the start of the expansion, but I am enjoying ele like it’s brand new again.
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I would love this. I haven’t done much chain lightning spam since the update, but Tempest replacing both Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning would be great.
I’ll let you in on a little secret, you can macro it so Chain Lightning swaps to Tempest. This DOES NOT work IF you’re Elemental and take Primal Elementalist Talent because the storm elemental has a spell also called Tempest that has priority and bugs the macro.
#showtooltip
/cast [known:Tempest] Tempest; Chain Lightning
This 100% works on Elemental and Enhancement, but sometimes the client is weird and buggy and it breaks it? Like when I was fiddling with it earlier I copy and pasted it into a macro and it didn’t work at all. Tried using spell id # instead no dice and then went back to Tempest and it worked. So if it doesn’t work try deleting Known:Tempest, retyping it and saving and see if that fixes it.
If you use GSE just remove the #showtooltip because that bugs it for whatever reason. You won’t see Chain Lightning icon pop up in rotation, but that’s the price of greatness.
The way it works is that Tempest is not “known” until it procs, you can check this by watching your spellbook while trying to proc it, so since it isn’t known it casts chain lightning instead.
I think any spells that can proc Tempest should turn into Tempest, but that’s logical so of course Blizzard wouldn’t do that.
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Nah. The option to hold a tempest for a next pack or if bosses are about to spawn adds is invaluable and would be lost if Tempest replaced CL. It also inheriting Lighting Bolt’s modifiers is huge deal for your single target damage.
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Tempest should replace earth shock. It would make the tree a lot more congruent with how tempest works for enhancement.
Try using “Tempest ()” the () is to denote spell rank omitting spell rank uses max rank, this is more of a thing in classic than retail but this should force the macro to use spell book spells. I had a similar issue when using Legion Unholy Artifact weapon when it gave you the spell Apocalyse when in the next expansion they added another spell called the same thing. The () fixed it so that it would always use the spell and not the artifact weapon bonus spell
it should just replace both of them (lightning and chain lightning)
I went to fiddle around with this and see if I could get it working and did actually get it working or so I thought. First I tried Tempest () but that just got hung up and didn’t recognize it. Then I tried Tempest() and that worked. I took the Primal Elementalist talent and popped out the elemental and it worked without a hitch. Then just to make sure it just wasn’t bugged before I used the old macro and…it worked no problem. So then I checked out the elementals abilities and guess what? Undocumented changed, they renamed the storm elementals ability to Stormfury. So no idea if it would actually works or not using the Tempest() lol.
So for anyone that wants Tempest to pop up on chain lightning it also works with Primal Elementalist now.
I didn’t think about this, but it’s a good point. I definitely do hold tempest for the next pack if the current pack is about to die.