I really like it and i don’t wanna lose it or it become some meniscal passive next expac.
I just wish the visual could be hidden. It ruins some shield mogs
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I like it too.
I mean it already is a “set and forget” passive. But I don’t think it’s going anywhere.
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I know it doesn’t seem like much but doing the cast of it and the fact its very active in what it does. I just don’t want it to become some little passive that adds some tiny amount of extra damage once in a blue moon.
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I just hate it’s “Shield only” I would love it to be “offhand and shield” or attached to the Lightning Shield spell (make the damn thing actually useful)
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This is true because it does hard cap you at needing a shield. I mean I also did see having a staff become an issue.
This is a big deal since there is that cool caster staff out of the raid that we’d be locked out of potentially if Thunderstrike Ward beats the effect on it.
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its need to be a passive/remove shield req or gasp… add the effect to lightning shield
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blizz has some weird obsession with trying get rid of 2H on shamans in every version of this game lol.
I know it’s not ideal to use a staff or 2H int mace but I just want to have a giant axe mog on my Orc shaman. Is that too much to ask?
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Seems like they need to add a Two hander imbue to balance things out.
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I can’t see a time when you would be using both Flametongue and Thunderstrike ward because those two are for completely separate builds. They could have made Ward a talent that replaces Flametongue Weapon.
Though this would lock us out of using weapon runes… IDK, it just feels a bit jank being only shields, but I like the idea of it from a class fantasy perspective
Well like they do with some talents they could make a talent that replaces it after when you use flametongue on a two hander it applies the thunderous passive. Like how army of the dead is replaced with abomination.
Honestly it’s terrible. It locks us out of 2 handed and off hands (non-shields) all together.
Basically it removes 60% of the caster weapons we can use…
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Again they could make a talent that turns it into a passive if you use flametongue on a 2hander.
I mean, Lighting Builds isn’t using Flametounge atm, so it still locks us.
They need to make it a passive talent and not have it linked to a shield imbue.
It’s more of i like the feel of casting it onto the shield and i thought a talent that turns it passive would be a good compromise is all.
There’s currently a number of staves/two hand int weapons that we will never want while playing Lighting Builds because it is a shield imbue. We’re pretty much locked into one hand + shield which is hella annoying gearing wise.
I don’t think you’re grasping what i’m trying to get at. A talent. That if you have Lightning Ward. If you take said talent it turns it into a passive that when you cause flametongue on a two-handed weapon it also gives the passive that would normally be cast on a shield? Are you following me here?
Except I want to use a weapon rune or oil while playing Lighting Builds, and having Thunderstrike Ward tied to the Flametongue weapon would prevent that.