Right now, our sustained dps in pvp is about 25-33k depending on if people eat into counter strike totem. DH, WW, DK, Warrior all do more sustained then that, have better access to defensives, while also having better self-healing (that hardly sacrifices damage), and higher mobility. Hell our utility is even even at best.
Yet, we are getting nerfed on our only kill pressure, and not only that aura nerfed in the areas that are already slacking. Like i’m sadly already rerolling as we speak. This is really really disapointing…
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Multiple things can be true at the same time.
Shamans DO need a buff to survivability.
Enh lightning bolt DOES deal too much damage atm.
Other non shaman melee require extensive nerfs.
Im glad that they are fixing things on a weekly basis but it is SO FRUSTRATING that they are only adjusting shaman damage and not the other things that require adjustments. It seems like there are more pressing things for developers to work on than lightning bolt, and a enh made out of glass without the cannon behind it will just get exterminated.
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Yeah our one-shot is really op and unpredictable. However, it’s our whole threat. With that gone we are just nothing. I doubt there will be a single enhance on front 2 pages of 3v3 after this.
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Correct. Im hoping theres still more patch notes coming before 10.0.5 release.
Its wild how many pvp players are in agreement about shaman defensives right now.
Im just glad to see people being actually constructive once again as opposed to the sky is falling.
Problem was is taking all that burst, a further 3% blanket, and give us 30% stormstrike damage and no other defensives to match. Im pretty sure not a single shaman would complain losing burst or even damage if we could get some more defensive
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I feel like enhance was/is a bit of a meme spec. Having a one shot burst with wolves/totem/trinket into EB then Prim wave double LB is definitely op when you get crits, but then again that’s sort of all we have/had.
That same damage is actually pretty underwhelming without crits and everything else lined up and will be even more of a wet noodle after the nerf of course. I would have preferred the damage to be buffed but not allowed to crit.
IMHO, I feel like the talent/spec desperately needs a bit of a rehaul.
Remember back in beta when they changed elemental warding from -6% all damage to -4% magic damage only and i said that was a terrible change and shamans needed the defensive boost or else they would get dunked on every match and you said that wasnt constructive and the sky wasnt falling and blah blah blah
That passive -6% damage taken looking pretty good right now…
On the bright side, I’m leveling my old mage main since they keep buffing frost. Shamans being relegated to weeklies and conquest cap duty.
Yup ENH is game over with current patch notes. We were Tier A spec ATM , Tuesday were B in PvP.
Reason is because community HATE Glass Canon Classes.
They nerf , rogue , WW , SP , ENH every burst that can potentially one shot someone in 2-3GDC with crits.
Community hates those classes and will post video and bug and reports from player and eventually blizzard nerf them.
It’s really ending up by just removing the canon from those classes and all that remain is Glass.
They really needs to address that shaman are 100% 1st target at every arena game.
Astral Shift need to be cast during stun with current meta. that would be a START.
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Your being a bit alarmist. To be honest, the physical strike build will be more than fine. They never used ele blast as the big burst to begin with. The only downside is I don’t see anyone running primordial wave at all now