I’ve run into two different Enhancement Shamans who were pulling ~650k single target DPS.
I looked at the damage breakdown for one and it was really weird. In a 42 second encounter, they have:
- 5 Tempest and 8 Lightning Bolt casts for 53% of their damage.
- 4 Stormstrikes for 1.6% of their total damage
- 27 melee hits and 20 Windfury hits for 3% of their total damage.
- No Feral Spirits, Doom Winds, or any other cooldowns used.
Given the low number of melee hits, it seems like they’re just hard casting Lightning Bolts? Does anyone know how this works?
Stormbringer, in the most boiled down sense, heavily prioritizes spending.
No one is hard-casting anything, and the guys lack of CD usage isn’t optimal either. You still need to use your entire kit to both do damage as well as generate the msw required to keep firing off LB/CLs in order to trigger Tempest.
I’d say refunds from the hero tree are probably quite a significant portion of msw generation now but again you still need the rest of the kit to be constantly generating.
Stormbringer is a build that can really ramp damage once Tempest gets up to speed. However, you cannot stand back and just cast like an Elemental Shaman. You still need to use the kit, Lava Lash, Nova, Strikes, L, and CL to generate the maelstrom to spend to get Tempest to proc.
It’s not ranged at all, and it’s literally getting fixed today.
It’s an interaction with their tier set and hero talents, spending tempest is taking an additional 7 seconds off the CD of Pwave, and this is allowing them to put out an incredible amount of spenders and proccing tempest a lot.
I’m set to lose over a million DPS in sims on 6 targets when this gets fixed.
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