No, this is where you’re mistaken. The requests to make the build more interactive or to change Tempest with Lava Burst were made at the beginning of the beta a long time ago, and, as usual, they were denied. When they realized they hadn’t done any tuning, they released a rushed rework in the open beta. In reality, we deserved a revamp like Demonology, Survival, or Combat received. Not to mention that we’ve been asking for non-single-button rotations since at least WoW Dragonflight. So, complaining and requesting this doesn’t mean they’ll give it to us now before the release, but at least it might help them understand that we want the same level of attention that other builds have always received. If this feedback is taken into account for the next expansion, even better, especially since they’ve said that expansions will be released once a year or at most once every year and a half.
Literally just buff Lava Burst and Earthshock/Elemental Blast. That’s all they need to do. 2 tuning knobs vs a whole ground-up redesign. You’d rather they change nothing for its gameplay/performance in season 1 in hopes they rework it for season 2? Really smart plan there bud. I understand now why you had to ask me to test builds on beta for you.
They need new spells. I got one “Ball Lightning” - Hurl forward a ball of lightning that hits all enemies and gives them a positive charge. Just reskin the mage spell where they throw a spinning ball of ice.
They should add something like a positive and negative charge so it plays of each other, different phases for different spells idk man they are the developers.
Superbolt - Actually a real thing. I know tempest kind of does that but give them a different nuke.
Plasma? No reason an elemental shaman can’t make plasma if they already got lightning. Plasma would be hot. Can you imagine a pool of plasma appearing under your feet?
Shaman does NOT need more spells.
lightning build feels fantastic.
If people let you free cast, lightning build mows you down super fast.
550 ilvl pulling 450k dps on a dummy over a 5 minute test.
In BGs, my burst 100-0s someone in 6 globals, one of which does 0 damage (stormkeeper)
Yeah, I do have to play prim wave still. I have about 95% flame shock uptime with just prim wave, never having to cast flame shock. I only lava burst with lava surge procs, and only if i can earthshock after to then cast lightning bolt.
I never hard cast lava burst, I never cast flame shock.
I use prim wave and storm keeper on cooldown. Ill bank maelstrom a little bit if i do not have lava surge procs, but I wont overcap either.
in AoE, Chain lightning becomes priority over lava burst and prim wave as i have no way to spread flameshock. so I just spam chain lightning and earthquake. if there is a prio target, ill prim wave lava burst that target if needed but otherwise i am typicalyl top dps in everything i do.
Best elemental has felt (lightning build) in forever. I have yet to try meatball build tbh.
I spread FS when I can to help with pet CDR. Storm pet LB cast reduction is so nice and since pet stays up longer and back to back it’s so cool. Helps smooths things out with the haste drought.