All (or almost all) of us have the ability to have made nearly all available Enhancement Shaman legendaries. I chose to not pick one and level it up. I chose to make multiple level 190 versions ans play with them all. Then decide later which one(s) to level up. I am fully expecting a power adjustment (buff/nerf) in the future so I want to be sure to not invest in something that I know will perform poorly in the future.
However, there is a significant playstyle differentiation between the different legendary effects and I want to hear what you guys are enjoying using. Note, I am saying enjoying using, not which one sims best for DPS.
Personally, I enjoy three of them. Doom Winds, Witch Doctor’s Wolf Bones, and Primal Lava Actuators.
Doom Winds: This one provides lots of WTFBBQ moments when procs happen, once per minute. The smiles per minute are good. However, the LACK of smiles while waiting for the next 1 minute activation feels bad man.
Witch Doctor’s Wolf Bones: I really dig having “pets” as a Shaman. Being able to have Wolves out for 15 seconds, roughly every 30 seconds, definitely feels good. I would argue more smiles per minute than Doom Winds. You won’t have those WTFBBQ moments like Doom Winds offers, but about the same smiles per minute of use. “Downtime” on the legendary is about 50%, so not too bad considering against Doom Winds with a much larger downtime. And when in Downtime, as well as when Wolves are actively up, you are actively contributing towards more uptime with playing and hitting your buttons. Doom Winds is relatively boring in that regard. The part I hate the most about this legendary is not the legendary itself, but the ability it synergizes with. There needs to be a way to get all three Wolf buffs out at the same time, or for there to be some sort of player control on which buffs come out. Or, even something similar to Survival Hunters and their bomb talent that lets them see which type of bomb will be triggered ahead of time. I would prefer no need for control (all three buffs), or an active control option, but that would suffice.
Primal Lava Actuators: Lava Lash by itself… nothing but a very meh filler. Lava Lash with talents supporting it, and with Primal Lava Actuators, feels pretty good. It goes from a boring almost-not-worthy-of-being-on-your-bars to your highest damaging ability. (Elemental Blast hits harder, but Lava Lash will be more % of your overall damage). There is only one thing holding back this from being my top choice, as far as feeling while playing goes. That is how the cooldown will desync itself from itself. You can be in a Hot Hand window. The window ends. You were pressing Lava Lash for another hit. But it is suddenly back on cooldown. Your computer registered it as active and able to be pressed. It gets sent to the server. But the lag in between causes it to effectively be on cooldown once information gets back to your computer. So you sit there, your character going through the motions of trying to cast Lava Lash, but it is not available. The lag feels horrible. If I had known the button was not going to be available to push, I would have hit another button instead. But the game told me it was available. Thus, about 1.5 seconds gets “lost” every 30 seconds or so as the game catches up with itself.
Overall, I can’t choose which of the three I want to pursue further and am curious about your thoughts on the “feel” of them. Blizzard fixing Wolves to be less RNG and/or Blizzard fixing Hot Hand talent and it’s latency issues would make the choice for me as one of those.