So I have tried playing other classes but I keep coming back to my Enhancement Shaman. I have tried to move on to classes that tank but again I came back to my Enhancement Shaman.
I love wf and how you can just melt when it procs. But I hate the fact that Shamans cant tank. I also hate how squishy we are. I have tried DH, Paladin, Warrior, Mage. Right now to level new allied races if they can be Shamans thats what I play them as and of course as Enhancement.
I have tried many different classes but when I see a Shaman and its WF proc I usually log over to my shaman and start working on gear or something. I just can’t understand why I can not quit Enhancement Shaman.
I actually preferred the legion/BFA enh shaman. I’m not even grifting on this, I had a forum thread talking about how I held this unpopular opinion back in early BFA. For me SL enh isn’t as fun and I’ve found myself preferring Fury, Frost DK or Unholy DK for melee and Demonology or Affliction for Ranged.
If you don’t like Fury, I’d be curious to know why and if you’ve tried the DK melee dps specs
I have I will say I like dw classes but I hate frost dk dw there is to many spell animations not enough weapon attack animations. I do not know what it is I just keep coming back to my Enhancement Shaman.
I played bfa Enhancement and I hated it they made us warriors. I hate to say it but I guess thats why you like warriors. Not trying to be a ******** about it but thats what we were in legion and bfa a half baked fury warrior.
I have tried every class that dw and I keep coming back to shaman. I wonder if they gave paladin a dw spec if I would be playing that? like give paladin a 4th dw spec.
I don’t think you’re being an ******* or anything but yeah I love Fury so I don’t see that as disparaging. That said, I didn’t see the resemblance as much other than both they were both dual wielding melee specs with builder spender mechanics. Other than that, were did you see the similarities? Was there another mechanical overlap I’m not seeing?
(Oops, posted from my warlock by accident -Voltorch)
This was basically it the fact that they had to build up rage to start doing dps and at points were raged starved. They in fact the only thing Enhancement was missing was a base line charge. Which was in the talents as feral lunge. Now Enhancement did have some ranged abilities but only 6 that I can remember which were both the weapon enhancements for legion and bfa and purge. then lighting bolt, chain lighting, heal and chain heal. Thats IIRC on our abilities for legion and bfa. They gave us the mechanics of a fury warrior but not the sustain of a fury warrior. We had our heal nurfed so we were the squishest melee.
Yea most people get defensive when I point out bfa/legion Enhancement was warrior like and that they would have fun on a warrior.
I can kinda see what you mean. I can’t say I’m totally on board with that analysis but I don’t want to give you a hard time or anything. By all means feel how you feel. I was hoping to be more helpful in a class suggestion for you.
If you don’t like builder spenders where the building phase has pitiful dps and the damage is more loaded into the spender I can appreciate that. Imo that’s more of Arms’s thing than Fury. Fury only has 1 ability that costs rage, everything else is free. And if you find Frost DK has too much spell animations and not enough weapon animations, that makes me think fury too. I wish I could be more helpful. Sorry man. Good luck
You can give your thoughts I have tried all melee classes even went Surv hunter. I will play them for a few days then come back to my shaman. I just cant get away from it.
And respect to you yea i love Enhancement I just wish they would fix us.
By the end of bfa maelstrom was a non resource , you use to ignore and slam hella procs, it was spammy fast and simple. For some people it was really fun and you could hit some huge stormstrike numbers. SL is just a complete undo of that, which I don’t mind but I can see why some people miss the old way of legion BfA . I think doomwinds in a bfa playstyle would be sick as long as they added instant cast chain lightning hooks somewhere in the mechanic as well
Yeah I agree and I think this is why I feel it felt very different from Fury where you’re very concerned with generating and not overcapping rage. Enh was was more about slamming the shiny button when it procced and it procced very frequently which personally I enjoyed though I could understand the frustration of the downtime when it didn’t.
So you think being able to global someone is balanced. Doomwinds is absolutely overturned. I agree with controlling WF procs but you missed the question. One shots have no room in this game and in it’s current state doomwinds is only balanced in 3s almost unplayable in 2s and is a meme in bg
Actually no. I did not miss the question. Doomwinds is not overtuned. Doomwinds gives us the control so many classes have where as we had to relay on rng. Doomwinds is no more over tuned any other utility ability. Where your seeing Doomwinds it is more Forceful winds, and the conduit unruly winds. That is where the power comes from Doomwinds just allows us to trigger WF when we want to.
And I agree I also hate 1 shot abilities but a true one shot ability is what Paladins have. And i have said this before I do not look at pvp first I look at pve then pvp. I always keep it in mind but its not my first prio.
Now since you want to talk about one shots fine lets look at a real one shot ability. Execution sentence so paladins pop wings pop execution sentence and then wake of ashes final Reckoning and then just spam what ever. And when Execution sentence pops it can and often does 1 shot. I have seen it seen a warrior get healed from all the damage the paladin does and then Execution Sentence pops and the warrior went from full hp to dead.
Why do you miss enh then. You obviously didn’t play BFA enh. You, like so many, came back to the doomwinds/chain harvest play. It is outstanding. Even sauls who is a good player will only admit that doomwinds is balanced because of how easy it is to counter.
Still, It is still a global wipe. How many enh use doomwinds you think? You know since it is balanced and all.
I mained Enhancement most of bfa. Just check my progress you will see I played bfa enhancement AND I HATED IT. They had made us a poor mans fury warrior. And you are just trying to be a sarcastic… Never said it was balanced I said it was a utility leggo.
Before you call someone out for what you THINK you know they have done in game you should check their progress.
Again you refuse to check my progress I played Enhance for all but one raid. And yes Ashara was one of them. You need to START CHECKING PROGRESS before you talk about what someone has or hasn’t done. This is getting pathtetic your trying to gatekeep playing enhancement. Yes I played it when it was in the dirt so keep trying to make invaild points or better yet just stop all together this is getting to be very pathetic.
Ohh and btw the raid i missed was Crucible of Storms because my cleared it once. But please continue to gate keep like your the only one.
I love Enhancement That is what this thread was about that I love it and I cannot stop playing it even though I tried. You got off on this gatekeeping garbage like your the only one that played enhancement in 8.2 Again before you try to call someone out about when they played actually LOOK AT THEIR PROGRESS before you say something. It makes you look really…Stupid
Heres a link since you seem to have problems finding or just refuse to look at raid progression.
Fury had survivability in BFA. Enhancement had its heal nerfed into the ground for all of the expansion. We were squishy as all get out and yea we had the blue rage bar which means we couldn’t do good dps until we had the maelstrom to use our abilities. Again you go off on this gate keeping of Enhancement like its something that only you have played when times were bad for us. Nope your not the only one and you should probably understand that there were a lot of us playing Enhancement even when its dog crap and we kept playing it because we love the spec even if we hated how it worked at that time.
Also as I have said I look at pvp last. Why do you think this is just about pvp. When did I ever bring up pvp in anything. Perhaps you should realize there is other content then pvp the game and this is perhaps the issue we seem to be having. I look at pvp first then pvp I am mostly a PvER because I do not have a group or anyone to pvp with. So if I do pvp its bg’s.
totally fast spammy stormstrike is better than this. wolf bones hot hands is a joke with the massive rng hot hands procs and the downtime we have with some builds is crap i want no downtime.