With #Somechanges in mind, *maybe* fix Chain Lightning in Classic TBC?

At this point in TBC Classic, we’ve seen so many changes. For me, it’s difficult to argue that fixing some clear mistakes is going to upset the establishment…

That having been said, could we, perhaps, revisit the issue of Chain Lightning not activating Lightning Overload at the 20% rate that one should expect based on the words of the talent itself?

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Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 20% chance to cast a second, similar spell on the same target at no additional cost that causes half damage and no threat.
(Proc chance: 20%)

Over the course of every dungeon, raid, or random world-encounter mob throughout the entirety of the expansion; over hundreds of hours of testing, Lightning Overload has never once, EVER, performed to that standard with respect to Chain Lightning during Single Target encounters. Is it unreasonable to ask for this issue to be fixed?

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If dragonstrike was how it was supposed to be and they improved it, a change like this shouldn’t be out of the question at all, especially how the LO tooltip reads!

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Indeed, this is not a matter of “we felt it was meant to work this way” there is no room for interpretation, the tooltip says it should work like that and it does not, this needs to be fixed.

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fix please

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I’ve been in support of this change since it was discovered that each bounce of CL has a 33% chance to proc LO and the value does not change regardless of # of actual bounces.

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Looking back on my logs I’m apparently lucky if it’s a 10% proc rate for CL on bosses over an entire raid night

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I also support this change. Frustrating to not have it match tooltip.

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i concur, as the resident pumper, fixing this clear bug where the proc chance has been proven wrong in single target given the tooltip.

please blizz, show us you care and share the love.

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Absolutely! It’s not as if us eles are tearing up the meters and this change would make us OP anyway.

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wrong toon

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The resident pumper. Don’t sell yourself short

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Yea blizz please fix not going to vault us over pure dps classss

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fix the bug please ty

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Really all of Shaman Discord and Ele Shaman Discord agree. Don’t believe me, just ask us.

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Seriously.

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It’s kinda crazy that this wasn’t fixed during the beta, especially with all the changes they’ve made to improved other classes.

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During the TBC PTR, there was a point where I was casting 100 CL everyday in order to see how often OL would activate. When I saw results significantly under what one would anticipate, I’d put in a bug report stating my position. My bug reports were never acknowledged to any official capacity. Now, we have thousands of logs that can confirm that it doesn’t activate as often as it should. Time to fix it

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Yeah I did pretty much the same thing, sad to see 0 recognition of the issue.

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having it proc 0 times on most fights is very annoying

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Yeah, man. Oftentimes, it’s the un-talent.

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