so ele is good on the pre patch but goes to shit once everyone gets artifacts maxed or something?
so ele is good on the pre patch but goes to shit once everyone gets artifacts maxed or something?
Can you provide actually sims for this statement? Since those two talents are not only used for very different encounter types (one is ST burst / movement, the other ST / cleave sustained damage), but also favour different spell schools to be cast to maximise their effects.
http://stormearthandlava.com/home.html
They're within 1% of each other. Close enough that between fight length / relics / trinkets / general RNG can favor one build over another.
Last edited by Antilurker77; 2016-08-19 at 06:15 AM.
They are random (very raw) according to the author of that website on Earthshrine. It just shows nothing as of yet, since we dont have stat weights to determine optimal gear sets or talents. Not to mention that you devalue Earthen Attunement artifact trait if you delay Earth Shock because of the conflict between Icefury stacks, Stormkeeper stacks, Lava Surge procs and spending Maelstrom.
I have no idea why your associating "very raw" with random. Those stats were hand picked based on how much stats an actual 840 set should provide, an actually isn't that far of from what the actual BiS is looking like. And moving a couple hundred secondary points isn't going to make one build shoot up 5% higher than the other builds either.
I'd like to see the kind of numbers people will pull in mythic nighthold when crit stacking.
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Except mage grass, that's always emerald green.
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Mage isn't that much stronger because it does more damage, it's better because it provides better utility, mobility and survivability than what any other ranged spec does. The problem isn't even that Elemental Shamans are necessarily weak, it's more an issue of Mages - once again - being too strong.
Obviously for most guilds you can get by without min-maxing, but it is a little bit infuriating when some specs over and over again gets neglected in favour of X class' 5th rework, or overloaded toolkits when you're competing for the same ~7 raid spots.
I rather liked this Ion answer. He's said it before, and many others have too.The community doesn't do a great job when something is 1% better and they claim it is the only viable option and everything else is garbage.
I think it's a very valid perspective of how the community somehow turns some specs into pariah, simply because they aren't optimal at a certain raiding level, when nontheless that content is cleared with those specs.
He also clearly stated in other answers that having discrepancies of over 10% is their failure, so he didn't downplay that at all.