Still early, but no buffs for elemental in 7.1?

[Ollz113]

Blizzard's lack of tuning is frustrating.

It's two weeks into the expac................................................

Two weeks

[Deleted]

It's two weeks into the expac................................................

Two weeks

Yes and most of this was known well in advance and ignored the same way it went down in WoD. At some point the whole "It's just alpha, it's just beta, it's just 2 weeks, it's just the first patch, wait for alpha guys." gets old and not particularly believable.

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Yes and most of this was known well in advance and ignored the same way it went down in WoD. At some point the whole "It's just alpha, it's just beta, it's just 2 weeks, it's just the first patch, wait for alpha guys." gets old and not particularly believable.

Yeah it's always the same. And always the same people telling us "just wait until the tuning patch".

[Nyel]

Oh and while we're talking about Moonkins, some other important differences between Elemental and Balance:

- Starsurge costs 40 Astral Power and hits for ~ 70-80% of an Earthshock with 100 Maelstrom, so for 200 ressources Druids get 350-400% damage while we get only 200% (based on 100 MS Earthshock)
- additionally Starsurge empowers Solar Wrath and Lunar Strike by a huge margin
- The empowerment gained by Starsurge lasts for 40 seconds while Stormkeeper buff with 3 stacks lasts only for 15 seconds
- Full Moon is an AoE cleave with a massive ST damage factor - it deals twice the damage of three empowered LBs or CLs on a lower CD
- additionally Full Moon grants 40% of the ressource bar and the other Moon spells also grant ressources and deal good - very good - massive damage

And let's not talk about...

- ressource generation during movement
- two strong DoTs ticking during movement (twice the damage of Elemental's Flame Shock DoT)

Yes, Elemental Shaman with Cooldowns is a monster and deals massive damage over ~ 20 seconds, but... if you need to move your damage is gone, if your CDs run out your damage drops by a huge margin.

[Rezhka]

I agree LB damage need some love. But moving LB? Srsly, move on guys.

[fengosa]

I agree LB damage need some love. But moving LB? Srsly, move on guys.

Remember LB scales with all of our stats. LvB doesn't benefit from crit outside of ascendence and shocks don't overload. LB and chain lightning benefit from gear more than any other spells we have.

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Yes and most of this was known well in advance and ignored the same way it went down in WoD. At some point the whole "It's just alpha, it's just beta, it's just 2 weeks, it's just the first patch, wait for alpha guys." gets old and not particularly believable.

Elemental has its strength and will be useful for the majority of content. It might see a small buff but don't expect huge changes. If you want to play cutting edge mythic content you're not going to be elemental every fight. Keep your resto and enhance specs up to date.