Looking at all of this, I feel like I am going to be enjoying 5.3 a lot. But that being said, do you think Enhancement Shamans deserve it? What do you think of them currently in both PvE and PvP environments?• Stormblast now does 450% weapon damage, up from 375%.
• Stormstrike now does 450% weapon damage, up from 375%.
• Lava Lash now does 300% weapon damage, up from 250%.
• Mental Quickness now grants 65% of your attack power to spell power, up from 55%.
Personally, I think they are a little lackluster in both currently. I believe they bring a lot of utility with totems and off-healing, but I do feel that their damage is very 'spiky' and drops significantly during the entirety of a fight.
Sure, it is possible to pull a lot of damage as Enhancement but it does seem to drop off for about 3 minutes. I can't speak for everyone though. With an 8 and a 10 second CD on both of our main attack it does feel as if these buffs are trying to compensate for the CD's we have of them.
I do feel as if reducing the CD's on both of the spells would be a nice option also. Dropping Lava Lash to an 8 or 9 second CD and Stormstrike to a 7 second CD would allow for a bit more sustain damage, but with the new 2 piece set we have it could prove that Stormstrike would be making our damage increase by a significant amount.
Let's see how this would work out in theory.
And of course, the same for Stormstrike.Lava Lash 100k average damage (For this example)
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 100k(6 x 10), resulting in 6,000,000 Damage as an overall (if it weren't to crit).
Lava Lash 120k average damage (5.3 Changes)
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 120k(6 x 10), resulting in 7,200,000 Damage as an overall (if it weren't to crit).
Lava Lash 100k average damage (With an 8 Second CD)
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 100k(7.5 x 10), resulting in 7,500,000 damage as an overall (if it weren't to crit).
Lava Lash 100k average damage (With a 9 Second CD)
Now because of how 9 goes into 60 and 600 seconds, I am going to round it down from 66.66 recurring to 66.
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 100k x 66, resulting in 6,600,000 damage as an overall (if it weren't to crit).
So, here is my question.. Would you rather have slightly reduced CD's to make our rotation smoother as an overall, or do you think it would make it worse for us? Or do you believe that the extra damage would be better?Stormstrike 50k average damage and 25k OH damage (For this example)
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 50k(7.5 x 10) + 25k(7.5 x 10), resulting in 3,750,000 Main Hand damage and 1,875,000 Off hand damage resulting in 5,625,000 damage as an overall.
Stormstrike 60k average damage and 30k OH damage (5.3 changes)
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 60k(7.5 x 10) + 30k(7.5 x 10), resulting in 4,500,000 Main Hand damage and 2,250,000 Off hand damage, resulting in 6,750,000 damage as an overall.
Stormstrike 50k average damage and 25k OH damage (With a 7 second CD)
Because of how 7 divides into both 60 and 600 seconds, I am rounding down to 85 from 85.7.
Assuming you were to use it on CD every time for a 10-minute fight, it would deal 50k(8.5 x 10) + 25k(8.5 x 10), resulting in 4,250,000 Main Hand damage and 2,125,000 Off hand damage resulting in 6,375,000 damage as an overall.
I feel that with reduced CD's, our damage wouldn't be so spikey in PvE and it would help Enhancement to provide a more consistent pressure in PvP by DPS'ing more frequently. But, I am not a pro player and this is why am I posting it here and that's why I want you to talk about this, discuss it and help expand upon it.
As an overall, I'd like the reduced CD to 9 seconds on Lava Lash and the damage increase on Stormstrike to keep it a bit more balanced out. If we were to have the reduced CD on Stormstrike, it would allow us for 3 Stormblasts every time we had ascendance up.
Thank you for reading.
Disclaimer, I'm not perfect. Maths may be incorrect and the ideas you may not agree with, this is what I think would be nice for us Enhancement Shamans. I also am not a professional player, high-end PvP'er. I just write things. I'll add more shortly.