Originally Posted by
desert-wind
Ele is premanently constrained to not work by poor design. Lavaburst can't be high because mastery is too scary in PVP despite the fact they could just make it weaker in PVP now. Because Lavaburst can't be too strong, lightning bolt has to be very weak to ensure lavaburst with a proc mechanic is far enough ahead. Our proc which mind you should be where our skill cap comes from is a builder not a spender. ES costs too much and can only be so strong because you can't have an ability hit for 9000% spellpower vs how long it takes to generate so it's overall fairly "eh" and EQ as a spender has to be too weak to be relevant in any real aoe situation because it needs to be significantly weaker than the previously constrained ES.
Again, as always, there are a few simple changes that could fix a lot of the particularly bad design problems facing ele. Two obvious fixes would be to make mastery affect all major damaging spells, adding ES, FS and EQ. This removes one of the constraints around lavaburst / es+eq scaling. PotM on weapon should affect all generators, so LB, LvB, CL, EB and whateverthefrostabilityiscalled, this is obvious because it's straight up fucking retarded that when you're aoeing and throwing LvB or casting ascendance you are wasting proc after proc of one of your core artifact abilities that tbh is pretty crap anyway.
Ele honestly plays like a turd now which is super disappointing after how promising the earlier builds looked. I'm not as invested, and tbh didn't REALLY expect any different after the transition from MOP to WoD went how it did despite constant feedback. It's honestly not that hard to fix and whoever is responsible for the end result of elemental is simply incompetent. It's a shame because the shaman hall and tier sets are nice, I guess it's all for resto and enhance's benefit tho cause they've both had a series of nice design changes. Why did they finally remove enh / ele's dependancy on eachother using the same spells and then just chuck maelstrom at ele after designing it for enhance, fucking lazy as shit.