hi guys
everybody has experienced this case: start fight off with SW:Pain then MF for shadow orb, then MF then MF, then MF, and still no shadow orb!
this is of course not the regular case, but can happen more often then wanted...
also during bossfights, the ES buff is likely to drop off one or the other time, which is extremely annoying.
this, and the fact that were the only class+specc, that actually have to skill mastery to make it somewhat usefully and reliable,
(think of the scenario, when orbs would only have 10% instead of 10+8(skilled) = 18% chance to occur! horror RNG!)
brought me to this idea:
Change mastery, so that shadow orbs have a 10-15% chance to proc, without talents. (whatever is needed to keep the balance, ie so the change would not nerf/buff sp, regarding the additional orbs from the talent, see below)
change the talent to this: (the idea obviously comes from the MM hunter spec)
Grants you a 50/100% chance (2 skillpoints) to gain a shadow orb, after casting MF two times after each other.
(the attempt to cast the second MF should suffice, or a MF 1, for pvp reasons. also, a interrupted first MF should account as a casted MF)
this would allow a marginal control over shadow orbs, giving you the possibility to get a orb if you desperately need it, without granting you 3/3 orbs for every mindblast. what do you think?
That was the main idea. here are some additional things, which would change the mastery system a bit more:
a other idea would be the same, but let MindSpike also account to this "2x casted after each other" part, and also let it generate a shadow orb. why? so that mastery has SOME effect, if you have to nuke with MS/MB (and not nullify all mastery for this purpose) and would allow you to quickly continue wiht your single target rotation (because ES is up)
or change the first part, to net let MF/SW:P generate a shadow orb at 10-15% chance, but let all spells have chance of 5-10% to generate an orb, and give MB/MS a higher chance
(ie 30% or so. for the same reason as above: give mastery usage for nuking). of course keep the 2xMF talent
greets