Shaman Tier Set Bonuses.

[Viperk8b]

So what is the Shaman Communities initial thoughts on our Tier Set Bonuses in Dragonflight.
I play primarily Enhancement and feel the 2p is forcing Hot Hand which was a play style I really hated personally.
The 4pc is also for lack of a better term "Lazy" 0.5 cd reduction for skills that could already reset on their own through other means, an to a spec that CD's were not an issue.

Id love to hear the opinions of others on Elemental and Resto's Bonuses.
As well as any other Enhancement shammys.

Shaman

Elemental

(2) Set Bonus: Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst increase the damage of your next Earth Shock or Earthquake by

2.5%, stacking 10 times.
(4) Set Bonus: Casting Elemental Blast, Earth Shock or Earthquake increases your Mastery by 10% for 10 seconds.

Enhancement

(2) Set Bonus: Stormstrike increases the damage of your next Lava Lash by 10% and causes it to generate 1 additional stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
(4) Set Bonus: Consuming Maelstrom Weapon stacks reduces the cooldown of Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Crash Lightning, Flame Shock, or Frost Shock by 0.5 seconds per stack, chosen randomly.

Restoration

(2) Set Bonus: While Healing Stream Totem/Cloudburst Totem is active, your chance to critically strike is increased by 10%.
(4) Set Bonus: When Healing Stream Totem/Cloudburst Totem expires or dies, you gain 10% Haste for 10 seconds.


Updated Tier Bonuses

Shaman

Elemental

UPDATE 2-piece and 4-piece bonuses now work with Elemental Blast if taken.

UPDATE (2) Set Bonus: Now increases the damage of your next Earth Shock / Elemental Blast or Earthquake by 5%, stacking 5 times (was 2.5% stacking 10 times).

(4) Set Bonus: Increases your Mastery by 8% for 5 seconds (was 10% for 10 seconds).

Fixed a bug cause the 2-piece bonus to activate from every hit of Chain Lightning. Now activates once per cast.

Enhancement

UPDATE (2) Set Bonus: Stormstrike increases the damage of your next Fire, Frost, or Nature ability by 10% and causes it to generate 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Now affects all Fire, Frost, and Nature direct damage abilities, Flame Shock excluded.

NEW (4) Set Bonus: Consuming Maelstrom Weapon stacks increases your Haste by 1% for each stack consumed for 4 seconds.

Developers’ note: We heard your feedback that the (2) Set Bonus only affecting Lava Lash impacted your talent decisions, so we broadened it to affect whatever you want to use. Flame Shock is not affected because its direct damage component is very low and we don’t want players to have to track variations in its damage over time. The (4) Set Bonus bonus granted cooldown reduction, which often isn’t valuable, so we replaced it with a consistent bonus that still rewards generating Maelstrom Weapon stacks.


Restoration

NEW (4) Set Bonus: Your critical heals have 215% effectiveness instead of the usual 200%.

Developers’ note: The previous (4) Set Bonus was providing an enhancement during a time you were doing less healing and had variable uptime depending on talent choices. We replaced it with a consistent throughput bonus that is enhanced by the (2) Set Bonus.[/FONT]



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[shammypie]

Resto
the value of crit will outpace other stats and you will want to build heavy into call of elements and double totem/swirling. Probably a primal wave/riptide build will dominate due to synergy with cloudburst and added benefit from the haste.

Ele
Icefury build will probaly not be used in the first tier unless the tuning comes out grossly in favor of it. This will also put extra weight on the middle path that adds mastery to ES/EQ. Either way you will probably never reach 10 stacks outside a DRE proc.

[kosajk]

4 set for enh meh but for sure better than chaos from first version
2 set fine change although i dont get flame shock exclusion really ;P

for resto looks fine for how im using it anyway