Enhancement Shaman Feedback -- Legion Beta Feedback

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Community Manager
#1 - May 12, 2016, 11:19 p.m.
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Please reply to this thread with feedback you have on this specialization in the Legion Beta.

This thread and subforum are for class feedback. We may not be attentive to other threads on this subject. Please confine discussion in this thread to issues related to this spec only.

If you have feedback or questions that cover multiple specializations for this class, please feel free to post it in one of these spec threads.

Thank you!
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#462 - June 24, 2016, 6:26 a.m.
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To clarify a few things:
--This build caught the middle of a few changes. Next build, Maelstrom Weapon will affect autoattacks and Windfury attacks. That should keep Windfury relevant to the rotation, but still leave Maelstrom generation lower than before (which we found to be too high). In addition, there is no longer the confusing and unnecessary fact that Stormstrike and Lava Lash both spent and generated Maelstrom.
--There's no intended change to Feral Spirits; that's a tooltip bug.
--The rotation with Boulderfist is meant to be Maelstrom-limited (i.e., it should have open GCD's, unlike the usual rotation). After Maelstrom Weapon is working properly, we'll see if the Boulderfist rotation is correct as far as pacing, and can tune the damage from there.
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#631 - July 6, 2016, 3:35 a.m.
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This build fixed a bug that caused Rockbiter's GCD to be shorter than intended. That fix may cause damage to be low overall; we'll revisit the overall tuning of Enhance as needed in upcoming builds.
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#687 - July 12, 2016, 3:45 a.m.
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An upcoming build will be increasing the baseline damage of Feral Spirits. Alpha Wolf and Doom Wolves will be tuned down somewhat, partially to account for the increased attack power on Feral Spirits, and also because they are already an overly high portion of single-target damage (particularly since Alpha Wolves is AoE-focused, as was correctly noted above). We're okay with wanting to press Crash Lightning 1-2 times during the Feral Spirits duration due to an artifact trait, so long as it's not a gain to use Crash Lightning at other times against a single target (except with Crashing Storm).

Damage of various core abilities is being increased as noted before, as well as a few talents (particularly Windsong and Lightning Shield). Boulderfist should be brought more into line with its row, since it's still somewhat strong even after the various recent changes to Maelstrom pacing.