I hope they make wings look a bit more fiery for this spec like the key art and beef up the laser beam animation and all will be well

That was the thing in S2 - Storm was fun, but man, your dead spots felt real real bad.

I feel like I have seen that thumbnail somewhere already before the video launched, but I cant for the sake of me remember where or why that is...

First, Ascendance must change from spec tree to shaman tree. A node choice with DRE (rework) and a CD reduction in the choice. Second, change de CD and the duration (3min for 15s). Xuen, is a 2min CD for 20s duration. Metamorphosis, is a 3min CD for 20s duration (can be extend). Third, DRE proc change, like said in the vid, something about maelstrom spend, a proc for each maelstrom spend or every X maelstrom spend (it can work for elemental too). Fourth, a little boost damage. When i use Avanging Wrath on a pal, i feel a burst of damage, when i proc Ascendance... i spam more often the same touch on my keyboard. The idea of a choice with a Lava Lash Ascendance is something nice too.

It feels like the dev in charge of balancing enhancement over the years got bullied by one way back in the two handed windfury days and ever since has had an insatiable hate boner for us. Also one change I would absolutely love would be to have a maelstrom buffer to avoid wastage. They have the talent that lets it stack to 10 sure, but then it also scaled for each maelstrom spent.. which given the INSANE GCD of enhancement means you basically wanna only use it at as close to 10 as possible to minimize GCDs needed. Problem with that is maelstrom generation is insanely spikey and random which leads to an inevitable loss in damage due to wasted maelstrom. If they just made it so you could bank up to 15, but can only ever spend 10 one thing that would be suuuuuch a quality of life improvement.

Retribution Paladin has to many flashing animations and everything glows so much its like you are Tien Shinhan from Dragon ball using Solar flare technique on CD!

So it's basically just more talents but made to look spectacular?

Bringing back the old MoP Stormblast attack plus updating the model/vfx could make it more appealing. I like the idea of it having charges, and having a choice node for it to potentially be fun for the elementalist build too. Flinging Lava Bursts with Lava Lash hits sounds cool as hell!

I was maining enhancement for whole expansion until recently and compared to other specs its complex , it requires target switching for optimal dps and its hard cap is so frustrating , its not even funny. Checking recently spec is not popular and even in WW it doesn't seem to be in much better position. IT lacks defensives , it lacks good AOE and it also in some other scenarios , where enhancement should excel ( 2-5 targets , cleave ) it loses badly to other specs, even in the funnel in m+! It is just a fact.

Delete DRE and Ice strike

Dragonflight enhancement is the most fun I've had playing the spec since 2h windfury. Right now my class choices are between frost dk and enhancement. I really want to play enhancement and so far stormbringer is really making it easy for me, but if they can fix the issue with Ascendance or DRE then my choice will be made that day. Stormstrike!

I might be a simple storm strike lad with two brain cells (one to press storm strike other to press forward) but why can't we just remove this choice node and just get both ass and dre. Ass for smoothing your rotation when you're not too lucky or when you need to go out of melee and dre for haha funny 🎰

I’ve actually had an idea for ascendence for awhile that I wonder if you guys think could work. Enh is at its weakest when it cant melee its target. We have so many tools that can be used at range, and yet, many require melee attacks to fuel them. Ascendence is a powerful answer for this, but it’s extra range is seldom utilized. I believe this is because of its restrictive cooldown/sporadic proc rate. I can think of 1 boss this expansion where vanilla ascendence was a viable option (Razageth). What i want is an Ascendence that can be there when i need. My idea is to have base ascendance be togglable. Turn it on when you have mechanics to do out of melee range, and turn it off when its done. For every 1 second you remain in Asc, you gain 10 seconds of cd. With this you can plan your ascendence usages across every fight. Base ascendance has largely been untouched since its introduction back in MoP. I think it prudent to give it a much needed facelift. Both visually (though I don’t mind its current look, seems a lot of others do) and also mechanically. The CD is simply too long. Elementalist has made a nice niche for itself that’s really come into its own this patch and that’s great. Though a lot of talent changes have gone a long way to make this happen. Being able to anticipate add phases and save a pwave accordingly feels rewarding. Something like this is what i want for asc. But instead of adds you’re anticipating it’s moving away from your target. Think of Igira where you’re running out with heartstoppers or soaking a weapon. How nice it could be if you could have a reliable ascendance proc whenever you do these mechs. I want the range given by Asc to be a strength in pve content for enh. Instead of the afterthought its been for over a decade. Also more interesting to me then simply adding extra yards to all our abilities like they did for ret. though I’m jealous they have this, and think range attacks on a melee feels more at home for enh, I don’t want the same thing for us. I want the tool that was given to us years ago for this reason to be made more viable as such.

I like DRE and I wouldn’t want it removed. I think enhancement needs the same talent layout as Resto where you can select DRE and also have as separately. Also, ice strike and crash lightning need to do more damage single target so the storm rotation feels a little better

ya it needs a rewok bad i dropped enchanc in season 3

DRE proccing more often late in a pack isn't just confirmation bias. While you blast on a big pack, you spend more globals on spending by virtue of the high msw influx. Once mobs start dying and there is less to hit, you spend more globals on Storm Strike which shifts the chance for procs towards the later half of a pull.

Great video, we need to get our spec reworked! Or tuned!

I like the idea of giving it charges with a lower duration and cd, and having a choice node for 2 versions for storm and ele. I feel like giving it more punch in aoe would be good since you'd probably be losing out on the juicier primordial wave talents. Maybe something like ss or ll do damage in a line or cone in front of you in addition to what the talents after it do. Just spitballing

I can't even imagine what we would look like if DRE proc'd off of LL... or if TI launched an EB at your current target (or a nova on all active FS targets). That would be fun. Not sure how the tree would look though - we'd be sacrificing a lot to get that.

Push this <3

i think 2 people are in charge of shaman design, while the others are busy reworking and even re-reworking paladins, mages, warlocks, death knights

Tell them to make tempest replace earthquake/ lightning bolt and make it a tornado. Makes more sense this way having both of them tied to a spender

i know this comment is 5 months late but yes ravencrest does a 180 degree frontal. even standing beside her will get you wacked

Deeply rooted elements sucks. Getting short bursts of ascendance never let me feel ascended besides getting a small damage bump in the meters. A lot of classes are getting theirs big buttons reworked for tww and I was thinking how shaman looks so goofy when becoming some other creature.. I never liked morphing into an elemental. It doesn't make sense. Becoming empowered or imbued or charged should look like dathea does indeed. Thrall never transformed into some slim waisted stormy fellow. It's silly!! It ruins the immersion!

I actually was going to post something about this, the model comes from Cataclysm. And there is a classic version now!! Also, they need to update lighting bolt and chain lightning as well. Other classes had more than 1 update on their spells so far.

all shaman needs visual update and talent rework.

I agree with you it need an visual update and dathea model fits perfect

We need an update!

Reasonably, Ascendance should go back to being baseline for all specs... and you should be able to Barber Shop it. After all, why shouldn't Lava/Elementalist Enhance be able to look like a Fire Ascendant? Why couldn't Resto be an Earth Ascendant? This is as a "I'm here for Storm only" kinda guy.

i am playing shaman since Nyalotha and i have to say... yes pls ascendance an update. or at least make the animations of ascendance not that wonky!

Amen brother

Quiet. Its beautiful as is. They will fk it up

Ima say no, honestly I'm not a fan of this

A man can dream...!

Thank you Stankie! maybe with you they will listen this is urgent. We need a model update!

WW monks say hi - no noticable changes since mop

I mained shaman dragonflight season 2 and started playing last week of shadow lands. I was one of those guys who didnt even knew why the model was what it is... Until this vid tbh. I always think the model was awful, mb to all ascendents fans or anything, but it didnt resemble a little what my vulpera looks like

I always thought it should've just been like boomkin star form glyph, just with elements. Like literally become wind and lightning. Also i think every ascendance should give unique effect. Like air gives levitate and avoidance for example. Also while I'm on the topic where is fourth brother of avatar? I can't be the only one who thinks that shamans need fourth spec to be earth tank with shield and hammer. while you're at it redesign guardian of ancient kings from prot pally it looks terrible

completly agree and while they're at it they can rework it because rn it needs it

If only ascendance was worth press....DRE procs are worth more since the proc Into ascendance is better then being in ascendance...I don't mind the form now but yes and update would be awesome even the one you showed but ascendance should feel good like a ret pally popping wings. Imagine if procing wings did a massive explosion in holy damage and then you get a minor dps increase during wings. People would be playing around how many I can proc rather then trying to stay in wings. Best example is balance druid. AP...was by far so op that they have to remove it in order to give other playstyles a chance. Procing incarn/eclipse by feeding into the loop was 100% stronger then OS because 2 min incarn vs almost 100% uptime on incarn because of the power of mastery for balance was too strong. Any chance to proc your major cd is stronger then being able to use it every 2 to 3 min

It lasts so short that I've never noticed how it really looks like lol

Blizzard never loved the Shamans....we got and still get treated like the stepchild no one loves and thats why! I mained Resto for 14 Years. I am still loving all 3 Shamans Specs but Blizzard has no clue what to do with Ele and Resto. Atleast they know what to do with Enh. Its about time that they give the Shaman class more visuals and update old Models like Ascendance.

Big true king , we got cata classic already and yet we still have same visual ascendence in retail how funny is that

I for one enjoy the thought of going storm with no incentive to go otherwise :P It looks like this tree was definitely built from the resto side.

WoTLK enhancement shaman was peak

no its dogshit

I miss old Windfurry based Enhancement when abilities like Stormstrike felt godlile to use

I personally miss MoP animations. That storm attack was SAVAGE. They removed it and killed it for me lol.

Don't know why the totem cant do something like Stormstrike Damage (Nature/Phys hybrid) At least that way its makes the better of both situations. Ah well, i guess if any of these hero talents ship poorly and dont see the play rate they are expecting it should be a red flag for them to rework them as needed.

"Wtf is elemental orbit" i lost my shit when i heard that