Enhancement Shaman Hero Talent Showdown in The War Within - Stormbringer vs. Totemic

The War Within Geposted 11.08.2024 um 22:19 von wordup

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The War Within Hero Talents Overview

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Strengths

Weaknesses

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Spending Waffe des Mahlstroms triggers Unbegrenzte Macht Haste

Cycles to Sturmgewitter for an even bigger finisher

Sturmgewitter triggers Wildgeist via Rollender Donner

Lightning spenders can trigger Superladung refunds

Spending Waffe des Mahlstroms applies Blitzableiter to primary targets

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Strengths

Weaknesses

Totemica lot

Drop Wogendes Totem on cooldown (every 24 seconds with Kraft der Totems)

Consume the Wirbelnde Elemente motes depending on talent selections

Repeat every cycle, balancing your ability cooldowns around the Totem timer

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Erwachende Stürme now has a trackable UI element.

Spannungsentladung was reduced to 2 charges when it triggers, down from 3.

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Since Totem des Windzorns was removed in lieu of Himmelszorn, Wogendes Totem is now just an extra button on its own. We also no longer get the QoL improvement of Waffe des Windzorns buffing the group, since that's granted by the group buff.

Wogendes Totem is now point blank AoE around it, rather than smart targeting the nearest clump of enemies within 30 yards.

Lavapeitsche was added to the pool of abilities that can trigger Reaktivität.

Wogendes Totem is no longer off the GCD, lasts 24 seconds (up from 20) and has a 30 second cooldown (reduced to 24 via Kraft der Totems). It also now deals Flamestrike damage (scaling with Mastery) and the tick rate increases via Haste.

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Class Fantasy & Visuals: Stormbringer & Totemic (Tie)

Analysis
While both go in very different directions, they're very both very clearly Shaman in nature, and are very on-brand for both older and newer fantasy ideas surrounding the class. Since this is a really subjective thing it's hard to really pick one out here, but I think they both stake strong claims to our spec in different ways:

Stormbringer provides a nice punchy visual with some good audio feedback in Sturmgewitter as a "big moment" for lightning spells, but that's about it for visual flare. What I think really sells it is the gameplay feeling it imparts, being more frenetic than usual that really lends itself to the fantasy of volatile lightning in your hands.

Totemic conversely gets points for really leaning into totems as a vector for our spec's gameplay, alongside having a very distinct totem model and flashy motes surrounding it via Wirbelnde Elemente. While it's a bit controversial and it's not quite landed in some aspects, that it's trying to incorporate something that's been missing for a really long time in a way that's not obnoxious is something I'm sure some out there are quite excited about.

Stormbringer Animations

Totemic Animations

Tempest Visual

Surging Totem Visual

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Sturmgewitter not having UI tracking is a serious issue, and the likelihood that Weakauras will be required to know when these are going to trigger considering how much value is in those procs is far too high.

The playstyle promoted by the core loop paired with the addition of Superladung and existence of Statikzuwachs puts a lot of strain on forcing talent builds that completely overload the regular gameplay, instead turning into a generate-and-spend at all costs loop. Some might like this, but it's something to keep an eye on. That it also locks out Elementarschlag as an option at all is also a bit awkward.

The wind up time to get to your first Sturmgewitter is quite long in Mythic+, and the temporary nature of the buff means losing it between pulls feels really unpleasant with the huge momentum loss.

Likewise, the recent nerf to Zersplitterte Elemente seemed a bit wayward for the above reason. The talent leaf was already in danger of being dropped, and with that it makes it a really hard sell to do anything but path through Aszendenz et al.

Spannungsentladung and Woge des Sturms being a choice node is still just a double failure point. I understand the former having a limit to avoid Kettenblitzschlag in single target, but I don't see why there needs to be a killswitch in the latter for something so simple.

The tree is the only one in the entire game with less than 3 choice nodes, while having an effectively pointless utility node and a defensive node that has an option that mightaswell not exist.

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Changing Wogendes Totem to be point blank was a massive downgrade in terms of usability for us. Babysitting it with Totemische Projektion isn't fun, especially considering its low cooldown, and considering the slew of other priorities going on in the tree it's yet another distraction we can't really afford. I'd really like to take it back to its original smart targeting at range (alternatively it could pulse around our character), but at the very least least having a choice to get that back in some way would be appreciated.

Totemischer Abpraller and Lebhafte Totems are at odds regardless of talent build. Sturmschlag and Lavapeitsche are competing for the same GCDs throughout our rotation, and no matter what one will always be left out in favour of the other. Considering these have very high proc rates it's hard to consistently get full (or any) value out of them, and knowing how to balance these out is friction that might turn a lot of players off, alongside the huge RNG swings especially the latter creates. It also may potentially encourage using weakauras to track RPPMs to indicate when to use them, which is remarkably unhealthy

It would be very nice to see Totemischer Abpraller get the Elementarattacke treatment (as mentioned in the initial article) to ease up some of this pressure by adding Lavapeitsche and Eisstoß to the triggers.

Lebhafte Totems feels a bit too recursive, and tying it to Waffe der Flammenzunge procs or Wirbelnde Elemente' Fire Mote in some way to make it more consistent might be a better angle. Alternatively, give it the same Elementarattacke to avoid the extreme clashing that leads to wasted value no matter what you prioritize.

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This guide is written by Wordup, a long-time Enhancement player and moderator on the Shaman Discord server, Earthshrine. I've played every iteration of Enhancement since Sunwell, and played in Echoes on Laughing Skull (EU) since Warlords of Draenor. You can catch me on Twitter, or in Discord if you have any guide related questions!

Hero Talent Guides for the War Within Launch

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Havoc DHVengeance DH

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Aug EvokerDevastation EvokerPreservation Evoker

BM HunterMM HunterSurvival Hunter

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Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

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