Thanks for the great breakdown, I think the final section of resto was meant to be titled "Best Restoration Shaman Double Legendaries for Mythic Plus"
I think the final section for enhancement is mythic+ instead of the raid
Quick question for Niseko, since it isn't mentioned in the Resto breakdowns - do the extra Riptides generated by the Venthyr legendary interact with Primal Tide Core?In other words, do you get an extra Riptide from Primal if your Chain Harvest hits 4+ friendlies?
I hust hoped they buff the necrolord legendary to a st choice. Having much haste can be nice, but enhance and elemental really suffer from there being mostly not enough targets up. Elemental can have long flame shocks but lack the ability to apply them fast. Enhance can apply them faster, but they only last 18 sec and it isnt easy. Necrolord should be a good alrounder. And that is where it lacks. The ST of Venthyr and Necro is terrible. My suggestion would be to add charges to the legendary and making it stronger in st and weaker on high target numbers. And let the legendary effects stack up to a cap. Lets say 6 stacks max and a 2nd pw just extends duration and stacks. What i already see happening: people will cry about vesper raging one shots while it is still bad for enhance and mediocre for ele. The solution would be to make its effect stronger for ele and enhance AND spread some of its power to a dot/stat buff.
Big thanks to all of you guys specially my favorite Enhancement player " Wordup " . Keep up the good work and make Shaman GREAT again .
Why is the resto shaman M+ guide suggesting elemental equilibrium? That power is elemental only. So you can't even trigger it as a resto. Or are they changing this with 9.2?
A couple typos: the second titles for Enhancement and Resto should say Mythic+ instead of the raid a second time. The Resto Night Fae legendary tooltip also only explains the ability for one spec (not resto) and states it is a rogue power.
And again nothing valuable is said for the resto shaman in raid. I just want to know the answer of my simple question- what will be the best combo of legendary items for raiding with resto shaman?
Venthyr ele shammy in m+ with skybreakers is ridiculous at the moment on ptr, it might not have the absolute potential of using eogs if there is 0% kiting, but the consistency is wayyy better. Your casting chain harvest every 20 seconds at the maximum with still 100% uptime on storm ele, you hard cast literally nothing but speedy chain lightnings and lava bursts on procs. Plus chain harvest is fantastic support with the riptides it drops on peeps as well.Saying it's not viable indicates they hadn't even tried it on ptr
Interesting
I don't feel like Niseko's Restoration section is coming off the way it was intended. This small write up gave me more questions than answers. Hope to see something more in-depth later.
The Elemental Shaman section is inaccurate and incomplete, especially with regards to Mythic +. There is no discussion of Venthyr Ele Shaman at all (thank you Sleepyj707 for mentioning it). I've been on the PTR extensively testing Shaman and Venthyr Ele Shaman is extremely viable in M+ with 20-25 second Chain Harvests spreading Flame Shocks, giving tons of Lava Surge procs (high mobility) and feeding directly into the tier set bonus. Running Skybreakers OR Deeply Rooted Elements both produce high, sustained aoe damage, are fun to play, and help support the team with huge healing from Chain Harvest. On top of that, running Fire Elemental instead of Storm Elemental is incredibly viable now and fits in perfectly with the Flame Shock gameplay that Venthyr provides. Fire Ele makes FS last 2x longer and deal damage 25% more quickly. With Skybreakers +50% crit, Flame Shocks become a monster dps gain and add an additional form of aoe for Ele Shaman.As Sleepyj707 said, It's clear to me that the writer of this article didn't actually test new builds for Shaman. If they did test them then there should be a section in this article explaining why those other builds are bad. There should be video clips showing proof of their testing on the PTR. I've actually run +15 dungeons on the PTR trying out new builds for Enhance and Ele and they work well.
A little surprised there is no talk at all about Chains of Devastation leggo with the 4pc in M+, reducing the vesper totem by crazy amounts.
What is the reason we can’t equip other legendaries? Why does it have to be the covenant one?
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