With the tank kiting meta in m+ this season it would have been a fantastic oppurtunity for Blizzard to change how earthquake functions. They could have made it so the legendary puts a dot on enemies that stand in EQ, or make it so some of the damage is frontloaded. It doesn't matter how much you buff earthquake when the tanking meta is to kite. I would honestly have liked a massive buff to chain lightning... its one of the most visually and auditory striking spells in the entire game and it's such a crying shame how weak it is and underutilised in the damage profile.
This stuff should have been rolled when the expansion started not now that is already over. This expansion is plagued with balance issues and no content. BFA was supposedly bad but I had more fun in its first patch than this thing.
Preheat wrote about Freeze winds leggy that is seems to last for 30s but ive tested this myself and it doesnt. Is there any more info on this subject?
Another spit into MM Hunters. well... np... its better than having to use 2 GCDs and proper positioning of trap (since no @target macro) with SFE lego... i have it... and i deeply regret it... even tho it work for both BM and Survival...Btw... survival real dead right? like... not a single "hey folks we're working on changes or improvements"... i mean... we know its a meme spec... but still... if you don't want us to play with it... just make BM legos and MM legos perform better...
One of the issues that Painbreaker Psalm had was that it had a bad reaction with the Death and Madness. Its damage was dealt before Shadow Word: Death and if you killed the target with Painbreaker Psalm it would not reset the cooldown of Shadow Word: Death. They fixed this however and because of that adds more power to this than the extra insanity alone. This legendary also gains power based on your SP and haste and can deal insane damage during PI and voidform which is pretty strong if your dealing with M+ packs and need that extra burn. It is also incredibly strong in PvP, making your SW:P almost a guarantied kill at 20% with your dots up. Base line this legendary does about as much damage as the Unfurling Darkness talent and only increases with gear.
I'm excited to be able to use pet attack in demonology, that's a huge quality of life change.
I don't really understand Blizzard avoiding making the types of changes to actually give each spec some variety. With melee as well, it seems like every buff is to leggos to bring them from absolute dead last, to smaller gap between last and second to last. Smh. Blizz, buff leggos until we actually have some variety or builds (ice lance vs glacial spike vs frozen orb/blizz).
It feels bad that Ele Shamans had to wait for a full rotation on the World Bosses to get the "best single target" legendary and now Echoes could be again the best option to all PVE scenarios, it's like they don't care for the class/spec.
I'm still baffled they're not nerfing Convoke Boomkins yet. It's an insanely easy playstyle, with incredible burst. Should be reeled in at least some.Then again, Fire Mage isn't getting nerfed either, so I suppose Blizz prefers certain things are stable on top.
What @Impakt is writing here is totally wrong. Rylak will NOT beat SFE in any situation, especially in AOE. Spreading misinformation like that makes it seem like BM is going to be in a great place after those changes... It wont! SFE will still be slightly better on ST and completely stomp Rylak in AOE.This dude should not be allowed to write BM stuff at all, as he currently plays a warlock in Classic. XD