Ele shamans have very large mana issues if they cast any spell other than lightning bolt. I think that there needs to be lower costs of abilities or something, because they already took a large hit in damage because of the fulmination changes, AKA overnerf. More passive damage reduction would be nice as well, they are too easy to kill in a swap, combined with the mana regen issues they are not very viable at the moment. Inb4 L2P, not really relevant in this case.
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Mana Regen
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Not gonna happen, this is how ele shamans were. If you expect to spam Chain Lightning on single target and not expect to go oom that's how they're meant to be. Mana was put there so they can't just spam an aoe based spell constantly without penalty. However, the mana generation from chain lightning on a group of 4 or more is quite insane.
Ele shamans like boomkins have issues in pvp when focused, live with it. Sorry but warriors, dks and rogues will shut you down unless you are sneaky and one step ahead of them.
Fulmination wasn't a nerf, it was a fix, pls use the right term. Your best bet for damage as an ele shaman is Elemental Mastery procs off Lava Burst now in pvp. In pve, they are extremely wicked but underestimated.
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It's not about chain lightning. Using LIGHTNING BOLT uses up mana, and clearcasting seems to be bugged because not only does it rarely proc, it's mana return is nearly useless compared to what it should be.
In WOTLK we had Astral shift, which passively reduced damage taken while cc'd by 30%. This helped us survive swaps better. Also, boomkins are the worst argument you could have used. They can shapeshift, have barkskin as a legit defensive cd, take 15% less damage after being hit for 10% of their health, and have a root/slow with mushrooms and entangling roots, which can be instant though nature's grasp. An ele only has shield from stoneclaw, grounding, earthbind rootand wind shear as pseudo defensives which totally are useless in the case of any kind of pressure at all. If you don't have perfect positioning, you don;t even have a chance.
About Fulm. Yes, 130K is too high. But 20K on a crit is too low. 40-50K is how it was, and that is where it should be, especially if we already have to rely on random procs to do any sort of pressure at all.
TL;DR: that was a very invalid argument.
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Spam chain lightning only PVP....
Now u doing more dps with Lightning Bolt ; )
Fulimination hits ~50k fixed (dont hit 200 ;O)
Now they need to fix:
http://forum.molten-wow.com/bugtraq.php?do=view&vbug_id=12042
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Fire elemental ;)
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um, this is a PvP thread. Who cares about fire ele?
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sorry maybe i post in the wrong post
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I don't know if there are other bugs related to mana regen/cost, but two stacks of clearcasting are consumed by a single spell.
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Mastery procs should proc Clearcasting and, more importantly, Rolling Thunder. They, however, don't seem to.
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