Prosít
1 decade ago
Should we be worried?
Lava Burst base damage increased by 11%. SP scaling no longer listed.
Nakatoir
Community Manager
1 decade ago
Should we be worried?
One of the complaints about Elemental Shamans has generally been directly linked to the procs coming from Echo of the Elements. Because of the recent change to Echo of the Elements on the PTR, you should not be too concerned for any minor increases to the damage of Lava Burst as it will no longer be chain-casted onto you in PvP. We do still appreciate any of the feedback that you have on the 5.4 PTR. :)

You can see the change to Echo of Elements here:
5.4 PTR Patch Notes:
Echo of the Elements' spell duplication effect can no longer occur more than once every 4 seconds when used against hostile players, and their pets or guardians.


25/08/2013 20:30Posted by Ishayu
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAAAAAAA!

I lol'd :p
Edited by Nakatoir 28/08/2013 14:20
Nakatoir
Community Manager
1 decade ago
Should we be worried?
28/08/2013 15:08Posted by Feiticeira
Isnt half the problem the mastery duplicate coupled with haste induced ticks on their flame shock giving so many free instants? echo of elements was only half the issue.
Several things compounded to create the complaints that we have been seeing for Elemental Shamans, Echo of Elements and Lava Surge procs as well as the mastery spell duplication were all parts of it. We nerfed Echo of Elements to take the edge off of extreme elemental burst situations and we will continue monitoring every class and make changes as we feel they are needed.

RNG in PvP such as the procs listed above for Elemental Shamans is something that our developers are having ongoing discussions about. In the long run what we want to accomplish is to limit the excessive cases when and wherever possible, such as we did with Echo of Elements. The developers recognize and understand that some players would prefer there to be no randomness in PvP at all, but we don't feel that this would result in good gameplay overall.
Nakatoir
Community Manager
1 decade ago
Should we be worried?
29/08/2013 11:44Posted by Easydragon
But there needs to be a limit to it, ele shamans right now aren't fun to play against.
We entirely agree and this is the kind of RNG that we are referring to when I said "excessive cases when and wherever possible". To try and combat that extreme and random burst that comes from Elemental Shamans we nerfed Echo of the Elements and feel that this should help deal with the the extreme cases of RNG for them. We will be keeping an eye on RNG in PvP and continue to discuss ways in which we can deal with any extreme cases that arise.
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