Blizzard
Next PTR will have a small set of Elemental changes meant to focus on a couple specific problems.
Mastery capping
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특화: 정기 과부하 does 85% of base damage (from 75%) and proc rate reduced 17%
• Totem Mastery-Storm Totem bonus 5% (from 10%)
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정기 작렬 gives 2000 stats at level 110 (from 2400)
• All damage abilities increased 3%
Some of the power of mastery is shifted from proc rate into damage. The nerfs to
토템 특화 and
정기 작렬 don't require talent rebalancing, since they are minor and those are talents are already generally favored. The slight total DPS loss from those changes is counteracted in the baseline spec. With both talents, the mastery cap (with all these changes) would increase from 10400 rating to 15067.
연쇄 번개 dominating
지진연쇄 번개 is so strong that
지진 is often not attractive to cast. There are also secondary issues such as the importance of
피뢰침 procs and resource overflow in AoE.
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연쇄 번개 damage reduced 12% and generates 4
소용돌이 (from 6)
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지진 damage increased 29%
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대지 충격 damage increased 13%
Damage is shifted from
연쇄 번개 into
지진, and
지진 is further increased to account for generating less
소용돌이 (which helps the overflow issues, including on
전하 과부하 procs). The Earth Shock buff helps stave off the potential for Earthquake to get too close to it again, and a buff to
대지 충격 was pretty reasonable generally.
Again, the goal is to address these issues in a relatively contained way. 7.3 is generally light on class changes, but we wanted to try to get at these known problems. As always, open to feedback on any complications that these look like they might introduce.
One additional concern we're seeing here is that based on preliminary testing this change is not accomplishing its intended goal without an extremely large number of targets.
연쇄 번개 spam is still projecting to be higher than using your
소용돌이치는 힘 at all up until you reach around 7 targets.
지진 is still not strong enough.
So far as we can tell, with the current changes (which have
지진 at 100% SP per tick) a more standard
광역 rotation won't be worth it over
연쇄 번개 spam unless it's brought to at least ~117% per tick or so (where it'll be about equal at 5 targets.)
The only case it appears to be worth it in is where it's the only way to proc
세푸즈의 비밀, in which case using it only to proc
세푸즈의 비밀 but not at any other time is dps neutral.
The extra factor that wasn't accounted for here is the impact that the change to the damage per Mastery hit would have on
전하 과부하 procs. This also significantly increases the range of impact that
전하 과부하 has, which only makes how inconsistent it is even more painful.
The question I have at this point is why is this even left as a potential question?
지진 is our only AoE Maelstrom Power spender. It should be so massively, unquestionably stronger than spamming
연쇄 번개 that even the notion of
연쇄 번개 spam should be laughed out of the room.