PTR Notes Elemental Still Missing Something

#0 - Feb. 19, 2010, 10:36 p.m.

# Flame Shock: The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes and is affected by spell haste.
# Talents

* Elemental Combat

o Elemental Oath: This ability is now always on as a passive aura.

Alright, before I say anything, I enjoy these changes, they're great, thanks for change.

But, what about Totem of Wrath? It seems as though the ability keeps getting ignored, especially for a 51 point talent that's supposed to be our defining spec ability.

So, I just have a simple question.

What about Totem of Wrath?

Ghostcrawler

#17 - Feb. 20, 2010, 10:34 p.m.

As I've said before, the right change to make to Totem of Wrath is to make it grant spell power almost exactly the way Demonic Pact does so, and to make it less of a dps loss for Elemental to use.

Elemental damage should be in a pretty good place now if you don't drop ToW, so really I think the only risk is if you're in a guild that won't take you because they get a slightly higher buff from their Demo lock and can't afford to bring you both. I'm a little skeptical that that situation happens too frequently based on the number of Elementals we actually see in dungeons and raids. If it happens to you, I apologize (and you don't need to post 'it happens to me!" in this thread) but you might want to sit down with your raid leaders and discuss if the difference is really as great as they think it is.

I can understand if the inconsistency in the design just offends you, and it is something we want to fix, but please be realistic about how much it would really impact your WoW playing. We thought implementing Flame Shock scaling was more important.