Elemental Shaman: Please Read

Elemental shaman were told that while we'd be nerfing the damage coefficients for lightning bolt and chain lightning bolt in patch 2.3, overall they'd notice a damage increase. We know most of your tests reveal a damage decrease, however. We've been running extensive tests of our own and have identified that there is approximately a 6% nerf to elemental dps (depending on gear of course). As a result, we're going to increase lightning bolt and chain lightning bolt's coefficient so that elemental shaman gain approximately 5 to 6% of their damage back if you assume roughly 1200 spell damage.

It should break down as follows

If you have below 1100 spell damage you will see a slight buff to your dps

If you are between 1100 and 1200 spell damage you should see neither a decrease or increase to your dps

If you are over 1200 spell damage you will see a slight nerf to your dps.

This change should be hotfixed onto the PTR at some point soon, and we'll be watching the situation closely.

Q u o t e:


well, since CMs also have the discretion to not post at all I just dont see why he would have spent the time interacting in that thread on the general forums, which effectively made things worse. Unless his higher-ups just plain didn't tell him of the impending change and told to go out on pacification duty (low blow if thats the case). It would be a pretty jacked up gag order that forced him to post in a volatile and unresolveable situation if a solution was incoming.

I was keeping as much of the hostility contained to one thread as possible. Also, I recognized that I needed to provide an avenue where players could vent their frustrations and know that they'd be read. I do wish I could've provided this information sooner, but we were still in the process of testing and solution finding.