Elemental Shaman Class Tuning for March 8 - Storm Elemental Nerfs
Blizzard has announced class tuning to Elemental Shaman, going live on the next weekly maintenance. This change involves the Storm Elemental's Wind Gust effect, now stacking to a maximum of 10 stacks, down from 20.
In addition to this, recasting your Storm Elemental while already having one active will reset the stacks for the Wind Gust buff.
We’re currently working on the following adjustment to Elemental Shaman, which we intend to make live with scheduled weekly maintenance on Tuesday, March 8 in this region.ShamanElemental Storm Elemental’s Wind Gust effect gained from casting Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning now has a maximum stack of 10 (was 20). Additionally, if you cast Storm Elemental again while having a Storm Elemental active, the Wind Gust buff will be reset.The ability to maintain Storm Elemental at long duration and high uptime allows for extended periods of Lightning Bolts with a cast time of less than 0.6 seconds. Players have reported that this is uncomfortable to play, and we believe it might pose a significant accessibility concern.
For that reason, we would rather entirely avoid having a class talent allow cast times which are this short, to avoid similar problems in the future. We are reducing the maximum cast time reduction that can be granted by Storm Elemental.
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