MoP Elemental Shaman PvP

[Nikita]

Epic boner of doom! LOOK AT THIS!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCo24...layer_embedded

[Noids]

Funniest bit was the panda cheerleader. Dude wtfwtfwtf omgomgomg. Hilarious

[Nikita]

Abit disapointed about lava beam. Chose between 10-15 lava bursts or improved CL? Hard choice

[MiRai]

He's on a Level 80 Training Dummy with zero resilience. He also duels that level 86 player who seems to have ~120K health (estimating by the 40K crits taking ~1/3rd of his health bar) so, I would assume he also has no resilience and is wearing happy fun PvE gear.

Can we assume that resilience will once again remove ~50% of incoming damage at level 90?

[valkry]

Abit disapointed about lava beam. Chose between 10-15 lava bursts or improved CL? Hard choice

Chain lightning spam can decimate 4 or more people quicker than lava burst, even with no cd on it

[Nikita]

Chain lightning spam can decimate 4 or more people quicker than lava burst, even with no cd on it

Priest shield and full resilience will totaly destroy that burst id take that LvB anytime!

[zenga]

He's on a Level 80 Training Dummy with zero resilience.

If you don't factor in hit rating, there is no difference whatsoever between a lvl 80, a lvl 60 and a lvl 85 training dummy damage wise. And players combat will have default 30% reduced damage, after which resilience starts to kick in. On top of that certain classes have major dmg reduction cd's, so yeah ...

[valkry]

Priest shield and full resilience will totaly destroy that burst id take that LvB anytime!

That's the beauty of it, the priest may live, but the chained people start dropping, 1 gcd used on someone else, priest dies. And it looks like lava beam hits more than 3 targets... and what i'm hoping... no dmg loss on chained targets (my hope, not what's shown in vid)

[Multibocks]

That CL was not hitting very hard, but i'm hoping level 90 gear will make it much stronger.

[Alemi]

That CL was not hitting very hard, but i'm hoping level 90 gear will make it much stronger.

They've already said that they haven't really begun to do a damage pass on most classes/specs... shamans haven't been touched at all. I seem to recall a blue post saying the exact same thing in the beta forums to an enhancement post. I'd take any numbers right now with a bushel of salt

My one concern about ascendance is the complete vulnerability to interrupts. One kick/CS/pummel/shear/skull bash/spell lock (did I miss any?) and you have 2/3rds of your damage spells locked out (Flame Shock, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning/Lava Beam) since they're all fire... I think I'll have to bind this to Devotion Aura (old Aura Mastery) to at least have a few seconds of silence & interrupt immunity. At least they made Ascendance non Dispelable!

Anyone else notice the removal of Crusader Aura and changing it to a Pally only passive self buff? That's going to be annoying.

Edit: Just thought too... while in the form of the Ascendant we'll be vulnerable to Bind Elemental and Banish. Bind Elemental won't be so bad, since it's a magic effect but I have horrible memories of having to watch warlocks when I was in tree form in the BC days because Banish isn't dispelable.