Quote Originally Posted by Ellay View Post
Right now what does it currently take to drop a target.
Having a warrior or shadowpriest mate

First off we'll have to see how the actual numbers will look like as it's unclear so far if it will be a net gain or if they will nerf the base lvb damage.

From a solo point of view the lava burst change is massive in arena imo. For me a core defensive mechanic that ele lacks has always been the ability to counter when under pressure and force your attacker to go defensive. A mage can freeze / deep when getting trained, a shadow priest that gets a vampiric touch off will sooner or later get a bunch of instant mind spike procs, ... and as an ele you just have to take the beating with your occasional lava surge procs and fulminations i.e. hardly any counter pressure. And if you are so good/lucky that you can turn the tide, some muppet healer dispels your flame shock, neuters your counterpressure completely as you have to postpone your earth shocks, etc ... And now with lvb auto critting you will no longer have to delay your earth shocks when fs gets dispelled. Put flame shock on a pet, on a target with all defensive abilities available, etc doesnt matter, just try to get those instant lava surge procs. Ele can now play a total different mind game in arena, with way easier swaps. To me this is the best dispel protection possible.

What it means for boxers? If you open with 4x fs on the same target their healer can't cripple you any more by dispelling it. Ascendance without flame shock on the target is actually gonna do some dmg. But their is still enough aoe stuff in the game that can shut you down.

But the most important thing to me is that they recognize that ele is doing shit damage in pve, and therefore will have to buff more than just 1 coefficient or shamanism. And more damage can only be good for boxers and pvp in general. Not sure if they will buff just some spells or if there gonna be actual mechanical changes for ele (they could for example add earth shock to the spells that can overload, or buff mastery to do more than 75% of the original spell, or make unleash elements affecting earth shock, etc ...).

It sounds promising, wether it will be enough to make 4x ele viable again, we ll have to see.