Shaman rework/ rant

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Another skill that I think could use adjustment is wind devil. Would be great on button management to make them permanents like you did with Nightblades Swirling Blades. What’s the reasoning behind having swirling blades permanents but not wind devil?

Make Wind Devil permanent

Wind Devils are set up as a castable attack. That they also follow you is a plus.

Blade Spirits and the upcoming Guardians of Empyrion are intended more as a support role and so were made permanent.

Why Blade Spirit was made permanent:

Wind Devils

The skill was redesigned as it never found a suitable niche with its previous setup. Different masteries, different gear, different purpose.

In the end Crate wants to support a variety of different playstyles:

Wind Devils

homogeneity is the enemy of variety.

I’ve already cleared this up. There’s a number of different playstyles and ways to apply RR that appeal to different people.

Wind Devils

I perfectly understand that some here do not like Wind Devils and wish to push their preferences upon the skill. My point was, and still is, that everybody is making the same argument: that casting the skill is mandatory to “engage at full strength”, which is for various reasons “not fun” to you.

My point stands that any skill that’s part of your rotation to do damage is “mandatory” and I brought up very similar abilities that are spammed or cast on short cooldown to do full damage because, um, they are your sources of damage. If you are not casting your core abilities, you’re not doing damage, that’s common sense. Wind Devils are a core of the Shaman skillset and thus part of the rotation.

Wind Devils are very versatile in that they can be repositioned unlike many abilities that remain where you cast them until the cooldown is up and you can put them somewhere else (ex. Sigil and Devastation). I get that some don’t like that degree of micromanagement, but that is one of their features and advantages. On top of that, Wind Devils already last nearly 3x their cooldown (that ratio goes up with any cooldown reduction which realistically most builds using Wind Devils will have).

Wind Devils

Some of you do not like this form of play, and that is perfectly fine, but that is not justification for a redesign or cramming in 10 transmuters on every skill until everybody has the playstyle they like on every ability.