Lightning Strike

[Bonemachine]

Hello!

Ive been playing both a paladin and a shaman on the HC server.
What ive been thinking about is the ability Lightning Strike for enh.
It basically double dips on your mana by both consuming an orb and also costing mana to cast.
In contrast, the new lvl 4 paladin ability is free and works as a sustain, while dealing absolutely decent damage.

I suffer from horrid mana economy and leveling is a slog. Using your abilities might botch your shield and pulling two enemies at once takes my entire bar.

My suggestion is that either you make the ability unable to be cast without shield up, remove the mana cost, or maybe even make it restore an orb instead.

Of course, all this might change at higher levels, but insofar leveling as enhancement is pretty bad in my eyes.

Regards

[Jonte94]

Hello!
My HC shaman is lvl 53 atm. I agree that the earlier levels can be a bit of a slog but as soon as you get watershield grinding becomes very smoothe.
When you use watershield with lightning strike it will barely drain your mana.
Kills will be slower than with lightning shield but your sustain will be nearly infinite. If you take on mobs 1v1 you'll never need to drink.