It’s unfortunate how the development of the Tempest has been progressing. Elite spec’s are supposed to make meaningful changes to how we play our classes.
I understand it is supposed to be a choice and that choice isn’t necessarily going to be the higher damage one.
Tempest does not offer this change in play, so far the overloads do not provide anything that you can’t get elsewhere in current ele specs. Aura share is already a thing and work well in the current system and seems like a reused idea.
Outside of the new rebound and heal tempest gets (which are situation at best) there is no reason to run Tempest.
Overloads do not seem to have as much of an impact as the original concept seemed. The risk of casting for 4 seconds with no active defense to be rewarded with a lack luster effect and harsh punishments if interupted (includes self cancel to avoid death) really doesn’t make the overloads feel good at all. For example the skill Meteor Shower, this skill a 3 and 3/4 second cast time, less than the cast time of the overload, hits a massive area for 9 seconds, hits a total of 24 times at 3 targets each, does significantly more damage and doesn’t lock you out of an entire attunement for 20 seconds if you decide you need to cancel it. All of this is done from the safety of 1200 range and is useable right off cooldown.
The nerfs to warhorn are going to make it an almost never used weapon especially with the focus and dagger offhands already being as good as they are. Warhorn HAD its place but has been removed before even being useful, tuning some skills down makes sense but to remove anything unique from the skills is just plain bad design.
I feel that Tempest in its current itteration will see very very low play, warhorn will be non existant. The Tempest sounded good on paper but then those unique aspects got ground and filed down into a generic pile of skills noone will care about.
