Strength / Attunement build, with Avalanche as primary damage supported by Upheavals from Excavation node, scorpion pet throwing Avalanch boulders which also do upheaval, warcry for frosty goodness and tempest strike set to 0 mana giving +10 mana per cycle for excellent regen.
Scopion gets lots of Strength from gear scaling and lots of spell damage from 2H weapon affix, gladiator of lagon from tempest strike, rune of awe and the strength scaling Weathered Elements.
“The Avalanche boulder uses your scorpion’s stats” and you have really low % of cold minion dmg.
So I doubt that here is any real profit of using scorpion as dmg output over something based on characters stats n buffs
And I have no idea how upheaval will scale if proced from scorpion’s boulders
The spec isn’t meant to compete with the likes of Beastmaster EQ bear, it’s more of a well this is better for the slot than anything else Avalanche shaman can use. MY EQ bear spec can smash the boss target in arena in 30 seconds and solos 1500 corruption instances yeah it’s not that.
But to be fair EQ bear gets its damage through multipliers not +%increases and shaman will never compete versus beastmaster for that. High end BM tree is insane for multipliers, which is why EQ bear is S tier dps. I’m only hoping for B tier maybe A tier here.
Meh bear, meta boredom
If you are looking for Excavation build https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/AKKLeD3A
This my season 2 shaman. Low hp for passive node boost and staff for cold pen
