We have a Resto Shaman(Rehgar) and we have an Enhancement Shaman(Thrall). It’s time Blizzzard. Complete the trio! GIVE US AN ELEMENTAL SHAMAN!!!
Here, i’ll even build a basic kit for you to start designing with!
Q - Lightning Bolt: 0.5 second cast time. No cooldown. Target enemy hero and lauch a Lightning Bolt at them dealing 150 damage.
W - Lava Burst: 0.75 second cast time. 12 second cooldown. Target enemy hero and launch a ball of lava at them, dealing 350 damage.
E - Thunderstorm: You cast a Thunderstorm around yourself, knocking back enemies and slowing them by 50% for 1 second. 8 second cooldown.
TRAIT - Lightning Overload: Whenever you cast Lightning Bolt, you have a 35% chance to cast a second Lightning Bolt that is instant, costs no mana, and deals 50% damage.
Heroic 1 - Elemental Mastery: Causes your next cast to be instant and deal 50% increased damage. (level 20: Increase the damage of the cast to 100%)
Heroic 2 - Lava Flows - Passive. Your Trait now applies to Lava Burst as well.
Please make this one a Troll or Tauren though, we need more of both.
Broll Bearmantle comes first for our next warcraft hero damnit he’s way more important then a no name troll or shaman, we gotta get the Crimson Ring squad back together damnit
…Rexxar is a hunter, but I’m assuming that was a joke about him being a resto shaman… Or you confused him for Rehgar, who is doing the whole Resto Shaman thing.
Pretty sure heroes avoid targeted/point+click spells for damage dealers and I would surmise that another shaman hero would be a draenei, or rather a Broken, as Nobundo is a unique silhouette, notable name, and has a lot of potential kit options.
Rather than be a generic spam caster, to have it be more particular to a “Shaman” I think it’d be better to have some searing/lava and air totem options in the kit so the hero has to consider where to set totems and the uses their other basic abilities to hit the totems to activate stronger abilities.
Yes, Thrall has Doomhammer, Enhancement Shaman Artifact Weapon and Feral Spirit and Windfury would fit an Enhancement Shaman, but he also has Earthquake an Elemental Shaman signature ability, and Sundering which would fit an Elemental Shaman rather than Enhancement. Also he has Chain Lightning which used to be a signature ability of Elemental Shamans, but they made it class wide in Shadowlands. Further more, while he’s using Doomhammer, he doesn’t dual wield like Enhancement Shamas, but uses a single weapon like Elemental Shamans. Thruth is, Thrall was obviously designed to reflect his Warcraft 3 appearance, rather then a WoW Shaman, so he’s a wierd combination of Elemental and Enhancement.
Things get even more complicated with Rehgar. He’s a healer like Restoration Shaman, but Restoration Shamans use Water to heal, while Rehgar doesn’t have a single Water healing spell. Yes, chain heal used to be a Restoration Shaman spell, but they’ve made it class wide now. And Lightning Shield used to be an Enhancement Shaman spell, again made class wide. Now pretty much all of his spells are class wide, so he can be considered any spec (except that he doesn’t dual wield, again).
Pretty sure that Broll BEARmantle is a Guardin druid, not Feral. Big difference, Guardian Druids are tanks, while Feral Druids are melee assassins.
I love HotS for not having a chance on anything, instead, it has the every nth guaranteed mechanism. It is enough to have teammates as the luck factor.
There actually is one RNG-based talent. Tracer’s Richocette has a 60% chance to trigger. But, she attacks so fast that the randomness isn’t actually noticeable.
This checks out except Sundering is a talent that Enhancement can choose nowadays, It’s a linear stun with piles of damage just like HotS.
The Chain spells, I’m pretty sure, started out class wide. They only got boosted by talents, as one would expect, but were usable by all. These days, Chain Lightning actually has synergy inside the Enhancement kit-- used to be only Maelstrom Weapon would touch on most of our spells as Enh Shas.
If there’s anything left for a Shaman, it’s gonna be a totemic warrior rather than just another toon.
You’re going to need a different trait or fix the trait so it isn’t just random. It’s difficult to balance RNG in a moba. Even if it’s activatable with a CD it’s still better than depending on RNG.
