It is not a class issue,its a skill issue. Majority of alliance players are just terrible in pvp and they are mostly pvers. I bet you even if you gave ally shamans in AB they’ll still get slapped.
Im pre-raid bis I have 616 attack power. Apparently that 1000 attack power gap, 500 strength which I wouldn’t be able to reach even at 60, is a skill issue though.
weird near gnomer bis I also have 1597ap
decoy totem is single target
healing wave doesn’t have any spell power scaling for enh so is only around 600 healing and even in pve max uptime msw is 2 ppm so it will be much less consistent in pvp unless the shaman is using wf on main hand but then they dont have way or earth
yea way of earth is silly but shamans kick stuff pallys hoj stuff that’s just how its always been
the shaman DUAL WIELD rune gives them 10% hit meaning they still have a 14% chance to miss since they are DUAL WIELDING
Must be doing something wrong on your end. Here’s a screenshot of an Enh Shaman who hit 40 two days ago and has never stepped foot in Gnomer with 1597 AP.
https://imgur.com/XXzpkSN
fair enough, I misread the ability. Its still power creep on Blessing of Freedom though lol. Not only does it not remove your other buffs like Blessing of Freedom removes Blessing of Might, it also no sells one melee/ranged attack on top of it.
I literally watched my friend on a shaman last night healing himself for 800+ instantly with no mana cost thanks to Maelstrom Weapon. Now to be fair, he was streaming himself in the STV event while in a group with a disc priest, other shaman, hunter, and warrior. So maybe their buffs somehow allowed him to heal for 800+ instead of 600.
Also he was definitely getting enough Maelstrom procs to do reliably do it ever 20 or so seconds.
Honestly, the kick is an afterthought. Whatever. Way of Earth in general just shouldn’t be usable without a shield. Enh Shamans in WPvP should not have double Rockbiter for 764 AP on top of Way of Earth giving them 30% stam, 10% dmg reduc, and 6% crit reduc. Just fundamentally ridiculous.
Forcing WotE to require a shield is a -65% dps loss for shaman tanks in pve (under every other tank). Would be a bigger nerf then legit every hunter nerf combined. We dont have any shield themed abilities like pally or warr. The shield rotation would legit just be auto attacks and rank 1 shocks as in single target tanking shield spec doesn’t grant enough mana for real shocks. So not only is it a dps gut but also guts the flow of the spec. The devs are almost certainly freaking the heck out trying to figure out how to fix the situation they’ve created here.
shamans are so broken right now it’s completely halted pvp progress. I have no desire to pvp anymore lol im going to hold off on subbing next month tbh…