Ancestral Guidance rework idea:
Heals the Shaman for x amount immediately, and for the next 10 seconds x% of all damage and healing you do is converted into healing onto yourself. On the global cooldown (to avoid pairing in a macro and being passively used).
This would turn Ancestral Guidance into a personal survivability cooldown for the Shaman and make it an active personal to use. Losing AG really hurt shamans personal survivability in pvp and pve, but especially pvp. AG allowed Ele/Enh shaman to postpone using Wall or Stone bulwark totem immediately, which allowed us to rotate through cooldowns less frequently, whereas now without AG we have to send Wall and sometimes even Stone bulwark very early on, leaving enh with no real cooldowns left (aside from burrow if talented, but that is a 2 min cd).
Quite disappointed that AG got removed in the middle of an expansion and the only compensation Shaman got was a healing stream buff, and that only slightly compensates for the loss of off healing from AG, it does not compensate the personal survivability loss of AG. Ele did get Storm Conduit in its honor talents, but it isn’t used often because it competes with strong dps options and other utility options.
Would have really liked to see AG become an actual personal CD or at the very least I would have liked to see some updates to other things in our kit like Earth shield/earth ele and maybe astral shift.
about Ele right now