Has anyone seen the shaman forums recently?
Feedback after feedback after…feedback
With no response from the developers which begs the question…
Does blizzard hate shamans or just doesnt know what to do with them?
Mages have amazing hero talents
Warriors
Druids
Evokers
Demon hunters
Paladins
Rogues
Monks
Death knights (yall have it gooood)
Hell, priest oracle got a rework
But nothing about shamans. Blizzard wont even put forth the effort to acknowledge they understand that shamans are not in a good spot right now. No, “we hear you” or anything. Totemic and stormbringer needs a overhaul…
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I mean it’s possible that nobody at blizzard plays a shaman. I remember when druids started getting some major changes and everyone was joking that someone at blizzard must have decided to main a druid.
I don’t know how real that is, but it does seem like a likely explanation.
Which is why I think shaman will get their rework when they open them up to other races. Considering how popular human and elves are I think it’ll bring a lot more eyes on the class.
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There’s something off about Shaman these days that I just can’t get into. I mained one through Lich and most of Cata, but lately? All three specs are just clunky to me.
Enhance is a bit of a mess and I easily lose track of cooldowns and procs.
Resto has some fun tools but I feel so much more effective as Mistweaver.
Even elemental lost some of the smooth, reactive-style gameplay I used to love. Its similar but not the same.
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You should see sub rogue is under augmentation evokers DPS to see they are the truly hated.
For boss ST below Sub is Fury warrior way under both… OUCH!
There are actually 11 specs below both shaman DPS specs… Sooooo…
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You arent lieing.
Shaman is not in a good place right now in general and nothing to remedy it.
Elemental from what i seen in alpha still looks the same as dragonflight.
I love my shaman but elemental… their aoe is so bad, we have zero cleave compared to other specs because of chain lightning and earthquake (which hits like a wet noodle lol)
Shamans need work…a lot of it but blizzard doesnt seem to be listening or acknowledging there is a problem with the class
I can’t speak to resto and enhance as much, but I can confidently say elemental took a turn for the worse when we (and the other ranged classes) lost casting on the move.
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I thought elemental was doing fine in keys?
And enhancement is doing fine in raids?
They are even working on giving them more aoe talents for warwithin to help in keys.
I’ve always loved the idea of shaman but trying one out it didn’t really feel good.
(I’ve mained MM hunter and Sub rogue so it could just be a me thing).
But even I thought shamans were getting neglected in DF, a very shamanistic heavy expansion throughout what with the primalists.
Shamans got nothing and then had to watch druids get showered in prizes at the end of the story lol
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That’s the wording I’ve been looking for! I keep trying to main a resto shaman for its kit and utility, and it is fun… but my priest just always feels more ‘effective’. Thank you for putting that into words.
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I think this might be more of a gameplay concern than a top-end performance potential concern, but I don’t want to speak for the OP. That’s how I took it, at least.
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Enhancement suffers primarily from ability bloat. If it were just abilities you needed to press once a min or something it would be different, but their ability bloat is rotational. They just need a rework, and I think they could be in a good place.
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Hunters are right down here with you brother.
Mail users unite! NOTICE US stop with the 50th mage rework and focus on the mail brothers
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I honestly dont think they have ability bloat, i love their rotation and utility.
YOU FORGOT HUNTERS! We are worse off than Shammy
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Did you go the passive route? Because if you took the lightning fire and frost talents than perhaps you just like playing a piano of a spec. Enhancement was one of the first classes that I ran out of my normal active rotation key binds. And had to find something less comfortable to get everything in.
I go for what is most effective but I always love extra buttons.
I use a razor naga mouse and keyboard binds and I love it.
Also various shift binds, makes it feel like an action game.
Blizzard doesn’t hate shaman. Blizzard just hates you.
I have a standard three extra buttons on my mouse which I usually use for the defensives. I will admit I do prefer simpler specs, so I think our differences are just our preferences.
If I could just have 3 buttons to spam consistently, I would be happy. I prefer more defensives than offensive abilities.
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Speaking as a resto shaman, Totemic is awesome. If we get a class tree overhaul resto shaman will be in good shape.
Jealous of you lol.
I have problems with one of my eyes and I cannot deal with that many abilities and such to save my life. I just can’t keep track of what’s going on, especially with tons of particle effects flying on a raid target.
Which is a shame because aesthetically I love the class.
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