I wish this was an exaggeration…I have a clip of a shaman straight up deleting me with the fastest casting I’ve ever seen in the game…
As I ran toward him, this is what he hit me with…
Flameshock Crit for 1347
232 tick from Flame Shock
Lava Burst Crit for 1897
Lava Burst Crit for 1035
Lightning Bolt for 854
232 tick from Flame Shock
Chain Lightning for 1636
Earch shock for 575 (42 overkill)
Dead
7,850 damage
First cast hit me at 14.90s and I was dead at 17.68s of the clip.
He killed me in 2.78 seconds.
If you don’t think this is broken and insanely overtuned, you are seriously delusional or seriously just a troll.
Looks like a Power Surge proc (5% change on flame shock) happened, then he Lava Bursted you with an overload proc (60% chance), but then you lose me. 2.78 seconds is not enough time to cast a lightning bolt and a chain lightning.
Overload is basically the Ele version of windfury. You basically got jackpotted by casino spec shaman. I’m sure I can dig through my AB experiences and find several ret paladins seal twist proccing me to oblivion. That’s how classic has always been.
You can get Nature’s Swiftness by giving up Elemental Mastery. Which would explain the LB->CL, that’s also the standard Ele PvP build… am I getting farmed by PvE spec’d Ele shams?
He’s got the luckiest casino in Azeroth, because he was doing this the entire AB…
And with the seal twisting…no paladin is doing nearly 8k damage in 1 swing. All people do is complain about paladin damage in here and say their damage needs to be nerfed by 50% and I literally have a clip of a shaman doing 8k damage in 2 and a half seconds…but y’all are defending shaman damage saying they aren’t overtuned? lmao
e: not to mention, all of a paladins damage can just be spam purged off for absolutely 0 penalty…
Meanwhile paladins stun lock you from 100-0 in FULL r13 gear and enchants through SL most times. Worst case is they have to blow bubble and become completely invulnerable.
Are there broken specs in pvp? Sure. But paladin are at the very TOP of the list… I know shaman are broken, but you are too… At least I can interrupt and CC Shaman sometimes…
this is truth… and also the most boring way to play a beloved class and should be a deleted playstyle so the proper ones can get actual love without an ocean of alliance tears.
Well as a Soul link R13 geared player I’m telling you its happened to me several times today. As a level 10 youll just have to take my word on it.
Yeah a 6 second stun is all that is necessary. Granted the paladin was clearly wearing some R13, it went so fast they could be wearing other items. Either way if I went full pve gear burst sint how youd describe me…more like glass…
Just fyi, feral spirit is/should rarely be used in BGs and BM as it results in longer CL cooldown (=significantly less dps), no root on earthbind and less flameshock dot damage. It does provide insane mobility , a stun, plus a lil bit of healing but most of the caster shamans that actually want to dps, would not use it. 1v1s are a different story, so are specs that rely on PS procs and sustain to perform. Those specs are busted cause of shield mastery/zg set combination by stacking a lot of SP and armor/hp at the same time. Again, wolves are not the issue, everything else is
We have one single stun that gets trinketed off instantly anyway and repentance is even more useless than it used to be now that we have Righteous Vengeance cloak rune dot. It went from a 6 second “sap” to an inconvenient little interrupt and the rest of our leg runes are trash too…it’s either gamble on Inspiration Exemplar to actually remove your fear in less then 6 seconds or rebuke…but we’re CC’d and kited for eternity anyway so rebuke is also pointless in pvp, I’ve ran both extensively and it’s hard to choose which one I’d rather be disappointed in.
We also have one of the weakest gap closers and the only one susceptible to cc, and any cast during it will end it immediately.
Meanwhile Shaman have every single utility in the book and the ability to spam purge 90% of a paladin’s damage, blessing of freedom, and any other utility except bubble with absolutely no penalty to the shaman whatsoever.
If anything, Blizzard will see this and think it needs an immediate buff, and in the same patch will nerf paladins in more ways than 1 - since we still have a slim chance of beating shaman, or any horde for that matter…and we all know how the employees that actually play the game feel about that. (since they all main horde)