Was such a great ability in SL. I’d much prefer it over Primordial Wave
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I think they chose Primordial Wave because it fits thematically with the class better. I saw they did that with all the classes to… they picked the abilities that were closest to the class theme.
Chain Harvest had the issue of a big vampiric blood suck spell does not work for with shaman class fantasy(It only made sense in shadowlands).
However, i do wish they picked the kyrian totem ability over primordial wave… that was more fun imo.
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Chain harvest was amazing, sad to see it taken out. Having a burst chain spell that both heals and does damages fits our theme more than what ever primordial wave is suppose to be.
We already have chain heal and chain lighting, why not have a spell that does both in the form of a burst cooldown.
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I think that it’d be more interesting as a talent called like … “electrified currents” that causes your next chain heal or chain lightning to flow through Allie’s and enemies, healing Allie’s and damaging enemies, and flowing through twice as many targets. Working kind of like chi wave alternating between damage and healing.
I want every hint of borrowed power to cease to be. It completely breaks class fantasy when you use some stupid ability from some stupid vampires in the afterlife.
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It won’t be borrowed power if it’s a talent and yes, it can have a different name to fit our theme as well as a different visual effect.
I just really liked chain harvest so much more than primordial wave and it was a useful tool to save group from a wipe.
I feel like they chose primordial wave over chain harvest because it was op and hard to balance without nerfing it too much.
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Yeah. I don’t mind the mechanic. That’s cool.
Needs a reskin for sure haha.
But yeah. Primordial wave is cool and all. I don’t usually even use it for the “multiple targets” aspect of it so I don’t use it for enh or resto at all.
I’d prefer something along the lines of chain harvest.
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As much as I loved Chain Harvest, I have to agree with this. Wave looks more like something a Shaman would have rather than a blood looking effect.
Eh, it was pretty meh, TBH.
I would have preferred the circle from Ardenweld instead.
Blood is not the traditional WoW shaman theme which focuses more on elemental magic but some kind of blood ritual could work for shamans more broadly thematically, imo, just like primordial wave does shadow damage so maybe fits more closely with the whole troll voodoo thing.
That aside they could give it a reskin if it was a problem. Mechanicaly, Chain Harvest was a fun and impactful CD to press. I would like to see it return too.
It’s not like Faeline Stomp fits the monk theme in any way I can imagine.
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The Hunt only fits demon hunters in the same way Chain Harvest fits Shamans. Its visual makes no sense for a fel-magic based class, yet here we are.
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This is why I don’t take Faeline Stomp or Primordial Wave lol.
I know many ppl play this game for “best” numbers, and that’s okay. But I play it bc of the fantasy and immersion and class flavors etc. And neither of those abilities have any place in the talent tree haha
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100 % agree.
Theme and concept/class fantasy is more important to me than “big number go up!” at the expense of the former, otherwise what’s the point of a fantasy rpg in the first place?
Might as well go play the calculator game and do math equations if numbers are the primary focus.
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Took a break during SL and just came back a month ago. I very much enjoyed CH over PW. PW doesnt fit shaman aesthetically at all either, so I’m not really sure how one can argue that CH doesn’t fit when the skill we got doesnt either.
They could have simply changed CH to a water element, graphically it would’ve fit really well if they’d just recolored it. It was nice to have as a burst heal and made keys way less painful.
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Recolor it light-blue and call it Spirit Harvest. BAM! shaman spell.
I still want Fae Transfusion back though…
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I was in love with the Kyrian totem ability. Maybe not AS impactful in raid as chain harvest, but you could squeeze STUPID value out of it in M+. 1 minute CD, 3 damage AND 3 healing charges? Yes please. When we got two legendaries, I ran around with the improved kyrian totem and the permanent earthquake on my earth elemental, and was doing monster trash damage as a resto shaman in M+.
Le sigh, same. Vesper was so powerful and felt so good to use.
That would definitely be a shaman spell! But that’s not what the OP said lol. But yes, if we are going to take a spell and recolor it, rename it, give it some class fantasy, sure, I’d like “Chain Harvest” back.
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