If making the change is very complicated, I think giving this spell two charges could greatly improve the Shaman’s survivability.
Finally, I’m really looking forward to this week’s “major changes”.
For the enhancement shammy!
Having two charges would be better than nothing, but having two charges of a cooldown is not as strong as people generally believe it to be.
Those two charges recharge in sequence- not simultaneously. Meaning if it has a two minute cooldown and you use both charges back to back it will still be a full four minutes to get the second charge back. Against a raid boss this will usually give you one additional use over the course of an entire fight. The only exception to this would be if it is a long fight with no points in the middle where you would need the cooldown. You could then use it twice early and twice late.
Certainly better than nothing, but if that’s all we get it will be far from enough to bring us in line with other classes.
I want a defensive that heals us up while it’s active, like every other class seems to have. This is more for pvp bc we know we can’t count on our self heals.
Enhancement shaman is easily the best for survivability among the 3 specs, but it comes at a cost of using everything in your kit including spending maelstrom weapon stacks on healing yourself. Even a resto shaman has to sit and cast healing surge, healing wave, or chain heal and you need to focus on the entire group, not just yourself. Enhance shamans generate maelstrom weapons so fast you can basically full heal yourself with 1 healing surge instantly and for no mana.
You are right in asking for another button to press as a defensive. Right now, shamans survivability comes from the increased HP talents you take in the class tree, Astral Shift, and that you can reincarnate once every 30 minutes.