Hello Blizzard Class Developers I know that it takes a lot of work to come up with new and amazing class builds and talents for classes such as shadow priest, ret paladin, holy paladin, a whole new spec for evoker “Augmentation” and so on but I have one serious question for you all. Does no one at blizzard play shaman cause holy crap are they a massive dumpster fire of a class that needs an overhaul more then any other class. Elemental has two lack luster possible builds that neither of them are worth while bringing to content except for lust. Enhancement tries to be good but you have to play a wonky build that doesn’t get to really use any of its group utility especially windfury totem which all melee would love to be able to benefit from and then there is resto… Lets start off by saying that it requires more work then any other healer to get the same throughput on hps while still having the lowest damage output by quite a large margin. None of the three specs are satisfying to play for the amount of work you have to put in compared to any other spec in the game. If you’re trying to get people to stop playing it congratulations every shaman I know is rerolling due to the fact you guys are just ignoring massive gaping holes in the class. Then lets talk about the fact that you made tempest a hard cast for a melee spec??? Like get y’alls heads out the sand and do something about the travesty that you have caused to the shaman class.
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Holy wall of text, Batman!
…also an unfortunate coincidence their iconic shaman becomes a warrior. Been curious, think there’ll be something intense for the shamans at the end of Thrall’s journey? 
edit: Perhaps something related to the Stormriders? 
Shaman are so ignored you didnt even post as your character.
Let me try to make this more readable for others.
I was about to do the same thing! 
I started to change some of the sentence structure… then realized I’d probably massively change the tone and style, so I stopped. lol
Why are shamans whining so much?
Because most classes have a wall of updates in The War Within, and Shaman have one healing nerf and no other changes.
Anyway, I like my Elemental and Resto Shaman. I think it’s fun. I won’t complain about a rework though.
Its even worse on mobile 
Exsqueeze me, have you heard of paragraphs?
Some of it is clunky, I miss the larger amount of utility we had with more totems and I can’t keep up with other healers and ranged dps. But I like Lava Burst spec, because Lava Burst.
They do need love. They’ve been clunky and wonky since the infamous Legion beta announcement of, “Sorry, we ran out of time to finish Shaman.”
That’s why I re-posted it with better formatting. lol
Our last hero tree was only released to Alpha a week before they announced they were done taking feedback and were moving on to tuning.
The tree wasn’t even complete.
I’m wondering if they might be thinking of making enhancement into a tank spec. The reason I wonder this is that in the follower dungeons than the tank is actually some sort of enhancement shaman in the beta. A very strong one too.
Also, they were successful in making shaman a tank in Sod.
I could be wrong, but they made survival hunter a melee years ago from a ranged I could see them doing something massive like that again. Especially with people asking for massive changes, and complaining that enhancement has been losing its identity.
Who the heck has been saying this? Enhancement has been in the best place in DF that it’s been since pre-Legion.
They changed Survival to melee because Hunter was otherwise a class that had the same role across all 3 of its specs. Shaman is absolutely not in that camp, and they would have a ton of extremely upset shaman on their hands if they essentially deleted our only melee dps spec.
I am in favor of shaman gaining a 4th spec ala druids as tank, but absolutely not at the cost of replacing Enhancement.
This has merely been what I’ve heard. I’ve heard people complaining about all the lightning making enhancement feel like elemental to some degree. (I don’t agree with this) Though I do have an alt that is a shaman I do not pay attention to the Shaman discourse enough to say if this was a vocal minority opinion or not.
In truth I only said enhancement because that is the melee spec, and that is the spec they turned into a full tank in classic Season of Discovery.
I have no idea what they are going for with this new follower Baelgrim, and they could be thinking of just adding a new spec. Or perhaps they are trying something else.
Putting in Baelgrim as a shaman tank is a unique choice though, that I wouldn’t completely discount it as a way to show future intentions.
OPs format doesn’t matter. It’s a subtle nod to the fact no one at blizzard reads shaman feedback.
So, obviously I’m not a dev, but what changes would you like to see? I agree shaman needs a good once over, but what sort of changes would you like? Defensiveness update? Mobility? Raid buff?