Guess what? You can dispel Lightning Shield again? Haha SWEET!!! Except this time, it actually affects us because LS generates maelstrom charges for Enhance. Since enhance has literally been the best most overpowered class in pvp season after season and dominates everyone else with no issues this is definitely justified!!! 
Blizzard Dev I: This is DEFINITELY FUN and interesting counterplay!!! 
Blizzard Dev II: Letās also slightly buff Earth Shield so people might actually use it but then gate it behind a pointless restriction HAHA YES THIS IS FUN!! Ya shamans can only use ONE elemental shield for some reason that makes sense!!
Blizzard Dev III: Remember Fire Totems? Haha me neither. Woops only elemental shamans know how to use fire even though I have Flame Shock haha ok. Fire elemental would be way too op for enhance haha!!
Searing totem just felt like another button to press BUT BTW make sure you put down WF totem every 20 yards with no meaningful gameplay attached to it, we couldāve made this a really interesting cooldown that affected gameplay but no, you literally just set and forget even though the rotation is now even more clunky rng and unpredictable. Just another button ahah!!
Blizzard Dev IV: Lets also tie their survivability to their DPS but also make it dependant on mana for NO reason ahaha they would be too op if the hybrid class could actually heal themselves its ok we can give them chain heal back everyone wants that for enhance. Rogues definitely canāt outheal enhance!1!
Can you really tell me this is good class design, please argue with me and tell me Enhance is better now! PLEASE. Lets go. Iāll debate all night.
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I hate it so far. Everything about the rework feels absolutely wrong.
Shaman has been my third favorite class for years but I decided during bfa thst I would main enhance all shadowlands no matter what.
I can not believe how much Iām disliking every single thing they changed
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Iām not trying to single you out here, but why?
This kind of mentality, and this refusal to either quit or reroll is exactly why Blizzardās spend the last forever being sluggish about changing things and refusing to listen.
If you donāt like it, you donāt like it, why put yourself on it? Find something you find enjoyable instead. And if none of them are, then donāt play until oneās changed.
This isnāt even really Enhance specific, itās the entire playerbase about pretty much every issue. Blizzardās got a captive audience so they have no real incentive to change things.
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Iām actually genuinely surprised they got rid of Rockbiter, and the focus on being a melee class to now have shocks.
I already bought Shadowlands so will play my Alliance Monk instead of Horde Shaman, before returning to FFXIV later.
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Rockbiter was a boring, unfun spell to cast. Legion/BFA Enhancement were boring specs that played in a terrible way.
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Iāve been playing Enhancement since Vanilla as well, I canāt speak for balance but overall Iām enjoying this nostalgic revamp that reminds me of the good olā days of Maelstrom stacks and instant cast spells.
A true hybrid melee spell caster archetype with an interesting twist from Firenovas and Hailstorms.
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Because Iāve played every class for the most part across multiple accounts over the years.
Iām a warrior main but Iāve always loved shaman. I play warrior more strictly for aesthetic reasons.
During legion I played a lot of shaman when getting ready for the mage tower and towards the end it was all I played besides monk. Come bfa I strongly disliked basically everything about every class or spec. Once I heard shadowlands was going to be when enhance got a rework I decided that would be a great time to finally buckle down and start an expansion as shaman
And like you said if you donāt like it donāt play. I barely touched bfa. I leveled 22 more warriors and did nothing jutnfarm tusks of mannoroth weekly and use my teonshamans for raid lockout.
Itās getting extremely boring doing nothing but tusk farming
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Arms feels and performs so much better than Enhance. I really wanted to main Enhance for SL, but now I canāt stop thinking about dumping it again and just playing Arms.
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To be honest, my biggest gripe is the micro-management of stupid crap. Weapon imbues were pruned for a reason. It was a set it and forget thing. Now itās back and guess what?! Same deal. Oh and theyāre one hour buffs and lightning shield is 30 minutes. No one in the entire dev team thought āLetās make these set it and forget it buffs to the same duration.ā? Yikes.
Also, searing totem got pruned because it was a set it and forget it thing. Now they give us Windfury totem which is the same thing, again.
God forbid you forget to refresh your imbues/LS/WF totem.
It just feels so damned clunky. After prepatch dropped I setup all my toons and my shaman was the only one where I thought to myself āWhere am I going to put all this crap?ā Healing stream? Chain heal? Who the hell cares? Empower our self heals by giving us more mana or increasing the amount healed. Leave the healing to our resto bretheren.
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My biggest gripe is the 50% nerf to baseline heals. I really like being a hybrid off-healer. The 50% nerf kind of kills that. We can still heal ourselves ok, but we canāt switch to hard casting heals when needed and can only really cast 1-2 meaningful heals at a time after spending the time to build up MSW stacks. No other hybrid has that issue.
They even introduced a potion to allow 4 casts at no mana cost which would be great for emergency hybrid off-healing. Unless youāre enhance.
In M+, I felt like as enhance there were times when I could meaningfully contribute to preventing a wipe when things went off the rails by just switching to spamming heals and chugging a mana pot. Iāll miss that if the spec isnāt really capable of it anymore.
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Itās completely different.
Iāve been playing beta and it took a while but itās improved a lot.
Iāve been loving playing through lava lash talents with hailstorm for huge frost shocks that cleave.
Iām interested in trying the new ice strike with hailstorm to have more immediate access to huge frost shocks in case of MW stack abundance.
You can still play it kind of like Legion if you choose all the SS talents but that kind of boring given the variety of styles you can play now.
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its almost like they have no one in house who plays shamansā¦
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Wait, do people actually use totems?
Best summary of SL in a nutshell for all specs and classes Iāve seen so far.
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If you liked legion/bfa shaman just go play warriorā¦itās exactly the same mechanic.
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Canāt speak for end game/mythics but I will say I enjoy leveling as enhancement. Lightning and thunder sounds everywhere. Rotation definitely took some getting used to, but so far the icyveins build works for me while leveling.
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nearly all the specs and classes are the same mechanic at this point. use an add on, weak auras and hit what lights up.
its not about the mechanic its how it feels. standing still to cast a lightning bolt but being melee is just stupid. even survival hunter can move and be ranged
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You only will ever stand still to cast lightning bolt if you
A) donāt want to wade into the fray and want to support peeps already fighting via range, heals, shocks and fire nova ( this support playstyle has legit always been a thing for enhance )
B) are pulling something to a safer location
C) are raiding/dungeoning and separated from the boss for a prolonged period due to a mechanic
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Damn I signed into my shaman and just screwed around on dummies and love the new enhance so far. Much more fun and engaging.
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Wait, people enjoyed the changes they made to warrior? They made Fury the epitome of mindless. Itās such a far departure from what it was in MOP. I mained warrior for WOTLK-MOP and I quit the game for a few years because the rework was so bad lmao
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I canāt speak for fury but I bailed on shaman in legion and loved legion prot and arms warrior.
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