So blizzard finally did what I complained about forever making WF a raid wide buff. But now that every spec has access to it my raid team has no need to even bring enhance anymore. Our resto shaman will provide WF for the melee and we are melee heavy as it is.
Why would any high end team bring enhance now that every spec can provide wf and take a melee that is less squishy?
Look, I am just as perplexed and disappointed as anyone else in the complete lack of iteration on enhs major pain points, or really on any point at all.
That being said, this is an extreme. Literally any spec can clear CE. Your guild specifically, which you seem to mention, is not anywhere in the realm of rankings where they would be hard required to bring the shaman buff in any specific spot.
i liked being the only spec to bring wf and now all shamans get it lame and stupd
ele should give spell fury like they did in cata
This is completely different than what you originally complained about, and astoundingly makes you look even worse.
“bring the player not the class”
It makes sense why you’re upset, but this is just the opposite of what Elemental and resto shamans have felt for a long time now. Enhancement was always picked over Elemental if you had to make that choice, and Resto shamans weren’t doing enough throughput healing to take them over the other meta-healers.
If you want a spot in Mythic raid, then do so by being the clear choice in knowing your class and doing the most damage you can do and being the last one to die. Even if enhancement is doing less damage than most others, that’s up to you to show your skill difference. And if you’re raid lead is still picking another higher simming class over someone who doesn’t die to mechanics, then find a new raiding guild. Comparing one spec to a different spec is definitely apples vs oranges and guilds only look at personal performance.
WFT being exclusive to Enhance did influence its popularity and place in raid comps but don’t forget tuning and how well Enhance’s builds/hero talents mesh with different encounter types is also a big influence (and the actual thing to doom about), especially if it meshes well on the harder fights or end bosses. And like Faminex said, unless you’re pushing hard to get HoF, it’s less important to adhere super heavy to the meta.
This is the biggest thing. Personality and being a big contributor to your guild’s strategies and social environment is a big deal too. Across different games, I’ve played with mechanically good players that had the worst personalities causing issues with the team and it might as well have been like we had mechanically weak players at times for how much it ended up affecting the team’s vibe and performance.
Why should a high end guild waste 1-2 spots looking for an enhance when they can now go with any shaman spec. If you want a spot you have to outperform and earn it, just like how the ele/resto will try to outperform other dps/healers to earn their spot. That’s how a competitive raid should be built.
If your raid has too many melee you need to out-dps one of them or find a new guild.
Enhancement losing exclusive rights to WFT is in the same line of reasoning as paladins losing their second aura. The idea is wanting one of each class regardless of which spec they are. This does favor tanks and healers to be sure, but everybody is now playing by the same rules.
The alternative is every group bringing ten or twelve of whichever dps is currently meta and I don’t think most people enjoyed that.
I hate these posts. I don’t hate the enhancement shaman needs some extra loving.
The truth is like 90% of the people on here complain about things that don’t really effect them.
The only place this matters is race to world first. If you are not doing that then it doesn’t matter.
Every buff and ability more or less transfers to % damage done. So let’s say the shaman raid buff ends up being a total of 3% damage overall ( without getting into the weeds about how many melee you have etc ). 3% is roughly what like an extra 20 seconds in a 4 minute fight? My question would be why are you so bad your guild couldn’t stay alive for another 20 seconds.
It’s like at the start of last season my guild leader asked me what I was planning on playing. I have a resto shaman, prot paladin and a windwalker monk. I told him I was gonna play windwalker. His response was more or less they aren’t good dps. Which was / is true. However my response was if I am ever at the bottom of the dps charts then we can have a conversation. I wasn’t and raided the whole season.
I found that very satisfying to read, well done.
WE’RE SO BACK BOYS! New datamined changes.
3 MORE TALENTS POINTS, PWAVE POTENTIALLY 30 CD, DOOMWINDS 1 MIN CD
Molten Assault, Witch Doctors, and Improve Maelstrom reduced to 1 point nodes.
This opens up a ton of possibilities. Storm getting access to molten assault and HS/FN could be pretty huge.
We’ve cooked a build where you take Pwave in storm cleave as well along with Fire nova. There’s also standard ST Elementalist build but with Doomwinds. There’s some wild builds floating around in the class discord its pretty funny.
It’s amazing what 3 talent points let you do.
That’s good news, glad to see enhance get some love finally.
Why should blizzard care only about what a high end guild would or wouldn’t take to begin with? Enhance got shafted but Windfury was not what shafted it. You guys need to get over this idea. Thankfully, it seems blizz might actually be listening to the real feedback and fixing what really sucked for enhance in the update if the datamining is to be believed.
This just brings Shamans in line with all other classes in the game. I feel like this should go without saying, but: Enhance is a spec and Shaman is a Class.
You could really rewrite this sentence with any Spec right? Like why would you bring Feral when every Druid spec can provide MotW and take a melee that’s less squishy. Why should one spec within a class have a raid buff when the other’s do not? No other classes are designed this way.
After reading throug the responses here I guess i did over react. I guess i liked bringing a unique buff to raid. But I love no longer having to manage that stupid wf totem. I still do not like how squishy we are compared to other melee, do you think the new defensive talent ( the earth shield thing) will be any good?
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