For months I have been set on maining Shaman for SL due to these changes. While they do feel like a big improvement compared to anything BFA design had to offer, I just can’t help but feel like the current state of enhancement feels like a bunch of random spells thrown together.
I love Shaman because of the theme and lore of the class but one word I just never seem to be able to shake off is that the class feels “Clunky” It’s the best way I can describe my experience of maining this class for the last 6 years.
I look back at how this class is quite literally changed more than any other class in the game over the years and I always come back to this feeling that Blizzard really just can’t figure out what they want to do with the Shaman. I’d like to see how others feel about this as well.
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I made one on the beta and played around a little bit. Obviously I was missing something because I felt I was waiting around a lot for something to press… I’m hoping I was doing something wrong.
I had fun in BFA once I got a little bit of gear and every pull didn’t feel like a gamble.
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Yes! This is exactly how I felt when playing the pre patch. I found myself looking at the action bar thinking “What am I supposed to press?” We have more abilities now but less buttons to press somehow… it just feels awkward.
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I spent hours today just attacking a target dummy to learn the new rotation 
I feel like using feral spirits immediately at the start of a fight is almost a requirement in order to generate stacks of maelstrom weapon.
I dont like it and im kind of upset about it.
This expansion I want to main Sham instead of Warrior and I just do not like how it plays now. I thought rockbiter going away would be interesting but its just weird now.
I almost feel like a survival hunter. im poking at range but my damage has to come from melee
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It’s a 2 minute CD though? Still seems like a lot of downtime, even if I’m plopping totems everywhere.
was a bit meh
needs more stormstrike
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You press whatever does most damage. Try it out and experiment.
your windfury totem is trash on retail I only drop it if im in a group environment. Keep in mind, classic windfury totem ACTUALLY has a attack power component to the extra attack proc. Retail windfury totem has nothing but an extra attack.
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It definitely feels “bad” to play right now. The downtime is more apparent to me now vs BFA even though we were given another shock to play with. I was gunning on maining enhance, but tbh I’m having more fun with other classes rn.
I liked enhance in BFA at least for PVE. As far as SLs after testing out the spec, just isn’t all that fun to me. From how much some players seemed to hype enhance who had earlier access than my recent beta invite, it feels like a letdown to me.
I understand all classes will feel more powerful at 60 with all your rental powers and gear. However this redesigned spec just doesn’t feel fun to me.
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Legion/BFA Enhancement was the most boring iteration of the spec.
If you want to play that version, Fury Warrior is pretty close other than having a red rage bar.
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People are so upset they cant spam a rotation on every gcd… blizz turned the game into something where you need to.
You are essentially doing the same as the old builder spender, but without the rockbiter if that makes sense. You do not need to constantly press buttons to do damage, but the auto attacks and abilities you do press need to fulfill those seconds of downtime.
Until tuning happens, it doesnt seem like this has been addressed because our dps is pretty low.
Im more worried about our defensive and self healing situation though, i personally love the changes and cant wait to hit some big ole ele blast stormstrike crits. But, like i said above, the tuning needs more work.
TLDR, the rotation is fine. You dont need to click every GCD. Rockbiter was a low damage filler spell that can be made up in other forms of damage.
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I brought this up last week, and the response was basically in short, “SL has borrowed power things that will fill out the rotation”.
This is not what I was hoping to hear.
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The nostalgia crew ruined it. At least Elemental is still fun.
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This is a whole other thing but leveling as enhance is really boring unfortunately. Before prepatch it was wicked fun at 53 but now at 23 I am just like sitting there staring at my screen autoattacking the whole time basically after I pop my moves at the start of combat. The damage seems ok but leveling is …wow
The fact you even have to stare at your screen and wait for things to come off CD sounds like this went through no developmental checks at all.
If I’m gonna feel there’s a smoother rotation to FFXIV than the staccato flow of WoW, then that’s a huge insult to WoW.
What are you doing, Class Devs? Hahahahahahahahahaha. Pathetic.
Maelstrom Weapon is trash. Lightning Shards like Lou Ferringo’s Hercules is retarded. New Hot Hand is lame. Stormstrike proccing was fun. Rockbiter made for smooth play. But it won’t be fixed unless you guys scream bloody murder like Shadow Priests had to, in order to get Voidform iced, and unless you hold people accountable who say “Relax… it’s only Beta.”
I know it sucks but people warned the Enhance Community about it and the ever intelligent mob with it’s MoP Shaman nostalgia glasses, were hellbent on saying “No get rid of Maelstrom Resource!!”
Well now it’s gone.
Next time shut down morons that propose bad ideas and maybe your spec will be saved. 
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brought to u by the kind of player who says “actually no i LIKE hitting one button endlessly” lol
don’t play enhance then cyaaaaaaaaaa
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