I’ve spent a lot of time reading other’s posts about problems or issues and there’s some great ideas out there.
Overall I think we just have a lack of philosophy going on with the class, aside from the obvious “Shamanistic” stuff. It feels like we have an enormous kit that’s increased over 20 years, but half of it is now done better by 3 other classes.
From my observation, I feel like a lot of us here fail to see the Forrest for the trees.
The result of all of this bloat and issues seems like the failure to come up with really engaging and unique hero talents. Half of both trees for Enhance interact with opposite play styles of the spec, while one of the Ele trees completely forces you into a style clearly not liked by 1/2 the community. rSham was given budget treants using a talent mainly used by people like me who PvP while catering the other tree into at the mercy of ai AoE healing…. Oh yeah while adding 1.5 HP to a totem. Come on here 1.5HP? One point five?!?!
Half of the resto kit gets destroyed in global and animations are not even noticeable on the floor. Let’s not even get going on Ascendance.
What’s goin on here? The whole thing feels like a big mess and I’m hopeful a rework is coming because there’s clearly no real direction with the class.
Cut your losses, you are never going to please everyone. Prune what needs to be pruned or combine what needs to be combined to not ruin the identity or skill expression but make it more tangible for someone to actually want to play the class… aside from big number tuning knob.
Or at least communicate with us and let us know that you desire a class to have a 12+ button priority system or a healer with 40+ binds or something has to feel like it’s 2004… something.
And those of us players out there please stop holding on to every single ability. Advocate for some change here. Now is the time, because this stuff can’t launch as is.
