Ya, this needs to be reverted.
You’re hamstringing resto and ele way too much with this.
Ele lost an entire second school of spells to use which hurts in pvp big time. You then lock them out of instant ghost wolf by moving it behind some dog talents that don’t benefit resto or ele behind T1. So they’re locked out of all nature spells and can’t run away…great design. Also, this is suppose to be classic centric according to your devs so why mess with this?? Y’all are stupid
Resto, you absolutely decimate riptide and turn it into renew as a capstone talent, why?? It’s pathetic. Then, they have no escape now without ghost wolf instant cast due to it also being locked behind trash talents past T1 in enhance.
If you’re trying to make all shaman meme spec 2hd enh you’re going down the right road but this is dumb design. Out of touch clueless dev team. Get a life buds.
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the fact that this even went thru gives me so little hope for the future of the game now. did they just move a bunch of retail devs over last night? how did this go live lmao
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If they were using retail ideology they would have made ghost wolf instant cast baseline and removed the talent entirely.
Making things worse on purpose is usually described as making them more classic, though in this case they’re making it even worse than the original version.
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I wish. 12 sec cd kills any downrank post-fight top off and 5 second regen before the next pull.
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Is overrated, I am going to put points n hit from the rest tree rather than getting improved Ghost wolf
This is what they should have done. Making a good decision doesn’t mean it’s retail, just because it’s QOL. This doesn’t make any sense to be 3 second cast, especially since the biggest benefit is for Enhnacement Shammy. It doesn’t give benefits like Druid except the speed, so there’s very little reason this should even be a talent.
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It’s bad design for Enhance as well because they moved it into a very crowded tier 4 while moving nothing down to tier 2 to replace it. That means we have to throw 2 additional talent points into crap talents we would rather skip.
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The ghost wolf change hurts enhance too. The early rows are bare now and row 4 is bloated with 14 frigging talent points. Every deep enhance build essentially lost 2 talent points from other trees due to this change.
Revert it blizzard, or at the very least reduce flurry and toughness to 3 pointers to make up for the points we have to waste to progress past row 2 now
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Isn’t ele shaman just a cosplay of a 5th larger totem that just casts chainlighten untill they expire?
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It’s not overrated, it’s been a staple of shaman to have insta ghost wolf accessable since day 1 vanilla. Zero reason to change this at all
I never wasted talent points to take it
Peak elemental fantasy had always been dual-boxing enough of them to one shot people 3 people. Times have change 
ghost wolf doesn’t aid this
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Yeah, to be honest, the Ghost Wolf change made me decide to go Holy Pally over Resto Shaman.
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Well let’s get some of these guys in they seem to know what’s up.