I’m really only pushing for Shadow Hunter. I’ve heard other people suggesting Farseer/Shadow Hunter/Spirit Walker as the trio, and I like it better. That’s the OG shaman squad. Tidesage was a compromise to get an Alliance rooted spec in the mix.
I keep forgetting that! I play Resto. I keep thinking Searing Totem is still around for Ele shaman. Still, we could always bring it back. Or just Serpent Wards for Shadow Hunter.
Drek’Thar is even more melee oriented than Thrall, at least in Alterac Valley. However, Thrall is the Farseer character we play as in WC3 campaign.
Passives are mostly all it would take. A passive to add a new weapon type (which is not new to shaman, they’ve done this before). If they do warglaives then it would barely change anything and mostly be cosmetic. If they gave us a ranged weapon then it would change the feel of the class, but if Hero Talents aren’t meant to do that then what even is the point? Besides, Ascendance already turns enhance shaman auto attacks into ranged attacks for a short time (amongst other things), so ranged weapons aren’t such an out there idea.
A passive to augment Chain Heal/Healing Wave and Hex. We have these spells already. Just buff them and we’ve paid tribute to Shadow Hunter WC3 spells. They could also just bring back Searing Totem and then make a talent that replaces it with Serpent Ward/Totem, which is just a superior version of the same thing.
The only thing that would require an active talent is Big Bad Voodoo, but they could also find a way to rework it as a passive if passives are a hard and fast rule, which I don’t think they are.