Elemental Shaman calls upon their assistance unlike Hunters and Warlocks. There is a glyph that makes Ghost Wolves able to turn into Raptors. I would love a similar idea for Elementals. Instead of Fire,Storm,Rock Elementals I would love to see different types of Loa’s for Trolls. Since the Class already have different skin for Trolls why not add that?.
So when you are summoning a Fire Elemental you will instead summon perhaps let’s say Kimbul? Tiger of the Sands or when you are trying to summon Storm elemental you will instead summon Akunda - the Thunder Lizard
What do you think you are a Druid with 8000 different skins, a mage with 20 different poly shapes and water elemental shapes, or even a Night fae with 50 different soul shapes that will only last 1 expac, or hunters with the ability to tame every animal in the game?
YOU THINK YOU ARE AT THE LEVEL OF THOSE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES!?!?!??!
I don’t know that Loa being beckoned by a shaman on cooldown would be lore friendly. The Loa can be pretty fickle depending on which one you’re talking about.
What I would like is glyphs that offer different elemental skins. Like Mages have for their water elemental, or like warlocks have for their demons. Pretty much every expansion, a new iteration of elementals is introduced and some of them look really cool.
I’d love to be able to summon a Pandaren spirit or one of the Cataclysm cultist-looking elementals.
Shaman as a mixed spirit/elemental class are starting to feel a little awkward as the different cosmic realms get fleshed out with strong distinct identities.
Is there been anything in Shadowlands directly exploring shaman class identity?
There are different types of Shamans like there are different types of Paladin why should we keep just Orc Shamans or Human Paladin RPG wise?. And it does makes sense when it comes to Shamans because Troll Shamans are very different from Orcs. Especially Zandalari Shamans I’d like to think there is a reason to why they added Raptor Glyphs options for Shamans.
Does it have to be 100% Lore friendly though? You can go with the arguement that even Blizzard breaks their own lore when it comes to Gameplay style. I would see this addition for fun sake. It wouldn’t break Lore completely either since you are the Hero of Azeorth/Mawwalker and so on. Why wouldn’t a Loa come and assist you during fights?. If we are gonna keep everything Lore friendly in terms there would be so much less content in the game than what it already is.
