Been trying to pick my main for Dragonflight, and I’m looking really hard at Shaman. But, I have a few questions for those who are in the beta and playing around with the class:
How different do the specs play in comparison to Shadowlands? Do they play similarly to SL, or are there changes to how the specs feel to play?
Are all three specs fun to play?
Anything else I need to know about Shaman in DF?
They are close.
I main Enhance, and I think they really tried to get them as close to what we have in SL.
I haven’t set up Ele yet, but the calculator on WoWHead looks about the same as Enhance does, where it’s roughly similar.
Resto will have to be answered by someone else. I don’t heal much and I don’t know what it looks like compared to SL.
Personally, I think Shaman is just a fun class in general. I’d been wanting to main a Shaman since Vanilla, but wasn’t able to do that (because of the various groups and guilds I was with not needing one) until Legion. Now I main Enhance which has, in my opinion, only gotten better since Legion.
I don’t have a calc set up for Ele right now, but this is roughly what I’ve been using in DF and I don’t feel like I’m missing much in the way of abilities or power level:
I’m sure a better build exists (or someone will figure one out), but this is what I came up with based on what we are doing in SL now.
Other than using the above calculator to preplan a bit, I don’t think so. No major surprises, as long as you remember most of our covenant stuff is going away, though we did get to keep Primordial Wave (and some conduits here and there).
Maybe I’m doing something wrong but when I built an Ele tree I felt like I needed 30 different keybinds.
Yea most totem choices are not worth but my shaman has 53 binds on retail.
Shaman will always have most binds
Don’t bother using the talent calculator, jump onto the ptr that everyone has access to, it has all the updated talent trees. The only difference is you are missing i belive 5 talent points or something like that. It will give you a really good idea of how they will play.
Personally so far i like how the enhancement tree is set up. You’ve got pretty clear paths depending on how you want to play. A couple of things need to be moved around still but overall its looking really good.
Oh wow I had no idea I’ll check it out thanks
Have you tried the other two trees?
I’m between 50-60 keybinds in shadowlands so DF should be fun.
No, I’ve stuck to enhancement almost exclusively for the last couple of expansions.
Fair enough. I tend to stick to Elemental on my Shaman.
(This is still Daanea, figured I’d switch to posting on my Shaman.)