we know blizzard loves shamans and nerfs pallys but ffs… shamans need to get hit with the nerf / heals/dps/tank / root/grounding totems… blizz what are you doing
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No bias here, none at all…
Keep on cookin.
He certainly typed that afking stables during AB
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Speak for yourself. My lock counts on them for kiting melee trains. I bake cakes just for them.
Of all the things to complain about on shamans… The root? That requires them to give up wolves? How about just make it so they aren’t the tankiest class in the game and let them have the root…
I’ve been using SEF instead of wolves as actual Ele spec, not the strong Resto-DPS version. The 60% bonus flame shock dot is pretty effective since I’m rarely able to get a full cast off in a skirmish. I’m mostly relegated to jumping around spamming flame shock trying to survive the un-kite-able warrior long enough to get a power surge proc.
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the root as far as im aware only is off the initial tick of the totem and the roots break on almost any damage and the cooldown for earth bind is longer.
i suggest dropping decoy > earthbind> then wolves instead but even at super speed , a warrior can still get on you and stick rather well if they time their charges at the right spacing.
edit: and yes i know wolves and root cant be at the same time .
Yeah idk how anyone can complain about the root it makes sense for ele to have it. As a hunter the wolves are much worse for me since they are the fastest creatures on the planet and actually let a shaman get on top of me. As for warriors just gotta root them in their dead zone and cast on them.
That’s what I try to do once their on me since My ranged attack range is 8 yards and their charge range is 8 yards. I just have to walk around my frost trap spamming traps and kill shot.
who cares if warrior sticks. You literally win by pressing flame shock.
no . you actually dont if you dont get procs.
and even sometimes if you do , they can output enough to kill you anyways.
the only hope the shaman has is decoy>earthbind> then wolves and just quick run away and bleed them with flame shock but if they can get charges in and stick on you enough , they will kill you . ive had it happen to me and watched other people have it happen to them on stream/youtube/in actual games /ect.
but ya.
i mean, you can literally deadzone charge/intercept and kill them in the root if they don’t trinket/aren’t gnome, maybe don’t be garbage?
I mean the horde have been dominating the bgs with ease so would make sense
i mean i dont know what it means if you cant even see the possiblity of this even happening (if not often) .
maybe youre bad? or have bad timing? or just have had bad rng?
i dont know. i am very much trying to not call you bad outright , just you may be ignorant to what actually goes on?
like really.
??? you literally drop earthbind, if the warrior is rooted and doesn’t have trinket/gnome racial, they cannot break the root. as long as you don’t walk too far away to put yourself in charge range they are stuck. you can literally free cast.
are you sure YOU’RE not the ignorant one?
like cmon dude, I know how to deadzone warriors, and I play one.
i too know how to deadzone warriors but in a given fight things and placement isnt always perfect.
i use wolves instead of root totem.
the first flameshock into the root drops the root automatically.
youre more screwed with the limited scope of root bind than wolves.
not if you cast into the root instead of trying to set up your flame shock… like this is a frost mage complaining that they can’t land a shatter combo because they fire blasted into their root and broke it…
oh no, lava burst isn’t a guaranteed crit, you can still lightingb->cl->shock or gamba on lavab->cl->shock
why does a warrior have to teach you how to play your class?
tell me , when any damage at all breaks the root , how am i supposed to keep the warrior rooted AND kill them?
like are you even thinking?
oh my god
i’m crying laughing reading this
“oh i just free casted 3 spells into this warriors face and now he’s on 50% or lower hp and i’m at 98%, how will i win this duel now that root is gone, flame shock is ticking, and i still have decoy totem on standby to limit his uptime! the humanity, surely i’ll lose now”
lol its cute you think someone hasnt blown the decoy to actually be able to move before dropping the root.
do you think that the root ticks another root? cause it only goes off the initial tick.
you are really not seeing how this works.
it’s literally a less consistent version of shatter combo. if you think shatter combos are bad please stop pvping. stop having an opinion on pvp. stop posting about pvp. it’s not for you.
the warrior is half dead after your root breaks and you’ve free casted 3 spells into him, you still have all your defensive toolkit besides root
oh, and all of this ignores that you could still just lottery a couple procs and delete the warrior with 0 counterplay btw