No to ghost wolf dispel

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If I types FFS over and over again until banned, It would at least somewhat adequately express my discontent.

I’m minding my business, doing some turn ins, when all of a sudden there is a five man alliance team murking people at the boat. Much whining in defense chat from the corpses strewn about to and fro about how the Horde (complains using minor vulgarities) and moans about Alliance PVP yet does nothing. No problem, a random druid, a 117 DK, and I clear the area and go about our business. Lo and behold, the Alliance came back with five more - however, that’s every other post on this board so I will move on.

My rant/comment/complaint/community feeler is in regards to ghost wolf being dispellable. Needless to say, this shammy votes BS.

In general terms, I am displeased with the deterioration of enhancement shaman as a unique spec. They were truly viable by WotLK. Then it was totem loss, then limited totem return (side rant, tremor should be usable when feared if it has a short duration and CD, anyhow…). Then it was the neutering of ghostwolves, scaled back windfury (crap, forgot the first scaled back windfury), loss of a single dot, yada, yada, yada I now do physical damage and what were once the final abilities of my talent tree are now relegated to 6 and 7 positions on my DPS meter.

Meanwhile, and I promise to make a point, my defensive abilities have went from a medium cooldown ghost wolves that did good dps and healed and interrupted to a generic blah version of shield wall and going in to wolf form. I can still dps in astral shift, but not so much in ghost wolf and here is my point. Clearly ghost wolf is intended to be a shaman’s true defensive. It has damage reduction, talents, it has pvp talents, it has support azerite traits. Yes it runs faster, but every class/spec in the game has a slow now so its not the feature it once was. So what is my priority pure defensive, oh crap, maybe i get away @ 1% health…is dispellable?! This is a joke, right? The other day i was pvping with a priest and he kept knocking me out of ghost wolf just to be an (expletive deleted). I can take it, I guess, although it almost warranted a lesser version of this post. Bringing this full circle, today, whilst in some light pvp action against players that clearly do not understand use of terrain and cannot resist being peeled from their main group, where every shaman should be grinning a quite fiendish grin, I’m instead getting murked because my biggest defensive is negated by low talent trash that have mastery over two buttons and one or another form of dispel /purge.

This is nonsense. It is a shifted form, not a spell. If this is the case, please allow shaman to knock druids out of form. It is the same thing no matter how much people want to say to the contrary.

I can deal with toolbox changes, begrudgingly admittedly. But in this case, you are saying shapeshifting only applies to one class and not the other, and I don’t break root w/mine. Make ghost wolf non-dispellable, please.

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Ghost wolf can be dispelled? When did this happen? I haven’t pvp’ed much in this expac and haven’t seen it yet.

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i’ve never had this happen but it really is bs if it’s really a thing. 0.o

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When playing my Priest in PvP, I’ve been able to dispel Ghost Wolf.

Pretty silly to be honest:(

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Shamans never get a break huh

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As an ex-shammy… you have my sympathy. I finally decided I couldn’t take it anymore and bailed on the class.

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To think they used to rule the world. I miss my windfury procs on a 2 hander crushing everything in my path.

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Ghost Wolf has always been dispelable. And is a spell, not a form.

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Ghost wolf has always been terrible. The worst of both worlds. Think of every con of a spell buff, now think of every con of being shapeshifted. And combine them. With none of the bonuses.

You can’t dps while in ghost wolf. The game treats you like you are shapeshifted.

But you aren’t. Because its dispellable.

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Well hell now everyone knows ghost form can get dispelled. Thanks for the tip.

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Ghost wolf only benefit is the no cooldown and can’t be slowed below 100%.
Youre vulnerable to polymorphs, purging, hibernate, mind control and so on, all the while pacified and able to do almost nothing but run or unleash life.
I get that you want ghost wolf to be strong, but the strength of ghost wolf which is no cooldown and unable to be slowed, allows you to kite like crazy, assuming something or someone is slowing the enemy behind you.
The only things that should catch you in that scenario is a warlock on burning rush, another shaman or the short duration freedomed paladins or deaths advance dks.

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It’s not like anyone with an offensive dispel isn’t given a big “HEY DISPEL THIS!” border around any enemy buff cast. If it’s dispellable, they know, and don’t even have to know what spell to look for. Just the big white “DISPEL ME!” border.

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That and it should be a weaker form of the druid travel form. Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense that a class that doesn’t specialize in shapeshifting having a shapeshift on par or greater than the class that specializes in it.

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^This. Any half-decent pvp player knows this. At least it’s instant cast as baseline these days. Nothing worse than hard casting ghostwolf only to have it ripped off a second later.

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That…that’s really rude.

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To bad there isn’t a TLDR version

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Dispel eats a gcd and mana I don’t see the problem.

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Op got ghost wolf dispelled and then got wrecked by 5 allies at once. She’s mad about it.

My advice, turn off warmode. But that’s just me.

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Did you just find this out lmao?

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Thanks. I didn’t wanna wade through all the other problems they seemed to have with Shamman before getting to what the rant was actually about