Blizzard releases the final class updates before the TWW launch. 8/13.
- Tidebringer is no longer consumed if Chain Heal is cast while Nature’s Swiftness or Ancestral Swiftness is active.
So the CH cast will prioritize the Swiftness cast BEFORE the Tidebringer. I like this change. I’m not too worried about the cast time “nerf,” since with Tidal Waves, my CH casts have gone to as low as 0.8 sec. I’m okay having to wait that long to get a CH off. Chances are if my target is going to die that quickly, then I either messed up as a healer, or they were going to die anyway.
EDIT: Overall I like the changes. Mostly buffs to our healing numbers. I wish Ancestral Guidance were better though - 10% is really low and I’ve mostly stopped using it in raids or mythics because of that.
More than 2 lines of changes for enhance used to pray for times like these
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When does this go live?
Upcoming Tuesday
Single point talents for enhancement shamans! 
Is ele shaman doing good right now ? Yes
good enough to justify such a nerf ? Hell na, this is a murder
Why does Earth Shock have GCD?
Hasn’t it always?
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Got to love blizzard not even iterating on ele gameplay after dropping the talent updates. It screams “We made these changes in a week and are never touching them again”.
I played with an ELe Shaman last night in a key on Beta. I will say that THIS Ele Shaman understood the assignment and was pumping out damage on both single and AOE.
As Totemic I was keeping up in second, but truly struggling to do so. For my part, one mistake in my rotation and I was behind. I spoke to him/her and they stated that the changes to awaken storms, tempest, and few other changes made quite a difference. They also spoke about spreading lightning rods around.
I believe ELe Stormbringer may be in a good spot for live damage-wise. We will know soon enough.
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Right now, it’s panning out to play Lightning Farseer for single target and Lightning Stormbringer for AoE/Cleave. Fire Farseer might have the high damage ceiling in Single Target though.
The nerf isn’t murder honestly, as someone who runs single target shammy, were still gonna be cranked regardless of the minor nerf.