Please, give us a talent path that turns enhancement shamans into Thor.
Make a lightning version of sundering. (I dont care if its an ability, or glyph)
Let us shoot lightning out of our weapons, instead of making us sheath. (it looks and feels stupid currently.)
Improve lightning visuals in general.
Enhancement shamans, hands down, have THE BEST spec fantacy. If yall just took out the time and gave a creative mind to have his / her way with it, you could make this happen in no time.
(edit- AND PLEASE MAKE IT BE VIABLE BY TUNING STANDARDS)
I’ll be honest, I really don’t know WHAT the “fantasy” is for the Shaman class. I mean, we have a broad idea of what Shamans are in Warcraft, but as for individual specs, they honestly feel kind of meaningless.
I mean, what even IS “Enhancement”? What is that word even supposed to mean? Why was it originally a 2hand spec, but became DW’ing? What “fantasy” is that supposed to be based off of?
Did you switch to a Frost Death knight so you could choose between dual wielding and 2handers?
JUSTICE FOR ENHANCEMENT, BLIZZARD!
Maybe I’m going too broad strokes here, but I feel like a lot of specs are due for rebranding. We’ve already seen Blizzard do it with Combat → Outlaw Rogues. My main gripe is for Restoration and Holy being shared across 2 classes, each: Druid and Shaman, and Paladin and Priest, respectively.
Let’s take the Shaman for starters since we’re here: Enhancement, Elemental, Restoration. I get that Enhancement focuses on channeling power into themselves to improve combat prowess rather than thrusting the elements directly. Elemental have control over varying elements and apply them directly. Restoration… restores stuff.
But you’re right - I don’t feel the weight behind these names.
Maybe leaning into a specific element does us some favors? Stormcaller, Earthmender, Firecaster? Storm, earth and fire, heed my call, and all that. Firecaster is quite generic feeling, I’ll admit.
If we want to keep broad elemental capability on all specializations… Should one be a Farseer, like Warcraft 3 / Thrall? Admittedly, I’ve got nothing. Probably part of why we’ve kept the names so far. Maybe a concerted design effort from Blizzard can push something.
But maybe a name isn’t as important as the fantasy, as you say. WHY does enhancement dual wield? Just because not many other specializations do? Why don’t I have the option like (Frost) Death Knights? Is that really the focus of the class, rather than its combination of elemental and physical combat?
Woah there buddy, you want Classic class fantasy to return and let us have FUN? You want something people have been crying for, for 18 years?
No, no, no. Like with Demonology Warlocks getting gutted and spun into Demon Hunters, Blizzard is going to repackage that into a new class that they’ll sell a new expansion on.
What - no, I’m not crying over Rockbiter Weapon and Earth Shock threat generation, and Enhancement Shaman using shields to offtank, and a short lived Shaman tank meta for fast clears of timed dead Stratholme for Dungeon Tier 0.5 sets, while fondly staring at a Classic WoW talent calculator… Uh, I just got Riptided so my face is all wet. That’s it.
You’re right. And when you’re right, you’re right. And you, you’re always right.
2h Windufury really needs to make a comeback. Especially now that we have Doomwinds to make it reliable. Classic Windfury is the good stuff, but it can be better.
Anyway, thank you for reminding me. I think we should start campaigning.
You are more than welcome to campaign for one of the worst ever mmorpg design decisions and make yourself sound completely useless and ignored by anyone worth taking seriously.
This would never fly today. It kind of makes me sad, I liked elements of the juvenile humor in WoW. I don’t know why we have to lose this fun stuff just because a bunch of greasy, disgusting, neckbearded WoW devs preyed on women.
Ask me how I knew you were an Ele shaman before I clicked your profile.