This nerf (changing the cd was 45 seconds to 2 minutes) is shortsighted and misguided just like the mass dispel nerf in Dragonflight. The problem isn’t the fringe utility spell. The problem is the poor dungeon design and the poor affix design that produces an extreme outlier in usefulness.
But blizzard wont rebuff mass dispel or poison totem after the problem goes away. Those spells will be worse forever because Blizzard made the easy temporary fix instead of addressing the underlying problem.
You shouldn’t make an affix that only one class can handle trivially. You shouldn’t make a dungeon pool with infinite poisons and curses that heavily favors a certain healer. You shouldn’t have made a Dragonflight dungeon pool with a dozen mechanics that mass dispel trivialized.
It’s so depressing to see Blizzard treat the symptom instead of the cause over and over and over again. Change the dungeons and the affixes not the classes!
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Some of us don’t know what the nerf was. Enlighten us.
Oh noes. Now no one will.have any reason to ever bring a Resto Shaman
Obligatory /s
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You’re being as shortsighted as blizzard. Think beyond the current season. The whole point is that the nerf to the totem and rsham will outlast this ONE season in which they are good. Next season when paladin or druid are meta again, the totem will still have a cd almost 3 times what it is now.
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All this change really does is make pugging even more miserable on Devour weeks. I wouldn’t really have an issue with the change if this affix just got deleted.
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Why is pct on the same cd as mass dispel when its worse lol…
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Because totem was good last week, and blizzard isn’t looking past that. They don’t care about long lasting ramifications just put a bandaid on whatever reddit was complaining about last week.
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You have a point but what did you expect lmao. They aren’t going to overhaul M+ overnight. A temporary fix is all they can do right now.
Yep, I mean i HAVE a cleanse and Im just going to skip that week and do delves. Just not worth the absolute headache.
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This change was extremely predictable.
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I believe I said last week.
Blizzard really needs to actually streamline the utility properly, so no one class just has an “I Win” button that will be absolutely cracked for a season until it’s nerfed into uselessness once that season ends.
Every group I form has 2 shamans. Totems for days.
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They ignored repeated feedback to buff mass dispel to 45 seconds to put it on-par with cleansing totem or given other specs better utility.
The nerf won’t have a substantial impact on representation outside of the healer affix week if at all.
Months of beta feedback about how resto shaman utility was miles above the rest ignored. Resto shaman reach insane levels of representation. Continued feedback about buffing other specs ignored. Last minute band-aid to pretend they care about the issue: nerf a situational totem.
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Jokes on you, every team will still be running shamans for the MDI.
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Its funny blizzard rather destroy whats good rather than build others up.
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Yep now instead of one they will just take more shaman…
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Hey, an out of touch and predictable nerf to something that was acting as a band aid for badly designed mechanics. Nice. Can you look at the mechanics that were being solved by poison cleansing totem next? Legitimately a better nerf would have just been to make poison cleanse totem not function with the affix so it can be the niche utility its supposed to be.
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People were already timing 14s with double shaman (ele/enh), no healer.
Game is broken.
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