where is this change documented?
It’s hidden in the October 22nd notes, just like all the Rogue changes they’ve been sneaking in there.
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ah, I found it, ty!
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Mass Dispel change was warranted, just like the totem change is. Bout the only thing those two changes genuinely hurt is PvP.
If there’s one ability that’s trivializing multiple mechanics, it’s indeed the right call to nerf that ability so that it no longer trivializes those mechanics, instead of changing all of those mechanics around the one ability that’s trivializing them.
More like “hey this talent isn’t bad for some mechanics, I will use it and be useful for this run”. Instead now we get “a 2 min cd will make no difference so I will just take faster ghost wolf or something”.
if only this wasn’t true.
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Joys, one of the worst affixes they’ve created just gets even more unfun. Can’t wait to have to just sit there and spam heal people through it bcuz they won’t press their dispels and Blizzard are a bunch of brainless ghouls who don’t play their game.
Hey Blizzard, how about instead of cratering the only way for Shamans to dispel poison you rework your garbage affix so all healers can solo-handle the affix? But nah of course not, why do that when we can crater their poison cleanse which will have far more side-effects because our designers cannot critically think and didn’t realize that shamans would just trivialize the garbage affix.
Or just change it so it goes onto a single person & channels heal absorbs to your party. Then we can at least not pretend like its not a healer affix and it makes every healer able to handle it and not want to bash their skulls in with a brick.
But alas, its World of Warcraft. We can’t actually have fun because the developers actively sabotage the game for the sake of… well I don’t really know tbh.
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Great, now the affix will totally suck for many groups.
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Or, stick with me here, we don’t include mechanics that are exclusionary, poorly balanced, and unfun. Blizzard was told in Beta about these issues and yet here we are again. We saw the same exact thing with priests on bursting with mass dispell. They simply don’t learn. Bursting was removed because it was not fun in the slightest causing dead weeks and retention drops, so gee I wonder what’s going to happen in the future here…
Shaman’s poison totem was the bandaid and ripping that bandaid off does not fix the problem, the affix. Now people will just use 2-3 bandaids and the problem still exists or not play at all that week because there is no good solution to the problem.
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Youre being shortsighted
Its like other utility talents and picked and shuffled around as needed.
Plus, outside of very few instances, how often is the group in its entirety being covered by a poison debuff every minute? Hint: not enough to be doom and gloom around over this lol
This “nerf” is hardly going to affect anything besides a single affix (which is just as easily healed through on higher keys) every few weeks.
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Also just kinda sad becuse now its kinda usless as a poison dispell, like Id take it in dugons like mists, hall of infusion and brackenhide but now its just usless for those applications.
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I don’t consider the affix a problem. I mean, shaman are crying out ‘woe is me’ when every other healer has to deal with it the same way, that being with literally any cleanse or simply passively healing it off. It’s not as big a deal as people are trying to make it out to be.
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Exactly. I knew this post came from a Priest as soon as I saw the Title.
Speaking of shortsighted, how about that Diabolist change for Destro.
Nobody even running the meme RoF build for ST as far as I’m aware, they’ve already tuned things so that doing it is a DPS loss, and yet the AoE must be neutered.
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It was already getting a nerf from FoL talent being removed.
I think 2 mins on top of that is a bit heavy handed, even if I did expect some.
This effects more than r shams.
Wow they really went after the poison cleaning totem…sigh…
You didn’t really expect Blizzard to buff the other healers rather than just Nerf Shamans, did you?
It’s the path of least resistance so that’s what they do.
This isn’t the biggest problem – I could handle Devour even when my Mass Dispel was on CD pretty easily. I could remove 3-4 and I would allow the tank to remove their own in most cases. – The problem with Devour is it’s a Party problem not a Healer problem.
The actual problem is, how miserable it is to heal through dungeons that constantly spam Poison DoTs that deal 700k a tick and some healers have no way to deal with it.
Shaman just dump out a shiney piece of wood that effectively negates millions of damage, and they just continue DPSing or spamming Chain Heal without a care in the world.
Priests as well as some other have been SCREAMING to have poison removal added to our kit. Not even mass removal, just ST. – Blizzard responds by nerfing Totem into the ground. Now literally no one is happy.
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It’s worse than that. They made it extremely bad on purpose so they can change it to a 60 cd at the end of the season and get praise from the playerbase who don’t know any better.