Poison Cleansing Totem was really OP. It may have one purpose, but it’s crazy OP for cleansing Poison like 6 to 8 times instantly. I can’t think of any abilities does that…
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yea I thought at first I could make due with healing pots and such last week but they dont work on the affix 
it was manageable since I just had to join groups with shamans but now I get to roleplay as the guy that heals the enemies hp every couple minutes with this change. fun times!
maybe some stuff should not automatically exclude certain healers
“We want you to have to deal with this healing centric affix.”
“Oh, not like that.”
“Not like that either.”
“No, we want healers to do it.”
Let me use potions, they’re a 5 min CD. Like, come on. We couldn’t even cleanse all of them with it, and ruin dungeon survivability to do it. It already has a punishment for doing it.
yeah its too bad blizzard didn’t take the smarter route and make the affix cause players to do a lot of extra healing while they have it so DH could leech it off.
Then every healer would be able to deal with it better and poison cleanse totem would only be a slightly better option rather than nearly mandatory for pugs.
Yeah R Sham got over shadowed by OP af healers, aka, Holy Pally in Xodia, R Druid when it’s kit and mobility actually mattered and Pres because Pres has had busted burst healing since it was introduced.
Then MW got a rework and completely dwarfed R Sham. No one cared about R Sham the entire expansion. I took it to 3k a couple seasons. I got bored of R Sham, I wouldn’t even play it now while it’s “meta”. I’d rather not go OOM while half the other healers don’t even think about mana.
The little mana management experiment is so dead and over it’s not even funny.
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This nerf was reasonable and quite warranted. Hopefully it’s a sign they’ll start to rein in the actual busted healers now.
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Oh, it’s getting nerfed? Now I might actually get invited to groups on my resto Druid during devourer week.
Good stuff, Blizzard.
I expect these subhuman filths to pull allnighters and skip meals to implement a proper fix, to work themselves until they physically collapse because that’s what they deserve.
I know that, that’s why I said it’s an exageration.
But thank you for pointing out, what I had already said in my post.
3 shamans and 2 druids, since all druids can remove poisons and curses. It’s the new meta!
Have you seen the overall state of balance?
They can’t fix anything.
lmao.
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Got it, so there can never be a dispel mechanic. Or we can just nerf the classes that have too powerful of tools.
Thankfully, Blizzard went with the latter.
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I’d love if that was the actual way people would see this. I miss being able to take R-Druid consistently for keys. Instead, they will literally just bring a resto sham and either another shaman or a shadow priest to do every-other one. And still bring classes with personals as backups.
Between the low tuning on resto druid heals and them giving you zero way to handle spikes of damage consistently, most groups are entirely passing on R-Druid for the most part. The affix only makes the situation worse.
Meta shifts in and out.
“There’s an affix that is horribly designed and people are forced to bring a Shaman or else it’s a massive pain? Np, nerf Shaman!” - Blizzard devs
They’re so out of touch it’s insane.
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So instead of everyone playing Resto Shaman that week, good luck finding a healer, we’ll ALL be taking that week off. 
I agree, stop making AWFUL affixes that nobody wants to deal with vs nerfing the 1 class that can easily deal with it.
This change effectively kills the totem in pvp as well lmao.
Oh, so now you think that Blizzard did the right thing nerfing a powerful tool instead of giving all healers a powerful tool.
You know what will happen? Instead of going with no shamans, MDI teams will run 2 shamans. Because enhancement is top damage anyways.
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It’s one way to balance healers - an attempt.