I’m not complaining about kidney shot at all. Just merely pointing out that you can’t just nerf key abilities because you don’t like them.
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What people don’t realize with lasso is we can’t attack while channeling so yea it does damage and realistically makes up for the damage we would be doing to you if we had a stun like pally hoj. So regardless you are stunned and receiving damage.
It’s crazy how upset people get about it when it’s the same thing as other classes stuns the only difference in it is we can’t do anything while channeling and they can.
Edit: with that being said do I think it needs a nerf? Meh not really. But I’m sure everyone has a class in mind that needs a nerf because “this isn’t fair”
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I have way more of an issue with grounding totem than lasso. Grounding is so low risk, high-reward its a dumb designed talent and every shaman using it I see macroing grounding+lasso in 1 button.
They also can drop it behind a pillar and the range is so massive it still works and you can’t kill it cause los
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I know man. Seeing a rogue complaining about lasso is pretty entertaining. Like, sure lasso can be annoying but it’s far less annoying than fighting a rogue.
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Must be hard to not use Mind Freeze into a Grounding Totem. It’s not obvious or anything that that’s what every Ele does.
Must also be hard to kill Grounding Totems too before casting anything.
if the ele does grounding: I can’t grip him, I can’t stun him (asphyx), I can’t kick him, I can’t slow him, I can’t apply dot to him, the list goes on dude.
Its a 1 button “can’t touch me talent” and like I said a good shaman puts it los behind a pillar so he can essentially free cast whatever he wants until it goes down
Imagine gladiator DK players thinking grounding counters them completley,
honest question Battlezone, do you think someone like petkick has this much trouble with grounding totem
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Grounding totem is dropped at the shaman’s feet, so it’s not like he can throw it 40 yards behind a pillar. He’d have to drop it behind a pillar, and then run out from behind said pillar to cast.
And then it only lasts 3 seconds. and has 5 health. You can literally make a pet macro and have your pet kill it while you continue facerolling your target. And if all else fails and that is too hard, just cast something not important to eat it and then use whatever ability you like afterward.
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You can pet kick and pet stun with grounding up bud
Or you know just death strike all your health back
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This is a troll post.
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Nope… it’s the only things Ele has as everything else was nerfed in Dec. Unnerf SK and ES and delete Lasso. But then everyone will complain about the 80K ES.
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I agree, they should remove Lightning Lasso and give shamans Gust of Wind back. The only reason Shaman was given Lightning Lasso was because they decided to remove GoW and realized they messed up. Instead of solving the problem they give us a band-aid fix.
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Eh no… Lasso is currently our top damage spell. If Lasso is removed ES and SK need to be buffed period …what does GoW do, let us run away ?
Edit:- Lasso is only an issue in 1-1 where there is no healer to heal through the long 5 sec spell duration .
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I don’t think that Lasso as a whole is “broken” or currently OP (still toxic as any other % based ability, tho).
The only thing that annoys me is that shamans can move while channeling it, allowing them to move behind pillars (or even jumping down on Z axis maps) which is what, IMO, makes it super strong and much harder to counter.
Pet damage is an interesting concept. I wonder how much auto attack damage these pets are actually doing. Can resto druids have treants back?
Can boomkins use treants and it actually be effective?
You realize we had lasso in legion…alongside Gust of Wind right
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I like that you can move to give yourself distance from melee especially. But I don’t think you should be able to move behind a pillar with it. Should just change the spell so that it breaks if you los the target.
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That should be true for all channeling spells: ray of frost, drain life, lasso, etc …
IMO, any cast should be automatically stopped if the target is not in LoS anymore and I think this would fix a bunch of stuff and force people to actually setup properly and not rely on gimmicks to land kills.
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Because md kidney into two mutilates and envenom doesn’t do as much damage and is uninterruptible?
Lasso is literally only a problem in 1v1s… It’s pretty sub par the rest of the time.
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ok if grounding was bad and not as good as u guys claim why is it taken every single time against DK comps