With this, I seriously doubt the BM rune will be worth using in group content now. It will only be used for its taunt when soloing.
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As itstands all I was using it for was just aoe damage as a mellee shaman to add onto the already high aoe I have. Giving this a good reason for Ele’s to use while also skipping a rune at level 60 is pretty cool. Was expecting some passive rune to say 'when flametongue is active gain X amount of Spell Power" glad it got merged into Burn rune instead.
I do worry about what this may do with Lava Lash. Is there a way that we can get this rune like with Rockbiter where it’s only active with Spell power while Flametongue is active on Main Hand weapon? Dual Weilding shamans is a thing now and this can possibly kick them even higher in damage in pvp.
Yeah, I already respecced out of BM. I’ll be a MM spec melee weaving hunter.
I dont think BM spec will be worthless in group content.
I think the BM rune will be worthless in group content. I think Carve will beat it now.
Laughable really. As a melee hunter I bring nothing to the raid except damage. Now some of that gets taken away too. I don’t understand the changes always… melee hunter was fine.
Melee hunter is brutal in PVP and open world farming it is way behind ranged.
Leave us alone.
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Sorry, didn’t read the post by Lilcherry. But I agree.
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Yeah hey, Look, We cant have anyone beating a warrior now, thatd be silly. Thats not the SoD we signed up for now is it lads.
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You are actually buffing Shamans? Well I’ve done my last BG. The reason Alliance wins now is the nerf to damage. I’ve won about 60%, even with 8 shamans on the team. If the damage nerf goes away, forget about any BG’s. It will get to the point where “A skirmish has broken out.” Let Horde BG against themselves.
So I guess this means Blizzard doesn’t want Alliance going to BG’s? That’s fine as I have no need to go because I’m exalted in both ab and wsg and plan on NEVER setting foot in either of them again. You can keep your stupid exalted AB tabard.
Either NERF Shamans or destroy the PVP in this game. I don’t have to do any PVP. And really no one does now. If they do most will afk at spawn and get a mark. 5 minute games. If they go at all.
I’m at the point of just raid logging.
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Why nerf ranged BM hunters who are already very weak in raids?
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pity the fool playing ranged BM in a raid right now.
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They are building up to the grande finale nerf. The plan is to slowly torture hunters until the final patch note at the end of SoD where hunters lose all combat abilities and their pets turn on them and kill them.
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I keep wanting to believe the SoD dev team is going to start doing a better job
But they just are not good at this :S
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Lets be honest, 2 button rotation was not a choice for those enjoying it, that a decision from lazy devs with no clue what they’re doing, that you and so many find that to be the only reasoning to fall back on for the only class with 0 healing or tanking oriented abilities, so, pure dps…is hilariously short sighted and pathetic on your part.
Ooo another class is out performing you, be a degenerate and cheer on nerfs rather than be constructive and provide ways to make that dps “deserved” by whatever your ill thought definition of that may be.
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Any word on allowing Druids to use consumes in cat/bear form?
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I just checked to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Since Feb 12 (first reset after p2 launch I believe), Mage has only been touched on two occasions excluding bug fixes. Several runes were buffed on March 5 and living flame was nerfed on March 12. That’s it.
Meanwhile arcane DPS has become unplayable, mage healer seems fine but is just arcane with a few different runes, and the only thing holding together frost and fire is their reliance on a single good rune (frostfire bolt), meaning they’ve essentially become a one-button spec using the same spell.
It’s quickly approaching two months with no actual tuning for this class?
Spriests heal so much while doing damage that they are pushing healers out of raids.
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Nerf hunters buff shamans. Thats the motto the team live by.
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U summed it up pretty accurately.
Shamans have been OP for as long as i can remember…
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then you didnt play in p1 or your memory is really bad
I didnt play Horde in P1 so I cant say about PVE, but elemental Shaman was definitely strong in PVP if u know how to utilize the Ancestral Guidance rune. If not, Way of Earth was also available to Shaman when duel wielding at the time, so it was not bad.
Shaman really became Godlike in P2 though.