What? No it’s not.
I’ve got not issues in 3s and used to do 5v5s. 2s is trash because you’re constantly the focus and there’s too many garbage like double hunters and double rogues.
Yes. Particularly Epic BGs.
You’re telling me sitting 20 yards back and spamming your rotation. Without pressure, is not a PvE experience?
You’re enjoying 3s and 5s because you’re team is taking bullets for you.
Toggle your PvP on in the open world sometime.
Regardless, I don’t believe any of this.
Well I never took epic bg serious to be honest with you… I hate doing those with a passion because there’s not worse feeling than relying on 39 completely randoms that just waste my time.
I agree. I do them only because you accumulate honor, very quickly.
Bottom line, we have these TEMU busted versions of everything.
Totems may be the worst game mechanic in the entire game. They weren’t bad to start, and were fine in cata, but now they just suck so bad.
Now another button to teleport them to you, and a button to refresh totems less than 3 minutes, but only if base cooldown less than 3.
It’s such a joke. Who comes up with this?
I used my lvl 70 boost on mage, and my lvl 60 on Fury Warrior (kept my Dragon Isles boost).
Fury warrior feels like playing an action rpg, where I don’t have to lock on all the time.
I really think Evoker and DH are where it’s at with mobility and good telegraph mechanics.
We all really need to leave Shaman, in a big way. I know it’s the OG hero class and was good in classic. Water walking in booty bay and sizzling alliance was fun, but it really got worse and worse.
If you think about it, nothing we got was additive, it’s more like we have to juggle a series of unecessary mechanics to hit average dps.
I would say that the only thing I like is Maelstrom and shifting or dps off mana. But, they absolutely had to make that change.
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I made the switch.
Be brave, you can to. Remember, it’s a video game, you lose nothing by playing a different class.
Particularly these days when leveling is super fast, even if you don’t have level boosts.
Yes, Fury Warrior, Mage or Palidan.
Even though we’re OP already, we have a lot of community outrage on our forums and twitch and YouTube voices getting Blizzard publicity, so we’ll stay on top.
yikes i mean i can list all the utility differences but ele has more utility than balance and far better defensives. No need to be so toxic
Im having a great time playing my shaman, instant roots, lots of defensives, interrupts, stuns, knockbacks that actually send people flying, purge, wall defensives.
Nah. Stick with Druid, I get that you’ve seen some shiny new things with Shaman, but it sucks.
Everything we have is a busted version of something normal other classes have, but with more utility.
We really have no instant hard cc that gives us full freedom to act:
- Hex=Busted Sheep, target can run away.
- Earthgrab doesn’t prevent action, so limited utility vs any ranged class.
- Lightning Lasso might be our best, but your hands are tied when you use it, so you can’t use it to self heal or setup a spell. Mostly, used so a teammate can take shots.
- Lightning cap totem, is difficult to pull off because it triggers after 2 seconds (more than enough time to avoid, or destroy).
Compare any of that to Sap, Kidney Shot, Fear, Pali Hardstun (forget name), Sleep, etc.
All of our cc are the most forgiving cc mechanics.
Couple that with poor mobility, and we done.
In short, I know Druid has boring partical effects and after a while you can’t stand looking at your forms.
But, you’re never going to main Shaman, and they will never have an S-Tier spec.
In short, Shaman just suck.
We’re stuck with it because it was the Horde’s unique class, we loved Thrall’s theme and the and lore, but after classic Blizzard forgot that Shaman was the Horde’s Special Class, and as soon as BC was released, it stopped being special.
Blizzard felt that allowing Alliance to have Shaman and Horde Paladin was the easiest way to balance them; and therefore, they needed no special attention.
Paladin was and still is a community favorite and platformed by big YT and Twitch content creators, so it always gets attention. But, with Shaman Blizzard just gave up years ago and just adds to our toolkit crappy parodies of what other classes have.
In the past the argument was Jack of All Trades master of none. But, all classes are hybrids now.
Stick with Druid, or Warlock. No need to drop from S-Tier. You know your class is good when Blizzard gives you so much attention that they add quests to change the cosmetics of your animal forms, and draw different versions unique to each race.
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So saying the truth is being toxic? I think not. Want me to elaborate on Evoker now?
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You’re good.
We can disagree and some of your posts give me a better understanding of Shaman’s niche role and where it sucks.
Please don’t hesitate to continue.
In terms of Shaman, all of our CC and Defensive abilities come with a catch. As I said before:
Earthgrab Totem, Hex, Capacitor Totem, and Lightning Lasso are all inferior to hard stuns like Sap, Sleep, and Fear.
Also pegging our survivability to some defensive totems, like Stone Bulwark totem, sucks.
Regardless, your posts are insightful, and I actually want to know what you were going to say about evoker because I started one cause I like the mobility and telegraph attacks. I am wondering if I should commit to it over mage before I go all in.
My understanding is that Evokers have the best healing spec in gameI have seen some crazy YTube hype videos for PvP.
Evoker have everything better than Shaman. Even their racial can make them immuned to to next three CC effect. It’s crazy strong. Now they want to give that to the other classes? Gonna be hell.