It seems like they want us to be less tanky, lmao.
Gust of wind nerf understandable, purge and hex swap makes sense, surging shields nerf no good but ok.
Elemental warding nerf to 4% and change from all damage to only magic…
Astral Bulwark nerf from 20 to 15
At least for enhance that doesn’t use a shield this hurts. I understand this is alpha and everything is gonna change, but i was happy they added more defensive traits to the class, but it seems like as an hybrid we would have to rely on big offhealing again and being squishy. I know those are small nerfs but everything adds up.
PS. Blizz you have time to get us Shamanistic rage 
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These nerfes feel extremely unwarranted. Extremely extremely bad job blizz.
Cue the devs telling us “shamans just dont know their overpowered”
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Not happy about some nerfs in general tree as well. Posted feedback to them in the general tree talents thread.
I wouldn’t say some of the adjustments were surprising.
Shaman were looking to suddenly have a lot of durability and a lot of movement options. So I do understand where they are coming from. And if we had gotten this current state I woulda been happy as it is.
Doesn’t mean I like the changes.
Durability is for fury warriors. Can’t let shamans be able to take a hit in melee. Think of the children!
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Not gonna lie initial tree kind of had it all.
Spirit walker’s grace nerf made me sad too tho 1 min walkers sprint and 1 min spirit wolf alongside everything else (talking warding, bulwark etc etc) and you can see that we would of been kinda OP
Rather we start off stronger and pruned down some rather than start 10.0 mediocre again
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that im okay with the SWG stuff, it upsets me that our defensives got shafted pretty hard though.
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Should listen to some of the high end PvErs like Limit max talk about the shaman trees.
Ironically shaman is one of the sturdiest dps and ele is one of the most mobile casters in a raid setting.
Having flat 6% redux to ALL damage, 70% wall, Earth Ele wall etc on top of all our instants and mobility the entire package was prob too much.
no its not. even with icefury builds its not the most mobile by a long shot, and no where near the tankiest.
i also wnat to clarify that “mobility” in raids means something different than in arena. Mobility in raids is “damage while moving” like spirit walkers grace, or instant casts (like icefury frost shocks) which ele DOES excel at.
mobility in arena is moving from point A to point B. to crossing the map, or running around a pillar, or repositioning… which elemental is the acutal worst at. Even in raids elemental is really bad at crossing spaces where as something like a druid can sprint, or a lock can portal or a mage can blink or a hunter can disengage…
so i do kind of agree with Top Tier Raid eles when they say one of the most mobile casters.
i cannot imagine the amount of mind altering substances that would cause someone to say ele is one of the sturdiest casters.
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yea that’s what I’m getting at. We have great GCDs to maitain impactful damage while side stepping and high damage redux mods for high damage phases.
In arena you pop wall an RMP just swaps and you’re like welp.
Its at that moment a dev devises X talent to help you cope with both (but PvE mostly)
in a raid setting tho having a dps with a 60% wall for something asburd like ~15s is godly tho
Is it tho? I kinda dont agree. The exception is damage soak mechanics. Which blizz does love to throw at raiders but otherwise i dont use defensives. My healers want their orange parses as much as i want mine for dps. And if i take 60% less damage that deprives my heals of their hps.
Maybe for race to world first its useful but ive never had a situation where i felt useful because of astral shift
It’s really hard to comment on balance at this point. I think we should focus on the structure of the tree rather that the balance numbers (unless you’re in alpha, then comment on balance).
Why do other specs get full stat points like 2% crit/vers and we get 2% partial stat points like 2% ONLY nature crit or 2% ONLY magic reduction.
At least give us regular full use stat points like the other trees so that they retain their value across all ability buildouts and into all environments.
Like, now I guess maybe I want to drop magic reduction talents into physical damage teams whereas before I would have just kept it vs both? Why make these nodes so limited/specific in functionality? Feels bad and seems like it’s encouraging unnecessary amounts of talent swapping.
FULL stat points would also feel alot better because you could actually see them on your character sheet and know they are working. 2% crit or vers like other specs have presumably just shows on your character sheet. 2% nature crit presumably does not so you don’t even know if it’s bugged and loses value if you spec into lava burst or a physical or fire heavy damage build.
Just make the stat nodes regular stats like 2% crit on the right and 2% all damage or 2% vers on the left. It’s not too much to ask, since it’s what other trees have. Also, can the 10% lightning bolt damage node be changed to something a little more flexible as well (like a smaller % boost to a larger amount of stuff) so it works with other builds that don’t use lightning bolt?
I think this is the thing I really don’t like about the trees - is the specific limited function stuff that blocks paths to general utility. It’s fine if we have to have stuff like that to add to cost of powerful utility nodes but at least make them versatile stat nodes that work regardless of buildout so they aren’t wasted points.
Ideally though, there wouldn’t be 2% this or that buffs in the talent trees at all. They’re pretty lame compared to actual talents that do things. And making them necessary to take makes them feel even worse. Some trees don’t have any. Seems like that should be the goal.
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Ya - what if the 2% stat/10% LB stuff was just removed? Or at least made optional as a side node instead of blocking a progression path? There’s still plenty of nodes in the tree to take and that would let people experiment with some of the totems and totem refresh talents that might otherwise just get passed over.
Question:
Is Echoing Shock really gone from Elemental?
30 Second CDs are awesome, as they change up the interim gameplay between burst.
I will just throw it out there that they say this then in the Warrior Class Tree everyone can go for DIE BY THE SWORD lol
Isn’t this kinda when you’re farming content?
Like with elemental warding at 6% + 5% from fire ele and 70% from bulwark just seems like a lot for anything you’re not already farming and who knows what mechanic you could just sit an ele with 81% (prob multiplicative but whatever) damage redux on
Then we have NS and earth ele wall, stoneskin, leech, surging shields, vital accretion. I could see the devs jus going “wait a min”
Idk im just spit balling cus I’ve noticed a lot of stuff thats good in PvE doesnt translate to PvP, I’m jus glad we don’t have a bunch of power budget in reincarnation like we’ve had in bfa/SL
