Mainly from a tanking perspective… Rockbiter from 355 → 95 AP, WoE requiring a shield, by proxy the RB nerf also nerfs stormstrike and molten blast. Shaman tanks tonight in gnomer are unable to hold threat and doing roughly 1/3 to 1/4 the dps they were. Mental dexterity + Overcharge MAY help a little but as it currently stands shamans are now worse than pre-buff druids and warriors.
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Welcome to SOD. Sure Shammies were a bit over the top, but this dev team doesn’t understand how to balance anything, they just gut completely. How many iterations of hunters, boomies, etc have we had now. They have no idea how to tune the game to whatever vision they have for it. If anything is slightly over performing, it gets hammered till its worse than its vanilla counterpart was. I had high hopes for this version of the game, but with Cata classic coming out, its looking more and more appealing. SOD devs are lost.
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If you want to do damage, then play dps instead.
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Fun is not allowed. Everything must be nerfed until the gameplay matches the tediousness of Retail where all new abilities are just fillers for rotations.
The only reason Shamans were OP in PvP is because they spent the last few months nerfing everything else. Had they not done that… Shamans wouldn’t be so overpowered, and EVERYONE could be having fun. But fun is not allowed you see?
I’m not sure you actually understand how threat works… more damage = more threat. If they buffed threat gen to be separate from damage i would be fine doing less damage, but thats not how it works little guy 
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if you want to not6 wipe raids u need dmg, they should have made rb main hand only problem solved with the woe shield change
I’m still not convinced. Is earthshock on 6s CD (5 with talents) really not enough?
shamans had been crying since phase 1 for blizz to do something about rockbiter because we KNEW this phase 2 scenario was going to happen. Then for some ungodly reason they also gave us the alpha/beta rune buff. as soon as that happened every shaman was “Chuckles I’m in danger” meme. WE DIDN"T WANT THIS
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no its not.
not by a long shot.
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honestly really hoping they’ll toss in a few more nerfs for the emotional damage shamans have caused us over the last few weeks.
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it’s so over
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tell me you have never tanked for any decent dps without telling me you haven’t tanked for any decent DPS lol. No it’s not. And it cost mana. Shamans are the only tank that won’t be able to taunt if they run out of mana. Taunt is just a “put me above the highest dps at that time” Ability. If i earth shock, my pumpers can IMMEDIATELY pull back off me if im not doing high enough damage to out-threat them and thats what is currently happening tonight after the patch.
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this is the problem you run your mouth with zero clue what your are talking about and say things that are not factual. all while asking blizz to make changes to classes
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Whats wrong with using rank1 earth shock?
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You should stop playing this game if getting beat by someone who is far from immortal gives you emotional damage…
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Allow me to extend my deepest heartfelt laugh to all the gaslighting shaman who did nothing but denounce rational requests for balancing.
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damage = threat what dont you understand
Tell me you dont know about r1 earth shock without telling me you dont know about r1 earth shock lmao
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You dont get what Earth shock is for.
its a taunt tell me your slow with out saying it taunt means nothing. when you cant keep the threat
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