Shamans still overperforming and Ret is still a meme

Do devs have a personal vendetta against alliance? All throughout SOD shamans have been amazing in every aspect of the game while paladins continue to be memes. Ret currently needs to use several runes for one ability to even be semi viable and has to use a level 40 blue weapon for the rest of SOD. On top of that they are taking our Sword/Mace skill and giving it to horde.

Even the new raid ST is made incredibly easier with shamans thanks to poison cleansing totem something alliance have nothing to compare to at all. I suppose balancing is not something the devs are interested in.

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Paladins can Cleanse Poison.

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at the cost of several GCDS and significantly more mana yes they can. One shaman can do the job it would take several to do.

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Seems to me like the only specs under performing are Arcane Mage (living flame nerf, why exactly?) and Frost Mage. Everything else is putting up at least decent numbers.

You know, Alliance would like to use things besides Swords and Maces. I’m sure there’s warriors, rogues, and hunters eager to play with daggers, fist weapons, and axes.

Remember in phase 1 when everyone was mad about Scorpid pets, and hunters were like “Do you not have First Aid?”

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Shaman Totems are limited to one group. You need a Shaman in each to cover the Raid. A Pally or Druid can remove Poisons from anyone in any group.

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The problem is they took away human racials and gave nothing in return, not only do horde have all the weapon skill they have BIS racials and OP shamans, there is literally no reason to play alliance.

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You were given advance notice of it coming. You knew this before you rolled.

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No we did not, this was not made known until phase 2

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P1 Garbo outside of tanking.
And P3 just began so we don’t know anything.

P1 and P2 rets performed within the mean of dps across all dps specs in both phases.

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So they need a Shaman in every group? Something they already do because every spec for shaman is viable and topping charts? Even tank shaman damage is busted.

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No, it was addressed before SoD even launched. People flooded into Alliance knowing Human weapon racial would be useless at 60.

You all knew, and you rolled human anyway.

Ehhh, they nerfed it heavily. It does 1/3 the damage it used to.

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Are you not bringing any Paladins or Druids?

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Nobody knew anything, this is an experimental version of WoW. Even then blizz could turn weapon skill into crit% or SOMETHING, they just made a racial worthless for one race and gave it to everyone else with nothing in return, THIS is the problem, making a race absolutely useless.

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What part do you not understand? One druid would take five casts to clear his party of poison and five gcds and spend much more mana. One shaman needs to press one button and worry about nothing else.

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Except for the official announcements by the devs detailing exactly what was going to be included.

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Link it please

Don’t just bring one Druid or Pally maybe?

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Nerds shamans to the ground immediately! Way OP in pvp and pve

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Bro, your foaming at the mouth over Shaman is beginning to affect your ability to type. Seek help.

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I haven’t seen a victim complex in a class develop like SoD ret players since pres-SoD shaman players.

Really fun to watch unfold.

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