So I feel there has to be some mistake or all the runes weren’t datamined for shamans, or shamans were just grievously overlooked in P2 for runes. We get 7 new runes… 3 of those 7 are practically memes. The only other class that comes close to getting as few gets 9 and some classes get 13!!!
Fire Nova - Your Fire Nova Totem spell is replaced with Fire Nova, which causes your current Fire totem to emit damage at its location. — Saves us a little mana so we don’t have to keep placing fire nova totem every 15 secs, but wont be used EVER because belt has maelstrom weapon and power surge.
Decoy Totem - Summons a Decoy Totem for 10 sec with 5 health at the feet of the target that will redirect the next melee or ranged attack made against the target to the totem instead. The totem also grants the target immunity to movement impairing effects for 10 sec. — The only useful thing of this is the immunity to movement impairing effects which is niche. Amazing for PVP, but wont be used ever over other runes in that slot
Alpha - Infuses the target with the spirit of an alpha wolf, increasing all threat generated by the target by 45% for 30 min. Limit 1 target. — Cool in concept but wtf… yay a rune slot to make other people generate more threat? this is gonna be used to troll people in raids so hard and it shouldn’t have ever even been considered a rune.
so this drops us to 4 useable runes this phase. Kinda disappointed. Love my shaman and shaman tanks are gods, but this is just sad.
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Yes.
Not everything was datamined, and that which was datamined may not be the final version.
Complain after P2 has launched.
fair, yeah i just saw they didn’t even have bracers or helm for shamans, i just like crying doomfire and woe
I’m pretty happy about getting this rune. It’s the physical version of grounding totem + benefits. It’s hard to use because most physical abilities don’t have cast times, but if you can use it to stop MS, and possibly kidney shot/cheap shot, then that of matters a lot. I’m eager to find out what the CD is.
Probably means we don’t have to worry about threat spikes from 2h WF, earth shock, and molten blast.
I guess Fire Nova and Alpha are pretty boring, but Alpha might end up being useful.
Fire nova and alpha wolf are just about the two strongest runes in the game. Just because you’re a dps only andy dosen’t meam they’re not good.
Alliance is going to mald beyond reason at 60 when they realize what alpha wolf does.
Why would fire nova be good for tanking? Wouldn’t the threat just go towards your totem?
This is a poor take on something you’re paying to play. Better to complain ahead of time and it be there, then to say nothing at all till it’s too late for them to consider putting something in.
This is a reasonable conclusion.
This is very shortsighted. If players hadn’t complained BEFORE launch of P1 the horde would have gone the entire phase with no kings. So I would say now is indeed the time to start complaining. Even more so given Blizz’s proclivity to forget about the Horde, shaman specifically.
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Some of these runes are horrid like ancestral awakening but do not disrespect alpha wolf. Alpha wolf might actually be the strongest and most meta defining rune released because of how vanilla/classic interacts with threat.
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eh I don’t think so. The alliance already have this… Blessing of salvation. This is just another way they are doing it. Instead of buffing a raid with salvation to reduce threat, it is buffing 1 tank to increase threat
Im excited about Ancestral Awakening.
Yeah, exactly this. It’s the opposite of blessing of salv.
Its the opposite, yes but functions the same in a raid environment. Instead of reducing everyone’s threat, it increases the tanks, it’s literally the same thing done opposite ways
Yep, exactly! Love that they even made it 45% so it matches 1.0/0.7 from the 30% reduced threat on the alli side.
Fire Nova rune is for shams who arent standing in melee, so not tanks/enh lol
but i feel maelstrom weapon will change how casters and healers play… maybe not ele so much but healers definitely. smacking a boss to generate stacks to cast an instant cast chain heal or healing wave when needed
that’s an interesting idea, like how hpalas in wrath auto attack for mana
In the class changes, it shows a new -14 seconds cooldown and -70% mana cost on Stormstrike, so there’s probably a Stormstrike rune that wasn’t uncovered by the datamining.
It’s amazing that Druids got Windfury an entire phase before Shamans.