…hence this thread. Welcome to the conversation. Thanks for finally joining.
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So you’re saying there should be no unavailable damage?
Dude the DK in my raid group probably has like 30% more hp than me and CDs to survive anything. The 1 CD enhance now has is being converted into a dmg buff, so you will just be using it on CD. So, you effectively have NO defensives and very low hp.
So, it becomes prudent to take defensive talents like elemental warding. But that lowers your terrible damage even more.
Neither of them should be standing in bad stuff.
Oh you have 10k posts. You are a troll. That makes sense.
Not using the glyph doesn’t remove the ability. You just press it every 6 seconds instead of three
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which is a huge difference
you now occasionally have free globals
And that helps how exactly? Maybe I can press Lava Lash a few more times, which does half the damage? Thanks for the contribution
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help your carpal tunnel
the state of enhancement sucks. blizz has no clue how the spec works - evidence by them never giving us proper weapons or gear. we have to use an odd mix of gear from other people to do anything and that’s not much.
to think thrall was a main character, and his class/spec is dog****
tbc enhance was better imo but blizz nerfed dragonstrike which was going to be our moment in the sun
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GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS - lets not forget while we progress tonight that while yes we are the squishiest melee we can also HEAL OURSELVES and therefore prevent our own demise by healing ourselves. Most of you complaining about survivability dont even use half our kit (WE HAVE RESTO ABILITIES HELLO), so when in doubt make sure to MW5 Healing Wave yourself and ensure your spot just below the tank on the dps meter
Removing Fire Ele Totem and just making it a guardian that doesnt die from passive damage would go a long way to making damage better.
Defensively, shaman just suck.
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Good change. And make it not tied to a totem. This would be a straight damage buff because you could keep magma totem down. Also make it attack the shaman’s target…
Additional changes:
Make it so fire nova either comes from targets with flame shock on them or comes from the shaman when a fire totem is active.
Buff Stoneclaw totem to give a 30-40% damage reduction for the 15 seconds it’s active. Remove the damage reduction from Shamanistic Rage.
In addition to Shamanistic Rage providing mana back on hit, also give 10-20% haste for the duration.
After putting in quite a bit of time into ICC, I definitely am seeing how rough it is to be a shaman right now. Glyphing into stoneclaw just to have a minor extra defensive feels pretty bad. Having to basically use stoneclaw on cooldown to hopefully survive and waste a GCD feels even worse. Mind you, you probably will waste about 6+ GCD just to be able to mitigate a small amount of damage. That could be an extra lightning bolt or flameshock ect, that is being lost because we don’t have enough HP despite literally wearing mail armor.
Not to mention, we also likely are in charge of slows/ earthbind so mixing that with stoneclaw is even more damage we are losing. Having to also allocate our talents to try to survive itself just feels wrong. If you go full survivability, I imagine you are losing quite a bit of dps.
It’s quite a shame to see the state of shaman in ICC, and it was the same way 13+ years ago. We’re not asking for much, but a slight buff to our health pool at the very least would do wonders. Anything like fire ele attacking something with flame shock on it or adding totemic projection, or fire ele being fire nova itself would be cool too, but at least added survivability is what most shamans probably want more than anything.
Someone didn’t play classic…
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I dont know if its just me but they only tune classes in live servers to balance the game not the game that been balanced 15 years ago
That hasn’t been true since TBC, when they added all seals to paladins. Then in wrath they buffed Rets, Ferals, and now Hunters.
Then im not sure what classic games are you guys really playing looks like another version of retail, or you saying they just buffed those classes in original wrath not classic ? Adding Gamma and Beta and tokens, boosts on there basically retail 2.0 lol thats why i just farm tokens over there cuz its not wrath
Classic andy strikes again…
Wait how did you know my name ?