In actual original WOW, you were able to move people around groups in a raid, while in combat. Currently, in 1.13 (Classic WOW), you are not. This is a tremendous and absolute nerf to shamans in raids. The entire point of bringing a shaman over a priest was their Mana Tide ability because you could move the shaman into a group that needed mana and pop the ability. I understand that group-moving-in-combat is not a thing in retail WOW, but the shaman vs paladin balance is currently completely divergent from what competeing guilds experienced in orginal WOW.
Additionally, you could move melee classes into a group with a Shaman (for windfury totem) if a spot opened up (ie: a death of member in the original party).
Please correct this bug. It doesn’t match behavior of the original game, and its a massive nerf to the utility of Shaman, almost to the point of never bringing them over another Priest.
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Yep can confirm, major problem.
Group swapping is essential for shaman in raids and not being able to do it puts raiding shaman at an incredible disadvantage and disadvantages Horde raids in general. Definitely needs some sort of fix to allow this in Classic.
Wait… so you’re saying we can’t rotate shamans in the Raid Healer group to use Mana Tide regen or Bloodlust rotations for the DPS anymore?!
This surely isn’t intentional … right? This has to be a simple oversight because honestly this was a freaking staple of how Raiding worked in general.
This also affects Hunters (trueshot aura) when a group spot opens up.
This will also need to be fixed at the same time the broken _retail Warcraft raid frame (EDIT: which is currently being used as the stock raid frame in _classic) taint is fixed. Currently the 8 year old bug still exists that breaks raid frames when a player joins/leaves a party/raid during combat.
I think now is definitely the time to address this issue along with the problem listed in the OP.
We shouldn’t have to use 3rd party addons just to uncorrupt the broken UI components in either _classic or _retail yet it’s been a problem since early MoP.
EDIT: This affects all 3rd party addons as well since adding or subtracting players to raid frames is a protected function while engaged in combat.
Please fix this. Original WOW did not have this bug in place.
yeah, currently playing a sham in classic means im kinda screwed and not utilized properly. pls fix
This really needs to be fixed, mana tide is nearly useless if I can’t be swapped to a caster group in combat.