I dont remember which interview it was in, but I know there was one where he mentioned that ankh is considered a defensive but I cant remember which one it was in. Can anyone help me find it?
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Why do u want pain
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To prove a point to someone. A buddy is claiming that Ion never said that but I cant find the interview for the life of me, so its to prove a point about why ankh needs to change
It was in BFA that he said it.
Here you go:
https ://twitter .com/Warcraft/status/901073778981122050
Looks like it was back in August 2017 on one of the āaskwowdevsā things they did.
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Sh!t like this is why I just donāt buy all the blizzard employees who claim they āmainā shaman. There is just no way.
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Itās the āI have plenty of [blank] friendsā of wow discourse. Thereās no way there are so many devs maining a class this neglected.
Ahh yes, dying to use a defensive at the right time is clearly a āskill issueā on my part, how could I have been so naive that I thought defensives where trying to prevent death.
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Shaman class fantasy is to die.
Remember in WoD as you leveled every other level you got a perk to a spell.
Shaman was reincarnation.
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it promotes synergy with ret paladins
This remains one of the most clueless and out of touch things a Blizzard dev has ever said.
I refuse to believe that Ion ever mained a shaman like heās claimed in the past.
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If I remember correctly, he mained resto, at least up until Sepulcher.
Once upon a time Ankh was an excellent defensive. Once upon a time shield wall had a 30 minute cooldown, and most classes didnāt have a defensive cooldown at all.
Back in those days Ankh was the best defensive in the game. Unfortunately, our trusty steed being better than everybody else walking doesnāt help much when we live in a time that everybody is driving cars. It just hasnāt kept up with the times and is now actively holding the class back. It needs either massive updates or just outright replaced.
Its really sad that enhancementās durability is less now than it used to be, despite every other class in the game seeing huge defensive improvements. Shamanistic Rage was better than Astral shift, wolves did percentage based healing and you were almost unkillable with them up, you could pre cast healing rain if you knew something nasty was coming, and using MSW to heal didnāt completely destroy your damage. All of that and we still had Ankh.
/sigh
Tinfoil hat time, but I have a sneaking suspicion that thatās exactly why shaman keeps getting left in the miserable state itās been in for ages.
Ion mains Resto in raids.
But heās also too busy to play much.
So he doesnāt want Resto undergoing major upheavals that he would need time to adapt to, and prefers the spec be on a trickle feed of updates to its gameplay that donāt throw him off his game.
And since raiding as Resto is the only thing he does, as long as Resto is performing adequately in raids, the class overall is considered to be doing fine.
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Tinfoil hatā¦ checkā¦
However, your logic flows are reasonable and donāt really require the hoops to jump through that others might need so. Iād argue itās a viable concern.
That old mindset of Resto = raid spec is also why I only recently started raiding, that and I took a heck of a break, because I remember the old days when if you were a Shaman you were expected to heal and that was it. I preferred hitting stuff. So I joined the pvp scene for a time and introduced some unfortunate souls to the nightmare that was the WW chainsawā¦
To be clear, I do not actually think this is true, at least not so directly.
But itās frustrating that it sounds as plausible as it does.
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I assumed that was the case. I get frustrated sometimes and throw out a tinfoil hat theory myself sometimes. like the fact that the shamanās got hit with a pvp nerf just before the devās are slated to fight them in pvp.