I mean just… why?
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Honestly if they made this change I’d be happy, it’s unreasonable that it’s not useable while stunned.
MAKE THE CHANGE BLIZZARD
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Because Ion and the shaman design team feel ahnk is our main defensive.
What we need is Shamanistic Rage back and healing wolves returned and both useable while stunned.
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The cooldowns usable in stuns are usually much lower dr. See barkskin. I think that’s why.
AS is possibly the best DR in the game, just sucks that it’s the only one shaman have baseline. I hate that they view vanilla ankh as a viable defensive, it really needs a rework. They could make it cheat death for shaman. I would be content with AS and a cheat death ankh baseline with NG and ES as extra options.
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The tradeoff is usually a combination of duration, cooldown, and damage reduction. See Warlock’s Unending Resolve as another data point with 40% DR but on a 3 minute cooldown. Astral Shift sits in that awkward middle ground Shamans are known for with a shorter cooldown and similar damage reduction, but ultimately making it more difficult to use effectively when it matters; no one is going to waste CDs on a shaman that preemptively uses Astral Shift.