the shockerFollow

Might be a good use for the insane amounts of troll sweat I seem to accumulate every time I get anywhere near a troll village.

I thought of a spell called Karma once for shaman and thought it be awesome if any negative buff casted on us would do 50% damage or duration and was also put on the enemy that casted it on the shaman. Example would be polymorph, if it was going to last for lats say 12 seconds it only lasts for 6 and the caster also is polymorph for 6 seconds. Or lets say the caster puts a dot on the shaman, well if it was supose to do 1000 damage both just take 500 damage. I think this would really help for when we are CC to make others think twice before they CC us or aply some other type of debuff that might be annoying...

Just an idea i had though a while ago, thought it be neat, and seemed kind of shamanish... don't mess with the voodoo =P

hex sounds like a good idea, but i think shaman have a more earthy feel to them. maybe something that would encase them inside a rock, or maybe instead of roots, an earth elemental would grab them and hold them.

but full CC is prob considered OP by blizz for shaman. for now i would take anything. something like a frost shock that has a chance to incapacitate for a few seconds.


also, i was thinking of maybe an interesting totem. A Recall totem. You place it somewhere, and for 15 seconds (when the totem expires) you have the ability to send yourself instantly to the location of the totem once you use your Totemic Call spell. Of course, it would need a reasonable cool down, but I believe this would be useful in many situations, and not be considered OP.

you could teleport to the totems location by right clicking a 'buff' just like you do when you use sentry totem

Tremor Totem used to actually work, as I understand it. Long before I played Shaman it supposedly used to pulse every two seconds instead of every five, and reverting it back to that might fix it. As it is now it's just too unreliable. You can actually have a Tremor Totem down and be feared out of it's AoE between pulses. That's ridiculous enough, but sometimes it just doesn't work at all for apparently no reason whatsoever.

I Remember dueling a Warlock on the narrow dock in BB once, and when she feared me I ran in a tight circle around my TT, literally crossed over it a couple times. I was never out of range, but it didn't break the fear. That fear went the full duration, and I ended up losing the duel.

I think a teleport totem would be too sketchy to be practical. Yeah, it's novel, but Shaman is already a gimmicky class as it is with our totems in general, and it does nothing but impair us. Hex would just be uncomplicated, straightforward effectiveness, and honestly it fits in with the whole Shaman motiff a lot better than some kind of teleportation. Hex would also allow us to support to our team even when we're not the ones being focused-fired and would let us take part in CC lockdown rotations.

There are a couple glaring limitations with that idea though:

1. Elemental/Resto Shaman would have to drop the totem somewhere, then relocate and be prepared to use it. If someone gets the drop on you or you don't have a chance to set that up before hand, it's essentially worthless.

2. With Enhancement Shaman, all your opponent has to do is avoid the location where you set up the totem and you're no better off than you are now.

3. As with all totems, destroying it completely negates it.

4. This option allows you to provide 0 support for you team if you're not the one getting focus-fired.

5. This sounds like it would have to be an earth or wind totem, which would mean you couldn't drop Earthbind or Grounding Totem while you were waiting to use it.

Hex shares none of these limitations. Honestly, you're just making this more difficult than it needs to be.

It's not that Recall Totem is a suggested skill to replace the Hex idea, they're not at all for the same purpose.

Hex would be a great addition for a CC ability, and would be a valuable asset to the Shaman class. A recall totem is clearly not a CC ability but could be used as a counter to some forms of CC among its other uses. Obviously it has counters, as every skill should, and I think Dinoreturn's idea is pretty balanced.

Air probably makes the most sense as far as what totem type is concerned, though water could work as well. It would be fun to see your character melt into a liquid, slurp across the ground and reform at the totem's location.

Dropping it before a fight, especially in arena shouldnt be a hassle. Drop it just outside of your gate and keep moving as normal. It's not really meant to get you in contact with another player/mob, which I admit the shaman class needs, but rather to get you out of trouble. Alternatively you could put it back with your healer and port back to help if they're getting killed. It sucks watching your priest die while you stand there rooted and helpless. It's the type of skill that could have a number of imaginative uses.

If it comes down to which skill is more benificial to the Shaman class, Hex would surely be the better choice. Recall totem would be just neat to mess around with and a helpful addition in a number of situations. There's really no need to worry about it though, in all likleyhood we're not getting either.

Or perhaps something like lightning arc?

Something like that, perhaps with a 2 second cast time and a 45sec-1 min cooldown that allows the shaman to "ride the lightning" to the targeted destination with perhaps an AoE lightning burst in a radius of 5 yards around the point of impact that does a mild bit of damage or even better, an AoE knock-back.


Wishful thinking indeed...

I made a suggestion on the O-boards for a CC that would be easily incorporated into the shaman lore.

A transmute earth to mud type of spell similar to the spell of the same name from D&D.

Really simple concept, the shaman liquifies the earth beneath the target's feet then hardens it, trapping the enemy for 10sec pvp or 30 sec pve.

As soon as I saw "Ride the Lightning". Metallica!!!
But Seriously that sounds amazing, and seems like it would work great and look crazy, while not being OP. Forget the dmg, but Knockback would be sick! only if 5-10yards that could make the diference in living or dying to a caster(range) or warr(charge)

love this idea, it would be ultimate if this was the elemental 51 point talent as it would be most efective as elemental and a talent otherwise it might be a bit OP

sorry for the double post but i think im going to take this to the main forum, sound good?