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#27 Jan 21 2008 at 11:48 PM Rating: Decent

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Yeah, it's nice, I just wish that it didn't pop the globes when you got hit. I'd rather have my 43mp5 (which puts me at 47mp5) instead of pops of 170 3 times during a fight...of course I'm enhancement, so I try to keep my mana use down, but the constant mp5 seems better to me.

Well, you get both; the constant 50mp5, and the +mana from the globes expending. It's more mana this way, actually. Get a mod like ShamanFriend that tells you when Water Shield fades. Also, since you're enhance, it will tell you when your WF is on CD so you don't SS during the CD (if you worry about that, min/max-ing your DPS).

Yeah, I've since noticed that a shamanistic focused earth shock actually costs less (at least at level 62) than you get from a single globe, so it works out pretty nice. Of course, I'd missed that it had no mana cost before, too...I was working from my own wrong information.

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#28 Jan 22 2008 at 10:21 AM Rating: Decent

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Yeah, it's nice, I just wish that it didn't pop the globes when you got hit. I'd rather have my 43mp5 (which puts me at 47mp5) instead of pops of 170 3 times during a fight...of course I'm enhancement, so I try to keep my mana use down, but the constant mp5 seems better to me.

This confuses me. I LOVE when I have water shield on and I'm getting hit. I did arenas and I generally don't even bother with water shield cause I use Earth Shield for my own survivability. I went into a 3v3 and the lock on our team AND the opposing team both died... turning it into a 2v2 (druid/pally vs druid/shammy [me]). I was insanely running out of mana... with the pally hitting me (not very hard). Then it dawned on me to throw up water shield since it costs 0 mana.

A few casts of water shield LOL and the pally had me almost back at full mana. 50 MP/5 is good... but without the pally hitting me, it would have taken significantly longer to get that mana back. I pretty much kept full mana and health after that.. until both the druid and pally stun locked me and beat me down as fast as they could.

If someone is hitting you, water shield will get you mana back faster than just about any other spell/ability in the game aside from evocation from a mage.

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#29 Jan 23 2008 at 10:34 AM Rating: Default

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The new water shild is nice, but it is hardly OP godliness some people are making it out to be. Yes, it is a free mana restoring buff that helps enhancement shaman keep thier mana up for PvE which is nice. In regards to PvP, it is hardly that helpful. Most PvP encounters are over in less than 15 seconds, so the 600~800 mana you may get from the shield is hardly going to make or break a pvp encounter.

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#30 Jan 23 2008 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good

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Taurrus wrote:

The new water shild is nice, but it is hardly OP godliness some people are making it out to be. Yes, it is a free mana restoring buff that helps enhancement shaman keep thier mana up for PvE which is nice. In regards to PvP, it is hardly that helpful. Most PvP encounters are over in less than 15 seconds, so the 600~800 mana you may get from the shield is hardly going to make or break a pvp encounter.

I guess you don't play arena. The new watershield is unreal.

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