Here they are 2.4 notes for Shaman - updated for new stuffFollow

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

Shaman



Down from 6%. Necessary? Meh.



I'm gonna have to find out what the new cost is, if it's anything higher than 540~ mana, Its going to be exactly the same as it is now. Only, doesn't last as long and you'll have to recast more often. (Same amount of mana per return)



Sounds like a bug fix.



We knew about this, still not happy about it's placement and how much it's actually going to accomplish (read: not much if anything)



Bug fix...



Cause Enhancement wasn't cool enough. Still on a 10s timer /boggle



Blizzards lazy version of the Totem UI they promised.



Another bug fix.

Update 02/20/08



This will be tremendous for Restoration Shaman in the 2's and 3's bracket. I'll go out on a limb and say it will be "game-breaking" for my own 2's playstyle (0/9/52 spec), along with the reduced Earthshield cost, dispel resistance etc. And I cannot wait for this to go into effect. Perhaps not as huge a change to enhancement shaman who will still be kited all over, because as of yet this does not break snares and is still dispellable. (The other big drawbacks)



I now feel sorry for Elemental spec.



I thought it was 5? Anyways now it's 3. hurray.



Making it undispellable, which it should have been in the first place.


Edited, Feb 24th 2008 3:12pm by Paracleets

Call of Thunder was never intended for its 6%. It's just finally "fixed".

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/11/20/list-of-2-3-known-issues-and-bugs/


OR


http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2967993639&sid=1


Down under "Shaman".

Edited, Feb 9th 2008 1:34pm by Raglu

So they are calling that a bug now and deciding to fix it. Huh... Oh well. That's still pretty stupid in my opinion, but the loss of 1% crit isn't going to kill us. And it is in line with "normalization". Seems they're all about "normalizing" us all of a sudden...

Edited, Feb 9th 2008 3:33pm by Gaudion

so thats why druids got buffed in BC; because lord knows they were the most popular class by far pre-BC.

and by most popular i mean "lowest percentage of population".

class population has nothing to do with buffing or nerfing. youll notice not much changed for any class in this patch. mostly bug fixes and small balancing tweaks.

Edited, Feb 9th 2008 6:30pm by Quor

It's almost comical. In as bad shape as we are, they still couldn't give us any buffs without giving us counter-nerfs to offset them.

They gave us dispell resistance, but it was low and stupid. Barely even addresses us. All we ever asked for was for Earth Shield and Shamanistic Rage to last more than 5 seconds in PvP.

Speaking of Earth Shield, they finally lowered the outrageous mana cost. Only they had to lower the charges too.

And the coup de gras, the adjustment to Call of Thunder. Normal? No one can reasonably argue with this. Necessary? Not really. It's honestly not the big of a deal, but it's the principal of the thing. We've been asking for buffs forever, sucking in PvP forever, and what do they finally get around to doing? Fixing something that's been the way it has for so long that we didn't even know it was unintended. It's like a blatent slap across the face.

"Yes, we realize that Shaman suck. And by God, not only are you going to continue to suck, but you're going to do it in a normal manner."

With Patch 2.4 Shaman are officially indoctrinated in mediocrity.

Required ES Change: Each charge of ES now requires a separate dispel attempt to rmoeve, instead of one Purge nailing the entire stack. Water Shield too - it'd give the Enhance boys some dispel resistance to play with as a matter of general principle.

It's essentially what Retadins got, except theirs is even more potent (if your dispel(s) hit the Seal they automatically fail, so they can't have it taken and have dispel resistance on their other buffs).

We'll see what happens with the patch, though.

[LewisBlack]I didn't understand it either... and then I rolled one. Now I !@#$in' get it![/LewisBlack]

Hunter

* Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer cause animation issues.
* Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare to be invisible to other players.
* Hunter’s Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter’s Mark will now properly overwrite Hunter’s Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.
* The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health increase.


Mages

* Using low ranks of Fire Ward and Frost Ward spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
* Fire Ward: Using low ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing spells are penalized.
* Frost Ward: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
* Frostbite: When a frost spell is reflected back at a Mage, it is now possible for the Mage to suffer from the Frostibte effect.
* Ice Barrier: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
* Permafrost: This talent will now correctly increase the movement slowing effect of frost Armor instead of the attack speed slow.
* Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff.

Rogues

* Cheat Death: A combat log message will now show when this ability activates.
* Vanish: This ability will no longer sometimes cause the UI to display Shadowmeld as active when it has been cancelled.
* Abilities that can be used while stealthed, without breaking stealth, can now be cast without breaking Vanish when used at the same time.
* Sap mechanic changed from “Incapacitate” to “Sap”. This will allow more humanoids that were previously immune to Sap to be vulnerable to Sap, but still immune to Gouge. Note that anything that removed Sap previously will still remove Sap after the change.









Yeah... that's unfair buffing to mages, hunters, and rogues.
Frankly, rogues do need a buff for their utility to groups/raids. I am thinking that the change to the sap mechanic is intended to solve that.

i really dont know where this "overlooked for end game" syndrome comes from. shaman hold top raiding positions in healing the world over, and at least one enhancement shaman is a requirement for an optimal dps group. elemental shaman are less seen, but still useful, as more crit and hit is always nice for casters, especially healing paladins, mages, and boomkin. the synergy between an elemental shammy, holy pally, boomkin, and shadow priest is quite insane.

you can make an argument for elemental shammies being a bit underrepresented in end game raiding, but restos and enhancements both have a strong place there.

But they are the highest single-target damage, and up until Karazhan they still have plenty of utility. Plus they're one of the top three represented DPS'ers in the arena in 2v2 and 3v3; DPS Shaman can't even get into the arena until 5v5's.

Rogues may have their weak areas like every other class, but they're hardly deficient.

I don't understand how people can say something like this so hypocritally without batting an eyelash.

If the grass is greener from Shaman's point of view as well than how is that Rogues deserve a buff but Shaman don't?

im curious as to what buffs rogue got recently in the context of raiding.

yes, there were subtlety buffs, but any rogue will tell you that subtlety sucked *** pre-buff, and its still up in the air exactly how viable it is now. for a brief period HARP reigned supreme, but the nerf bat came down hard on that. besides, you dont spec sub for raiding, you spec combat 19/42 combat or some similar derivation of that with at least 41 in combat and a focus on swords or maces.

so, again, i ask, what buffs did rogues recently get in the context of raiding OR that wernt designed to fix a tree considered broken since, oh, the advent of BC gear? ive gone over the last two major patches with a fine tooth comb and im not seeing anything. i did see a nice water shield buff for shammies tho.

point being, shaman bring a huge amount of utility to a group via totems. rogues bring nothing aside from a one-shot CC that is mostly useless outside of 5-mans, and of marginal usefulness in pvp. rogues have great dps, but in terms of raiding they bring nothing BUT that dps. and until blizzard designs encounters that call for rogue-specific usage aside from dps (sartura anyone?) rogues will be ALL about the dps. steady, high dps that doesnt have to worry about aggro.

meanwhile, shaman are wanted in EVERY raid group, despite what some of the prevailing beliefs on this board are. heroism/bloodlust is such a huge force multiplier that it doesnt matter that its on a moderately long cooldown. totems and personal talented skills provide such a boost to group efficiency that in terms of group buffage shaman are at the top of the list, tied with paladins.

*that* is why rogues look at shaman and say "man, i want that utility". meanwhile, shaman are looking at the high single-target dps of the rogue and saying "why cant we have that?!" the answer is, you do, its just spread out amongst four others. no rogue is going to get that highest single-target dps without a shammy in his group.