Of particular interest was a 15 page thread that summarized some incriminating facts against blizz devs for some underhanded things that they had allowed to happen. For example, one of Kalgan's arena partners ranting about Elemental shaman and OP burst damage in arena, and to the effect that elementals "got exactly what they deserved". The post was since softened to show shamans needed some pushback and they were too easily shut down, but someone managed to find the original link.
I know the following is summarized in another thread, but these are Kalgan's half assed responses to legitimate player complaints about the nerf and the class. This came from an 89 page thread where players tried and tried to get some legitimate answers out of the game dev. He basically stopped posting at about page 20, he also deleted the original thread, then claimed he did not know what happened to it...
Here is what Kalgan said to a poster who asked why they are nerfing elemental shaman:
Kalgan wrote:
Because one-dimensional massive burst damage isn't the way we want to achieve that balance.
EXELLENT, nerf the massive burst damage, which is the only thing elemental has going for it...good call there! Kalgan was repeatedly accused of favoring this nerf as elemental shaman burst damage is seen as a good counter for warriors in 5v5 arena. In another forum he was quoted as favoring a Warlock nerf so that he could "rock out his new S3 warrior weapon" or something to that effect.
In regards to shaman buffs in 2.4 or future patches here is what he said:
Kalgan wrote:
We do have buffs in the works for 2.4, it's just we don't know with 100% certainty exactly which ones they'll be, since some might not be do-able for now.
In other words, we have time to nerf you, but we're not sure how to buff you, so we probably won't get around to it. This makes no sense, if you are going to nerf a damage reliant spec, you must apply a logical buff to counter the nerf.
In response to a question of why Shaman have no form of CC and that shaman would be happy with ANYTHING:
Kalgan wrote:
I don't think "anything" would really satisfy. Do tauren shamans feel like they have no need for the cc you're asking for since they have war stomp? Probably not.
All it would do to give every shaman that kind of "cc" is water down the feeling of distinction without really solving much (at least for now now... maybe someday in the future could be just the perfect solve for some balance problem, but today it would be marginal).
All it would do to give every shaman that kind of "cc" is water down the feeling of distinction without really solving much (at least for now now... maybe someday in the future could be just the perfect solve for some balance problem, but today it would be marginal).
GREAT. Roll a tauren shaman, you have warstomp. That is your CC, problem solved! So, shaman have no CC because we would otherwise be missing that "feeling of distinction" and giving shaman CC would not really be solving much. But maybe...sometime in the future...in a galaxy far far away...there are shaman with cc...That explanation was really just a slap in the face. What does that mean, a feeling of distinction?
The explanations are always the same crap. We're looking into it, in the future...we're going to look into it next patch...shaman will be revised...we're trying to achieve balance...very tiresome indeed. I wanted to save these comments here as I have a feeling the dev is going to delete them from the o-board. It really does not sit well with me at all that a developer with an impact on PvP content would be having a vested interest in PvP gameplay.
Edited, Feb 26th 2008 12:19am by Taurrus