Possilbe shaman buffs may happen in 2.4Follow

Interesting...maybe the QQ finally had an effect.

-Flametongue weapon now puts an "MS" (50% healing reduction) on your current target. 5 Second duration, refreshes every hit.

-They have made a change to shamanistic rage. * Shamanistic rage now let you regenerate mana equal to 30% of your attack power instead of 15. Duration reduced to 15 seconds. (Was 30 seconds)

-Also, totem global cooldown appears to have been reduced to .5 seconds.

-Changes to Enhancement for added mobility, The new toughness talent now reduces the value of movement impairing effects on your by 10% per point. 5/5 toughness will give 50% reduction to duration of movement impairing effects.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976428385&sid=1&pageNo=1

I think this is a step in the right direction, but not what I really want to see. Totem global cooldown should be 0. 50% reduction in duration of movement imparing effects...meh, I'd rather see 50% chance to resist movement impairing effects. FT weapon? Good for resto and elemental, enhance will have to sacrifice some dps and slap it on thier offhand.



Edited, Feb 28th 2008 12:32am by Taurrus

Well, before SR was only getting 15% back, now it is getting 30% but lasting half as long, better for PvP IMO as this will regen mana faster.

As far as the FT debuff goes, I'm not sure yet if this applies only to the flametongue weapon enchant on the shaman's weapon, or if the FT totem will have the same effect.

Toughness...I'm having a real hard time figuring out how I would put 5 points there, as well as 2 in imp ghost wolf to get the maximum mobility out of an enhance shammy.

You can call me an ingrate, but I outright hate this change. I'm not quite sure how in their effort to avoid taking away the "distiction" of the class they thought that making us now the fourth class with a heal-reduction effect would be in any way, shape, or form "distinct".


Nice change for PvE since you now need a smaller window to regenerate even more mana. Definitely the nail in the coffin as far as PvP is concerned though. Absolutely no reason to ever consider taking this over Nature's Swiftness anymore. Not a change I really care about either way.


.5 seconds, 1.0 seconds... I don't care. I'll take any reduction in totem GCD I can get. Nice change.


Well, that's great for Enhancement, but Resto and Elemental need mobility too and I don't think either of those builds have the points to afford Toughness. That's a pretty rough demand on Enhancement Shaman even... All Shaman builds are stretched pretty tight at the moment.

these are all enhancement buffs ; ;

the FT thing is crazy, anyone that doesnt take advantage of this in pvp is stupid, I would go as far as saying using a fast weapon in pvp to keep it up and and maximize FT dmg in pvp would be sick, as long as you have WF on your slow main hand.

God dang it blizzard throw my spec a bone.

(this is going to further increase my fear of enhacement shaman, they make me not cast ever and beat me down in the process...)

If these buffs do get implemented in 2.4, talent points are going to be pretty scarce. I'll barely have enough points to put in the resto tree to max nature's guidance. Still, having an instant cast GW and a 50% reduction in length of movement impairement debuffs is pretty tasty.
We'll see if they actually get implemented.

I'm now waiting for them to put MS on Psychic Scream.

Like I've said before, I'm pretty sure they're using a throw-a-dart-at-a-wheel system to buff our class. All of the recent changes (GW, FT, HG) are just watered-down copy-and-paste traits from other classes. It's blatently obvious that they still haven't sat down and actually addressed our class' problems, nor have they any desire to.

That's pretty much exactly what I meant with adding MS to Scream :P It does little for the class and doesn't fix any of the problems the class has. I'm sure shammies who 2v2 and 3v3 without an MS warrior will be glad, though I sincerely they will be replacing warriors in 5v5. It still hasn't addressed the main issues shammies have in arena.

Well, let us just have a big totem rubbing orgie

In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... "Come again?"


Here, at least, I agree with you. This is a retarded buff. We need a break, not a duration reduction. Upping the mana cost of GW (might be ok as is; unlike Druids, Shaman are completely harmless and defenseless while shifted) and giving it a break would seem like the logical way to do this if they're trying to fix Shaman with the spells and talents already available to them. Or, if they don't want to give to buff us by making us more mobile, they need to give us a way to root, CC, stun, or generally just keep the opponent in one place. Either one will work, but they need to do one or the other. Period.

I love posts like this, because when I hit the red button it goes away.

About nuking all my posts in here or nuking all my posts anywhere?

Either way your both jerks IMO, I know I would never rank down someone who just became a Scholar.


Jerks.

Guess I'm gonna have to work my way back up.

(Here is where the smiley smacking his face against a wall would go, but I'm to cheap to be a member.)