Blizzard class designer pissing off shaman on the o-boards... Unreal.
A thread asking if people planned to stay with their shaman in WOTLK gets a terse response from a blue. I don't know why they even bother sometimes. They are really just asking for it posting stuff like that on a class forum that has the biggest QQ rep of them all. Anyway, I love how the Class designer patronizingly says "I think you will." but does not elaborate at all - then gets totally destroyed by the shaman community as if he wasn't asking for it...
Someone's comment in the above thread got me checking up on the leaked WotLK talents and spells.
I realize the game is still in alpha development stage, but damn! The other class abilities are pissing me off, especially the Druid ones...they are getting pretty much everything that shaman have been QQ for since TBC came out!
Druid talents
-Typhoon (Rank 1) - "You summon a violent Typhoon that does 530 Nature damage when in contact with hostile targets, knocking them back 5 yards."
Are you freaking kidding me? Shaman have been begging for windshock with a knockback effect for over a year now...
-Berserk - Removes all Stun, Fear, Snare and Movement Impairing Effects and increases your energy regeneration rate by 100% while in Cat form, and increases your total health by 20% while in Bear form. After the effect ends, the health is lost. Effect lasts 20 seconds.
OMG! this is straight up BS! Enhancement shaman have been screaming for Shamanistic Rage to have this effect forever now...
-Owlkin Frenzy - "Attacks done to you while in Moonkin form have a 5/10/15% chance to cause you to go into a Frenzy, increasing your spell haste by 25% and increasing your damage by 10%. Lasts 10 sec."
Oh good, they give boomkins some pushback resist, but keep nerfing elemental over and over? I'm pretty sure Elemental shamans would give their left one to have something like this...
Time to level up my druid I guess...I'm biting my tongue to see what Blizzard leaks for shaman, probably a new frostband icon, or maybe sentry totem rank 2...Honestly, it's like they steal all the good ideas proposed for shaman fixes and give them straight to druids. Oh and the warlock talents make me want to vomit, but there is enough there for a whole new thread, as if that class wasn't OP enough already.
Edited, Jun 8th 2008 10:47pm by Taurrus