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Spirit walk seems to be our best snare remover... combined with the new earthbind totem.... could work maricles for us..... much needed and warmly welcomed another great reason to have the pups. But im sure it is only a matter of time before it gets nerfed.... to the cooldown lasting the full duration of the wolves... but who knows...

:O I think they rolled it into the pets. I know improved earthbind is still there for enhancement. So really... with the wolves they can remove snares/roots... and move faster for 15s (though 32s cooldown) and then coupled with the earthbind change. I think it might actually be close to balanced. :X Here's to hoping.

Well only problem with the "balance" is that this is still only affecting one specc of whole class. And the CD on Eb is also there.... Well it's better than nothing but with the information we have now from shaman in wotlk, I'm quite sure my resto will turn into enha and not only for leveling.

I certainly would have preferred it to be as they had originally had it, removing all movement impairing effects when switching into GW, but this is nice. As I think more on the earthbind totem effect will benefit your teammates too. If you are in a pre-made bg group and your group actually sticks together, the totem could be useful. Could be helpful in arena. I'm not sure as I haven't tried arena. Of course, that is until a simple macro kills all my totems.

The new totem talent in Enhancement that took the place of Spectral Transformation is garbage. Pure and simple. Two talent points for one snare removal every ten seconds? I don't care if it can potentially affect teammates. For my talent points that is still garbage.

Take Feral Spirit and make use of Spirit Walk, but I wouldn't waste points on the totem talent.

Edited, Sep 22nd 2008 6:46pm by Gaudion

Tried it in PvP on beta....Earthbind/desnarer is ABSO"SMURFLY" BULLSHIET!!

Wish I could say it was even remotely useful, like it helped me out in a snare situation like once for 2 secs....it doesn't...so I can't.

Without even talking about range classes and snares they use, fact of the matter is that "other" melee classes now have "improved" in your face in a mater of seconds abilities/snares/cc, or ways to be immune OR frankly WAY to much burst dmg!

Lets see..DK, just yankes you away from the totem, Rogues SD/Cloak, War's have the imp imp intercept. (granted overall dps on them needs TONS of work), Ret pally's (something)oF and drop WAY to much burst dmg (4kish+4kish+4kish+4kish was uncomfortablly common, by them...they can kill you before the HoJ stun fades off).

Was using a pre-made 80 shaman in Blues and purples. Played both as a Elem and Enh.

Elem was "fun"...thunderstorm while they might have "fixed" the throwback effect back to 20yrds...I wanna say its bugged because it does NOT constantly "throwback" when used. As far as usefulness I might rate it more akin to doing a warstomp with a faster CD. Its novelty wares fast concidering 20yrs isn't hard for melees to recover quickly from...and thats assuming it even worked!

If anything, I'm glad I have other 70's to fall back on. if shaman goes live as is, its getting mothballed...a sad reaction to the class I solely played for years since the beginging of wow. Way to ..!..ing go Blizz! :)