Edit: I changed my post to be less rant from when I first found to my post on the o-board with a little less *********
Blizz,
This is just straight up a horrible nerf and I really don't see a point in it.
Pallys actually gain mana from healing. Add that to the BoW, replenishment, and totems and you had a healer that couldn't ever run out of mana. We knew this, and you knew this, and you stated you wanted to fix it.
So now you fix it by nerfing the only healer that you said COULD run out of mana. You have constantly denied shamans the right buffs in all aspects of the game due to them "infringing on other classes iconic abilities", then you give everyone buffs/spells/abilities that override our "iconic ability".
Bring the player, not the class. This makes absolutely no since. This game is about it's classes. You created a game with 7 unique classes then added 3 more throughout the years. Why there is now this new push to combine them all is beyond me. If that's truly what your going for, then just make a single class with tanking, healing, DPS specs and call it good. You have already turned it to where each class has it's own "iconic ability" and that's it, and now your taking ours away from us.
Listen carefully, you cannot balance this game out. I'm not saying you don't have the ability to, I'm saying it cannot be done. You have 10 classes, each with 3 specs, playing in 2 different aspects of the game. There is no possible way to equalize them. You spent the entire last part of BC butchering PvE so you could attempt to balance out PvP. With this new "bring the player" kick your butchering them both at the same time.
This is my guilds 25 man healer set up.
1 Resto Shaman
1 Resto Druid
2 Holy Priests
2-3 Holy Pallys depending on progression raid or farm raid.
It's not that we don't have more healers. We run 2 full 25 man groups weekly, and then some. But this is the setup that works the best. Add in a DPS shaman and we're taken care of.
With Ulduar, the nerf to BL, and now the nerf to mana spring, there is no reason to bring a resto sham in the raid. We do not bring any extra buffs, and there is no job that we can do better then another class, actually we will preform worse. Bring a elemental shaman with BL and ToW and you have one shaman bringing the buffs of a entire classes three specs.
This doesn't mention what enh and ele shamans can bring. If I had a raid with one shaman of each spec in it, I would drop the resto shaman and replace him with a holy pally, then drop the enh shaman and replace him with a frost mage. That would give me better healing and up my raids mana regen. If you had a problem with mana in a raid setting then why did you make frost mages a new mana battery?
Please either rethink what your doing to the game, rethink the shaman class, or just let me know if your plan really is to phase us out so I can focus more on my mage.
Thank You,
Hoping things change
Edited, Mar 11th 2009 4:40pm by DarkHybridX
