Changes You would like to see in CataclysmFollow

I have read similar thread on MMO-Champion and I thought we could use it here, on Alla. My ideas:

1. New spell: Conduit of Nature - Nature powers are channeled through you. You merge with your totems to gain their strength. All effects are diminished by 25%. Lasts 30 seconds. 2 min cooldown.

This would allow shamans to get more use from their totems on predictable mobile phases of fights. Numbers can be different, of course. This would require shamans choice (something that Blizz encourages).

2. Make current Water Shield and Lightining Shield chest enchant similar to weapon enchant. Internal cooldown can be adjusted to cope with it. Additionally make shields something more fun. Water shield can work like emergency buttons for resto. Or each orb could make Healing Waves do some additional splash healing. Lightning Shield could make Windfury proc instantly (let's say 30 sec cooldown-but can be changed to make it non OP).

3. New Spell: Fire Within: Your Magma or Searing Totem's fire jump to enemy causing it to become vessel of destructive power. 30 seconds cooldown.

I admit that this idea was inspired by one of posts in MMO-champs thread. This would simply cause totem to jump to chosen enemy. That could work as elemental way to deal extra aoe damage without the need to run to enemies and then run out. This would share cooldown with fire totems. If it's casted then next fire totem can be placed in 30 secs. If not cooldowns work like usually. If it's dispellable then I don't think it would be too OP for PvP. It could have diminished power in comparison to totems if needed. That would give fire totems some use in very mobile fights where enemy constantly runs out of range. It would also give enh some extra edge in very mobile PvP where enemy is either out of range or destroys totem very fast.

Tell me what You think about it and maybe post some of Your ideas.

I do believe that Blizzard wants to keep totems the way they are. Having call of elements now means that Shamans can setup for situations as they see fit and throw all 4 totems they need in one gcd. I honestly think that is more annoying than before since your opponents will have to target each of them and destroy them one at a time (4 gcds not including targeting time). They are no more totem stomping macros that work anymore so its not trivial.

hope the clutter on some of the talent trees get pruned out though.

At this moment, I do not use Lightning Shield as enh while Imp Water Shield kinda made water shield really great for healing. Static Charge as a talent is a rather bad idea since you need gcd to recast it, you lose mana like a leaking cauldron without replenishment and it interferes in my magma spamming. I rather magma spam than have Lightning Shield do something it was not meant to do.

if magma totem isnt dropping rogues out of stealth that sounds kinda like a bug. i know on my lowbie rogue magma totem will bring me out of stealth when it ticks, altho earthbind doesnt. i know other forms of periodic damage (rain of fire, blizzard, consecration, death and decay) will also bring rogues out of stealth.

if your magma totem isnt bringing rogues out of stealth id report that. test multiple ranks of the totem too; maybe its just a bug with higher rank versions.

lots of rogues nowadays spec the subtlety tree as a sub spec, which gives them faster move speed while stealthed. sometimes its enough to get inside the magma totems range and get to you before it pulses again.

Would be nice if Elementals Shaman could drop AOE totem ranged. Like new talent in Elementals Shaman talent tree:

Revenge of Elements 1 points - This talent Calls fire elemental that drops magma totem next to targeted enemy.

This is only thing that I see currently as broken in Shaman class is the fact that Ranged caster needs to run melee range to do AOE DPS. I feel dull to spam ranged spells from melee range all of time while cleaning trash in Naxx as elementals shaman but current design of class forces in this.

I do understand that Blizzard don’t want to give everybody everything and I understand that maybe shaman is not suppose to be good in AOE dps because Shaman is hybrid but what I don’t understand why class is designed in the way that enhancement shaman can still have AOE and single target dps same time. All shaman AOE skills are designed to be used from melee range. If Shaman is designed to be melee class why bother implementing one talent tree as ranged DPS in the first place?

If anything should be changed:

Take away all of the stupid reagent requirements for spells that other classes have for free.

Water Walking? We need Fish Oil, Death Knights get an AoE version for free.

Water Breathing? We need Shiny Fish Scales, Warlocks get it for free.

Dual Wield? We need talents to get it, everyone else just trains it at a random level.

Cut us some slack.

That's what minor glyphs are for. Mages need reagents for Slowfall (unless it's glyphed). Rogues need poisons. Hunters need ammunition. Pallies and priests need reagents for buffing (as to druids, but if I'm not mistaken there's a glyph for that, too). It's not like shaman are the only ones that require reagents for certain things. I have water walking glyphed because I tend to use it a lot while fishing...water breathing not so much. In fact, I've had the same 20 shiny fish scales in my inventory for weeks now. I vendor far more than I actually use, and I never farm them.



You're right, hunters and warriors get dual wielding from their class trainers. Whether or not they actually choose to dual wield depends on the gear available to them, spec, personal preference, that sort of thing. Rogues are the only class I know of that uses dual wield 100% of the time (starting at level 10 if I'm not mistaken) regardless of spec. Dual wielding for shaman is intended as an enhancement-only kind of deal, and prevents balancing issues that would occuer in the event that you found yourself with a dual wielding resto/elemental shaman toting a pair of spellpower maces. Imagine the QQ from pallies...

You'd think shamans would have something like that druid thunderstorm AoE thingymajig. But alas... only one of us can do it. We can't really call down a rain of fire because warlocks do that... or a blizzard because mages do that... what's left?

I vote for the Hurricane Vortex of Doom, myself.

Rain, hail, lightning, strong winds... all together at once. Sounds like my cup of tea.

The Multi elemental aoe would be cool, but I dunno if bliz will ever give us a channeling aoe...

If they added Forked lightning to throw into our rotation I wouldn't mind as much for aoe tho, hits three targets like chain lightning with same cast time and cooldown, way I see it, it would not have diminishing dmg like CL, lets say if CL hits for 3000 2000 1000 fork lightning would be 2000 to all three targets.

This way we have an actual aoe rotation, I would be down for something like this even if its a little pricey in mana.

It also bothers me only enhancement shaman get spirit wolves... I would like to see it a basic ability and maybe talents to buff it for enhancement... but that might be just me ^^

YuvalR: I like Earthquake. Sounds good. If we do it in or underwater can we get added effect Tsunami?

I have been 3 solutations in my mind. I think Blizzard never gives Elementalist Shaman Channeled AOE like so many other classes but my solutatios are:

1. Talent that allows to drop Fire Nova or Magma totems ranged.
2. Fire Totem that spawn one mini fire elemental that runs toward the targetted enemy and explode causing fire nova effect.
3. Revenge of Storm 1/1 point talent that gives instant cast spells that triples mana cost of CL but removes cast time and cooldown for 20s (Might be too powerful if mana cost is not very large to cause OOM very fast)

These solutations might fix pvp raiding / instancing elementalist AOE issue but they could cause some balance issues in pvp...

Edited, Oct 6th 2009 9:08am by Jakerp

WTB Mobile Totems and Enhancement buff.

I hate the fact that i have to make sure im in range of my totems, or else my dps drops. IMO they should revolve around me like my lightning shield. like a solar system :)

and i hear all the time how elemental is better dps. if we can be either 2 types of dps or a healer, i would expect the 2 different types of dps to be equal. it just goes with playstyle. and i have noticed that i dont do as much dps as elemental's similarly geared.