Earthgrab Totem CD changed to 1 minute - I really do not get who it is a problem for, Who ever was thinking that 30 sec CD "easy to dispel" ability is a problem? for who? in fact, it is easily dispelable and avoidable by many abilities (= many classes) and literally is not a problem for anyone to deal with it. What I mean by that is that 1 minute is a lot of time, especially in arena (and I know it is not number 1 content for blizz devs and their "pve related" policy obviously), and you wanna make this "irrelevant" ability (in eyes of other classes) more irrelevant.Well then, at least consider making it non dispelable if a target (player) is rooted by this totem so its "nerf" will be decent for resto shamans themself :)in this form...it does not make sense
Looking good!
Looks good, if you are adding vesper totem though. It seems useless without the unity legendary Blizzard
That's some really promising changes especially on the totem utility front. I am interested on how the support totems are going to function together and whether we are going to go back to having a utility totem of each element type like it used to be: Stoneskin Totem (Earth), Windfury Totem (Air), Mana Spring/Healing Stream (Water). I would like to see other shaman specs get windfury totem as well, maybe it is a choice on the basic tree however I could understand if they want to separate the utility totems making it a choice which one you get.
nice still needs more totems :(i miss the Fireball one :<
Pff I guess kiss any major rework to Enhancement goodbye.The whole expansion is just 4 minor Shadowlands patches ala 9.2. 4 zones some dongeons some raids and very minor changes to the specs.I think Healing Rain for Resto sucks, it's a Druid spell, not a Shaman spell. I think Earthquake sucks, we focus on chain lightning not targeted AoE spells. I think Enhancement just sucks bigtime in general, supposed to be this cool big burst spec but it's literally just 50 tiny damage spells you spam and hope you get a Stormstrike proc for a tiny DPS bump. But what do I know.
shaman enh, he can use lava burst because of the description of Mana Spring Totem: for the enh spec it says lava burst or stormtrike?
amazing changes for shaman after many years! maybe it's my main instead of evoker
I see totems. I SEE TOTEMS! I CAN DIE NOW, I'M ACTUALLY HAPPY!
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Acid Rain + Vesper Totem seems like it's going to be insane in M+.What's going on with Echo of the Elements? Are riptide and cloudburst only going to have 1 charge?That sucks.
The future is looking extremely bright for Resto shaman. I'm honestly extremely impressed with the talents they decided to put in for Restoration.Rshammy class designer, if you're reading this, you knocked it out of the park.
It looks like Ele is getting a complete re-work this expansion which I think after two expansions of the same playstyle might be nice (with the exception of S3 changing things up - which was welcome, tbh)Also... also... GUST OF WIND? HECK YEAH! The frost shock spreading talent with the chain lightning interplay looks great under ele... and I love seeing EQ spend some of the maelstrom we'll have accumulated. If they have a proper build/spend capability with Ele for Maelstrom I think it might be actually incredible.Fingers crossed I get an alpha invite!
TANK SHAMAN OR WE RIOT! p.s. actually love it so far! good job!
rSham take - Summary: Overall some interesting positive choices! Some good conduits and Torgast items - Acid rain! Impressed and happy this was selected to try. I imagine some of the so-so nodes will be unavoidable, but I hope to get some juicy nodes. I see a couple of new totems that I'm sure I'll manage to place too late, but cool none-the-less.Likes - Vesper Totem returning, yay. Ofc I can see Vesper Totem has been gutted with the conduit & soulbind gone - no AOE burst at the end which is a big Vesper Totem nerf. Still glad we have this totem, but how good it is without the legendary is to be seen (two nerfs). Hopefully we get the dam elsewhere, and it still gives strong AOE instant heals, as I appreciate and utilize these. I prefer Vesper Totem a lot - such a fun short, and flexible CD. You can use it frequently. Compared to Primordial Wave, which is one of those "setup" skills that has pre and post requisites to gain max value, like needing to specifically use healing wave after it. No other healing spell... who uses healing wave. Too micromanaging. However, looks like it has a lot of amplifying nodes, so could be top. As for Harvest chain, I've never picked it because of the longer cooldown.Love the Earth Ele conduit giving extra health. This and other things here were on my wishlist. Thumbs up Blizzard rSham team.Nature's swiftness! Restoration twins with rDruid now. Good for those instances when riptides on CD. This has multiple healing spells you can use - I like that you're not locked to only one option. Not sure I'll pick it over damage, but we'll see. Poison cleanse and DR totems are interesting too.To finish - RIP Vesper totem AOE soulbind and permanent Earth Ele earthquake AOE dam. However I'm ready to move onto the next thing, and at this stage I really can't ask for too much more then what they are offering. Would love to have the Earthquake AOE spell that only Elementals have in their tree. I get it tho, it's their thing. I really hope I can get to the good nodes and experience new and powerful spells so I don't miss the old ones - I'm looking at you Acid Rain for AOE dam - please don't be weak, hard enough to get full value if tank moves out of it, let alone if it’s weak lol. This has potential to be fun. Here's hoping guys.
Astral shift changed from 1.5 to 2 minute CD? Enh was already squish enough... hopefully there'll be something to compensate
im going to attempt to create a new char elemental shaman. never played one before , (fire shaman) here I come