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LOL Horde sucks, i say patch 12 should take all of their gear away and make them start over. HAHAHA

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this is sad. I had no idea.

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Oh stop. Everyone knows Horde was created for all those 14 year old skinny white kids who never get laid anyway...

GO PVP for CHRISSAKES!!! Lord knows that's the only way you build up your self esteem in the first place!!!

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What most people keep forgetting is that paladins can do these buffs before a raid saving mass amounts of mana that could otherwise be used to heal. Shamans...well, shamans do not have that luxury. The point of having buffs is to increase the capabillity at which you and your members raid at. While a shaman in a group of 5 can maybe help 2 or 3 at the most they are shooting themselves in the foot keeping these totems up.

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all the skinnny 14 year olds play female nightelfs ..
along with the low IQ people, as demonstrated better than I could ever hope to do by the above poster.

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Please stop these insults on Horde and Alliance Players.

I as an Alliance player have always thought of how imbalanced Shamans are anytime I heard things like 77 agi Totems or how damn difficult Shamans are to beat in BGs (running through Earthbind somehow gives you alway that feeling .. man I hate shammans!)

Then.. After 2 60 Chars on Alliance Side I wanted something new, so I started leveling my Undead Warlock that has now hit 60 some weeks ago.
And.. I am really starting to think that Blizzard hasn't given any love to Horde.

It would be ok to leave out BoW/BoK/BoM .. But Blessing of Salvation really kicks ass.. especially for a Spellcaster who has no Aggro-reducing abilities himself (I could respec to Demo and loose 15% Shadow Damage by having my Imp summoned instead of sacrificing my succubus). You pull off aggro .. what happens? You get beaten to death.
On alliance Side when I pull aggro .. Some wakeful paladin gives me a Blessing of Protection -> For Mobs that Deal Melee Damage this works just like Ice block for a mage, so the mob runs back to the tank who can somehow manage to regain aggro.
Did I say that I fired off 1 Healthstone, 3 Bandages and 2 Healpots yesterday on the hakkar fight because we hadn't enough healers with us, due to my own lack of mana.. Man I would have killed for a Blessing of Wisdom.
Hell.. I would have killed for even a Shaman in my group. But we didn't have any shamans with us (as always).

One of the main things I always saw as a real + to the shaman was that his flash heal is a real heal. The Paladins Flash of Light is not really healing that mutch in comparison to a priest flash heal. The Shaman instead has a full featured LHW that can be compared to the Priests Flash heal in both cast time and amount healed.

That whole Totem stuff must be redone.. It's really annoying to run through Strat and be pulling always aggro without any way for a thread reduction (5 man .. 1 group .. totem always benefits Tank too) .. Give Shamans one totem that buffs one whole Raid class.. something like that so the totems that are already in the game would be useful.


grettings Tigraine

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I rolled horde on a new server and my guild has had server firsts on Lucifron, Gehennas, Kazzak and Azuregos, held back primarily by numbers (we killed those 4 with 35 or fewer blue-geared members). Alliance only beat as on the other 6 MC bosses because they had guild partnerships. We were the first single guild to do all of them. Major Domo hasn't even been summoned on our server yet.

So far so good, but I have a feeling that bwl and up will be more alliance-biased. Regardless of this, my guild is very determined to excel in PVE and will not let the advantages of paladins and fear ward slow our progress.

I have 3 alliance 60s including a dwarf priest, so I have seen the difference in raiding. My blue-geared -determined- horde guild is doing much better than my casual epic wearing alliance guild did.

I think a lot of it is mind over matter. yes, alliance has advantages, but I think the small difference make large waves, so horde are generally less enthusiastic to do well. Horde guilds can do pve very well, a fact proven by first kills on top raid bosses (I think AQ 40 was first completed by horde). Most Blizzard promotion videos show horde players, so I have a feeling that they test the content as horde rather than alliance.

If you don't have the balls to face the tiniest bit of adversity, then re-roll alliance. Horde do, have done and will continue to do well in pve. Viva la horde!

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I have 3 Alliance 60's on a PvE server, and 3 Horde 60's on a PvP server.

I raid only on the PvE server, since I started my Horde characters and tried high lvl instance raiding I gave up trying.

Alliance raiding is the way it should be, not easy mode, but correct mode. Horde PvE raiding abilities are broken and non-raid functional. They were poorly implemented by Blizzard and aren't being addressed for the simple fact that Blizzard most likely don't see this as a priority.

It's sad, but that's Blizzard for you.

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Imagine being granted immortality – and then being sentenced to life in prison. This is what end game PVE is like for a Shaman.

The 1.11 review brought even more damage potential to what was widely considered the Shaman’s most powerful talent tree – Elemental. And an Elemental Shaman can do some jaw dropping damage to end game bosses – for about half the fight. At that time, the mana battery runs dry, and the Shaman is useless because they have no ability to regenerate that mana quickly.

So what about Mana Tide, you ask?

Mana Tide is only available as a 31 point talent in the Restoration tree. Now you’ve lost your additional damage potential in the Elemental tree.

What about Mana Spring Totem?

Please, don’t make me laugh.

Currently, the only reason that a Shaman is invited to end game PVE is if a Priest or Druid is unavailable. And then, only if that Shaman has 31 points in the Restoration tree. Because of the totem mechanics, it is more beneficial for the raid group to invite another Priest, Warrior, or Rogue to the party then a Shaman.

And in the upcoming 1.12 patch Blizzard will be making the Shaman even less desirable in groups by reducing the benefits of the Windfury totem.

The developers really need to take a look at these issues and bring some balance to the Shaman class.

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I've said this before, if you look at the lore for draenai, they are "shamanistic", and there is no reason that Blood elves can't be pally's. Therefore I think, and hope, that draenai are allowed to play as shamans and blood elves as pallys. Then this would all be moot.

Peace.

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I would like to point out that currently the highest-skilled guild is a Horde guild on an EU server. I forget the name, they've been talked about before (I'm pretty sure on this site too? Maybe just wow forums). I'm not sure if they downed C'thun first, but they did down him on May 10th (I think, according to their pics) and have down nearly half the bosses in Naxx. I wouldn't necessarily say Alliance > Horde in balance, but I do believe that the horde that a much harder time. Not to mention anybody that has played a paladin or played against one knows that they are too strong. Sure, they can't kill worth a crap, but they *don't* die. How is that balanced? The only thing they seem to be good for is their buffs, aura, and minor healing aid, haha. Or maybe acting like a tank? Hmm.. one would think.

P.S. 2 weeks ago a guy by the name of "Darion" reached High Warlord on Eitrigg... 60 Tauren Shaman. His gang just mauls people in WSG/AB, but he hates hunters.. hmm... :)

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-shaman&T=672007&P=5

They are cancelling the TF nerf:
[Quoted from Eyonix, post #89]
"I've spoken with the developers and they let me know that they're not satisfied with the impact the windfury totem change is having on current end-game content balance, and plan to undo the change. Please remember that the testing phase of any patch is precisely to test such changes and evaluate their possible impact on the game, whether or not they eventually go into the final release build.

In short, no change to Windfury Totem is planned at this time."

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#9: No, it wouldn't. A huge part of the problem is how underpowered Shamen are. All that would do is eliminate the Shaman class, as the Horde players who would've chosen that class would instead head for the Blood Elves and their Paladin.

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Horde is not a bad game, but the biggest problem I find with patches is that they are ment to fix problems but also end up creating many new problems...how do you win.

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I called it!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/classcombo.html

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