Just what WoW needs. EVEN MORE powerful Shamans

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Giving shamans trainable 2H axes and maces is nice, but all it's really doing is giving Enhancement and Hybrid specs an extra talent point. Elementals and Restos will stick with 1H/shield or 2H staff as always.

But I'm not complaining. Those fixes are very nice.

Shamanistic Focus looks pretty sweet, but it'll probably be nerfed a bit. A dual-wielding shaman is going to be critting so often that they'll never have to spend the full mana cost for a shock.

I was hoping to see some Elemental improvements, but they did mention that they'll be significantly increasing the effects of several totems, including Mana Spring, so that'll make me happy.

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Yagshemash! Nice! High five!

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As a restoration shaman who can't justify spending even one point to gain a 2H weapon talent that I'll use 0.05% of the time... trainable 2H's still sounds f-ing sweet! That'll cut down the time it takes for me solo mobs by at least TEN minutes!!

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@2 You do realize that a lot of enchancement shamans have pathetic mana pools right? It's not like they run around with 11k mana.

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These fixes make a lot of sense. Resto is fine, Elemental is mostly fine. Enhancement is gimped right now. This means 1) Enhancement Shaman can spot heal effectively in DPS gear, 2) can actually use their shocks for DPS (now prohibited by their tiny mana pools)and 3) actually surive the initial burst in PVP. I hope.

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the mental quickness gives healing AND spell damage too, 30% of the attack power is correct. so with an averaga 1500 ap, +450spelldamage on shocks and totems and stuff.

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This will fix some of mana issues that enhancement shamans have, sure. But like someone before me posted, I was hoping for some fixes to the elemental tree.

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omigosh... gonna have to finish collecting an enhancement set! resto's great and all but--

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I'm glad they are fixing Enhance and I like the changes so far to it. As Baluki said, I really am pushing for more Elemental buffs. Ever since the change to clear cast and some of the Resto changes we have been less and less used. I'd rather go into Arena as a PewPewing shaman with Elemental/Resto spec then a full Resto spec

~Zuty

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ZOMGFR!

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Elemental Focus also had their next TWO spells for 40% less mana cost.

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Woot! Great fixes, I'm very pleased!

Now I'd like to see a few fixes for enhancement, and a class-wide CC method. That's all, then I'm happy and ready to go to Northrend!

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@5: Of course. But I also know that Blizzard hates to give us anything that'll let us do what we want to do without any sacrifices. I think that once they realize that they've just given Enhance shamans what is effectively a 60% reduction in shock cost, they'll put some restrictions on it, or just nerf it down.


Also, notice that this article doesn't say anything about threat reduction. Enhance shamans have been having threat issues for a long time now, and if they get to use their high-threat shocks much more often...

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Too little, too late.

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1: About damn time. My 41pt talent vs 31 pt moonkin. Same mana regen. They also get boosted damage for spells, 400% armor and a cool dance. I get a huge amount of aggro generation.

2: 2-handers baseline puts them more in line with every freaking class in the game. Bout time. It also allows resto to actually farm, something that takes ages right now.

3: 60% mana reduction is somehow overpowered? Those damn spells suck mana up at an insane rate. They are one of the least efficient spells in the game and all this does is make it so that Elemental and Enhance will want to use them more often now. Before you would stormstrike and let the elemental shaman use the charges, now you can actually pop one in there and not have to scream at your mana bar become almost non-existant if you used them fairly often in the rotation.

4: Mental quickness was nice before, now it actually is worth it. I believe this should actually be a baseline ability, much like Paladins getting mana for heals. And it should go the other way and allow Shaman to get AP based on spell damage. Even only 30% is nice enough to allow a resto or elemental to get into a fight and still survive. Either way, this will make this awesome.

I will agree with someone else. Aggro needs to get fixed for Enhance.
Also, CC and anti-CC concerns are a major issue.
We are passed over for CC in smaller groups and have no anti-CC worth mentioning in PVP.

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40% Melee Mitigation + 30% less damage = 58% mitigation every 2 minutes for 30 seconds.

25% Melee Mitigation + 65% less damage = 73% mitigation every 3 minutes for 8 seconds.

Why is this better then priests 41st point disc talent?

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After 9 MONTHS of nerf mode they will fix us omfg, cant believe it, their joke has been done, 70% shamans have just rerolled by so increasing their farm time on wow. Now they fix us, it was so easy and dam fast to be done, but they took 9 MONTHS cmon i say..9 MONTHS to fix a fucking class.
I left the game, ill see what happens, but if you read the wow forum i said months ago, right after TBC came out, that shaman were gonna be nerfed and we would have to wait months just for blizzard fucking retarded by business developers.

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I was VERY please to see these, but to be honest, seeing no deaggro component makes me wonder if I can switch back from resto. What these fixes seem to show me is that if I did switch back, I'd be more sustainable in PVP with the damage reduction and some healing improvements. For PVE, I'll still have to throttle my dps like mad to not draw aggro. What these changes might mean for me in reality is that I can stay 61-point resto and weild 2-handers, meaning that I didn't craft Thunder in vain, as it now sits in my bank collecting dust.

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I've been waiting for this very moment as an enhancement shaman. Too long have I had to constantly prove my worth in raids and groups...not once have I gone resto or elemental because I LOVE ENHANCEMENT. I have tried different variations of Enhancement and finally found the right one for me 17/44/0 so when i saw this was like OMG they just basically made my branch of Enha UBER. i have a very lor mana pull but and a huge amount of threat never had any probs but things are looking up and fingers crossed for more..Setek is my shaman and am a TRUE Enhancement Shaman and will NEVER change :D this has made my day Thanks Blizz

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