um what class is ever pleased. its never enough. hunters get buffed, they want more. paladins get buffed, they want more. mages get buffed, they want more. nothing is never enough in the world of whinecraft. heading to the shaman forums now and fully expect to see, yeah guess thats good but now we need all these other things. one of these days one of the CM's will snap on the forums lol.

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They did, his name was Tseric.

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ya ok lol...i just read something about that whilst going through the shaman forums. something about 'pulling a Tseric'. i must find out what happened lol.

and, following up my previous post, I'm happy to find out I was completely wrong. the ele shaman population seems to have exploded with epic glee, all at once. I've been so disgusted and whatnot with the wow population lately, the bar was pretty low as far as predicting their reaction.

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I'm fine with rogue DPS as it stands :D

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it is a great acknowledgment to all those players who went to the PTR, did good research and testing, kudos to you guys and low twos to the CMs and Blizz devs for taking nearly 6 weeks to admit they were wrong.

SIX WEEKS!?!?

Totally pathetic, not to mention the lack of communication and discussion the CMs had with the community. It was like night and day switching between the EU forums and the US forums.

Drysc, Neth and Eyonix have a lot to learn from their European counterparts on Community Management.

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This is a buff to 1-70 elemental Shamans and arena shamans who avg 800-900dmg, It is however a nerf to raiding shamans who can hit as high as 1500 dmg fully buffed.

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Fraufrau said: Drysc, Neth and Eyonix have a lot to learn from their European counterparts on Community Management.

So does the American community from the European one.

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Not knowing much about how damage coefficients work, how does a 5-6% higher coefficient equal less DPS over a certain amount of spelldamage?

I play a rogue, so I'm used to things scaling somewhat linearly, so the whole concept of a DPS nerf after a certain number kinda confuses me.

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Nevermind about my previous comment, I see what he means.

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Finally. I bet they add the spell coefficient to the Lightning Mastery talent. Let it be known that I've been saying this since day 1, in case I'm right. :)

Now that this issue is fixed, I'm happy with the patch.

Let's see some totem system improvements in 2.4 now.

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In response to Number 5. Why did it matter if this change took 6 weeks? It's going to be changed before it ever did any damage from anyone on a live realm. We should just be happy they acknowledged it during their PTR testing.

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Ok, with the new patch I'd like to keep natures swiftness but remain a viable healer and dps in pvp mostly but instances if necessary. With the dps significantly down for those of us who never invested in lightning overload, who has any opinion on this build?
Elemental Talents - 40 point(s)

# Convection - rank 5/5
# Concussion - rank 5/5
# Elemental Focus - rank 1/1
# Reverberation - rank 4/5
# Call of Thunder - rank 5/5
# Eye of the Storm - rank 3/3
# Storm Reach - rank 2/2
# Elemental Fury - rank 1/1
# Elemental Precision - rank 3/3
# Lightning Mastery - rank 5/5
# Elemental Mastery - rank 1/1
# Lightning Overload - rank 5/5

Restoration Talents - 21 point(s)

# Improved Healing Wave - rank 5/5
# Tidal Focus - rank 5/5
# Healing Focus - rank 5/5
# Tidal Mastery - rank 5/5
# Nature's Swiftness - rank 1/1

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@6 at 1500 its a 0.5% nerf. and thats not even considering when you put in shocks and CL into your spell rotation considering the mana efficacy buffs

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Yes! This is great news, I was really upset about the nerf and now im really glad lol

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rogues need a nerf...
locks shouldnt be alowed 10k+...
resto druids need to have a penalty for changing forms...



hutners are not op
elemental shamans need a buff
and wtf blizzard make paladins...more...idk...EXCITING????????

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