Wrath of the Lich King is in Alpha. That means... well, it means some folks are playing around with a really early version of the next expansion. It also means that we hearken back to the last time WoW had an expansion, and start considering how the classes will change. Will there be new talents? If so, we'll see even more specialization between talent specs. If not, we'll see a lot more broad viability as people find ways to spend ten extra talent points.
Just before The Burning Crusade we saw the Before the Storm patch which introduced the new 41 point talents to all three trees. Dual wielding, raging enhancement shaman, earth shielding resto shaman, and wrath totem dropping elemental shamans all come from this patch, which changed the face of the shaman class. The ridiculously high burst of a windfury imbued 2h weapon became less common as the new talents changed the way each spec played.
Now, clearly I have no special insight into the direction Blizzard and the developers plan to take the shaman class. I'm just another shammy out in the trenches punching things. But there are things I'd like to see and also things I'd like to see but which I don't expect will happen, and so I figured I might as well speculate as to a few possible changes coming in the expansion. Maybe somehow the viral nature of the internet will cause one of these ideas to worm its way into someone who can actually implement them. And possibly vast sums of gold will rain down upon my shaman wherever he goes, while I'm dreaming.
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