Wow Cataclysm Shaman Changes
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Shaman have had to endure alot of pain over the past several years and have been promised many things. While they did get some major attention in the recent patch with their ‘totem fix’, they still need alot of work. In WoW Cataclysm, Shaman will hopefully get the fixes that they’ve been asking for. There’s already signs that developers are working on the Shaman class in Wow Cataclysm.
List of new additions and changes for Shaman in WoW Cataclysm:
With Battlegrounds gaining more importance in Cataclysm, they should be much more useful in PvP than today even with no changes. Shaman have always had a variety of tools and different options in battle but the burstiness of arena and crowd control never favored them much. Hopefully the new expansion will make Shaman of all sorts be viable and competitive. Check back later with more Shaman news for WoW Cataclysm.
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“AoE Healing will also be imporoved, as Blizzard would like that aspect of the Restoration Shaman to improve” ?
Umh ok.
btw, fix “imporoved”
must admit, this is super shmexy from my shams point of view, Cataclysm seems to be great for every1 but locks
GIVE US 2H VIABILITY FOR PVP =)
Hi when beta comes out i gonna hack all computers then destroy the world of world craft cataclysm go a why or i kill the captain of BlizzArd
took them long enough to decide not to force ele shamans into being turrets anymore.
How bout they do this, get ride of elementals summoned by totems.
Replace them with weaker elementals that support the shaman and are magical and not physical targets. LIke the old totems were. These elementals can only be summoned one at a time and have different raid buffs and adds dps/heals to shaman ( not a huge increase)
For example:
Wind Elemental
Increase dodge chance of raid (1%)
casts lightning at shamans target (nature damage)
Fire Elemental
Increase Parry chance of raid (1%)
casts fiery flares at shamans target (fire damage)
Earth Elemental
Increase Defense chance of raid (1%)
casts shards at shamans target (physical damage)
Water Elemental
Increase spell resistance of all magic for raid (1%)
casts heal over time on lowest health in raid
Summoning elementals will use a reagent. These reagents drop from elementals throughout the world.
Basically this idea adds another layer of buffing to shaman and strategy to playing the class.
But this is just an idea..its pretty similar to how imp is to warlock.
i think shamans are great already and now u make it easier but not for warriors i thing u must just go and just give worriors as much as u give the rest
so far it sucks to be a worrior when cataclysm comes out
please make shamans not able to wear mail
Taking mail from shamans… you’re joking right? it’s not like we’re getting beaten to death by melee classes as it already is lol, and giving us leather… don’t even want to think about it
wow devilz are you seroius thats dumb how all thoes tings are to help tanks they already are buff with raid buffs and totem buff andy more then raids would be easy.. and why not think of something like for pvp we need more survivabilty every class has more cc than shammans do which they need to fix
Why Enhancement shamans never buffed? Always nerfed! WTF I like SHaman very Much i have a enchancement shaman, I play with DW and 2H Please! Buff 2H shamans! and DW too for PvE and PvP ! Shamans only are “good” in Elemental / Resto, not enhacement… Its’s funny. . .Thanks for your reading, Windfuryrape.
how many other shamans go into a BG with 20k health and get hit and first thought is i need to heal or get out of here and its kinda a pain when all i can do is anhk to survive a bit hit and come back with 5k health to be hit once and die again, ele/enh need something to keep them up and resto needs something to take an enemy out in pvp without wasting talent points.
Yea its great ele shaman need more damage from lighting bolt etc. than he have now. I waiting for emails from new changes about ele sham
my enh shaman was quite good in arena when full furious was good but i would like to see 2 handers buffed.
Can we resto shammys get a water elemental totem? the water elemental would be like our off heals? that would definitely cover the whole “improve AoE healing thing” would give us another version of ourselves healing… but you know..not as powerful.
I play an ele shaman, and am starting into arena. Damn, it is great to hear that I can finally survive as the main target in my 2v2 {With Ret Pally} and do decent. I can`t wait until Cat, it promises to be the best thing for shammies since totems.
I say give Shammy’s a Plate Talent, and also an elemental shapeshift form that boosts our armor so we can take even more damage. Add with that some threat boosters and we are gtg for tanking too.
haha, stupid blizzard, they just buff rogues, enhancment shaman die fast, have a regular dps and realy sux in pvp comparated with other classes..
damn i hate be a nerfed class.
ele shammies = cake mix in pvp stun the healer for more then 3 seconds and there dead lol now survivability what so ever
They have to be very careful how they level us. Yes, Elemental is a long range turret that gets nuked in a heartbeat. but gods forbid the enemy lets us actually get our spells off. Enhance? yup, goes down like a punk bitch, but let them build their maelstrom up and they become beasts. we’re a strong, powerful class, but it is almost entirely offensive, with very, very limited defense. i’ve been to the arena a few times with an undergeared elemental shaman. went with a prot paladin, myself, and a boomkin. many times i would be targeted first, and if i could survive for more than a few seconds, i ripped apart whatever i targetted. so yeah, my whole point is this: we’re glass cannons, just like mages or rogues, we simple are made of more fragile glass