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Enndo
06-18-2009, 03:49 PM
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A customizable totem bar will now be available for shaman allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems.
All Shocks now have a default range of 25 yards, up from 20 yards.
Base health increased by approximately 7% to correct for shamans having lower health than other classes.
Chain Heal: Jump distance increased to 10 yards. In addition, the amount of healing now decreases by 40% as it jumps to each new target, instead of 50%.
Ghost Wolf: Can now be learned at level 16. While in this form, snaring effects may not bring the shaman below base normal run speed.
Talents
Enhancement
Shamanistic Rage: Cooldown is now 1 minute, down from 2 minutes. Successful melee attacks now have a chance to generate mana equal to 15% of the shaman's attack power, down from 30%.
Restoration
Ancestral Healing: The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 3/7/10% instead of increasing the target's armor.
Cure Poison and Cure Disease: Combined into a single spell, Cure Toxins.
Earth Shield: Dispel effects will now remove charges of Earth Shield rather than the entire aura.
Healing Way: Redesigned. Rather than providing a chance of increasing Healing Wave spells on a friendly target, this talent now innately increases the effectiveness of the shaman's Healing Wave by 8/16/25%.
Mana Tide Totem: Totem health now equal to 10% of the shaman's health.
Nature's Guardian: Redesigned. Now has a fixed 100% proc rate, has a 30-second internal cooldown and increases the shaman's maximum health by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds.
Nature's Swiftness: Cooldown is now 2 minutes, down from 3 minutes.
Tidal Waves: No longer reduces the cast time of Lesser Healing Wave by 30%. It instead now provides +25% critical strike chance to Lesser Healing Wave, along with the previous 30% cast time benefit to Healing Wave.
Improved Water Shield: This talent now has a 10/20/30% chance to be triggered by Chain Heal, and the charges of Water Shield are no longer consumed by this talent.

Enndo
06-18-2009, 04:12 PM
Yeah this is the latest info of changes that are gonna be in the PTR

heyaz
06-18-2009, 04:23 PM
I like the idea of the health increase, but are we really only 7% behind other classes? My naked shamana has 7685... with 7% more that's 8223. Well, at least I can drop a couple stam gems for more spell power :)

I was looking at the furious chain gear, and it's the exact stamina that shaman get on furious mail.... where the hell do hunters get all that stam? All the ones I see in my gear are gemmed for attack power and crit, and have 25k. I'm gemmed a lot of stamina and have 21k

Love the totem poles and being able to ghost wolf through snares... maybe give us a good way to group the shaman back up when you get fan of knived or unholy whatever snared and the alts can't catch up to cast.

Enndo
06-18-2009, 04:40 PM
Well I just looked over all the patch notes, and all i can say is wow. I'm really looking forward to this patch.

The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a Venomhide Ravasaur as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.


LOL Take that alliance!

Tonuss
06-18-2009, 05:13 PM
Well I just looked over all the patch notes, and all i can say is wow. I'm really looking forward to this patch.I agree. Lots of good stuff in there. But it will be a while before it goes live. My current MB team (shaman + 4 hunters) is 36 now and will probably be past 60 by then... :(

Enndo
06-18-2009, 05:19 PM
I'm sure it will be at least 2 months before it goes live, but its ok now we have something to look forward to. Also with the nice changes to resilience verse DoTs im very glad im leveling a lock in my current team cause its gonna be FEAR LOL your dead again like BC.

Fat Tire
06-18-2009, 05:32 PM
I'm sure it will be at least 2 months before it goes live, but its ok now we have something to look forward to. Also with the nice changes to resilience verse DoTs im very glad im leveling a lock in my current team cause its gonna be FEAR LOL your dead again like BC.yup! Affliction got its mojo back!

asonimie
06-18-2009, 05:34 PM
OMFG at the ghost wolf change.... YAAAAAYYYYYYY

Fat Tire
06-18-2009, 05:47 PM
OMFG at the ghost wolf change.... YAAAAAYYYYYYYI saw that too! :D

Ughmahedhurtz
06-18-2009, 07:46 PM
Ya know, this is funny. They JUST said earlier this week that they didn't want Chain Heal to be the only thing people use (or a large part of it) and then they go and give the imp. water shield+chain heal thingy and the increase to 10 yards per jump and decreased the fall-off per jump. Makes you wonder what else they're going to do.

Lax
06-18-2009, 08:24 PM
I gotta say, after playing a holy paladin and a resto shaman as main characters, I wasn't that impressed with the things available for the shaman compared to my paladin. These changes that benefit resto shamans are definitely welcomed ;)

Sajuuk
06-18-2009, 10:30 PM
I may reactivate my shaman/druids!

And get them all ravasaurs.

mmcookies
06-18-2009, 10:55 PM
I predict this patch will hit late July/early August, a couple of weeks before Blizzcon, basically.

Enndo
06-19-2009, 08:57 AM
Or at the very least its release date will be a big topic at blizzcon.

skooks
06-19-2009, 12:46 PM
Wasn't there talk of repairing or changing the ability for totem stomping from pets?

Has there been any mention of that? To me it would make sense to apply the change for this at the same time they redo the totem bar?

Or am I just crazy and missed something with the lack of coffee this morning?

Tonuss
06-19-2009, 12:58 PM
The official patch notes are up, and among them is...

Macros and scripts will no longer be able to target totems by name.

Gurblash
06-19-2009, 04:33 PM
For the sake of forum cleanliness, yes I know you will all laugh at me for this, lets please continue this conversation in the PTR Notes sticky :thumbsup:

3.2 PTR NOTES. Please keep all PTR discussions in the sticky. ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=22729')