Shaman buffs Coming!!!!

Shaman
Elemental

* Flame Shock now deals 834 Fire damage over 18 sec at max rank. (Up from 556 fire damage over 12 sec) Lower ranks increased accordingly.
* Lava Burst no longer consumes Flame Shock.


Enhancement

* Earthen Power changed to : Your Earthbind Totem's pulses have a 50/100% chance to also remove all snare effects from you and nearby friendly targets, and your Earth Shock reduces enemy attack speed by additional 5/10%.


Glyphs

* Glyph of Flame Shock - The periodic damage dealt by your Flame Shock can now be critical strikes. (Old - Increases the duration of your Flame Shock ability by 6 sec and it is not consumed by casting Lava Burst.)

They gave enhancement a nerf, which is good the earthbind totem was a little too powerful.

This buff isn't huge but a buff is a buff, so I'll take it :)

some are saying its a 10% increase dps wise. With increase flame shock dots and with the chance to crit and FS being up for the full duration. I am not a number runner so I cant prove either way.

10% would be very nice

It's good, but it is also just playing around with the spec to cover for the tier set bonuses. The total dmg upgrade of flameshock I'm impressed with, but you pretty much need t9 to not have to recast FS every time you lvb.

They still need to do much much more for the spec. Trying my hardest in almost full BiS and still falling so far behind a dps DK who is facerolling 9k-10k dps is just stupid.

But every buff is a step in the right direction, this is very very nice for those shammies that aren't at the endgame and don't get the tier bonuses.

I'll stop QQing now lol, hooray for buffs :P

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Originally Posted by valkry

It's good, but it is also just playing around with the spec to cover for the tier set bonuses. The total dmg upgrade of flameshock I'm impressed with, but you pretty much need t9 to not have to recast FS every time you lvb.

They still need to do much much more for the spec. Trying my hardest in almost full BiS and still falling so far behind a dps DK who is facerolling 9k-10k dps is just stupid.

But every buff is a step in the right direction, this is very very nice for those shammies that aren't at the endgame and don't get the tier bonuses.

I'll stop QQing now lol, hooray for buffs :P

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t9 4 piece bonus is amazing 20% bonus to lava burst holy shit I enjoy that. In Pve there are certain class that buff the dmg of other classes. Blood dks putting hysteria on rogues and rogues putting tricks on DKs. Elemental need something like that from some classes in pve.

Shaman

• Grounding Totem will now properly protect against the Death Grip spell.
• Lava Burst can no longer deal critical damage to targets who are immune to critical strikes (due to, e.g. Roar of Sacrifice, Blessed Resilience).
• Stoneclaw Totem's pulses will no longer break stealth on nearby hostile units.
• Thunderstorm and Shamanistic Rage can no longer be used while Frozen, Cycloned, Sapped, or Incapacitated.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html
Hmm...

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Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz

Shaman

• Grounding Totem will now properly protect against the Death Grip spell.
• Lava Burst can no longer deal critical damage to targets who are immune to critical strikes (due to, e.g. Roar of Sacrifice, Blessed Resilience).
• Stoneclaw Totem's pulses will no longer break stealth on nearby hostile units.
• Thunderstorm and Shamanistic Rage can no longer be used while Frozen, Cycloned, Sapped, or Incapacitated.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html
Hmm...

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Damn I was just going to post these. ;p

DG being ground again is awsome. I believe the rest to be just bug fixes

I have also been thinking about getting glyph of ToW for the new flame shock dots/ crits on my sham that has the ToW

All I want is a melee AOE move for enhancement... good luck you elemental folks.

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Thunderstorm and Shamanistic Rage can no longer be used while Frozen, Cycloned, Sapped, or Incapacitated.

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Sigh. They only just added this recently didnt they? Back to getting chain-stunned in bg's, gg.