lvl 80 twinks on the beta are able to get to almost 100% dmg reduction, its rediculous
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lvl 80 twinks on the beta are able to get to almost 100% dmg reduction, its rediculous
Boxing ele shamans now in BGs is just amazing. It feels like WotLK all over again. With a pocket healer i can easily tank 4-6 people on my team. Healing tide totem ticks for 40.000 pr 2 second, healing stream for 20.000 pr 2 second. Pop these bad boys and see your HP go from zero to hero in no time.
Burst feels semi decent, warriors and priests are hard to kill due to good self healing, other then that shit die!
I know numbers and stats will change once we reach lvl 90, but right now im bathing in pure ownage :)
My 2 cents
Yep... healing out the wazoo and with a paladin healer you can get so much uptime during your ascension that if you are not CC'd (not feared due to tremor) during it then you will win no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nikita
WTF, warriors healing is that good? Nerf that shit.
Its pretty retarded @ 85, but at 90 its balanced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Multibocks
Just like shockadins are gone at 90 as well basically because of mana costs according to one of my friends.
The story repeats itself... Shamans being great at the pre xpac patch and once they hit max lvl they pretty much is weak compared to other classes. Sad.. I realy loved quad boxing shammies in BC and WOTLK.
Maybe in pvp, I haven't seen them shine much in pveQuote:
Originally Posted by Eloxy
I'm sorry but round robin 60k heals every 2 seconds for the entire team, their own aura mastery with 4 piece resto set, stun totems, usable elementals in arena and their damage (in mop) makes stacking shaman look REALLY strong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eloxy
Seriously.. . 4x ele shamans are retarded for arena at lvl 90 if they pop everything: stormlash totem stacks btw. 4x ascension with 4 instant hexes, pop your fire elementals and stun whatever you can with your earth elementals, while your fire elementals rape everything while spamming lava burst. The offhealing is absolutely sick as it is right now. It's easy to fuck up though and it's all about popping everything at once with a lot of buttons to take care off (i'd almost say the skill cap is pretty high, but he/she who masters to play 4x shamans is gonna be god). It's no 1 spamming death knight team, and I'm really happy for that (because it's my personal opinion that multiboxing should be harder than solo play, and only when you really master the spec/class you should get an advantage if you box).
You have about 12 seconds to kill 2 people on their team or you lose basically. And you have to pop all your cooldowns in a specific order and hope to god they suck at totem stomping. It will be awesome and will take skill for sure. But lets not forget... dk skill cap to do well was very high.Quote:
Originally Posted by zenga
Would a 5 shaman boxer stand a chance vs a 5 dk boxer in MoP? Guess that's the first question that comes to mind, for me at least.
I'm just playing it out in my head but assuming they are aggressive:Quote:
Originally Posted by 3box
1. They all run in with AMS and pop cooldowns
2. You go into extreme defensive mode (as much as that's possible with ele shaman): stone bulwark totems, 2 or more healing tides, healing rains to survive at least 10-15 seconds. You would have to either have aura mastery or trinket 5 strangulates if you didn't get passive healing down. Project the totems away from your team to prevent totem stomping or force them to turn around and/or run away to stomp them.
3. Pop Your cooldowns, gain range and/or go into spiritwalker's grace IWT mode.
4. Hope they die
With a separate dedicated healer it'd be a lot easier for the shaman.
If they aren't aggressive you'd need to force use of AMS or other cooldowns by pumping some damage into them.
I suspect you could also project a glyphed capacitor totem into their team from range and start going nuts.
Another trick I used to do is have a round robin thunderstorm + earthgrab totem (2 shaman each key press) - the result would be them rooted 30(ish?) yards away because earthgrab doesn't proc until landing. Then you project a capacitor totem onto them.
The more I think about all this, projected capacitor totems and round robin earthgrabs... it would be beautiful if pulled off. In practice though, a lot can go wrong and it's a lot of micro management to do, while you're always half a second away from death as elemental shaman are.
A single elemental is killing people at level 90 on beta in well under 12 seconds with Ascension. However, with five people and healing cooldowns though, a lot of factors change even with quadruple the firepower.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
CC always changes things lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by heyaz
the buff does stack but you still get only one stormlash procc per spellQuote:
Originally Posted by zenga
I meant that you can use stormlash totem one after another, not like bloodlust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
h ok missread that, however I played my first bg today since the patch and its going pretty well, lava burst damage seems a bit low but somehow it doesnt matter because chainlight spam +echo kills everything and somehow I dont die with healing stream/tide up, may opponents were badly geared but still impressive at the moment, almost like s8/pre cataclysm
My DK team is currently 1 shotting people with oblit. >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
Stuff right now damage wise will change for sure when you get to 90. Though oblit crits for 100k at 90 still lol.
How much health does a 90 geared up have?
340-380k buffedQuote:
Originally Posted by roddo
If they go tank route, I saw some 500k dudes streaming.