Shaman Changes in 5.1. FINALLY!!!

[valkry]

Earthquake sound effect is now quieter.

YAAAAAAAAY

There is an addon to remove most annoying sounds from the game so you can play with high sound

[Kruschpakx4]

Shaman
All totems are now considered spells, and summoning totems can be prevented by silencing effects. Searing Totem, Magma Totem, and Fire Elemental totems fall into the Fire school, while all other totems fall under the Nature school.

ok that one really hurts

[Fat Tire]

Shaman
All totems are now considered spells, and summoning totems can be prevented by silencing effects. Searing Totem, Magma Totem, and Fire Elemental totems fall into the Fire school, while all other totems fall under the Nature school.

ok that one really hurts

Its a major nerf to shamans especially resto and ele shamans. The fact that I can now blanket or stun and they cant link,tremor or put down grounding totem is amazing for me. Not sure how it affects boxers.

[Multibocks]

Maybe resto shamans won't be best arena healer now? Nah, who am i kidding

[Multibocks]

Haha, did a few tests on lvl 60 dummy, with all procs I had 27 k spellpower, and my Elemental blast hits for 80-100 k non critt, and Lava burst hits for 90 k critt. Gotta love the "burst". Thou if all 4 shamans toss out Elemental blast + ES you can kill a prepurged target. The really BIG issue for ele shamans is the AOE CC in 5v5, every time i pop ascendence I get locked down the whole duration.

Did 2s yesterday with a resto druid, met holy warrior and holy paladin. Got the warr in a hex, then went to town on the paladin. Warrior got dispelled, and locked me down for 15 sec straight. Even thou I had good distance to him. Intervene, heroic leap, charge x 2, gag, and that aoe stun shit = GG. Had to wait 3 min for new CDs, then I killed the paladin.

I really dont like the way this game is going. Do 3s and meet lock, spriest, resto shaman. You'll be feared most of the fight, even if you CC lock, there will be tons of fears from the priest. Go meet KFC, you will be forced to pop defensives regardless of skills from the warrior and hunter.

As a ele shaman, you need to play like a god to reach 2200. And your teammates need to be damn good aswell when it comes to peels.

Once patch 5.1 arrives, I'll do a serious push for ratings, hoping that some of the nerfs will help out. + all the extra conquest gear I have then.

Haha "holy warrior" is a first for me. Is that a new arena term?

[heyaz]

Shaman
All totems are now considered spells, and summoning totems can be prevented by silencing effects. Searing Totem, Magma Totem, and Fire Elemental totems fall into the Fire school, while all other totems fall under the Nature school.

ok that one really hurts

Well blood elves can now prevent you from breaking out of a fear quickly... but I'm often both silenced and feared and won't be able to drop a totem.

That's another cool change. Are there too many shaman overall or something? Do they want to make this class even less attractive, even for healing?

[valkry]

More nerfs for shamans, oh yay. I will now be changing my monthly cancellation monthly message from rogues are OP to shamans have been unfairly nerfed too much!!

[heyaz]

the more I think about it, this would have little effect if you're multiboxing shaman especially in healing, someone will be able to drop a totem (likely all but the main that got silenced). I don't know the purpose of this change though. Silencing restos and having them drop a healing tide or spirit link and not dying? is that a huge problem in arena?

[Fat Tire]

I don't know the purpose of this change though. Silencing restos and having them drop a healing tide or spirit link and not dying? is that a huge problem in arena?

Yes. In 2s and 3s shaman are the best healers by far because of all their outs. I would be ok if they kept totems the way they were but got rid of double purge and increased tremor cd or take it off totemic restoration talent.

[Kruschpakx4]

Yes. In 2s and 3s shaman are the best healers by far because of all their outs.

yeah resto shamans have crazy heal output because the mastery is really op, so better destroy a core mechanik that fucks all specs