Blue post on lava burst and lightning damage

[rbaldwin7]

@Niley: What addon is that for your DPS?

[Multibocks]

/conspiracy theory on
I almost feel that this is a direct nerf to shamans on purpose. To do good dps you need a warlock/dk/druid in your group and that completely ruins the synergy of a 5 shaman MBer. It troubles me that they don't care about the coefficient on LB will not scale well late into lich king.

[zanthor]

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[Multibocks]

I don't get it.



































YOU SO FUNNY!

[puppychow]

Blizzard does not factor multiboxers into their "comp calculations". We make up such a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of their userbase. Now of course if one comp suddenly is super OP they will nerf it, but usually it takes forever-and-a-day, and more relates to raiding/PVP stacking than really multiboxers (ex: stacking shamans for heroism/chain heal, stacking warriors for execute, etc).

Blizzards WOTLK philosophy is that most DPS specs should perform around the same, so that a group can pick the tank(s), healer(s), and DPSers and not worry so much about whether what class your friend is, just whether he is good at his class or not. So while it sucks that ele shamans kind of need a boomkin/warlock to pump out more DPS, it goes along the idea of that you can group with EITHER one, instead of always having to take a affliction warlock for his malediction curse.

Unfortunately they are in super crunch mode, and some classes are far and away better than others. At the moment, rogues and deathknights are the kings of DPS, followed by retadins, boomkins, hunters. Elemental shamans are pretty much at the bottom, especially as gear gets better (other classes scale much better). Maybe they will fix it, maybe not. There is a lot of class balance issues in the game right now, including a lot of healing issues, so realistically they are going to first ensure every class has at least one good spec, before ensuring all specs are decent. Elemental shamans have always been the red headed stepchild, behind resto and enhance, and I doubt that'll change much in wotlk for a while.

[Fuzzyboy]

/conspiracy theory on
I almost feel that this is a direct nerf to shamans on purpose. To do good dps you need a warlock/dk/druid in your group and that completely ruins the synergy of a 5 shaman MBer. It troubles me that they don't care about the coefficient on LB will not scale well late into lich king.

What puppychow said. Also, this isn't a nerf to boxers even if that was their reason for nerfing. With a warlock/druid in the group or with a mage/lock/druid group, that would be fixed. Of course, that's in relation to PvE, but still.

I do think it's a shame that they put the coeff nerf in 3.0. I could live with 5 levels of lower dps once WotLK is out, because most classes are balanced with the top-level in mind, but it's a damn shame that we'll be effectively broken until wotlk comes out - it would be more professional to wait with the coeff nerf until wotlk is released but hey, it's only a month.

[Multibocks]

Most of you are missing the /conspiracy theory on part.


maybe they should make another emote for you guys


/jokegoingoveryourhead

can thank me later for it.

[wizofid]

So as a new MBer with his 5 shamans at 26, should I rethink my classes before I contine much farther?

[Fuzzyboy]

maybe they should make another emote for you guys


/jokegoingoveryourhead

can thank me later for it.

Oh ok. Since it wasn't funny, I assumed it wasn't a joke ;-)

[Fuzzyboy]

So as a new MBer with his 5 shamans at 26, should I rethink my classes before I contine much farther?

Play what classes you have fun playing. It's still beta and nothing is certain :-)

Edit: Oh, and also, it very much depends on your goal. A holy trinity group will be able to do most 5 man PvE content simply because thats what the content is designed for. As for PvP it changes