New ele Shammy Changes 3.1

[David]

Great news indeed. Finially elemental shamans recieve some good lovin. Now that new aoe spell please!

[Saevio]

For people with tanks I agree. But this is a very nice ability if you are running 5 shaman.

Very true!

[Catamer]

we had to squeal like stuck pigs to get these fixes.

[Multibocks]

Nice changes, though I'll probably still stay away from Elemental Warding, 3 points better spent elsewhere.

For people with tanks I agree. But this is a very nice ability if you are running 5 shaman. Being able to take more damage is always a good thing. The thing that I will be staying away from is unrelenting storm. There are few times that I am starved for mana (unless I am spamming healing) so right now this talent does no good for me. I think I had to take 1 point in it to advance to the next tier in my current spec.

I run oom all the time in PvP and this is with unrelenting storm, I'm real hesitant to drop it. Also my boss fights where they have 300k+ health I have to remind myself to TS or they run oom there too.

[Lyonheart]

Nice changes, though I'll probably still stay away from Elemental Warding, 3 points better spent elsewhere.

For people with tanks I agree. But this is a very nice ability if you are running 5 shaman. Being able to take more damage is always a good thing. The thing that I will be staying away from is unrelenting storm. There are few times that I am starved for mana (unless I am spamming healing) so right now this talent does no good for me. I think I had to take 1 point in it to advance to the next tier in my current spec.

I run oom all the time in PvP and this is with unrelenting storm, I'm real hesitant to drop it. Also my boss fights where they have 300k+ health I have to remind myself to TS or they run oom there too.

You keep all mana totems down? i never have mana issues unless I do something stupid and have to chain heal too many times. Even then I have not had one boss fight where i ran out of mana. I refresh water shield, keep mana totems down. I've cleared UK, Nex, and both spider zones so far.

And on topic>> WOOT!!!! I use nova/magma all the time when clearing trash. I am soooo happy about this!! 8)

[TheBigBB]

The title of this thread amuses me. It took all of a couple weeks for them to fine tune the shaman. You guys should have never worried. :thumbsup:

[Bollwerk]

Anyone have a link to this on the Blizzard forums? I can't find it. I want to believe it, but I take things with a grain of salt until I see "proof". =)

[Schwarz]

I would agree that in pvp it is easy to run out of mana. I find myself spamming chain lightning every time I have the chance. This will eat away at your mana pool pretty quickly.

Only times I ran into mana problems in PVE was when I first dinged 70 and did kara. Since then I haven't had a problem. I was messing around with the training dummies last night too see how much dps adding a mage would bring. I was timing how long it took for me to go from full mana to oom just casting lightning bolts. It took close to 2 mins to empty my mana pool. Heroic boss fights were usually 15-30 seconds for me.

Unrelenting storm isn't a bad talent. I just wouldn't take this over a talent that will increase your overall dps.

[mmcookies]

"hooray!"
- cirno

[emesis]

Anyone have a link to this on the Blizzard forums? I can't find it. I want to believe it, but I take things with a grain of salt until I see "proof". =)

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...15791748&sid=1