FOTM seems to be changing.

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So I believe Wilbur is officially right. There seems to be a lot of attention going to the 5 boomkin route now.

What has caused the change from "PEW PEW Shamans" to ..."Forest of Death"?

[Eteocles]

I was a Boomkin before it was cool *shakes fist* I think I said it all in my last post about them...heals, stealth, armor(though obviously not all at once), high dmg output post-58(though you WILL SUCK HARD before outlands gear); Boomkin pvp takes some getting used to too, it's more about being aware like a rogue while abusing the fact that you're ranged, and kiting like a hunter.

[Boylston]

I gotta say that there's still a lot of Fear Bomb weakness with the boomkin... Maybe if moonkin aura stacked, it would be worth it (ZOMG 25% crit!!), but the times my little shammies have gotten destroyed in BG/world PvP, it's because I didn't have my array of tremor and grounding totems going.

I bet it's damn nice until you get feared, and it's probably incredibly versatile for PvE. (Can always run a Tank/Healer/3 Boomkin setup if needed).

[Slats]

I dont think its really changing.

Two or three people are interested in it and only one person ahs them at 70.

When there is 400 million threads about them and everyoens signiture says 5x Moonkin then I will have to agree itts changing.

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A change starts somewhere.

[Ellay]

I really think it's great to diversify, Shamans "look" to be the best because of some videos out there. I think a lot of the classes have the potential to be just as amazing.
Mages could really make a come back since Iceblock is trainable now.
Hunters have a non dispellable 18 seconds of immunity to everything with BM spec.
Priests have 3 ways to get out of fear every 2 minutes.
If melee was possible ( someone might be able to pull it off) Rogues would be down right devistating with Shadowstep.
Warlocks are able to have INSANE survivability to both melee and casters, or INSANE damage that is completely mobile.

There is a ton of options out there - I'm glad were not pigeon holed into 1 class as the end all be all.

[Boylston]

Must.... resist.... hunter.... temptation...

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Now that Shadowstep works out of stealth...it might just be possible in pve to run rogues effectively. Use your main/lead char to cheapshot the mob, then immediately shadowstep with the other rogues and simul-ambush it. As I lvl'd both of my rogues full daggers/subtlety and never had any good daggers, I'd still do a third to half the mob's HP in a single Ambush, and that was without Hemo or Shadowstep's dmg multiplier included...multiply that by 4 rogues and you just oneshotted a mob. I'm doing 2k-3.5k ambushes now at 70 with blue 70 daggers, if you have imp ambush and time it right you could shadowstep behnd something(or someone), ambushx5, backstabx5, bam dead =x

[Boylston]

"if you have imp ambush and time it right you could shadowstep behnd something(or someone), ambushx5, backstabx5, bam dead =x"

Then what? Vanish and repeat in 25seconds?

This sounds like AP+POM+Pyro to me. Devastating, but on a timer. It'd be a shortish timer compared to 3min, but not something that would be an i-win button in Arena...

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I've been thinking of making a different group.... 1 healer (druid or priest) and 4 warriors. I figure 4x arms warriors would make for quite the pain train...just if people move I'm screwed.