A Few Upcoming Shaman Changes

[Toned]

I don't even spec earthquake for pvp so meh.
My main spec for single shaman 3s doesn't spec into earthquake or rollingthunder/fulmination. I roll watershield lols.

Tremor is like a buff/nerf it's weird. Just going to have to stay on top of your grounding/shocks in 3s.
In 5s from a multi-boxing standpoint it might actually be a buff.
Purge mana cost was already pretty high, so this hurts. It is needed though dispels are pretty OP atm. Drop 20k health off your target in 1 button press on a 4 sham team.

Hopefully the buff to chain heal makes it worth keybinding again. Right now 4x healing rain is what I use. (Spiritwalkers + 4x Chain Heals is very nice in PVE during movement phases with aoe dmg).
I really hope they go back and consider 20% instead of 10% chain heal is pretty weak even for a fully spec'd resto shaman it's not
worth the mana cost.

[Zugdud]

The purge change will hurt for sure. I love enhancement atm combined with another melee dk/rets. Makes wow fun in arena again for me. I dont use purge a ton, I use it in route to an enemy, but I wasnt really spamming it. So I have no idea how it will affect me. Most teams in 2s and 3s have a resto shaman and purge is useless against an earth shield, unless they make it go back to 1 buff instead of 8.

I really like the tremor change and so far I think I like the CC changes. My only hope is that they dont touch interrupts, I need my interrupts. Meleecleave ftw!

Priests need their offensive dispells balanced also.

Hopefully, Elemental will get some dmg or survival buffs, they got raped.

Agreed, I've always used Purge when the situation calls for it… which was most of the time during WoTLK but much less so these days. Still a great go to ability when out of melee range but with these changes enhancement especially will have to be very selective about when they purge, if at all. Shamanistic rage will still make it mana free I presume, but it's not usually a great idea to preemptively burn your only defensive cooldown. We will see, overall I still like Enhance as they bring some neat tools to the table for melee zergs.

As far as interrupts and silences go there doesn't seem to be a shortage of them these days, even my warrior has a ranged silence (gag order). Windshear is still king of interrupts imo, but the DK's 7 second strangulate silences are just epic

Odd that priest dispel hasn't been mentioned, I wonder what they have planned for it?

[Toned]

Agreed, I've always used Purge when the situation calls for it… which was most of the time during WoTLK but much less so these days. Still a great go to ability when out of melee range but with these changes enhancement especially will have to be very selective about when they purge, if at all. Shamanistic rage will still make it mana free I presume, but it's not usually a great idea to preemptively burn your only defensive cooldown. We will see, overall I still like Enhance as they bring some neat tools to the table for melee zergs.

As far as interrupts and silences go there doesn't seem to be a shortage of them these days, even my warrior has a ranged silence (gag order). Windshear is still king of interrupts imo, but the DK's 7 second strangulate silences are just epic

Odd that priest dispel hasn't been mentioned, I wonder what they have planned for it?

Notice they removed mana drain, but left mana burn?

Who's playing a priest over there blizz? The rest of us have benched ours!