A Few Upcoming Shaman Changes

[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!

[Kalyse]

This is VERY annoying.

Mana Tide Totem has been redesigned. The totem no longer multiplies the Spirit of those affected by it. It instead gives a flat amount of Spirit equal to 400% of the casting shaman’s Spirit, exclusive to short-term Spirit buffs affecting the shaman when the totem is dropped.

Popping Mana Tide totem and using Owl Figuirine at the same time was like having inervate on a shaman.