Someone is trolling at blizzard?
Which genius came up with this novel idea to move improved ghost wolf to row 4?
They are making shamans spend points into useless talents in first 2 rows? Really?
Instead of fixing stormstrike/concussion to work on all the shocks they are forcing us to use both talent specs on enha tree and switch them on mobility needs
And you can’t get imp ghost wolf with ele if you also want to take water shield
Ele shamans shouldn’t play pvp?
And riptide nerf is hilarious
They probably spent 90% of their ressources on Paladin and Mage, so that what the rest is left with…
Hunter got the same treatment
Been through these changes. To be honest we arnt even back to 2005 vanilla standards. We lost batching, we lost ele mastery. Mana is still terrible.
It’s a small step in the right direction but I feel we went so far backwards that we haven’t even broken even yet with these changes.
I’m guessing the idea is that Enhancement uses Improved Ghost Wolf to close range while Elemental uses Earthbound to keep enemies out of range.
I dont mind the ghostwolf change , though I dont get it.
The fact that dps shamy specs didnt get their own raid utility is a huge problem for raid participation.
Resto will just be the go to.
-mana tide
-imp heal/ mana spring
-healer slot.
All same totems with same power as dps shammies plus more
The dps specs needed something like druid crit aura AT LEAST. if youre bored to give em their unique totems.
And dont get me wrong , I really liked the other changes.
classes aren’t supposed to be fun.. this isn’t retail. 
Yes and what happens when they eventually catch up?
If warrior charges you are done for, no way to do anything
That’s why they put Improved Reincarnation low in Restoration. You see Blizzard has thought of everything.
If warrior charges you are done also if you´re priest, warlock, or a bad hunter
The idea is making ghost wolf exclusive to Enhancement. I dont mind that. Shamans already have frost shock, eartbind totem and grounding totem. It is more than enough.
No initial healing on riptide and no insta ghost wolf, significant nerf to restoshamans in PvP imo.
Good because it was stupid that resto was best dpsspec for pvp shaman
Just play the game, if you don’t like it, move on. I’ll enjoy it regardless, many will. This moving the goalposts everytime means you’ll never be happy. Life is flawed, games are flawed, chill tf out, and remember it is a game. You decide to plough hours into it, nobody forces you to.
A game has to be compromised in some respects to have mass appeal, it won’t do everything for everyone but that’s no reason to dump on it before you’ve even played a single hour on a live server. I’m overall happy that we have an Original WoW I get to play again. End of. I don’t think beyond that right now because my opinion is ONLY speculation and subjective. As is EVERYONES.
Like, misery needs copany, and these forums are the exact reason community died in this game. Formulas, calculators, and optimization as only you see it should be done. Not meaning you specifically.
All of this meritless stuff on the game isn’t cost free. It breeds negativity and encourages it. You are harming the thing you claim to enjoy. Though it is hard to see how a lot of people can enjoy an imperfect game at all ever really. It’s sad and revealing.
Worst of all, to new players and forum perusers, you showcase the worst aspects of the game. They hear about forever, look at the forum and just see complaint after complaint and very little if any appreciation at all.
Blizzard aren’t great and I hate Microsoft, but its entitled fanbase is the major threat to this games survival and growth.
In that case “No changes” would have been the best option.
it’s sad when your vanilla class had more depth than the classic + variant.
so just to be clear, now that we have moved improved ghost wolf down to row 4 for absolutely no valid reason, we can now justify adding slow/root removal on cast to it, so the intended spec (enhancement shaman) can actually use it in pvp, right?
RIGHT, BLIZZARD?
“Just play the game, if you don’t like it, move on.”
Sorry what?
they think ele and resto would be op with it its the only logical sense, i dont know why tbh, i guess druid is the only one allowed to be healing on the run, it gives classes spec identity, there must be something restos need in ele that would be op with ghost wolf. or the same with ele.
that sounds like it tbh, they get a root and so its too much with wolf, in the eyes of dev mind, im not agreeing with this just trying to figure out why it was moved
Looks like you can still do decent ele/resto PvP specs with instant ghost wolf, however im still unsure about the riptide change. 6sec cd with initial healing (prenerf) might have been too strong, but with a 12sec cd, I feel like atleast some initial healing wouldnt hurt.