I only do pugs with my enhance shaman and i always find a group willing to take me with them.
With wf mh and ft oh (you cant use rb because of threat) i do around 90-105 dps on most bosses and be most of the time low-mid to lowest dps.
But this dps is enough for bfd.
The fact that shaman is a bottom dps and you have to actively grief yourself by playing suboptimally in order to not rip aggro shows how screwed the class is atm.
Yeah thats true but it is still fun to play.
blizzard told us they would make meme specs viable. they lied to us. i donât see why asking for a bit of balance changes is too much to ask for.
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Seriously, stop arguing with this clown, you are just losing your time.
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They also mentioned something about level 25 being the first Phase of many, that they would make sure to see what they can improve and how it develops, and that more things will come.
If they were to caiter for every meme-spec they added to a point where itâs both guranteed fun in PvP, PVE and itemization, this would be more of a circus than it is.
Next Phase Shamans will have Mail, with only Hunters to compete, and if they introduce any kind of âAllows Shamans to equip one-hand swordsâ-rune most things will be fixed.
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Actually they did a really good job with Ret paladin, the spec is no more a meme, itâs not the best, but itâs just as good as any other mana user class.
i donât see how letting shamans equip swords will somehow massivly increase their dps. Do please elaborate. They were able to cater to ret paladin, and chose to completly ignore shaman.
In can be one in a number of changes towards better itemization, which this thread began to bring up, no?
Add the upcoming talents, runes and probably some tweaks and it could very easy be going in a better direction?
Still dont think so? Then unsub and do yourself a favour. Not like Mage Healers, Rogue Tanks, Melee Hunters have more coming for them in terms of drastical improvements other than 1 Rune, while all other classes get their kits.
enhance represent less than 0.8 % of melee dps parses, ele less than 0.5% of range dps parses. They are going to need more than a few tweaks and runes to bring those specs to average dps. oh and i donât know what you are smoking about mage healers, they are perferctly fine, and have good representation in parses.
Perhaps becuase the rest of the melee, played by people who dont need to feel special, are more or less Gods and just have a brighter future going forward, who could have gussed! Or becuase Shaman Tanks currently are considered the best Tank in BFD?
Paladin/Shaman players are a bunch of snowflakes, nothing about this has changed since 2005, through 2019 Classic and now here. But ma ma FaNtaSy!
If I use all WBs, and all consumbles, and totem/seal twist, can I please auto-attack in ur raid
explain 0.5% of ranged dps being ele shamans. also shaman tanks are less played than warrior tanks on horde LOL
Becuase they are only available for half the population, fill 2 other rolls over their expectation, and anybody who wanted to acually be a caster rolled Mage/Warlock/Boomkin.
Any more questions?
You want a class to be able to:
- Be a good Tank
- Be a good healer
- Be a good caster
- Be good with 2-handers
- Be good with 1-handers
And then wonder why the class, split by 5 roles, are LESS represented than classes created for that purpose with better toolkits. Common.
i donât want shaman to be a good tank. And it wonât be a good tank, its going to fall off hard in later phases. I want to be able to dps and heal, thats it. Right now shaman is the worst healer, the worst dps, and ok tank. funny you mention boomkin. why in your mind should druid be entitled to be a tank, healer caster dps and melee dps, but not shaman?
If all the viable specs + meme specs were equally played and âbalancedâ, it would be 31 of them:
Shadow Priest
Holy Priest
Fire Mage
Arcane Mage
Arcane Healer Mage
Frost Mage
Affliction Warlock
Demo Warlock
Destro Warlock
Tank Warlock
Sub Rogue
Combat Rogue
Assa Rogue
Feral Tank Druid
Feral Cat Druid
Boomkin
Healer
Melee Hunter/Marksman Hunter
BM Hunter
MM Hunter
Tank Shaman
Enhance 2 Hand Shaman
Enhance 1 Hand Shaman
Resto Shaman
Elemental Shaman
Tank Paladin
Holy Paladin
Ret Paladin
Tank Warrior
2-Hand Warrior
1-Hand Warrior
And that would mean the representation would be 3% on each one of them. But as always, some will always be drawn to the best specc, others to the best role, so for the very worst of them its not strange that they have low representation. Especially when other do what they do - but better.
shamans are severely underrepresented in raids, all specs combined compared to other classes.
Because currently everybody else do what Shamans do (I wouldnt agree on Tanking tho) but better. Though luck! They bring nothing to the table currently, especially when Ferals got WF.
Holy Paladins are in a similar situation, but arent split amongst 5 roles that people want to play just becuase they imagined it.
exactly, they bring nothing to the table = they need a buff. they also need to remove WF from ferals. also wtf you talking about 5 roles imagined? ele and enha are both very clear dps specs intended to be dps specs. these arent specs players imagined. they exist within the game.
Itâs not like it would fix the class, but it would guarantee access to slow 1-hand weapons. Blizzard might not add slow maces and axes, but they will 100% of the time add slow swords.
rank 14 already guarantees access to slow 1 hand weapons.