Hi There
There is a major bug with the Earth Shield Rune that has to be addressed. The spell does not scale properly with your level. When the rune was acquired at level 25, the base healing of the spell was 100 healing done. At level 40, the base healing done remains 100. As such, it does not scale with your level. This makes the rune completely useless compared to our health pools at max level, and should be fixed immediately.
Furthermore, there is a major bug with the Power Surge rune that has to be addressed. The rune reads: “You regenerate mana equal to 15% of your intellect every 5 sec.” However, this does not work correctly, if even at all. Equiping more intellect does not increase my mana regeneration, in or out of combat, when monitoring and comparing equiping more int gear. Furthermore, according my my extended character stats addon, I receive 0 increase to my in combat mp5.
Please fix this immediately.
There is also major issues with the Shamanistic Rage mana gained for spell damage that needs to be addressed. The scaling of mana gained cannot in any way compete with that of Attack Power modifiers. As a Ele or Resto, I have no other choice but to duel wield with 2x rockbiter, if I want to get enough mana back to avoid going oom during fights and you can. This is especially bad in pvp, as you cannot use a shield. This scaling for spell power has to be increased to compete with ATKP scaling.
Lastly, with all of the quality of life updates you implement, how in the world has buffing the duration of shaman imbuements not been implemented? Having to reapply imbuements mid fight since it only lasts 5 minutes is insane. As a tank, your buff falls off mid fight, causing gameplay issues with threat and damage reduction, and loosing your taunt. Mages got 20 stacks of mana per conjure, Paladin buffs got increased from 5 min to 10 min. Every class got these buffs, why not Shaman.
Thanks.
Bonkmeister - Representative of the Shaman community.
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Hey Bonkmeister, thats the message I keep posting on blizzard forums 
"Could you please adress some bugs for shamans ?
bug : Earth shield rune would be our only way to cast anything in pvp as eye of the storm never triggers. But this rune is bugged and still has a flat 100 healing since level 25. Every sham is complaining about it but you seem to ignore it. I wish you could even buff the pushback resistance from 30% to 50 or 70%. Indeed, its not possible to cast any lavaburst in pvp, or just against newvies
improvement : Lavaburst is really painful to use in pvp. 20m range because of flameshock, from 3.5s cast (because of flameshock) to 9s cast (because of pushback, if they dont cs ofc). An increased range of 6m for lavaburst (through the elemental talent) and increased range for flameshock through the rune power surge would be cool.
bug : the rune fire nova does consume elemental mastery, but doesnt trigger the critic… :x could you fix it please ?
bug : power surge doesnt provide the mana regeneration its supposed to give. It gives 1.5% every 5s instead of 15%.
improvement : lightning and chain lightning damage is so weak compared to lava burst… maybe we could transfer some of our lava burst damage to these iconic spells.
Other classes benefite from such new amazing runes, we did not get such a thing to my opinion. Im here to main shaman elemental, but for now only tank is really great."
This is gold and should be dealt with!!
I’m convinced no Blizzard employee actually plays shaman. If someone did, then these bugs would be noticed and fixed immediately. It’s clear most of blizzard staff plays alliance, and as such, never even encounter shamans in their raid groups or guild communities. Unfortunately, it sucks to main it :))
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I agree 5min imbues are so annoying .
But, compared to other classes books they got, like war shout, druid no reagent , priest and pala longer buffs , totemic projection is best of them and im so glad we have it . Heck that QoL book is probably better than any rune we got this phase …
Totaly agree that sham rage should scale differently makes no sense that it provide more mana for enha than it does for ele or resto while those two needs it way more .
As to earth shield, i dont play resto, never realy used it for anything, but that rune just got worse cuz its same healing with higher mana cost so something definitely have to be done .
Power surge is just sadge, mp5 probably doesnt work proc rate is abysmall and u cant cast same spell back to back 99% of the time , i would rework this whole rune , maybe some more powerfull shocks instead…