Or, you press your barrier wrong, and are completely penalized by it. It goes both ways.
Did you read the “Edit 2” part? Top 5000 players should be an okay indicator and large enough sample size to say Shamans if played properly are doing pretty well Its a flawed logic arguing from the stance of the lowest denominator when we talk about how a class is doing. At least when your metric of measurement is “How well is resto shaman doing in SS”, well if played well, its doing 3rd best healer, if not, well then its a skill issue and not really a class issue as you make your point to be
Then we can discuss whether Shaman is too complicated for the average player, but thats a different subject.
Being penalized once every 3 minutes is less of an issue than being penalized for 18 seconds every minute.
Also, if you press your barrier wrong, that’s your problem. If I place my totem where people are fighting, and they start fighting somewhere else 2 seconds later, that’s just EWT being a lame spell.
Except the core issue with EWT is not it being “weak” or “underperforming”.
The issue is that it’s a frustrating spell. It’s not fun to rely on a spell that people walk out of 24/7.
It could grant total immunity to all targets inside it and it’d still be an annoying spell because it encourages stationary gameplay in a high mobility game.
Dont even try and argue that your games in SS on average are longer than 5 minutes tops… So no.
And in general, why do you keep neglecting the fact that you can move both your totem, get a completely new one instantly or move your targets TO the totem?
But again, isn’t that a YOU problem? That you are not able to play resto shaman when clearly it shows that it can perform? Why blame it on the EWT when its you?
More than one person saying something doesn’t mean its correct, when clearly the stats prove you wrong… Theres a whole community saying the earth is flat, I can also link you multiple posts, doesn’t make it correct all of a sudden… It just means that the class is still doing well in SS you just don’t know how to utilize it, and blame it on the EWT rather than people running out of it… And you know what? Every time I’ve pointed it out to people their excuse has always been “Sorry I couldn’t see it”, not “Omg its so dumb its not on my back”. Again, you have plenty of ways to play around it.
But you’re not proving anything other than me right.
As mentioned earlier, I’m not complaining about how Resto Shaman performs, but about how frustrating this specific spell is.
Performance and representation is completely irrelevant to this discussion. Player feedback, such as these threads, is relevant.
Eeeh not really true… You call shamans struggling and “Outdated” when they really aren’t… You’re not giving feedback, you’re making a false claim and arguing Shamans need the change whereas they are doing pretty well as numbers show.
EDIT: The thread you refer to in the Arena section even specifically talks about new animation and vast majority agrees… Even the hunter and lock says they move out because they cant see it… You’re the one that introduces the same point as here, and 1 person agrees with you…
EDIT 2: Even the reddit links are about the animation and not the fact that they are static?
Its a flawed logic arguing from the stance of the lowest denominator when we talk about how a class is doing. At least when your metric of measurement is “How well is resto shaman doing in SS”, well if played well, its doing 3rd best healer, if not, well then its a skill issue and not really a class issue as you make your point to be