Coming from a guy who played exclusively elemental in a CE guild throughout all of Dragonflight, you could say I’ve stuck with this class through thick and thin. I’ve often been on this forum to complain about how much the class has been ruined over the years. But this time around, you actually delivered. Looking through my old posts, you’ve pretty much addressed every point I raised. The class isn’t perfect, but it’s so much better than it was in DF. I will say, though, I really dislike Stormbringer. I wonder if I’m the only one?
I think shamans are badly designed. Almost every other class is playable without a weakaura by tracking the buffs on the personal bar, and seeing the CDs on your action bar. However, with shamans you basically need a weakaura to track all your buffs, so I think it’s a very stupid design by Blizzard. Not sure how this gets greenlit by their quality control.
If you’re a mythic raider, you don’t care about this probably, but I don’t wanna have to play with a big dps weakaura in the middle of my screen to track the enormous amount of buffs. I don’t mind having to use maybe 2 small weakauras to track something, but I don’t wanna have my screen filled with garbage. I wanna see what’s happening in the game, not on buff symbols. Also, the button bloat is excessive, but I could manage this without the other issue. Additionally, this class has like 20 utility buttons with almost 0 passive mitigation, which makes it unfun in PvP and Delves.
It’s unfortunate, because thematically it’s the coolest class, but Blizzard removed the Burst, while simultaneously making it squishy, so it’s actually one of the worst specs for me gameplay-wise.
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in my experience you need both addons and WA’s to optimize every class in the game. It’s not a class problem it’s a game problem. i agree that Blizzard should have an in-game way of tracking all these things, but again, that goes for every class and spec.
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we have a 10% stamina buff and a 5% dr running with 90% uptime. And our on-demand defensives are fine. Try looking at boomies defensives…
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They only gave us more burst with the new talents
A lot of other classes can be played pretty well just with the buffs displayed on your personal bar without weakauras needed. Shamans though really have an extreme amount of buffs to track, it’s ridiculous. I think especially enhance is a huge outlier here.
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