At this point I honestly believe someone at Blizzard has a personal issue with this class. A deep internal problem. Shaman is the most neglected class in the entire game. And somehow every time something good happens for us, the person responsible for the class must be on vacation or sick leave.
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Where are our totems?
Totems are the soul of the shaman. The heart, the core, the identity. They are not supposed to be five second utility gimmicks that you drop and forget. Totems were our link to the elements, to the spirits, to the world itself. We used to do quests to earn our totems, to prove we are worthy to call upon the elements. Every totem had a story, a purpose, a ritual. Now we barely have a few left to throw down, and even those have lost any real meaning. The whole concept of a totem has been stripped away. What we have now is a joke. Short timers, no elemental interaction, no synergy, no power. We are supposed to be the elemental benders, not some caster with glowing sticks. -
For decades the shaman community has begged for a proper Enhancement rework. Something playable, interesting, and not clunky or RNG based. There were good versions before. You even had working blueprints in older expansions. And still, nothing.
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Restoration shamans in Midnight are a complete disaster.
The spec got hit from every possible direction. Healing output gutted, utility nerfed, core abilities stripped of impact. Chain Heal feels pointless, Healing Rain barely matters, and everything that once defined the spec is gone. Instead of embracing the fantasy of calling upon the elements to heal and protect, Blizzard turned resto into a slow, static, clunky throughput bot that cannot keep up with any modern healer. Spirit Link Totem, once one of the most unique and creative cooldowns in MMO history, is now a shadow of what it used to be. Mana feels terrible, mobility is non-existent, and the spec has completely lost its identity. It is like they do not even understand what made resto fun in the first place. -
Transmog problems. We still cannot transmog held in off-hand items into shields, or daggers into maces, yet the best in slot weapons for Elemental this season are daggers and off-hands. Where is the logic in that.
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Class mount colors locked by spec. Why. We are literally the masters of the elements. We should have all the colors.
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Midnight pruning, and every other pruning before it, gutted what little identity this class had left. It is unclear why shaman even exists anymore.
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Thrall, one of the main lore characters in Warcraft, one of the most iconic orcs ever, is a shaman. And even he got destroyed by your design and writing choices. You managed to ruin the archetype itself.
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Ghost Wolf used to be a symbol of connection with the spirits. Now it is just a lazy movement form with no depth or flavor.
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You keep removing the iconic spells. The ones that made us shamans. The spells that gave us identity and separated us from everyone else.
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Totems reworked into nothingness again. There is no layering, no situational choice, no reason to care. Dropping a totem used to feel powerful. It used to mean something.
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Maelstrom mechanics have been changed in every expansion and never once have they felt right. Always awkward, always RNG dependent, always slower and clunkier than every other melee.
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The defensive toolkit is a joke. Every other class has walls, shields, absorbs, cheat deaths. Shamans have Healing Surge and a prayer.
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Animations and sound effects are outdated and weak. You can tell the class has not been touched with care in years. It looks and sounds like it belongs to a different era.
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Talent trees are lazy. Just rearranged passives presented as new options. No creativity, no depth, no meaning.
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Every major cooldown, like Stormkeeper, Primordial Wave, Feral Spirits, feels empty. There is no flavor, no imagination, just another flat damage buff button.
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And the worst part is that the community has been saying all this for over fifteen years. Clear, detailed feedback, endless ideas, passion, everything. Blizzard knows exactly what the problems are. They just do not care.