No more Maelstrom

Classes Shaman
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As the title says, No more maelstrom in Shadowland. This is the best Shamans have had in a while.

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Just to clarify, is this the best news, or is maelstrom the best it s been?

I’ve only recently played ele so I have no reference to what it was before.

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thank god mealstrom is gone

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I like Maelstorm ;

But i like earth shield baseline better!

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unfortunately only for resto :expressionless:

I do hate to reapply it all the time though and the healing is so low as well and also lost the dmg reduction.
Unfortunately the other 2 talents are even worse

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Laughs in healer main

For healer? both the 2 other talents are better, thats why i like this change

Double totems, 20% more healing just because you throw a bucket of water on them? both sounds better than a rock that requires a global 24/7

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yea resto is ok, for enh and I think for ele the other 2 options are pretty crap.

If ghost wolf didn’t have the stacking mechanic it would probably be better

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Oh, thought you ment resto

I suppose … actually dont know what they have, i never play elle & never switch off Earthshield on ench

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The curse of builder/spender builds like what Enhancement has been for the past few expansions is that your damage gets spread out and ends up feeling flat and without impact.

The new kind of Maelstrom we’ll be using isn’t a new idea. Back in the day, it worked the same way: you’d get stacks of Maelstrom, each reducing the next spell’s cast time by 20% (up to 100%).

While we won’t be able to spam-dump our mana pools instantly into our health bars anymore, the gameplay will be more interesting in general.

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it was also that the spells dmg or healing was increased per stack.
If I remember correctly my instant healing wave healed me for about 50%.

I also liked the mana gameplay on enh very much with shamy rage returning mana and reducing costs.

maaaaaan give back shamy rage with all the perks like dispell etc.

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I think they just nerfed our heals to the ground, probably due to PvPers complaining!

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yes, but it was only nerfed in pvp to the ground.
Mainly the complain was about strong off healing.
They could have just nerfed heals on other players, but guess that was too hard work for them so they just deleted our healing completely.

now I checked out some alpha streams and I have some concerns:

  1. healing is still less than 10% per heal and now we have 0 instant heals. Maybe one with 5 stacks once in a while but sacrificing now more dmg than ever before.
    Lightning bolt in woltk was not much dmg in pvp so we just used almost all stacks for heals or hex

  2. ele heals are much stronger than enh heals, so they seem to scale much better with sp than ap

  3. maelstrom weapon doesn’t give any bonus to dmg or healing, make it almost not worth to even use 5 stacks for healing because a 3 stack is pretty impossible to kick as well.

overall they tried to go back to old design but forgot half of it on the way. A little disappointing. Hope they tune the heals much higher.

Also ele blast numbers are very disappointing at the moment and lava lash is not even worth using.

Yes, it is alpha but well we had that already in bfa beta and see where we are now

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yeah but they need more here is some possible changes Enhancement shaman needs more changes

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