Spamming purge for “10%” mana which isn’t 10% because we barely lose mana spamming it, it needs a penalty for pvp. It’s a no brainer.
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It is 10% mana but you start regenerating it as soon as that first cast goes off. Like i can spam it 17 times before I OOM, because of the GCD between each cast it adds up to enough time to regenerate 70% mana.
Totally agree there needs to be some sort of cooldown on it, or a cost increase at the very least.
If I go up against a Shaman or a Priest on my Mage it effectively nullifies everything I’ve got, bye bye shields, cooldowns and Arcane Intellect, you can even dispel Pyroblast procs!, simply because they spammed one button, at very little cost to themselves.
The only other class with a spammable dispel are Mages themselves but we can only cast it 5 times before we OOM (unless you’re Arcane) and when fighting each other we just end up trading shields/cooldowns around instead of outright removing them.
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I have a Mage and I know this, after 5 spellsteals we’re OOM. Shamans however can spam purge with little to no penalty. Nightmare for Resto druids.
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yes, i agree, they should give it to demon hunters instead of shamans, who cares for shaman its fail class anyways, nobody plays them.
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You mean shamans can actually do something in pvp? Shock.
It’s nice purge has it’s own niche, everyone else has a dispell/purge spell these days. Purge was the original dispell just for enemies, long before they gave away the entire shaman tool kit to other classes.
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the downside is when I spam purge 5 minutes, all I do is autoattack.
Some teams have some many buffs e.g. priest, mage teams that I purge till my own death.
No it doesn’t! It needs a massive buff tbh. You do lose a ton of mana spamming it. You’re just a salty mage/druid who got purged by a shaman and lost a match. Git gud.
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lol level to 120 then talk. Shammys Purge is stupid and OP vs those classes. It barely costs mana at all because of regen. L2P.
Mages complaining about Shamans, I’ve seen it all now.
What Mage exactly?
Well, you are clearly not a main shaman with 20 matches in 2vs2 as a whole pvp career. Your “insight” with mechanics of purge should have come from another source.
To give you an idea about purge: As enhancement, you just don’t use purge. You need every gcd to be able to keep preassure up (if you can find anyone to do arena with you).
As resto, purge is only good when your team is on the enemy team with great control so you have lots of time to waste with purge.
Elemental is only spec you can use purge since you really want to lean on procs and instants. Yea i can see your point in whining but honestly, its not as good as you think. You spend 1.5 seconds with purge to remove a shield. Warlocks remove that shield and do 150k damage on top of it in that 1.5 sec. Just like most other classes.
Purge WAS good. Now shields are weak. There are sht tons of small passive effects that clutter buff bar, usually aplied even faster than you can purge. Purging something you want to purge (eg. blessing of protection) is basicly on chance.
You know… Remove it. Most people wont even care. It’s already nerfed to oblivion.
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Purge ruins Resto druids so I don’t get your logic.
No it doesnt. Purge doesnt deal any damage. First application of hots do heal. If you get into a purge spam race with a druid, you will see him gaining quite a lot of hp.
Druids can stack 5 hots on themselves. 5 global to remove all. There are some specs in game that can -kill- you in 5globals not just remove hots.
Btw, gl not purging lifebloom during your purge spam…
Yes there are some limited situations purge “might be” usefull depending on your luck. However it is far from being “resto druids bane”. What you say was 10 years ago. I would trade purge for kleptomania in a heartbeat.
Things like shields were in longer cooldown and consisted a bigger portion of clothies’ arsenal. Now they are short fillers and purging them isnt any different than any damage spells. While damage spells can overkill shields. Purge doesnt.
Its sad that shilds were important and shamans were very strong at them. It was a “signature” ability specially for enhancement. Slowly faded out of existance same as much of shaman’s toolkit.
Aaanyways. I believe you are just trolling. But purge issue was bugging me for some time now. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to vent off:)
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Yeah so op to spam globals to remove hots. While you do this you deal zero dmg/heal nothing and make yourself vulnerable to cc and other stuff. I agree purge is strong against mages but why not? Mage barriers are super strong why nerf one of its few counters? It’s not like shaman is high end meta or something, jeez I don’t get this crying all the time…
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Just no…
Try again
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You autoattack a druid while perm purging. See his HP go up, while is mana stays 100% and your mana goes down.
To quote yourself:
How is that fair?
also i kill myself if he uses overgrowth and thorns. fun times
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someone throw him, I think his main is mage, one sham purged everything from him now he is raging lol
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