The fact remains the same what can you balance around in vanilla when there are several gameplays to satisfy and youll never make changes that balance all forms of gameplay. There needs to be a focus, they may choose raiding or they may choose 1v1, but one must be chosen.
Regarding the rogue situation had it been a direct damage class the rogue might have died before during the fight. if anything all damage coming from dots is sometimes counter productive vs a high burst opponent. Either way if food cant keep him up or a potion the priest is dead so overall hes the winner.
Buff instead of nerf shamans, SP and moonkins… Now SoD dead officialy. A lot of ppl was leave SoD after phase 3 released, at phase 4 its will be 80% online bots for afk farming like now, all other will leave this disappointment
This is a buff only for elementals in PVP. In PVE, this is a nerf for elemental and a kill for sham tank 21/20
Just waiting for phase 4 and lvl 60 content to see if they would do anything worth playing in raiding content. SoM didn’t made a revolution, eager to see if SoD does.
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Move on mate, shaman tanks are a 2 button borefest now with a sheild. Phase 2 memories is all we have now. Rather than just nerfing a playstyle which was too strong by changing numbers they gut the whole spec to be completely unfun mechanically to play.
Spellwarden was interesting, but it was destroyed because the elementals were in melee, but with their change they made it so that the elemental will continue to stand in melee just use Lava Lash)
I here ya, i was leveling this shaman up to play spellhance tank after they ruined duel wield tanking. Now we are left with a boring enhance tank but no damage or supporting abilties to use with a shield.
DEVS are u dumbs ? So u telling me priest get 10% more and warlock NOTHING ? Now priest is more warlock than warlock, private zoo, 2x better dots, heals, shields, and we have felguard hitting for 100 dmg and dots hitting for 70-130 ? are u kidding me right ?
Priest
Shadowform now increases all shadow damage done by 25% (was 15%).
The hell is going on?!?
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So, again nothing for melee survival hunters…but no problem, let buff the Shadow priest.

Just means spellhance shaman tank is worse. Ap focus deep enhancement 8/33/0 shaman tank still works fine and using flame shock rune for trash is the way to go.
Seems so.
Also Paladins and Shamans get dev notes, while warrior is not even mentioned in any updates wtf.
RIP warriors.
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spellhance dead, now only enh is alive
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This is so true. I was looking forward to play spellhance once ive got the gear, now that dream is crushed. This ‘‘fix’’ has ruined it for spellhance !
Can’t wait for proper seal twisting, TBC was so much fun to play ret. Was amazing best time in wow ever.
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Cant use lava burst if your using lava lash, so its not worth it.
Mental Dexterity - Stormstrike is an Enh shaman talent and the Lava Burst rune is a much better option than the Lava Lash rune, this change is of no use to the Ele shaman.
Burn - Mental Dexterity and Burn runes are mutually exclusive, this change is redundant before it has even been introduced.
Lava Lash + MD will be better than LvB + Burn.
It is fairly simple, SP lack sustained single target DPS and are being buffed. The logs support this, what supports your theory SP should not have a damage increase.
If you mention dying to dots over 20 seconds in pvp, i hope your innocent soul never meets a rogue or a well geared hunter who can destroy you in a few seconds. Im not sure your heart will be able to take it.