Elemental: You cannot cast a single spell unless forgotten alone. Any melee completely stomps you in 5sec unless you have a pocket priest, while you cannot do any dmg outside of shocks. Lava Burst dmg is dissapointing, I have decent gear and cannot break 300 crits (450 with overload proc) in WSG. Sure I dont have full SP gear, but add 50 dmg and its still far from enough.
Restoration: You have no instant heals at all, meaning you have to hardcast everything. Earth Shield shares runeslot with Way of Earth. Tried both several times, leaning more towards way of earth as again any melee recks us so hard. As resto you are a decent pvp healer …for 20sec and then you are out of mana, while priests who are oom keep overhealing me with just 2 rune abilities that basically cost no mana.
Wishlist for P2;
Elemental (not all at once obviously):
-Fire Nova totem stuns for 2sec. Just enough to cast Lava Burst.
-Knockback to enable any casting
-EB roots opponents for 5sec
-Some sort of pushback/interrupt immunity for a period of time (Talent is lacking)
Restoration:
-Riptide or other similar instant heal with a CD. HoT component included. Manacost in line with Penance
-ES manacost reduced to match priest PoM
-Instant Ghost wolf with WOTLK -like MS benefit (cannot be slowed below 100%).
Feel free to disagree of course, but right now shaman gameplay is PvP (PvE is whatever memes anyways atm) is…terrible.
There is 25% damage reduction in WSG, this hurts classes who rely on crits or big damage abilities, I don’t even know why this thing is still in the game but it is, I’d suggest world pvp right now - it’s way more fun playing these type of classes.
You get Eye of the Storm next phase.
Thunderstorm and roots would be a really good adition, true. Shamans are always known for their immobility especially in classic, and now that ALL melee classes got an aditional gap closer I don’t see why shamans wouldn’t get something like that.
I agree with Riptide or another instant spell, again - every other healer has an instant healing spell, except mage (yes, you get NS as well technically, but I’m talking about a weaker and a shorter CD spell)
Outside of that - resto shamans in classic were never that good in PvP, but are one of the best PvE healers due to their AoE healing, which no other healer really had.
I hope they really thought about runes well enough. Shamans at the moment have 4 different specs, and you cannot risk not giving a new rune for each spec in the next phase. On the other side, getting only 1 rune for that spec is tricky as well, since if that rune is bad, then the whole spec is gonna suck.
I feel pretty useful as both resto and ele in a group pvp setting. You need to lean into the strengths of the class that we have at 25. Offensive dispelling, interrupting, aoe snaring, peeling, burst damage and burst healing (hw+overload can bring someone from almost dead to full), dispelling poisons (crippling) and diseases (priest rune), flag carrying.
With some gear, I have found the healing from Earth Shield to be on par or better than Sham Rage and Way of Earth. The pushback resistance is great too.
You just need to tailor your runes to the enemy team comp and scenario on the fly as best as you can.
You are right but if as a healer dare to be at shock range to interrupt, you will be dead already. Also hw has long cast time. All other healers have a fast 1.5sec or instant heal/hot. In order to flag carry you need to have impr ghost wolf or else …
Right now you’re playing in the worst state a Ele/Resto will be in. Most of your good talents come after lvl 30, your spellranks are locked behind lvl 26, you don’t have chain lighting etc.
You have a 50% chance of overload, a 100% crit chance ability and no mana issues/tank rune. Elemental will rapidly catch up past lvl 30 with faster cast speeds and much more powerful spells.
Remember you are the most tankiest caster in OG classic, since you wear mail+shield at later stages, now add the tank rune to that and the pushback reducing talents.
Think like this: At lvl 40 you’ll throw a Flameshock and then a Lava Burst, proccing Overload. Follow this with a Elemental Mastery Chain lightning with 1,5 second cast time, that will crit that also overloads? Anything with less than 3k hp is dead.
I feel like classes such as paladin, druid and shaman are jacks of all trades but master of none (in Classic) so no surprise you’re not the best healer as shaman.
Earth shield is not a heal. Also in order to get it you lose something important for PvP. LHW is not affected by Overload. This is why I mention HW only.
it is a small heal with charges that might proc when you are hit. You do not bring someone’s hp up with it. It softness dmg taken indirectly and -on yourself- might (30% chance) protect you from pushback. So if you want this, you will lose Way of earth which is very important for PVP. Ok ?
