I wanted to bring up a discussion about Enhancement Shamans in Midnight and their weapon restrictions. Currently, Enhancement Shamans are limited to dual-wielding one-handers, which feels unnecessarily restrictive. Personally, I think 2-handed weapons should be an option especially since survival hunters just got the option to dual wield….
A Classic Homage: In Vanilla Classic, Enhancement Shamans could wield 2-handed weapons. Many players loved the raw, elemental fury of swinging a massive weapon infused with nature’s power. Restricting us to dual-wield now feels like taking away a part of the spec’s history.
Lore and Fantasy: Shamans channel the power of the elements. Wielding a huge 2-hander visually and thematically fits the shamanic fantasy of calling down storms and smashing foes with raw elemental might.
Gameplay Variety: 2-handers would open up new playstyles: slower, heavier-hitting attacks with elemental procs, versus the current fast dual-wield swings. This would give players more creative options and make Enhancement more versatile.
Creative Builds: Imagine combining 2-handed weapon abilities with Enhancement talents that enhance shocks, flames, or lightning. It could create unique and fun builds without breaking the spec.
In short, allowing 2-handed weapons would honor the Classic roots of Enhancement Shaman, while adding more depth, flexibility, and fun to the spec today.
Would love to hear your thoughts — do you think a 2-handed Enhancement Shaman could work in Midnight, or is dual-wielding the only way to go?
It would never work. Just like warriors with their SMF. Or DKs.
There will ALWAYS be 1 of those that out-performs… ALWAYS. And 99.9% of players will simply take whatever performs best.
And blizzard will then in the future has it’s hands tied with Enh tuning and design. Always having in their back of their mind that a 2-hander/1-hander combo could break the spec.
What blizzard should do is allow transmogs. Like they did with warrior. THAT is the way to go.
Honoring it’s “classic roots”? In 2025? If that is your reason… NO. Forget it.
Play classic wow if that is what you want. This is retail. It’s the future.
Some people care about other things than minmaxing everything. Also one does not even have to outperform the other in all content, some builds might favor 2h and other might favor dual wield so not only will it make for fun gameplay but also more build variety which is always a good thing in my opinion.
Some people always get lost in the sauce and think meta is the only thing in the game. Forgetting games were designed for fun, and meta isn’t always what = fun.
Exactly my thoughts as well! The reason i play the game at all is to have FUN, and what does it hurt if i get to swing a 2hander that is 2% less (or more) dps in a simulated, theoretical raid boss fight under perfect circumstances that will never occur? I just don´t get it. Let me have my 2h windfury procs
True , remove Paladin option to Tmog shield/sword into 2hander artifact hammer.
Remove Frost DK option to use 2hander , they had duel wielding they should have played other class if they wanted 2hander.
Remove the future option next exp that they give surv hunter to Duel wield instread of using 2hander if they want duel wielding they have other class options.
Remove the future option next exp that they give Fury war the ability to Tmog 2handers into 1handers.
Remove the ability of Monks to use 2handers and duel wields.
Remove the ability of feral / guard druids to use 2handers and duel wields.
Why the gatekeeping for 2h? What if I like everything about my shaman but would just want to use a 2h instead of a 1h? Makes more sense to let shamans use 2h (for the reasons listed above) Also shamans can already use 2H, we just need our abilities to work with 2h weapon equipped so its not farfetched at all
I am so bored of these threads. Enhancement since the beginning of the season is one of the worst performer, gets benched in raid. And hasn’t received a single proper balance pass.
And this 2h dog poop threads are the only thing people care about.
It’s not gonna happen. Literal insanity.
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What blizzard should do is allow transmogs. Like they did with warrior. THAT is the way to go.
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I can’t mog 1h weapons on my warrior. At least not yet. I would like to because more options and it doesn’t even matter on war. But I can’t. At least that would make sense. Animations are a still the same.
For enhance though. They would need to make whole set of new animations for 2h. Also mogging dual wield 1handers into a 2h just doesn’t make any sense.
Enhance doesn’t need 2h since it would fundamentally not work due to imbue. It would be far behind DW. No point.
I dont understand why people think it wouldn´t work, all it would take is 1 talent that made our spells scale with a 2h weapon. Animations are already plenty of in the game, i wouldn´t care if they reused some other 2h aniamtions for some abilitites
Why do you think Blizzard removed Single-Minded Fury in Midnight and exchanged it for a transmog passive ?
Or why despite the option in Midnight, 2h is still better than dual wield for survival hunters ? Or why dual wield is better for Frost DK ?
It’s because Blizzard can’t balance both within the same spec. You have a ton of examples. It’s best to have it as a cosmetic option than a waste of a talent. It didn’t work for Fury and I can confidently tell you it’s not gonna work here either.
No one cares , they have the option give the option end of the discusion .
Most people dont care to perform 0.2% better even if its not balanced how you want.
Surv hunter cant duel wield normaly atm but they do give em the option to play and scale duel wield instread of 2 hander end of discusion they add that playable option as a fact next exp means they could for enhance.
They gave fury war option to tmog into 1hander next exp end of discusion.
Holy paladins can mog 2hander artifact as a fact and end of discusion.
Enhance animations for all abilities on 2hander exist and work in game from way back + any toy that gives you 2hander each spell has animation up until tww stormstrike had animation on 2hander and was usable with 2hander, use the kobyss toy get 2handed wep tmog from toy and all works like butter which exists in the game since forever end of discusion.
All they need to do is flip the switch and unlock tmog option.
Stop finding silly excuses when there is countless examples ingame showing how it works and exists , no one forces you to tmog into 2hander.
Btw just 2handed DKs clearing M+19s yet you are here crying how all dks are duel wielding and how so much better they are then 2handers when Pilav streams 2handed Frost dk and his latest video clearing 19s , people like you make me laught so hard trying to balance everything to be 0.001% the same in which case half of the options classes have should be deleted from the game and it is as funny when 2handed DKs clear 19s when you haven’t yet you are trying to make a point how trash and no one uses it and how it should be deleted.
Those 2 hander threats go hand in hand as to show you why we are not getting effort into balancing same for anything else while other classes next exp get options for tmog and even performance from 2hander into duel wield just shows that blizz tinkers and cares about those classes more then shamans , if they cared enough you would get both as other classes Tmog options or even usage option with balancing care and lookin to the class.