Arena's played today 11.
Arena's won today 11.
Reason why I won over half of them when under other circumstances I'd lost? Healing tide and spirit link totem. Gotta love those. Especially in combination with one another.
Arena's played today 11.
Arena's won today 11.
Reason why I won over half of them when under other circumstances I'd lost? Healing tide and spirit link totem. Gotta love those. Especially in combination with one another.
Congratulations. I'll give you 10 pats on the back, 9 more than what I usually give. This is just such a heart warming story of perseverance.
Must be super hard with shaman mobility + any two partners that can half assedly make the other team play defensive.
I'm guessing this is at or below the 1550 bracket?
why are you guys being so harsh on Deleth? At whatever bracket you are playing both cdowns are very good at keeping you and your team alive
Wow, some people here are really harsh..
You obviously didn't watch the Battle.net Tournament. I only watched a bit of it and several times these people avoided a loss per soullink and healing tide totem. Does that mean they're all playing at or below 1550?
They're just the best totems ever in my opinion and thinking about how much they must annoy non Shamans always makes me happy.
This is the reason Ele and Enhance will take more collateral damage due to Resto nerfs :<
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L2 Lifebloom. Start using your tools instead of crying your getting countered. Yes, purge is strong and it does counter a lot of druids healing, but you have other areas your strong at as well (i.e. retarded CC).
Or use cc, you a fucking druid and you don't cc. Yes, leaving a resto shaman alone and trying to tunnel his partners wont get you anywhere, but that's the same with any healer. You can't just stand there and expect to win games w/o CC and target swaps.
Resto druids weren't in a good spot in cata, but this isn't cata anymore. Resto is really good with caster comps. The game is never going to be 100% balanced. I admit disc and MW need some love, but thats about it.
Shamans have already been nerfed. Any comp with a silence + stun should be able to counter shaman now. Because baddies at 1500 can't kill totems should t be more reason to nerf shaman.
Last I checked holy paly/resto druids/resto shaman were about even in representation at 2200+.
I admit resto shamans are strong atm and healing in general is strong right now. I'm fine if they tone healing down, but holy paladins and resto druids need nerfs as well then.
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OT: Gratz 11 wins isn't easy, but wait until you fight people who actually kill your totems or blanket silence you so you can't drop them.
I played an elemental shaman and foresee a nerf to purge whether its the ability itself or the glyph. But I'm not sure it's the heart of the problem. I could be mistaken but as far as I know all specs of Shaman have had purge even before resto shamans became a 'problem'. In which case, purge being nerfed, which I think is too strong with the glyph, isn't going to solve anything. My apologies if I'm mistaken, I'm not trying to make stuff up to prove a point. Also, as far as I know Resto Shamans are not the only healer that has an offensive dispel. The developers apparently are continuing to work on healing priests to make them stronger, they have dispel magic, along with shadow. So if resto shaman rep is brought down while disc rep is brought up, you're in the same boat, in terms of counters to your spec.
I think we should look at representation, not just in terms of numbers but the reason behind those numbers. Look at what specs those resto shamans were playing with and against. There's more than one spec that is over represented. Looking outside of the Tournament, arms warriors, frost mages, resto shamans, and holy paladins are all overrepresented. Since you're looking for imbalance, frost mages have long been overrepresented. On the flip side, in the past warlocks had lower representation but could be found in one of the most popular comps. The point being, I don't think we should look at representation in a vacuum. Yes, I think it's a good indication that there could be an issue but I think we should look beyond the numbers. Sometimes its not rep, its synnergy.
These words in my mouth... where did they come from? I don't think I'm the one that put them there...
Purge is very much fine, in fact it takes a glyph to be where disci/shadow/holy dispell is to begin with. If you'd change purge you ought to change those too.
What does mobility have to do with anything when enhancement and elemental have the same mobility tools but don't enjoy similar 'dominance' in arena?
I'm not even sure what this means since the person never said anything about 'masterful gameplay'; unless you were just trying to be deliberately provocative with your sarcastic tone. If that's the case, congratulations. Are 'masterful gameplay' and 'core basic skill' exclusive of one another? Is reaction and timing not important in pvp? Feel free, or not, to explain.
These words in my mouth... where did they come from? I don't think I'm the one that put them there...
Pretty sure the outrage is that this kind of topic didn't need to be made.
It's like me making a thread in the rogue forums for the sole purpose of saying how awesome it was when I won back to back games with a Smoke Bombed healer.
Okay, this has turned from a potentially useful topic into sniping back and forth with personal attacks.
As such, I'm closing the thread.