Shamans buffed overnight?

[Entune]

We will see shortly.

Cm_lore on twitter
Bunch of class tuning hotfixes went live overnight. will have full details in the hotfix blog ASAP.


This was posted 15 minutes ago after another tweet last night.

CM_lore
Yes, looking at Mages too.
Also, I spoke too soon earlier re: timelines. First round of changes going in pretty soon.

[Sigmatic]

All I've noticed is increased lava burst damage.

[Xeion]

All I've noticed is increased lava burst damage.

Yes, same here.. Or well also a little bit damage increase on fulmination, but mainly Lava Burst. Still something, I got 16k dps now, had 12k yesterday

[Hekili]

Without using any CDs, my Ele spec is outperforming my Enh spec on single-target. While wearing an agility neck, agility ring, and agility trinket.

[Cameltotem]

Hmm I have like 4 more itemlevel but did 21k in a dungeon today. Maybe they have buffed us overnight?

Everyone talks about it.

[Protoman]

Damn... why haven't the changes been posted yet. I hope they buffed both specs.

[Fallen Angel]

I can't say I've really noticed a difference.

[KonkeroaR]

I'm dying to see the class changes, also dying to log in and do some testing myself.

[Menubrea]

Not really noticing any changes. If so, they're incredibly minor.

[Shockeye]

Damn... why haven't the changes been posted yet. I hope they buffed both specs.

Hoping for all three

But I believe the fixes are DPS-oriented. Possibly a new icon.

[Aurora]

I've noticed a difference in damage today for ele, its nothing major but certainly helps keep pace with other dps that aren't fotm specs.

[Mordog]

Here we go:

Shaman
General
Chain Lightning's damage has been increased by 20%.
Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.
Enhancement
Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.
Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.

[Menubrea]

I've noticed a difference in damage today for ele, its nothing major but certainly helps keep pace with other dps that aren't fotm specs.

Cool, at least we'll be welcome in the losers club now.

[mashanu]

Here we go:

fixed, lava burst multi now

Shaman

General
Chain Lightning's damage has been increased by 20%.
Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.
Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character's Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).
Enhancement
Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.
Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%

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[Sandokai]

Making CRIT relevant is perhaps more significant than the damage boost...in terms of class viability in the long-term. It shows someone actually thought about it.

There's a lot of gear out there with Crit (like the Darkmoon Trinket which I'm suddenly thrilled I made). I look forward to working with that proc now.

I'm disappointed in Celestalon's treatment of Shamans. This also reflects really poorly on Blizzard's internal simulation work.

Even a crappy balancing effort should not require a 35%+ effective buff.

As unfortunate as it may be, the cynicism of this community was probably merited. It feels like Blizzard is doing what a lot of Game companies (see Civilization) are doing - which is achieve basic stability, ship it, then scale server infrastructure and balance and fix bugs and flesh out content later.

That said - hooray - maybe someone will let me onto a pug CM raid later.

[Marinai]

It feels like Blizzard is doing what a lot of Game companies (see Civilization) are doing - which is achieve basic stability, ship it, then scale server infrastructure and balance and fix bugs and flesh out content later.

You know what they call that? DLC..
You have to pay a shit load of money for something that should have been in the game from the very first day..
Luckily, Blizzard doesn't really have any DLC for WoW, thank the Light.