6.2 Shaman Changes

[Sigmatic]

Elemental
Elemental Overload now increases multistrike damage by 20% (down from 35%).

Restoration
Chain Heal now heals for 25% more.
Riptide no longer increases Chain Heal's effectiveness by 25% on the primary target.

Item - Shaman T18 Elemental 2P Bonus (New) Your Earth Shock has a 15% chance to not consume the Lightning Shield charge and have its cooldown instantly reset.
Item - Shaman T18 Elemental 4P Bonus (New) For 5 Lightning Shield charges consumed, you conjure a Lightning Vortex near your location. Running through the Lightning Vortex will increase your total haste by 15% for until cancelled.
Item - Shaman T18 Enhancement 2P Bonus (New) Stormstrike generates a charge of Maelstrom Weapon.
Item - Shaman T18 Enhancement 4P Bonus (New) Maelstrom Weapon now has 10 Charges.
Item - Shaman T18 Restoration 2P Bonus (New) The critical healing of your Riptide is increased to 200%.
Item - Shaman T18 Restoration 4P Bonus (New) When you Chain Heal, you also apply Riptide to the primary target.
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Kind of disappointing for Ele and Enhance, hopefully the upcoming changes will help their utility. The Resto change is nice, even if it does dumb down our play a bit.

Edit: added tier bonuses

[hologram]

Pretty cool they're nerfing us now that we're finally in a good (read: not fucking garbage) spot.

[Deleted]

~4% nerf for single target elemental

[Volitar]

So resto becomes even more face roll? Whats the point of Riptide now? esp with the glyph. Lol I don't even

[Waylandyr]

lol not a single enhance change.....gg

[hologram]

So resto becomes even more face roll? Whats the point of Riptide now? esp with the glyph. Lol I don't even

At this point, pretty much unglyphed is the way to go I believe, and its gonna be used to proc 4pc bonus until we lose it with HFC gear. They might do something cool with Riptide with the next Tier though.

[Razecog]

Enhancement shamans are fine guise.

Pretty fucking disappointed tbh. Was hoping for a slight single target buff but hey, atleast we didn't get nerfed.

[hologram]

"Item - Shaman T18 Elemental 4P Bonus (New) For 5 Lightning Shield charges consumed, you conjure a Lightning Vortex near your location. Running through the Lightning Vortex will increase your total haste by 15% for until cancelled."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

[Licarius]

At this point, pretty much unglyphed is the way to go I believe, and its gonna be used to proc 4pc bonus until we lose it with HFC gear. They might do something cool with Riptide with the next Tier though.

Chain Heal now applies riptide to your primary target.

[Aviators]

finally they remove that 25% chain heal bs.

[Stevenzb]

Shaman T18 Enhancement 4P Bonus (New) Maelstrom Weapon now has 10 Charges.
I wonder how that will work

[Xenocyrst]

Shaman T18 Enhancement 4P Bonus (New) Maelstrom Weapon now has 10 Charges.
I wonder how that will work

What I want to know is how it works with the perk. Does this mean 200% buff to LB with 10 stacks??

[Nurabashi]

Maelstrom Weapon now has 10 Charges.

So, by default Maelstrom Weapon gives 20% Nature, Improved gives another additional 10%, so 10 stacks of Maelstrom weapon will be 300% damage Lightning Bolts? Sure, this is cool and all, but come on... going from turning into a Feral Spirit to this..? Lackluster to be honest.

Guess our shining moment was in MoP, never again, back to being below average.

[Razecog]

Pretty cool that enh 4 set is something that should be baseline.

I'm done.

[Hekili]

Maelstrom Weapon now has 10 Charges.

So, by default Maelstrom Weapon gives 20% Nature, Improved gives another additional 10%, so 10 stacks of Maelstrom weapon will be 300% damage Lightning Bolts? Sure, this is cool and all, but come on... going from turning into a Feral Spirit to this..? Lackluster to be honest.

Guess our shining moment was in MoP, never again, back to being below average.

I'm willing to bet that MW buffs are only counted based on what is consumed, and it'll only consume up to 5. This makes it a lot easier to only use LB at 5 stacks, since you won't risk overcapping unless you're really bad about dumping LB MWx5s.

[Nurabashi]

I'm willing to bet that MW buffs are only counted based on what is consumed, and it'll only consume up to 5. This makes it a lot easier to only use LB at 5 stacks, since you won't risk overcapping unless you're really bad about dumping LB MWx5s.

Then it's basically a non-factor 4 piece then. Great!

[themaster24]

So much for that overhaul of Shamans blizz promised coming into WoD. They were saying we would have it by 6.2. I guess it could still be in the works, but I'm starting to doubt that.

[Stevenzb]

So much for that overhaul of Shamans blizz promised coming into WoD. They were saying we would have it by 6.2. I guess it could still be in the works, but I'm starting to doubt that.

Not that I do not believe you, but is there a source?

[Razecog]

http://i.imgur.com/X69JfWN.png

Well guess our 4 set won't be that bad after all.

[Lostep]

So much for that overhaul of Shamans blizz promised coming into WoD. They were saying we would have it by 6.2. I guess it could still be in the works, but I'm starting to doubt that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-yuO7AJsM