It's not a 10% chance to stun one guy, it's a chance to stun an entire crowd. If EQ still had a 30% stun...AV turtles would go to whoever has the ele shammies. Yes, this is a situational use of EQ, but it does happen a lot in BG's. So yeah, a mass CC/AoE spell does have a trade-off for casters; just ask a frost mage.
EQ has no DPS value, its the only 31point talent that is useless in raids, spriest 31point is mana regen and an "oh shit" button much raid use there.
Worgen Druids
Now we Have Shapeshift in our Shapeshift, so we can Shapeshift while we Shapeshift.
I think it could use some less RNG. Maybe have an effect like stuns every 1 sec for 0.5 secs so its good to use against casters/melee while in the Earthquake, movespeed reduced by 50%, damage increased, maybe have chain lightning deal more dmg to targets within Earthquake (idk for +aoe dmg?).
I don't play an ele shaman but tbh the EQ right now is crap with RNG and pitiful damage.
For the record Starfall was initially quite a lackluster talent many boomkins didn't pick it up much less use it. Look how that turned out
Resto Druids, the best health care system
I want to smack all 56 people saying they will use it... Because you know since we won't be aoeing in cata and you won't use it in arena, when do you plan on using it?
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False. We will AoE in Cataclysm. It just won't be the AoE fest that is WotLK. This has been addressed before. Whether it's the ideal AoE everyone wants is very up for debate and yada yada yada. Saying that no one will AoE is just wrong.
Let's be realistic. Haiti -loves- earthquakes. Definitely worth it.
Ok be realistic - rated BGs will be big in cata (prob bigger than arena) so mass CC will be absolutely needed there, so umm i still miss the point of ppl saying it's useless and we still haven't seen if there would be some awesome glyph for it but even like that it's overall very nice.
In 5 man / raid trash it's fine, but outside of that, there isn't much use in bg or pvp (I did say much there so calm down). Playing in the ptr, I mostly use it to show ppl around org....thats about it atm. It's numbers have been increased quite a bit, so damage isn't too bad. Over-all I have to say "eh, good effort" to blizz. Blizz, listening to shamans, two years too late (^.^)b
Arena will still be the optimal place for Points. More can be obtained there. 10% knockdown chance doesn't warrant casting EQ ever...you'd just be CC-ing yourself for the channel duration, assuming you don't get locked out of the school, which would also screw you. You're better off actually using real abilities.
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You do realize that Dispersion is a life saving defensive CD that also returns mana. I love it on my spriest, and it has an obvious purpose in PvP and "oh sh*t" moments in PvE. EQ doesn't really fit into PvE or PvP. I mean, it's a channeled fucking AoE. boring....
It's the only 31-point Cata ability that really has no home. WTB re-design.
eq sucks
Earthquake in its current form isn't very appealing. they should just remove the knockdown (lol, 10%, really?) and make it do something else, something that makes it more than situational.
imo, it should have a 20% chance per pulse to release an unchained fire elemental from the epicenter. (an elemental that doesn't last as long as the totem) kinda running off of GC's ideas to possibly make elementals spawn out of totems randomly.
something like that absolutely needs to happen.
What?
Yes, base mana jumps as hell.
Why exactly would I make these numbers up, when there are other betatesters, who could obviously come and make me look like a liar?
http://img696.imageshack.us/f/shambasehpmana.jpg/
http://img710.imageshack.us/i/shambasehpmana2.jpg/
http://img801.imageshack.us/i/shambasehpmana3.jpg/
Maybe next time dont jump to conclusions, thank you very much. insane base mana is the main reason why healers will have a much harder time, since their heals jumped in mana too.
edit; almost forgot, in before "your ilevel is 293 you liar!"
http://img36.imageshack.us/i/ilevelwut.jpg/
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It has not. its 10%. You know whats 10%? thats same 10% like to hit rogue with spells while he is in CloS. How many times did you actually had such a luck to fire a spell through his CloS? not to mention for example twice in a row? 10% is garbage.
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