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  1. #121
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    im pretty pised up with state of shaman especially after trying some arenas both 2vs2 and 3vs3 as enh and resto
    Things are not getting easier after trying some ret gamplay and if someone remember our gamplay from last 3 expansions may find it pretty similar, so all in all good things gone to pala on top of some already grate deff cds and some extra mobility talents and we are left with some crazy SS spam to not get to similiar in the end or something ffs
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  2. #122
    Yes. End the ss spam. Gief defensives. We should be able to heal, at least as much as rogues. Lol this last sentence should be weird but it's not.

  3. #123
    Quote Originally Posted by Razion View Post
    Yeah, I'd probably agree with that. I think the best totems are the ones that actively do something in combat like Liquid Magma or Capacitor Totem.
    It's kind of tough because the entire Shaman was made in Vanilla with the pretense that it was a buff class. So, if Shaman isn't a buff class, what else should it be defined as - interrupting, purging, off-heals? What other side element do you think should be amplified to an absurd degree to replace totems so that it becomes "the identity" - and for people who like totems, should they remain as abilities that deal damage? Historically I've thought totems acting like conduits for spells after they do something could be fun. Considering totems being short-duration is what they're doing in Shadowlands, maybe buffs at all from the totems are off the table entirely.


    Totems and weapon imbues should be baked together.

    For instance, combine Rockbiter with Strength of Earth or Stoneskin (revamping what strength of earth and stoneskin do). Everytime you rockbiter, it places the earth totem with a 30 yard range. Each new use of rockbiter replaces the previous earth totem placed by previous rockbiter.

    Lava Lash can do the same thing. Have Lava Lash also plave a Flametongue or Searing Totem). Each time you lava lash, it replaces the fire totem with a new one.

    Stormstrike could place a windfury totem, or a retooled grace of air/threat totem. Again, each new cast replaces it.

    This is just an idea. You can replace these totems with the appropriate elemental totem from the 4 totem system.

    This system would 1) make certain totems relevant without needing GCDs to replace them
    2) bake certain totems into attacks that already exist minimizing bloat while bringing back a buff aspect to shaman
    3) Allows totem art to remain releveant and useful

    Other totems could remain as is as cooldowns.
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  4. #124
    Quote Originally Posted by Advent View Post
    Because the design of totems never evolved to match the game's newer design. They're not impactful or easy to maintain, nor are they powerful enough to warrant being as clumsily designed as they are. It's like everyone else moved towards using self-flying cars and we're still riding around on horses, shouting about how great the "good old days" of shoveling horse crap was.
    Lul what are you talking about? Grounding a huge ass chaos is important and saves everybodys life, tremoring pre fear to stop a never ending cc chain is important too.
    The Problem is we got rid of other important totems which were very important and easy to maintain during combat. Like poison cleansing totem, searing totem to keep rogues in combat and other ones. Guys that they totems aren't probably only did pve or never played during the golden era of wotlk

  5. #125
    Quote Originally Posted by Nzx View Post
    Honestly, I think the current implementation of Searing Totem alone is enough to make me not play Shaman in SL. People complain about "maintenance buffs" like Inquisition all the time but at this point I'm pretty sure I'd rather have a "Cost 5 Maelstrom increase all Nature damage by 30% for x secs" buff than Searing Totem. They just completed missing the point of "unpruning" with Shaman... If you must bring Searing Totem back, then take advantage of the AoE cap and give us Flame Shock spread with LL again and make Searing Totem attack all targets with Flame Shock. That way the interaction is FS -> LL spread to 5/8 targets and then drop ST, and the "minigame" is judging how long the mobs will live for and whether it's better to drop ST when you only have FS on 4 of the targets because it'll get more casts in, or wait til you have full spread. Just give us something.
    wasn't there a point where Searing Totem applied DOT stacks that interacted with Lava Lash, with the targeting prioritizing the last Flame Shock? And then the gameplay choice was deciding when to use Magma Totem instead for multitarget fights, but if there was a priority target you'd keep using searing.

  6. #126
    Quote Originally Posted by Nynax View Post
    wasn't there a point where Searing Totem applied DOT stacks that interacted with Lava Lash, with the targeting prioritizing the last Flame Shock? And then the gameplay choice was deciding when to use Magma Totem instead for multitarget fights, but if there was a priority target you'd keep using searing.
    Yes, Searing Flames used to stack the damage your next Lava Lash did each time it hit a target. Basically Searing Totem generated combo points and you would use LL at "5" or whatever. It's an interaction, but it's not really "fun", because LL couldn't do decent damage without stacks or it'd be overpowered.

    I think I'm just done with Enhancement. Legion was the peak, for me, and they don't seem interested in going back to that. Cata/MoP was fun, but it was fun then and I don't really think I would enjoy similar design again. I'm bored of having 15 different damaging "attacks" meaning none of them actually feel significant. I'm bored of "feast or famine" actually meaning "famine 100% of the time at low gear, famine 80% of the time in high gear". I feel like they had lightning (excuse the pun) in a bottle in Legion and they're unlikely to ever give me that feeling again, so meh. I'll reroll another melee that actually has a cohesive kit and play that instead of trying to give them the benefit of the doubt about Enh again.

  7. #127
    Quote Originally Posted by Nzx View Post
    Yes, Searing Flames used to stack the damage your next Lava Lash did each time it hit a target. Basically Searing Totem generated combo points and you would use LL at "5" or whatever. It's an interaction, but it's not really "fun", because LL couldn't do decent damage without stacks or it'd be overpowered.

    I think I'm just done with Enhancement. Legion was the peak, for me, and they don't seem interested in going back to that. Cata/MoP was fun, but it was fun then and I don't really think I would enjoy similar design again. I'm bored of having 15 different damaging "attacks" meaning none of them actually feel significant. I'm bored of "feast or famine" actually meaning "famine 100% of the time at low gear, famine 80% of the time in high gear". I feel like they had lightning (excuse the pun) in a bottle in Legion and they're unlikely to ever give me that feeling again, so meh. I'll reroll another melee that actually has a cohesive kit and play that instead of trying to give them the benefit of the doubt about Enh again.
    I totally feel you, ironically I quite Enhance in WoD so I missed out on Legion. I found a playstyle "home" in Windwalker, though I'm not a big fan of the class theme, but I find/found it to be the most similarly engaging; with the Combo Strikes mechanic forcing a continuous cycling of abilities like enh of old, without the ability bloat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crazyswayzee View Post
    Lul what are you talking about? Grounding a huge ass chaos is important and saves everybodys life, tremoring pre fear to stop a never ending cc chain is important too.
    The Problem is we got rid of other important totems which were very important and easy to maintain during combat. Like poison cleansing totem, searing totem to keep rogues in combat and other ones. Guys that they totems aren't probably only did pve or never played during the golden era of wotlk
    I played during wotlk, and totems back then were game-breaking. Totems like poison cleansing, and the old tremor totem were game-breaking. Blanket aoe debuff denial is ridiculous. Maybe that's great in pvp, where you could make a case to bring them back there, but what those totems did in pve was remove any decision-making from players because "Totems got it". Specifically, what I referred to was pve if that wasn't clear. I couldn't care less what pvp does or has.

  9. #129
    Quote Originally Posted by Advent View Post
    I played during wotlk, and totems back then were game-breaking. Totems like poison cleansing, and the old tremor totem were game-breaking. Blanket aoe debuff denial is ridiculous. Maybe that's great in pvp, where you could make a case to bring them back there, but what those totems did in pve was remove any decision-making from players because "Totems got it". Specifically, what I referred to was pve if that wasn't clear. I couldn't care less what pvp does or has.

    This is wrong even for pve. Sure, it was set and forget for the shaman, but poison/disease cleansing still only worked for your group, rather than the entire raid. It was also a time when the game had less mana, so allowing stronger healers to actually heal while you dealt with those specific debuffs was fine. It also came at cost, as you couldn't use it with nature resist totem, healing stream, or the essential mana tide. Furthermore, Shamans also couldn't remove magic, and instead were disease and poison only.

    It was removed specifically because it hard countered DKs in WotLK for pvp. Think of all the times you had to use a cleansing totem for pve prior to DKs existing. There weren't many encounters at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Advent View Post
    I played during wotlk, and totems back then were game-breaking. Totems like poison cleansing, and the old tremor totem were game-breaking. Blanket aoe debuff denial is ridiculous. Maybe that's great in pvp, where you could make a case to bring them back there, but what those totems did in pve was remove any decision-making from players because "Totems got it". Specifically, what I referred to was pve if that wasn't clear. I couldn't care less what pvp does or has.
    Good thing they stopped doing that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    It says that's a pvp talent, soo....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Advent View Post
    It says that's a pvp talent, soo....
    As pointed out by the poster above, said totems were speficially removed because of PvP.

    And the decision making was hardly present because...what did you if your group became afflicted with a poison / disease?
    You dropped the totem, actual PvE situations where poisons are being constantly applied remained more the exception than the rule.

    It saves you four GCD's, but that's about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    As pointed out by the poster above, said totems were speficially removed because of PvP.

    And the decision making was hardly present because...what did you if your group became afflicted with a poison / disease?
    You dropped the totem, actual PvE situations where poisons are being constantly applied remained more the exception than the rule.

    It saves you four GCD's, but that's about it.
    And the poster I was quoting wanted to bring back pointless, shitty totems we don't need. Like Cleansing totem. It was a fire and forget nonsense totem that I believe is a waste to bring back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Advent View Post
    And the poster I was quoting wanted to bring back pointless, shitty totems we don't need. Like Cleansing totem. It was a fire and forget nonsense totem that I believe is a waste to bring back.
    What? Cleansing Totem was boss, Wotlk Naxx would like to have a word with you.

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    It's still overbloated and extremely squishy in PvP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmilblick View Post
    It's still overbloated and extremely squishy in PvP.
    Yeah button bloat isca real thing. I tested it on PTR and well there are some very clunky, non fluid setups. Keeping FS and leashing flames up on several targets or using fire nova properly is stressful and has a high ramp up. In case they tune EB very high you might need to juggle eb+LB+Chain Lightning + Crash lightning + shocks + hailstormstacks or FS for fire nova - and of course SS and LL.

    Other specs press a CD and hit 1 or 2 buttons and deal much more AOE dps. Enhance has 10 buttons to manage, probably none will have high burst after tuning.

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    I was excited for enhance, but after testing it on the PTR I changed my mind.

    Maelstrom weapon procs are too spiky
    there are very few synergies between talents
    the overall rotation requires too much decision-making and the rotiational flow is bad (several seconds of nothing to press or three spells coming off cd simultaneously)
    having to use Crash Lightning single target shouldn't be a thing (imo)

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    Classes are still pruned mess since Legion and people are already talking about "ability bloat"? Hopefully Blizzard won't listen to people who started playing in Legion/BFA when the class design was/is at its all time low.

    I really like what they did to enh, it feels like a return to the old enh desing instead of the homogenized builder/spender gameplay every class has since Legion. I'm really considering maining enh in SL because of these changes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gardoc View Post
    Classes are still pruned mess since Legion and people are already talking about "ability bloat"? Hopefully Blizzard won't listen to people who started playing in Legion/BFA when the class design was/is at its all time low.

    I really like what they did to enh, it feels like a return to the old enh desing instead of the homogenized builder/spender gameplay every class has since Legion. I'm really considering maining enh in SL because of these changes.
    well we still dont have any decent defensive cd or burst so none of major problems was touched
    we get back to cd based abilities although they are designed the way that nothing much changes from curent live itteraition, beside spell names maybe, and adition of LB in rotation (which schould be our big spenderand in reaity it hits for some silly numbers)

    ascendace is still a talent same as feral lounge and natures guardian, etlest 2 of the 3 should be basline, along with ancestral guaidance

    just go to SL beta server, test shit and then get MOP pirate server and tell me that SL version will be better, i will be really glad to read that opinion with proper resoning behind it
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    Quote Originally Posted by kosajk View Post
    well we still dont have any decent defensive cd or burst so none of major problems was touched
    we get back to cd based abilities although they are designed the way that nothing much changes from curent live itteraition, beside spell names maybe, and adition of LB in rotation (which schould be our big spenderand in reaity it hits for some silly numbers)

    ascendace is still a talent same as feral lounge and natures guardian, etlest 2 of the 3 should be basline, along with ancestral guaidance

    just go to SL beta server, test shit and then get MOP pirate server and tell me that SL version will be better, i will be really glad to read that opinion with proper resoning behind it
    I completely agree that every class is better on MoP server and that enha still has its problems, especially in PVP, so I would welcome the changes proposed by you.
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