Cataclysm Class Preview: Shaman

[Thraz]

Changes sound good, particularly interested in Spiritwalker's Grace

[Aithan]

Changes look good, but shouldn't you wait for the other classes' previews before going "YAY LEVELING A SHAMMY NAU!!!!!"?

[Pappahealar]

Wow, too bad I quit the game, because Restoration shaman seems to be alot better and more fun to play in cataclysm, especially with Healing Rain and Spiritwalker's Grace.

" When this self-targeted buff is active, your spells are no longer interrupted by movement and possibly even by your own attacks."

It would be kinda awesome if you could Buff yourself with Spiritwalker's Grace, do a Healing Rain at the melee, and at the same time heal the range with Chain heal or another spell. eg the new Healing Wave. If your attacks won't be interrupted by your own attacks as the say it might.

And Spirit Link getting back, It's kinda awesome to but on the MT and OT, instead of having the MT only getting spanked and in need of alot of healing.

And "Deep healing" mastery is not as bad either ^^

[Direfen]

I've played the shaman class for almost as long as the game has been out, I have 2 80 shamans both geared pretty damn good, and I think that almost all of these changes are absolutely terrible.

Someones a bit sour today. Most of the changes are perfect to me, infact im exstatic about the Unleash Weapon and Primal Strike attacks, and even more so the Casting on the Run ability.

[golbez]

Cleansing Totem will be removed from the game, as we want dispels to be a decision for players, not something done mindlessly. To that end, all dispels will cost slightly more mana, and you will waste the spell if you cast it when there is nothing to remove. (Currently, the dispel is only cast when there is something to remove, which encourages spamming 'just in case.") We will balance PvE dispelling with this new model in mind.


I don't like this much tbh...

[vlads]

I gotta admit, im not too happy about the dispel changes, since i don't pvp at all.

But i must say alot of these changes seem awesome.
Only thing that bothers me is that spirit link. I just hope it's not gonna be like beacon of light in any way. Kinda wish they'd given a bit more info on that one

[snootay]

Speaking as a lifelong Elemental Shaman, I just peed a little.

It was always a little ridiculous that I did 11K dps on single target boss fights when we had a Demo Warlock to give the spellpower buff, and around 7-8K when I have to drop Totem of Wrath.

[skylla05]

I really hope they share the "casting while moving" buff with Mages, since it's something we've been requesting for 5 years.



Nice review.

[Apacheechief]

yeah not so sore about the cleansing nerf after this

[walexia]

We plan to add Earthquake as a deep Elemental talent for targeted and persistent AoE.

woot!! I absolutely LOVED "churning earth" in guild wars as an earth elementalist hopefully it will just look just as awesome!!!

[Sollace]

Holy sh..those are awesome changes! I was planning on benching my resto shaman when i started leveling a priest in Cat but this has really made me have to reconsider o.o. Depending on what priest changes they announce i might have to still concentrate on 3 characters , 4 if i continue with my feral druid.

[MrKnubbles]

Spiritwalker's Grace sounds amazing! and omg... Earthquake for Elem Shaman!

I'm also wondering why Fire Elemental is still a totem... -.-

[Full-Deck]

insta-windury when I want
Cast spells while moving >.>

amg

[Deleted]

whaaaa realy nice

healing rain FTW ^^
now i am looking forwards to cata even more .... can't wait

[ELYPOP]

Wow.

[ItachiZaku]

I likes this.

[Lazaruskell]

I registered if only to say that...

This news made me so happy I almost wept in joy...

[Aildaris]

Well that settles it, my goblin is going to be a shaman .

[Flashcast]

i see, ele mastery unleashed wep, LVB hopefully proccing overload then using spirit walking to run around spamming lbs, win in pvp

[Sym]

I really hope they share the "casting while moving" buff with Mages, since it's something we've been requesting for 5 years.



Nice review.

Share? More like give entirely to mages!

Slightly annoyed that they decided to give it to Shamans, considering that we have indeed been requesting it for years. OH well :-X