Massive Shaman Rework Is HERE In War Within Beta! Elemental Feels Incredible To Play Again

I wish theyd give an updated ascendance form and more wild spirit forms

as an ele main i hated casted icefury. i like how they changed icefury to flow better with frost shock. so many amazing talents theyve changed

It is so sad that they havent update any single visual, shamans still use visuals from Cataclysm (current classic version). Its so boring in comparison to Mages, warlocks and priest.

So, SO glad we're getting closer and closer to a viable lightning playstyle. They just need to go a bit futher and let us switch out stuff like lava burst/flame shock for something lightning-y (even if it's just visual) and I will NEVER stop maining shaman.

So the Earthquake talent is just an @target macro that we're not allowed to do.

Now we need a rework on hero talents and especially a visual update on all skills

I know its small but feral lunge baseline has me excited. Curious to see if theyll have more enhancement changes in the next batch. Sounds like shamans wont be completely done until post launch, though.

Does the improved ascendance with haste buff work with DRE? So saying you proc DRE it's duration is +3s and gets the haste buff? Or just for the CD?

the current state of the changes look like what other classes got during the alpha, but this has just dropped yesterday. so excited shamans get something, it still feels like a first draft. enhance definitely needs more to be on par with the lifts given to other specs. lots of good feedback given in the alpha and beta.

I fucking love the downpour change for resto, especially with totemic.....it's like changing healing rain to a thunderstorm for a huge burst

They just cant understand enhance 😅

Ele feels so good now. Very happy to have my Shaman back.

I think for a lightening build it is better to go right side at the top to get the 10% dmg increase when the elemental is out since they can be out is often now

while enhance didnt get a lot of changes you got them at just the right spots for ele builds. you get to take a lot more single target talents now. Doomwinds and Stormflurry upgrades help you punch in your worst situations

i wish we got a lightning ascendence as well, i like lightning builds more than fire. that plus many of the new lightning talents are broken or do work at all

Allo Dal!!! always watching your Vid from Montréal, they are always nicely done. I have a special favor. I love lightning shaman but at base i am a healer and heavily invest in healing all the time, Would you make me the most simple build for a lightning dps shaman that do some decent dps with the least button to press??? i know you love experimenting new and original specs of differents class. I will really appreciate this. I would love making more dps in dps spec than in healing spec (lol )

They should've named the alternate EQ to Epicenter Quake, and make it attach with the target. Just like damage aura surrounding the target. Imagine Shadow priest's Mind Sear, but not channeled.

what i wouldnt give for passive spirit wolves summon, reduction in terms of button bloat and ovverall damage buff and actual totem viability. maybe with the totems increase the range and roll a few abilities into one. idk but 2/3 of the ideas i proposed would be more then adequate. but overall make us deal damage again.

It's pretty much confirmed at this point. We need enhancement to be a tank. There's obviously no real way they can make a melee spec with these thematics and gameplay style which work. Crash lightning - shamans version of thunder clap Astral protection? Why not have it interact with a few tank rotational abilities to make it a sound tank CD. lava Lash? Sounds like it could be akin to a thrash/maul Storm strike? Could be a pulverise or shield slam Riptide? Emergency self heal. Earth shield? Fuck it, give it a similar effect to demon spikes and have the arms/back of the shammy turn into rock Want to keep it bukder/spender? Fuck it, make earth shield you're defensive spender and crash lighting your damage spender. Want to do something new? Maybe maelstrom can work akin to a stagger/bone shield hybrid? You store maelstrom which gets consumed upon the taking damage to give stacks of defensive stats? It's all there already. Just pull the plug

Very cool, and with a raid buff we may see alot more play from elemental