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Big Shaman Shadowlands Class Changes: June 10th

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We have some upcoming massive elemental and enhancement shaman changes coming up on the Shadowlands Alpha, from Searing Totem being removed as baseline, Rockbiter has been removed from enhancement, and a huge amount of changes are being made to the majority of abilities for the to DPS specs, as well as several enhancement talents being renamed and reworked.

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In an upcoming build of Shadowlands, several changes have been made for both of the DPS Shaman specializations.

One quick note before discussing the specific changes to each spec, Searing Totem Searing Totem is being removed as a baseline button to all Shaman. Searing Totem Searing Totem was brought back in Shadowlands with the intention of Totems being a cool and iconic part of the Shaman class, but without significant redesign to the button to give it mechanical interaction and feeling impactful to press, it wound up feeling like just another cooldown you had to manage that didn’t have any excitement behind it.

Elemental Shaman:

The changes above should make Elemental Shaman feel quite a bit more control over what will happen as the result of pressing their abilities.

Enhancement Shaman Core Ability Changes:

  • Rockbiter Rockbiter has been removed from the spec.
    ** This is a big change we’re trying out. Rockbiter Rockbiter in Shadowlands basically only serves as a GCD filler. With the removal of  Maelstrom, and Flame Shock Flame Shock and Frost Shock Frost Shock becoming class-wide abilities that are also on a short cooldown to fill empty spots, there was a lot of competition in the ~6 sec cooldown space of available buttons. Without Maelstrom, Rockbiter Rockbiter didn’t have any strong interaction with the rest of the Enhancement toolkit, and shock spells are much more iconic to Shaman. This is an experimental change, please try things out in combination with the changes below and let us know how things feel.
  • Lava Lash Lava Lash is now learned at level 11, down from level 22. Base cooldown increased to 18 sec (was 12 sec)
  • Lava Lash Lava Lash now gets upgraded at level 22 to have its cooldown reduced to 12 sec (was 18 sec)
  • Stormstrike Stormstrike ’s cooldown has been reduced to 7.5 sec (was 9 sec)
  • Maximum Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon stacks have been increased from 5 to 10.
  • Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon now grants increased damage and/or healing to the abilities Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon effects in addition to the cast time reduction.
  • Abilities that are altered by Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon have had their baseline damage or healing values reduced.
  • Stormbringer Stormbringer no longer causes your next Stormstrike Stormstrike to not incur a cooldown.
  • Feral Spirit Feral Spirit now grants one stack of Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon immediately when pressed, and an additional 5 stacks over the duration of Feral Spirit Feral Spirit.
  • Each target that you hit with Chain Lightning Chain Lightning now both increases the damage of, and reduces the cooldown of your next Crash Lightning Crash Lightning .
  • Windfury Totem Windfury Totem radius increased from 12 to 30 yards.
  • Windfury Weapon Windfury Weapon and Flametongue Weapon Flametongue Weapon no longer require you to click the button, then click a weapon on your character sheet. They automatically apply their effects to an appropriate equipped weapon.
  • Lightning Shield Lightning Shield now has a 50% chance to grant you a stack of Maelstrom Weapon Maelstrom Weapon when it deals damage to an enemy.
  • Flame Shock Flame Shock and Frost Shock Frost Shock have their cooldowns shortened with your current Haste.

Enhancement Shaman Talent Changes:

The above changes to Enhancement Shaman are a lot to take in, but we feel that the combined list of changes will make your abilities feel like they have a purpose and interact with your toolkit in meaningful ways instead of just dealing damage.

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Why not just remove Chain Lightning for Enhancement? Since we already have an AoE spell, plus it synergizes better with Stormstrike

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18 minutes ago, Dejo93 said:

Why not just remove Chain Lightning for Enhancement? Since we already have an AoE spell, plus it synergizes better with Stormstrike

Why would they remove it? What do you want to spend maelstorm stacks on in aoe situation?

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2 hours ago, Dejo93 said:

Why not just remove Chain Lightning for Enhancement? Since we already have an AoE spell, plus it synergizes better with Stormstrike

It's too cool.

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3 hours ago, Starym said:

Overcharge (talent) redesigned and renamed to Fire Nova. 15 sec cooldown. Cause all of your Flame ShockFlame Shocks to erupt in flames, dealing Fire Damage to up to 6 targets near your Flame ShockFlame Shock Targets

Oh baby! I was just telling my fellow friends how fire nova should be back as a talent option! 

 

Sucks to see searing totem gone, shame they couldn't make it anymore interesting... but oh well. Pretty neat how these talents change the rotation in one form or another, and how they are changing chain lightning interacts with Crash lightning. But now I'm curious if maelstrom weapon just stacks by 10% for a total of 100% at ten stacks or is it still the 20% with 200% at ten stacks? I'm gonna guess the latter since haste will effectively increase the amount of stacks during combat much like pre-legion days! 

Anywho I'm excited, this effectively gives enh more AoE options outside of crash lightning and cleave, very exciting stuff!

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I really like the look of these Enhancement changes and I hope Blizz keeps going with stuff like this. Searing Totem would have been weird so I'm glad its gone, hopefully Hunter gets their useless baseline abilities removed next.

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I'm excited to see Enhancement get back to how it used to be.  I am hoping that we see the return of Lava Lash spreading flame shock for aoe purposes, I miss the days when both shaman dps specs were aoe monsters and still did respectable single target.  I also wouldn't mind seeing the return of the 100 yard aura that gave everyone haste and mastery.

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6 hours ago, Drunkmoose said:

I'm excited to see Enhancement get back to how it used to be.  I am hoping that we see the return of Lava Lash spreading flame shock for aoe purposes, I miss the days when both shaman dps specs were aoe monsters and still did respectable single target.  I also wouldn't mind seeing the return of the 100 yard aura that gave everyone haste and mastery.

Was hoping for a second they were going to make retail shamans be able to tank raids ? seeing so many changes I got excited for a second ?

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2 hours ago, Drunkmoose said:

I'm excited to see Enhancement get back to how it used to be.  I am hoping that we see the return of Lava Lash spreading flame shock for aoe purposes, I miss the days when both shaman dps specs were aoe monsters and still did respectable single target.  I also wouldn't mind seeing the return of the 100 yard aura that gave everyone haste and mastery.

Same here! Or allow some mechanic to have flame shock hit multiple targets much like the new Hailstorm talent!

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1 hour ago, CaperfinWoW said:

Was hoping for a second they were going to make retail shamans be able to tank raids ? seeing so many changes I got excited for a second ?

Not even close, converting a pure dps melee spec into a tank spec may cause a divide. Besides, they tried giving enh shamans tools that allowed for some sort of tanking in MoP and older expansions, but it never works out. Unless the next future expansions introduce a fourth a spec for shamans, enh will never be tanks.

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This was very misleading in the title. Nothing changed for restoration shaman, just like every patch and expansion since who knows when.

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2 hours ago, Tralvis said:

This was very misleading in the title. Nothing changed for restoration shaman, just like every patch and expansion since who knows when.

The first sentence immediately says which specs are covered, which is visible on the frontpage, and so did the social media posts. We try to keep the titles shorter if possible, this was done for all the class changes, sorry if it mislead you.

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Did they forget resto shaman or what ??? Same crap all through legion and BFA. I bet resto shaman will stay the same and be behind even bad players playing paladin/druid/monk/priest, like it has been since legion.

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