SHAMAN CHANGES! | Some Positives, Some....huuuuuh... 

I'm going to need a masters degree in common core math to figure the new rotations

Another missed nerf for enhance is that you need to spend a point on spirit walker's grace to get ancestral guidance which is just a dead skill for enhance.

I'm sorry, but I'm so happy feral lunge is now auto learned. Holy shit thank you.

As an enhancement shaman main im happy with the Windfury Totem change to Skyfury. Its less maintenance and GCDs while fighting.

how does this affect the damage distribution of elemental shaman? I suppose Tauren isn't that good anymore?

Does anyone know why all rshamans are playing a Riptide build nowiin retail? I stopped playing for one week and when I came back everyone was playing that, and I have not found any blue post mentioning a change to make sense of it. 😅

anyone know when the servers come back up?

cant they finally connect Ice Strike with Hailstorm/Fire Nova ?

I'm glad they're getting rid of windfury. Playing with bad enhances who somehow forget to drop it drives me nuts 😂 (and it was just more button bloat that isn't even that good)

Personally I guess as resto I liked the farseer tree they fixed my problem with it because undulation will trigger the spirits now....reactive warding especially with the extra earth shield charges you get from the tree seems like an ok spot heal and rewards you for letting them run out of charges instead of refreshing every pull.... There's more riptide synergy with key talents like primal tide core moved up and prim wave is a capstone I can take it or leave it idk I felt the changes were ok if you didn't rely on chain heal (I say that as im casting it less than 10 times a dungeon) like i dont rely on it

On the first point, in the class tree you don't need any extra button compared to live as the earthgrab totem is earthbind totem's replacement which is baseline, so a 3/10 would be warranted as in not worse than before but not better

Saying enhance is fine shows how clueless they are.

Blizz have problems with elemental, enhancement, feral druid, survival hunter and aff warlock classes...

EB nerf, lack of 4set change, and calling enh “fine” is all I needed to see to know blizzard has no fucking clue what they’re doing with enh

Me: maybe I'll go back to enhancement this expansion Watches video: ah...nope...guess not

Enhance has too many buttons trying to do the same thing. The spec has so much button bloat. I have mained shaman since BC and this is the worst I have seen the spec.

Enhancement currently already has too many buttons, now with the new pathings spirit walkers grace, stone bulwark, wind totem and crash lightning are added to the bloat just by speccing into either elementalist or storm build.

i dont think skyfury is a totem.. it reads like a normal buff like stam/verse/int etc.. also don't forget the icefury redesign/buff makes icefury instant cast instead of having to spend time casting icefury.. more insta cast spells might make haste less important and movement fights easier to play

Arent feral spirits also elementals? Thus benefiting from primordial bond

Where ENCH shaman damage?

Very very glitchy atm. Kicked from the game changing talents, testing rotation, mounting. Will watch your videos and test a bit later.

The thing is with Stone bulwark totem u should be able to refresh its duration with TR since its a 2 min CD if it ends up being good CD we would have 2x SBT and AS 1,5-2 min so we should have 3 DR CD and in case when u have huge dmg over time earth ele +BP combined AG could be useful. It would be nice if they reworked Spirit wolf talent since it trash to give u 20%DR for 2 sec when u enter wolf to have some minor thing when everything is on cd and not spend 4-5 sec watching from damn wolf so u can live

In iterative design, buffs are buffs. But so much of this changes rotational and priority alterations, no one knows until they try

You can use totemic projection your surging totem and a new rain is cast. That's on a 10 second cd. So cast surging, get the downpour, projection for a second downpour, 10 seconds later projection again for a new downpour and then after the initial 24 seconds passes u can hard cast surging totem again. It's Def not as good as every 5 seconds, but you can now aim 2-3 rains per 24 sec CD. Not terrible. Tho I haven't actually tested yet.

Izen. The absorb shield around 15%HP and 10% every other tick (not stacking). On a 2min CD. This is bad

What did they actually "rework"? I think the term has become so damn overused. My main item on the wishlist was for totem overhaul

did they say the whole package wasn't pushed out yet? if that's the case why are people having a meltdown? This also won't be the only pass shamans will get so feedback is important but if people just whine at blizzard they will mostly ignore whats being said to them. They were pretty swift with most of the classes in the alpha and beta so I wouldn't start worrying just yet. If by the end of this month shamans still look bad then yea I can see the reason for complaints.

"Hey dad look at my rough draft on my paper" "it's crap and you suck" This was a preliminary and danm Mr gm you tore them up.

I loved that I can use Master of the Elements to buff my healing rain/Acid rain or my chain lightning or what ever I wanted, now its so boring holy fuck. I also liked that I can burst dps+heal with Stormbringer + Ancestral Guidance, thats also gone now... most of the time blizzard touches something I like, it somehow goes in a direction I can not appreciate :/ I fled from warrior to Rschaman because I could not stand the meaningles and boring design they chose for their warrior representative class (the worst/most boring class design out of all rpgs I know) they way I can spread flameshock now seems very fun.. maybe thats something you can use to funnel in to a high prio target...

TL;DR?

where the shit is my chain harvest?

It's incredibly sad to see people who actually AGREE with Blizzard that Enh Shaman is in a good place. MAYBE in raid but in M+ it feels like absolute trash to play. The Fire or Lightning build divide and hard target caps will forever hold this spec back.

Replace lava burst with a lightning spell and we gucci

I know blizzard is removing range extension, but I would like just a few yards for enh. It feels like you have to be up the anus of a mob before your in range to hit it

These aren’t really buffs. I don’t know why I keep hearing that. Shaman does about the same DPS as it did before these changes. You can’t spam Lava Burst anymore but rather than buff other things to be significantly better to press, they just realigned the damage so that it’s loaded in other abilities. Stormkeeper is still a bit of a joke of a Hero Spec for Elemental (it’s pretty good for Enhance) and Farseer is now even worse than it was since you can’t reduce the CD of Primordial (and it was pretty meh before) and they didn’t buff anything to compensate (it’s also still bugged and the last talent doesn’t work currently). The frustrating part is that this should have been week 1 of the Beta. The Hero Specs are still C tier in design (except for Totemic for Resto) and the Elemental tree feels really haphazard without a central theme unifying it all.

They gonna make me quit the GAME ! FOR FUCK SAKE CAN U FUCKING MAKE THE STUPID ENCHANTMENT SHAMAN GOOD FOR 1 EXPANSION ATLEAST it has not been good since TBC

Never gameplay. Just making a video and reading from WOWHEAD.

I hope they remove the general class talent tree and just give us all the abilities by defult with the spell book by leveling hate having to change that part of the tree if I want maybe some more cc or mobility but that's not the best tree for dps or tank or heal in raids so I have to swap again and is also very annoying to put points in there beacuse you don't really need anything from there and it makes you waste time and there are a ot of other reasons to hate it

DOES BLIZZARD EMPLOYS even play the shaman? does they even know how it works WTF i am mad AS FAK

Not sure how anyone can consider changing windfury totem to a raid wide buff and adding mastery to it a nerf...

Shaman does not need more defensives, all the other classes needs a defensive nerf ...

Elemental shaman not yet implemented yet literally

I just want wotlk meatball damage back

The Elemental blast nerf was the most braindead change. Because of a hero talent, they nerf the spell instead of the hero talent.

Just fire the whole shaman team and rebuild it.

pvp…

Is no one bringing up the fact that most of the hero nodes and give-or-take 8 elemental shaman nodes are simply +damage; including our mastery which is so G.D. bland?!?! They don't change or modify anything. There's no real identity and nothing about any of this is "hero" worthy. These nodes just kill other parts of the spec/abilities. They actively damage their own spec design by putting these things in. It's also the laziest possible way to fill any gap in any game that takes no time or effort. It's lazy, greed! It's garbage like D4s talent trees. Why does Earth Shock do 107% more damage than elemental blast?!?! A large portion of the elemental talent tree is literally locked out if you don't take elemental blast?!?! And resto shamans reworks sound really weak for the most part and still have a lot of emphasis on chain heal. Sigh. How are dozens of paid people so bad at making classes? It's honestly not hard to have an imagination. At least I know I'm not coming back to the game now. Thank you as always for good videos Izen. Shame on Blizzard as per usual.

well I am playing enhancement in Beta and we are tottaly not target capped anymore when playing the physical build. Tempest hits all targets, is often up and hits like a truck (careful with your aggro on pull type of truck). Your physical wolves also hit all targets and are a very big part of your damage. I have also tried a similarphysical build, but with totemic hero talent tree. This is also uncapped, because of your wolves and the surging totem which hits all targets. With both build I was first in dps in almost all dungeons I run. Al in all Enhancement looks good, although it is early to tell for sure.

As an Enhancement main I am VERY happy with windfury changes: it frees up a point in the spec tree and removes pressing one of the worst GCD buffs to manage

This class is a mess... buttons buttons buttons... oh wait, more buttons

Might wanna re think quite a few of these takes

Rare shit takes from Izen today

I am so mad i cant even go to bed now damn CAN I REFUND THE WAR WITHIN PLS?

resto needs a rework. all they do is riptide and spam chain heal.

Enhancement shammy's losing their shit on the forums and its not even implemented yet 😅😅

Blizzards should just remove the Shaman class until they actually want to fix it. I don’t play the class but the fact they’re always so unwanted is such a bummer. I wanted to play shaman in shadowlands but the other options were just too good. Shaman was a class along with Druid I enjoyed because the lore of a medicine man in tune with nature. I love that.

No love for enhancement, im so sad i was specting for a mayor o real rebamp or rework, but this Is an insult for us, whats wrong with Blizzard doying this kind of joks

Another generic mastery. Really lame

Usually agree with this dude a lot but this take is real off point

Izen homie this video is an L, they said in the post that this isn’t even half the changes they’re making they just accidentally released these early. No point in dooming over what is clearly unfinished (yet still better than before).

You're jumping the gun a bit, the changes aren't done yet

there, you got buffs to shamans. now please stop bullying mages in your videos, thank you. t. mage main

Blizzard: "We are adding this raid buff which puts all Shaman specs on the same playing field. Here are some changes to talents. There are more coming." Enhance 1 tricks: "It's all over spec is dead" Has to be the biggest overreaction I've ever seen by a spec community