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Q u o t e:
There is definitely a lot of AE (area effect damage) going on in World of Warcraft dungeon runs at the moment. We’re not too worried about it for now – on the contrary it’s nice to see so many people doing the level-up dungeons on the way to level 80. If we find that AE tank + AE damage strategy (with no sheeping, sapping or other crowd control) is the only way people are running heroics and raids, then we’ll probably make some changes, but for now we’re content to just see what happens.

Having said all that, we feel like a few groups are being left out of the AE fun, which makes them of less utility in the 5-player dungeons. We aren’t able to provide a lot of details yet, but here are some upcoming changes we’re making.

Shaman – we are removing the threat component from Fire Nova Totem and Magma Totem and increasing the damage from Magma Totem. This should provide the Elemental shamans in particular with some formidable AE.

Rogue – we are removing the cooldown from Fan of Knives and adjusting the damage calculation slightly to make daggers more useful for this ability.

Druid – we are adding Swipe (Cat) as a baseline ability.

As is the case with most multi-target abilities, these three should be something you want to use when faced with groups, but never against single targets. Fan of Knives and Swipe, for example, don’t grant combo points so they should never be a core part of the rotation against single targets (like most bosses).

These changes will be available in the next minor content update, so keep an eye out for the next PTR push.

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Q u o t e:
Shaman – we are removing the threat component from Fire Nova Totem and Magma Totem and increasing the damage from Magma Totem. This should provide the Elemental shamans in particular with some formidable AE.

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Q u o t e:
GC, i would like to ask you to please reconsider the shaman change. As it stands, this is a great change for enh shaman, however as an elemental shaman, if i am standing back 30 + yards nuking, having to stop what im doing, run into a crowd of mobs and toss down a totem (which removes my group/raid buffing totem) is a huge hassle and a rather large loss in both my personal dps and raid dps as well.

Please, reconsider simply adding a new talent in the elemental tree, say a 31 pointer or something such as volcano or earthquake where we can do a targeted and ranged AOE like every other caster class has.

Thanks for your time.

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Q u o t e:
GC, i would like to ask you to please reconsider the shaman change. As it stands, this is a great change for enh shaman, however as an elemental shaman, if i am standing back 30 + yards nuking, having to stop what im doing, run into a crowd of mobs and toss down a totem (which removes my group/raid buffing totem) is a huge hassle and a rather large loss in both my personal dps and raid dps as well.

Please, reconsider simply adding a new talent in the elemental tree, say a 31 pointer or something such as volcano or earthquake where we can do a targeted and ranged AOE like every other caster class has.

Thanks for your time.

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Q u o t e:
/facepalm magma totem ????

So we are going to run in from ranged into melee with a static totem with 8 yard range on mobile mobs...

Then run back out to cast range, then run back in when totem expires...rinse and repeat...


( not to mention we have to run back in to recast totem if they get out of our totem's 8 yard range )

frankly this benefits enhancement more seeyign as they dont have to waste travel time...nway...we lose again.

blizzard is brilliant.

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