Hey Naeth!

Any idea on when blizz is going to address totem mechanics? Also, do you have any idea as to what type of changes they plan on?

Thanks!

I just want to remind ppl that this is not the thread for asking Nathaera questions. plz just go to the sticky if you have questions:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17223094468&sid=1

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UPDATE:

Shaman: 235
Warlock: 114
Mage: 100
Death Knight: 61

Go Mages! Shamans still way above.

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Hehe lolz gogogo Shammy's !
Perfect! Another way to show Blizzard that we need quite a lot of changes, even thoe our community is one of the smallest :P

This opening of the Q&A thread feels more like a big event to me :)

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No need.

/tar Nethaera
/cast Water Walking

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This made me feel happy. haha

The main shaman concern in my mind:

I consider myself a pretty well prepared and educated player.

I have all the enchants, the best gems, I know how to stack hit then SP then haste then crit.

My DPS rotations are tight, I use flasks and crit pots.

I do all of that and still can not compete with classes who are not even half as prepared. My point is a shaman who does everything right and has equal gear should be where on the meters?

Thanks

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I'm not concerned. ;) I know bluster when I see it. Everyone here is doing a great job with asking their questions.

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The questions are fine and im fairly certain you probably can guess exactly what most people are going to ask, but surely you see where this is going to go? Your answers be just that....answers....but you realise that when you do provide these answers, that the community will not like them at all in the slightest, im very very eager to see exactly what the answer is in regards to the "totem" questions that most people have been asking.

Most people will also feel like this is an opportunity for the community to convey the problems with the class, however when they realise that these questions will most probably not result in any significant change, well....i hope you have an underground bunker handy....

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It is a possibility (as always) that some people may not like the answers. Then again, they might like the answers, change their minds, or at least get some better insight into what we're thinking and where we're going.

It is important for everyone to realize, this series of Q&As isn't as much about change as it is about giving some insight where we can. From there, we can see what happens. There is nothing being promised here aside from letting people know, we're still here, and we're going to do our best to put forth some answers to your top questions.

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in that case i do eagerly await the answers forthcoming and hope that important and relevant questions are answered.

oh and obligatory first yada yada yada...

Thing I would like to address

Totem of Wrath - 280 spell damage to all players within 40 yards and 3% crit debuff on enemy targets in 40 yards.
New Totem of Wrath - 10% Spell damage to all players within 100 yards and 3% crit (or 13% spell damage taken) enemy debuff in 100 yards. This totem also acts as an upgraded version of searing totem (Would reflect the deeper 41 point talent tree and allow enhancement shamans to keep their searing totems for their own dps)

Flame Shock T8 2 set - Needs to be made into a talent when Ice Crown gets released (since obv we going after better upgrades/T9)

Scaling Issue- Have heard multiple reply's to this, we got Flame Tongue so we don't need supposedly (how about making Flame Tongue weapon enchant scale with a % of our Intellect or a % of our total crit and or spell power?

Movement - Locks can teleport, Mages can blink, Hunters can jump backwards; where is ours?

Lava Burst - Critcal % makes up for 65%-60% of our LB, around 10-15% of our flame shock and 2-3% for our 4 piece T8. Lava burst damage is to big in PVP yet to low in PVE (Lighting Bolt is catching up fast and Lighting overload procing already passes it by a ton) Can Lava burst damage scale with crit or is that asking to much? just a though to help with our itemization needs

Itemization - Most of the gear you have made in Ulduar is very weird for some classes but completely lacking in the elemental/ department apart from the amazing job you did with the T8 Fix :D. There is one pair of bracers off Hodir hard mode, there is one pair of gloves off Iron Council hard mode and there is one pair of cloth boots off yogg hard mode that every class that needs spell power wants.

rest of the casters seem to have quite a bit to choose from and most of those said classes have scaling talents that make good use of the spirit/int gear apart from elemental (so back to scaling issues)

Raid Buffs - What buffs? all we get is a larger mana pool while everyone else gets there AP shot up, or their spell power goes up by a trinkets worth or more

These are just some issues and thoughts i have come to on my own and would like you to look at them

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funny note for Class Questions thread that rolled out.

4 classes this was done for and all started 3 hrs ago. as of right now here is the number of responces for each class

Shaman: 178
Warlock: 90
Mage: 70
Death Knight: 51

lol

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Shows which class is the most broken...

PVP related

Shamans are doing fairly well in pve or at least im doing pretty good, but in pvp we are lacking a lot. We have the lowest rep of all the healers curently, and one of the lowest as a class period(about 3% i belive). We really need a little more suviability. As well as our totems and pet stomping macros, they are a real pain, i spend a lot of mana trying to keep them down when a pet jsut randomly goes form one to the other killing it. Any changes curently planned for totems or survivability.

We have the lowest rep because we have low survivabilty due to the fast that we have ONE hot on a cd, if we want any good heals we have to stop and heal up. This makes it extremly hard as most other healers have a much bigger array of things to use. At the same time our mana regen is linked to a sheild that is only really good if we are taking damage. If we start taking too much damage we have to switch to earth sheild therfore oom faster. Our survivabilty is linked to two things that cannot be used at the same time on me.

Our totems are another big problem. Our really only 3 good totems now are stoneclaw and grounding. Stoneclaw has a huge cd, and grounding is often used up on a 500 instant cast and tremor is nice, but it only pulses every 3 seconds.. And an obvious problem is the stomping macros. I think it would be hard to make totems immune to pets without getting huge qq from people, but maybe give them a little health buff, and make pets do slightly less damage so they cant kill all my totems in a matter of seconds. The range on totems is also a problem. every single time the battle moves i have to redo my totems or may suffer. I understand that totems have lore and stuff, but maybe a ability to call out totems to our feet, would keep to the game and wouldnt be too bad either. Another thing is that the only thing protecting tremor totem(stoneclaw) is also an earth totem so they cannot be used at the same time. It pulses every 3 seconds so that means someoen can fear me then kill tremor. It needs to be taken back down to 1 sec pulses. that would mean people would actually have to kill the totem first then fear, not easy mode fear and kill with no conciquences.

Just a few of my ideas, im sry for any mispells or typos

I got an idea or two that could possibly help Enhance PvP. Dont hate :(

1) Making defensive MW procs. After getting stunlocked by a rogue or hammer-bursted down by a pally, it would be nice to let an instant heal off :D

2) Making LvB instant cast with MWx5. I know, it sounds OP but would really help the problem with our burst now.

Thanks :D

I got an idea or two that could possibly help Enhance PvP. Dont hate :(

1) Making defensive MW procs. After getting stunlocked by a rogue or hammer-bursted down by a pally, it would be nice to let an instant heal off :D

2) Making LvB instant cast with MWx5. I know, it sounds OP but would really help the problem with our burst now.

Thanks :D

WoW 10k views for this post already :O

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2) Making LvB instant cast with MWx5. I know, it sounds OP but would really help the problem with our burst now.

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This was done in beta, and enhancement actually profited the most by going after elemental gear, hence the removal. At least you were thinking along similar lines of the devs originally though. =)

Don't worry about Neth, I think shaman are so desperate for attention right now we wont turn on her in a canibulistic flame frenzy as might happen in the other Q&A threads.

Our love of blue posts is riveled only by our hatred of totem stomping macros.