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Old 11/23/05, 10:50 AM   #1
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New Spell - Tranquil Air Totem. Creates a totem that reduces the threat caused by nearby party members by 20%.

Taken from www.immortalityguild.com Im too stupid to get the link to work right :(

Anyway, its not confirmed but this would finally take away the unfair advantage the Alliance has. Thou, it will make for some interesting positioning challanges, you want it to hit the rogues, but not the warriors...

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Old 11/23/05, 10:53 AM   #2
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Positioning challenges? Maybe in 5-man instances.

Your MT and potential offtanks where applicable will get Windfury.

DPS warrior/rogue groups will probably still usually get GoA/Windfury, but can get Tranquil instead against mobs with deaggros or whee threat is otherwise a concern.

The biggest change will be that shamans in pure caster groups are no longer wasted. That's good.

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Old 11/23/05, 10:54 AM   #3
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It's good; it's a mixed bag.

Yes, we get 2/3s of the Alliance aggro reduction, but it comes at the cost of (at least) Nature Resistance totem and sometimes windfury or GoA.

Outside of that, it's a good thing Emergency Monitor works so well because you're never going to have a healer in the MT group or the Hunter group (aside from the shaman in that group) ever again.

I suspect that there is going to be some serious skill involved in knowing when to switch your rogues/ferals from GoA to TA and your DPS warriors from WF to TA and everyone to Nature Resist once we get inside AQ.

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Old 11/23/05, 10:57 AM   #4
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Yeah, juggling totems will be fun.

It'll be nice doing stuff like dropping Tranquil for a rogue group for the first half of a fight, telling them all to vanish, and then giving them GoA.

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Old 11/23/05, 6:59 PM   #5
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Gurg pretty much hit the nail on the head. Melee have done a fine job of managing their aggro with windfury/grace, and I know a lot of them don't want to give up either just for the aggro reduction they have lived without up until this point.

The biggest change is definitely the mage/warlock groups. Hallelujah!

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Old 11/23/05, 8:19 PM   #6
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Obviously I am not going to complain about a buff to our raids, but I feel that this was a knee jerk reaction to a lot of recent complaining on the official forums (which blizz pays way too much heed to).

I would have much rather had new mana tide/spring ranks in AQ or some nifty +spell damage totems to increase my effectiveness in mana groups.

Although if blizz plans to add more finicky aggro encounters, maybe it was wise to even the playing field.

In the end, I get a new toy on raids. This makes me happy.

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Old 11/23/05, 8:24 PM   #7
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It's a bone.

you're the one that decided to trust me

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Old 11/23/05, 8:40 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Taeme,November 23rd, 2005 @ 7:24PM
It's a bone.
A bone I would prefer they not have thrown. We aren't dogs, they could just ask us if we want it.

I'm not saying it won't be put to good use, but I don't want more "NERF FUKKEN SHAMAN" posts. Jesus christ. Give people more reason to complain about our class by giving us something we didn't need in the first place. Great idea.

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Old 11/23/05, 11:08 PM   #9
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You're all missing the point. Blizzard needs to give shamans BoP so they can wipe raids like paladins can. This is the critical imbalance between the alliance and horde.

Also, I heard that once in Judgement's MC (while Judgement was still around), somebody threw a snowball at Nogard just as he aggroed Rag, and it caused the entire raid to wipe.

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Old 11/23/05, 11:30 PM   #10
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We've had a lot of snowball MT/healer incidents.. We don't discuss them.

Also, I am a personal fan of "Surprise GM spawned portals to Thunderbluff." Which seem to happen every so often, usually while people are summoning.

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Old 11/23/05, 11:43 PM   #11
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Hehe I've heard of one guild that has a mage open up three portals on top of each other, one for TB, one for org and one for UC, at the end of their MC runs. The rest they leave up to luck.

Another game I know a lot of guilds like to play is the "who can banish the elemental closest to 1%" game.

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Old 11/23/05, 11:59 PM   #12
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The banish the elemental game sounds strangely familiar, but our warlocks would deny it even if it were true.

"Whoops sorry I didn't realize we were killing it!"

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Old 11/24/05, 12:04 AM   #13
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Just whose side are those warlocks on anyway? Those skanky succubi are known for stealing men's souls.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's a coincidence that the only time I die when I do eye of shadow farming is when a warlock is around.

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Old 11/24/05, 3:03 AM   #14
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Oops :(

http://xtsl.net/wow/WoW%202005-11-20%2023-25-03-89.jpg

Damn warlocks :(

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Old 11/24/05, 3:17 AM   #15
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I would also like to add that Greybone Soulburning at 3% is about as likely as Hi meeting a meth addict and suddenly realizing he might be bi instead of gay.

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