Blood Elf paladins and Alliance Draenei shamans

Muraevin · 07/21/06, 12:17 PM

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/world...ml?sid=6154421

Wow.

http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thre...=1#post1141585
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Ultramax · 07/21/06, 12:18 PM

Extremely disappointed.

Oh well.

probiscus · 07/21/06, 12:19 PM

/el oh el
//nothing else to add

Darkchani · 07/21/06, 12:21 PM

-damn- is all i can think of

and holy shit JoW & BoW at last ! :p

Pheidippides · 07/21/06, 12:26 PM

by far the most enragingly retarded thing I've ever seen

Pixen · 07/21/06, 12:26 PM

Way to take the easy way out blizz.

Should be interesting to see how they balance encounters around having blessings and totems, and how guilds balance raids with one more class.

Rane · 07/21/06, 12:26 PM

Holy crap.

It's the easy way out for them, and for once I love them for it :D. Now it's just gonna be a problem to keep enough Shamans around for Windfury/Str of Earth, since I'm pretty sure a lot will reroll...

Oh well. They just secured me buying the expac.

hiro · 07/21/06, 12:26 PM

Mmmm. Well, much as I would love to be able to take a shammy with my alliance friends, I would rather they buffed Shaman in PvE rather than simply replacing them with horde pallies.

This will play havoc with 40 man raid balance.

Seriously, are Greater Totems THAT hard to accept, Blizz?

Elendril · 07/21/06, 12:27 PM

i guess i don't have to keep playing dumb :-P

♦ Praetorian · 07/21/06, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Elendril

i guess i don't have to keep playing dumb :-P

Fiola · 07/21/06, 12:29 PM

This'll make PvP interesting. . . (10v10 paladins, anyone? /yawn)

♦ Praetorian · 07/21/06, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by hiro

Seriously, are Greater Totems THAT hard to accept, Blizz?

Yes, they're a fucking stupid idea and pretty much everyone with a clue has said so for a long time now. It'd be a horribly unwieldy and inelegant mechanic that I and most intelligent raiding shamans want no part of.

As I said in the other thread (which clearly inspired this change, yet another victory for the EJ forums) this feels like a bit of a cop-out but really isn't all that bad in the long run. And you can't realistically say a damn thing about "oh no, now no one will want shamans" or the like, because honestly, no one has a clue what these classes are going to offer in the expansion, with 9-tier talent trees and 10 levels of promised brand new skills. I'm sure shamans and paladins will end up equally indispensible in the long run.

Zagzil · 07/21/06, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian

Originally Posted by hiro

Seriously, are Greater Totems THAT hard to accept, Blizz?

Yes, they're a fucking stupid idea and pretty much everyone with a clue has said so for a long time now. It'd be a horribly unwieldy and inelegant mechanic that I and most intelligent raiding shamans want no part of.

As I said in the other thread (which clearly inspired this change, yet another victory for the EJ forums) this feels like a bit of a cop-out but really isn't all that bad in the long run. And you can't realistically say a damn thing about "oh no, now no one will want shamans" or the like, because honestly, no one has a clue what these classes are going to offer in the expansion, with 9-tier talent trees and 10 levels of promised brand new skills. I'm sure shamans and paladins will end up equally indispensible in the long run.

Yeah, that's complete nonsense. Why would you cut shaman if you could have both?

I can't say I'm not surprised, but now I'm more interested how many people are rerolling Paladin. And if any Alliance want to reroll Shaman after all the complaints.

Rane · 07/21/06, 12:34 PM

We will have a few rerolls, yea, but I'm not fearing the worst. Keeping 2-3 Shamans around and get around 4-5 Pallies and we're basically good to go for raids. Quickly gear them up and ready to rumble.

PS: Can we call this a MAJOR HORDE BUFF please? I'm sure there's Alliance drooling over rolling Shammies now but honestly, who's winning with this change :)

Darkchani · 07/21/06, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian

Originally Posted by hiro

Seriously, are Greater Totems THAT hard to accept, Blizz?

Yes, they're a fucking stupid idea and pretty much everyone with a clue has said so for a long time now. It'd be a horribly unwieldy and inelegant mechanic that I and most intelligent raiding shamans want no part of.

As I said in the other thread (which clearly inspired this change, yet another victory for the EJ forums) this feels like a bit of a cop-out but really isn't all that bad in the long run. And you can't realistically say a damn thing about "oh no, now no one will want shamans" or the like, because honestly, no one has a clue what these classes are going to offer in the expansion, with 9-tier talent trees and 10 levels of promised brand new skills. I'm sure shamans and paladins will end up equally indispensible in the long run.

qft

im sure we'll end up bringing like 5 priests 3 druids 4 shamans and 4 paladins

gonna be funny to deck out paladins in tier 3 in 1 run once they hit 60