Infraction for Torgol: sham totums suk bliz u suk bliz

Kaubel · 08/30/08, 8:13 PM

Post: [Elemental Shaman] - Wotlk Talents discussion
User: Torgol
Infraction: sham totums suk bliz u suk bliz
Points: 2

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Shut up and read the first post in this thread.

Original Post:

I agree fully with what Graze is saying. This really just feels very lazy and dull, like Blizzard just threw up their hands and said "Nah, all this uniqueness is just too hard! Let's make everyone the same." That's an overstatement, of course, there are still differences between classes, but it feels like a lot of the essential character is being lost. Especially for shamans and paladins, who were originally conceived as buffing classes. I can readily imagine a raid situation in which all of a shamans totems and buffs are rendered completely redundant and the shaman never has any reason to bother dropping totems. That's a rather sad state of affairs, when totems are a defining characteristic of our class.

I also agree with the criticisms of the current workings of ToW. It's bad enough having to worry about keeping the totem positioned well to buff as many of our allies as possible, now we have to worry about repositioning it to ensure it affects as many enemies as possible as well? Far too much of a pain in the ass, to my mind. I'd rather switch the crit effects of ToW and EO, even if it means the crit debuff only affects single mobs.

Also displeased with the current spellpower buff category. If they separated out additive and multiplicative AP buffs, why on earth would they not do the same for spellpower? Hardly seems logical or fair, and it inevitably means that the additive buffs will eventually be superseded by the multiplicative ones. Won't take much for 10% of a demonology warlock's spellpower to be a whole lot more than 160. And why exactly should a warlock be a better caster buffer than an elemental shaman or a mookin druid? They already bring more than enough power to a raid group. Admittedly that will be changing, but it seems like if anyone is going to have superior scaling buffs it should be the classes that were conceived as buff classes to begin with. That at least might preserve some of the uniqueness between shamans, paladins, druids, and the rest of the "pure" DPS classes.