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mattalisk
playing along one day I came to thinking about elementals. Shamans and elementals are irrevocably bonded like warlocks and demons. So why cant we be able to tame elementals as pets? Or at the very least do more damage against them. The class should count for something,
I also thought of a new shaman AoE.
Forked Lightning
Strikes targets within the target area with three bolts of lightning
causing 645 nature damage per strike within a 8 yard range.
ideas and comments appreciated
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Wildsea
I think people have kicked around the idea of Shaman pets (which would ROCK) as well as the idea of giving Shaman elemental forms (Fire form=improved spell dps, earth form=improved survivability, water form=improved healing, air form=improved meleee dps) and Blizzard took a crap on those ideas. As far as I can remember form the beta test boards Blizzard has stated they will not be adding any new pets, nor any new "forms" going forward.
I think going forward all we will see are small changes to Shaman until the next expac (when ever that will be). I don't think there will be any really exciting new ideas or spells from Blizzard until then. Instead, at most they will retread and repackage existing stuff.
As an example I'm guessing we get an armor spell or improved armor from our shields for better pvp surviability at best. At worse they try and link our pvp surviablity to our totems.
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Wildsea
That's all well in good but it doens't solve the issue that totems are easy to destroy, don't move and each trigger a 1 sec CD.
PVE is like surgery. You make a plan, you follow it, you win (sooner or later). PVP is like the ER. You have to adjust on the fly and hope for the best sometimes.
Totems are great for surgery and crappy for the ER. This is a huge part of our issue in arena/BG's. Adding any more of our abilities to our totems only highlights their faults more.
I hate Blizzards arguement that totems define us. Totems are only part of what define us. Its our ability to do a lot of things really well and fill any need except tanking. Totems just add to that.
And its not like we are going to forget our totems if they buff something else. I am really just done with totem based solutions to our issues. Magma totem was a crappy, lazy AOE solution and I fear our PVP solution will be the same.
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Post by
windstrum
As cool as it might appear to be to have pets, I'm not a hunter and I don't wish to be one. I don't think Blizzard are too interested in making each class like a clone of another class. In fact I believe I read a blue post recently that said they're trying to give classes unique qualities, rather than similarities.
Your idea is cool, in that it would add some diversity and something "new" to shamans. But I don't think its a step in the right direction. The shaman play-style is the way it is, and I'd like them to keep it that way (except maybe more totem consolidation, but that's a topic for another thread).
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