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The lack of changes for Shamans in the War Within expansion is starting to become a meme.

Although Shamans have been hoping for some class updates, none have been made yet.

Our guide writer Petko notes that playing an Elemental Shaman in Mythic+ feels really bad right now.

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Wordup has even started a feedback thread for Enhancement, but there haven't been any significant changes to the spec.

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Blizzard mentioned that they're mostly done with major reworks and are now focusing on tuning. Many frustrated Shaman players took to Reddit to talk about the lack of changes for their favorite class, and even, started to create memes!

PKCarwash says there's been literally 1 change for Shamans during the whole test cycle.

Every single shaman change for the alpha, beta, and prepatch PTR ranked from best to worst.
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We came across some great memes, though a few have been deleted. Here’s what's still available:

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Do you think Shamans need changes? Let us know in the comments!

 

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23 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

Man WoW players just cry and cry and cry it's amazing lol.

It's actually amazing.

To be fair, shaman is one of the weakest classes right now both in terms of offensive and defensive. I think Resto is the only spec that people even bother with and enhancement is brought solely to make DKs, paladins, and warriors better with their leggo axe. I haven't seen an ele shaman since season 2.

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19 minutes ago, Q said:

To be fair, shaman is one of the weakest classes right now both in terms of offensive and defensive. I think Resto is the only spec that people even bother with and enhancement is brought solely to make DKs, paladins, and warriors better with their leggo axe. I haven't seen an ele shaman since season 2.

IDK I been playin Ele for the last 4 weeks in remix and there's nothing wrong with it. People just get hyper-focused and weird out over this stuff. They build 90% of these issues in their heads.

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1 minute ago, Prophet001 said:

IDK I been playin Ele for the last 4 weeks in remix and there's nothing wrong with it. People just get hyper-focused and weird out over this stuff. They build 90% of these issues in their heads.

That's remix though, I haven't played much of it but from what I've heard unless you're soloing mythic raids you're not likely to have any issues.

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please for the love of all things Thrall..... make enh good, its one of the most fun specs to play Q.Q why you do us so dirty, whats a girl gatta do to get enh to be meta again, 3300 last season in mythic + and that was like pulling teeth to even get into keys 

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3 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

Man WoW players just cry and cry and cry it's amazing lol.

It's actually amazing.

Literally one change to Shamans in testing.
Somehow Blizzard thinks that the hero specs they made for Shaman were perfect out the box.
Yet Totemic feels terrible for Enh and there are many NYI hero talents.

Lastly this isnt the first time Shamans were left til last and then devs say "its too late to do anything, and we aint reworking nothing" and all that happens is the shamans are left broken and then they slap a huge buff to a key ability to compensate for the shitty rotation.

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1 hour ago, the9tail said:

Literally one change to Shamans in testing.
Somehow Blizzard thinks that the hero specs they made for Shaman were perfect out the box.
Yet Totemic feels terrible for Enh and there are many NYI hero talents.

Lastly this isnt the first time Shamans were left til last and then devs say "its too late to do anything, and we aint reworking nothing" and all that happens is the shamans are left broken and then they slap a huge buff to a key ability to compensate for the shitty rotation.

Part of me wonders, and another part hopes, if there's going to be a mid patch rework like what rogues got in 10.1.5. I'd love for them to take what they've done to shaman in season of discovery and put it in retail, tank shaman would be awesome.

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32 minutes ago, Dejo93 said:

the red-headed step child of WoW

Ironic given it used to be an icon of the Horde back in vanilla

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6 hours ago, Q said:

That's remix though, I haven't played much of it but from what I've heard unless you're soloing mythic raids you're not likely to have any issues.

that's total nonsense.
there is only one mythical raid and that is Soo. and you can only do it solo with a lot of skill, which takes hours.

Remix is ez yes, but only solo for normal or HC Raid.

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6 minutes ago, Kamchy said:

that's total nonsense.
there is only one mythical raid and that is Soo. and you can only do it solo with a lot of skill, which takes hours.

Remix is ez yes, but only solo for normal or HC Raid.

Like I said, I haven't played much of it given I'm currently on a break from the game until prepatch so I don't know a whole lot of how remix works and only know what I've heard, or more accurately read, what others have said about it.

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