RESTO SHAMANS?!

[gianni]

ok, i'm pretty sick of this...
shamans are one big bug. i'll explain what i mean:
today i was with my rogue partner in arena (evussen). he's full brutal and i'm full venge with my priest (bach). he was hitting that shaman for about 10 minutes and the shaman didn't go below 50%. ppl can say dude thats normal. THATS NOT NORMAL IF THE SHAMAN DIDN'T EVEN HEAL ONCE (exept earth shield)
there must be SOMETHING bugged then.
but thats not all.
the totems, WTF is up with the totems? 50% of the spells to destroy grounding them doesn't work, i'm not sure about it but the cooldown doesn't seem right as well. earth bind totem is bugged too... i'm not having a shaman so i don't know the other things, but you can ask EVERY honest shaman and he will agree: make a resto shaman and you get nr 1 in arena.
doesn't matter if his partner is skilled or not. they WILL win.
PLS fix these bugs, ppl are getting sick of it...
btw, sorry if you see some mistakes. english is not my main language...

[Henhouse]

In our next update we'll be preforming more class balances.

[gianni]

with new update you mean that u'll be going back to wotlk? or another 2.4.3 update?
and when will that update be? not expacting a specific date but will it be this month, next month, longer? :p

[Henhouse]

Server updates, which we've been preforming for ages. eg: http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... ?f=3&t=456

[Rakitheriom]

I would have to agree with you gianni about the totems that is a little messed but as far as a rouge and earth shield thats perfectly normal for someone with more than 2.3k + healing. I know on my shaman when ever i come across a rouge i tend not to even bother with earth shield because at 35% health i can just heal my self full with one cast lol.

[NeXTdarE]

Except the Ground. Totem its not that fairly bugged up.

Its (was) happening on retail too in some way. But its true that it looks like too much +bh to the NS / Shield on the free servers. Actually sham doesnt get any normal hit, you cant simply nuke him. Through Grounding you cant even cast thanks to his stupid Earth Shock, enhaCement does wf every hit. Mental does 6k in one Chain.
Blablabla Shamans are boring, a big alive walking bug.

At least they nerfed it on WotLK so it isnt that OP actually.

Shamans heal through MS with Lesser 2k crits still, armor like pig, ressi high, totems + shock + uhm.. THX BLIZZ 10m cd Heroism, to the arenas as well. Without dispel its gg even if the shaman walks on arrows. Well, lemme say that theres nothing able to do about it, they were OP on retail, except Grounding / Windfury theres nothing "bugged" if we dont mention do Overpoweridebility of this class.

On retail rshamans were just sitting on place, Earth Shield on with 60%hp, the rogue thats gone to him healed him up to 100%, sham spams Water Shield - never goes oom, in case of problem the -30% silence duration -50% movement impariging effect duration
+ wf + hero + shocks + imba heals + no problem with mana if opponents are forcing to kill him (1/10 chance)

[Henhouse]

We're actually planning on adding Grounding Totem back. It really hurt Shamans which was not intended. It still works, just doesn't go away. Probably this weekend during inactive hours I'll preform maintenance to restore the spell back to trainers.

[NeXTdarE]

Shamans are boosted so much. And you add another bugging Grounding?

Hen, untill its really fixed, shamans are unbeatable nearly.
You arent able to destroy totem under 5s if you play lock, especially destro. Any caster class without insta no-cd spell dies.

Debuff - redirects, DoT - redirects - takes time to destroy it, Immolate - Immune, another casting spells - earth shock (god what a stupidity), AoEs - Im not pretty sure if they destroy totem as well since the spell reflect reflects AoEs too, if you got cd on instants, bye bye, 6k wf or 6k Chain.

[Rakitheriom]

Shamans ain't that buggy there's just classes that give other classes a hard time. Trust me I play resto and with out grounding totem we get pwned hard core in certain fights.

[Fantwo]

wtf make a macro,

/target [harm] grounding totem
/cast shoot

wouldn't that work?