3.2 and shaman

Patch notes have some good news.

Totems will be made to not suck so bad they are worthless when solo playing. 1 GCD (hopefully 1 minute) and you are good to go. Some minor annoyances are there, but I can handle that.

Base health will go up. Considering shaman in better gear have less health than rogues by a stretch you can look forward to them being alive in melee longer without healers being assigned just to them.

SR gets it's effect cut in half and it's CD dropped by half. This is very good. Yes, you have less mana on demand right away. But now you won't need it as you can simply pop it on CD. Also means more survival during melee AE fights as the 30% DR will help a ton.

Resto sees some love and some annoyances. Healing Way is still crap. Even if it is better, Healing Wave is still a mana hog big heal that doesn't do the job. Oh, look, we get to use it 50% because they lowered the CD on NS by a minute. Not really impressed with a spell that they indicated would be used more like this. If we aren't using it more than once every 3 minutes because it is too slow, costs too much and doesn't do enough to justify the cast time, maybe the solution is not to make it instant more often? Maybe the solution would be to make it better...

Tidal waves change to LHW means more output, but less speed means it is not a great tank healing spell. There went the last bit of viability as resto. Even with CH getting a better jump over longer distances it won't help much. Sorry, but that's still in range of most of the AE that kills people. And do you get something that does 34% of the original heal on the third (last) target, or something that does 100% of the original heal on the fifth? Gee.... Priests and druids are still miles better.

Improved Water shield = what it should have been originally. I seem to recall putting this into the commentary on this talent DURING THE BETA!!! Wow, only took 7 months for them to realize how stupid a design decision that was...

Shock range is 25 yards. Should be 30. Not like earth shock is miles better than the alternatives. (oh yea, fyi: fuck wind shock)

Earth Shield change: again, should have been done months ago.


Some changes are nice. Glad they are coming in. But boy are they not enough.

Sticking to the tankadin as main.