Dragonflight shaman8/31/2023 for a maximum of 4 pulses and 4 poison removals, Its just not enough when you need it and doesn't last long enough for it to be reliable. Poison Cleansing totem, less problematic and more so just needs a duration buff imo, currently it lasts 6 seconds and cleanses ONE poison effect every 1.5s. IMO changing this totem to either ALL damage reduction and placing it on a larger CD or making the physical damage reduction greater would be a good approach. Not only is the DR on this limited to melee attacks which only really apply to the tank making the party wide affect of this totem pointless. Take poison cleansing totem or stoneskin totem for example, Stoneskin totem has a 30s cd, lasts 15s and is a 10% physical damage reduction. Shamans niche utility totems that we can spec into on the tree are also so poorly balanced that more often than not its really not worth speccing into them. Shamans as a whole used to bring utility + lust to the table when being brought to the party/raid, with the addition of evokers the niche of bringing a lust has become even more saturated and in my eyes is no longer much of an asset. The cherry on top is that we do relatively poor dps when compared to the whole picture in either scenario. Now if this was the same for other classes/specs I would have no problem with it, but it isn't and leaves us in a less than versatile position. We've got to choose one or the other, the middle ground is so bad that it takes away from your DPS more than its worth doing. This leaves us in the current state of being the squishiest dps in the game, outside of using our astral shift we have no defensive cooldowns other than AG (damage > healing) that we have to spec into.Įlemental Shaman has the unique problem of not being able to deal competitive AoE & Single target dps in a singular talent tree. Sometime between Shadowlands and Dragonflight, Blizzard thought it was cool to remove an entire personal defensive cooldown from Elemental shamans in the form of Hardened Skin(40% DR on use) when talenting into Primal Elementalist. I'm grateful for not being last but there are other factors to consider when looking at the health of a class & spec. You may look at an Elemental shamans DPS on Warcraftlogs and say "Well, at least you're not last!". Lets go over why and where they need to see some love. Shamans are incredibly sub-par, they're not great and they're not awful but they're also just not good in the state they're currently in.
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