World of Warcraft The War Within Beta developers have introduced more changes to the game in their recent development notes. With that in mind, we will take a look at all of the Shaman changes so we can get a better understanding of how the class will perform in the newest expansion.
The War Within is looking promising so far, as the majority of the community seems to be embracing the new approach from Blizzard in regard to balancing, quality-of-life changes, and overall class design ideas, along with the new Hero Talents system.
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WoW The War Within Beta Shaman Hero Talent Changes
Stone Bulwark Totem now has a 3 minute cooldown, but its effect has been significantly increased.
Farseer (Restoration/Elemental)
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Resolved an issue causing Ancestors to not cast anything when the targeted version of Earthquake is cast.
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Lava Burst damage from Ancestors increased by 25%.
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Chain Lightning damage from Ancestors increased by 50%.
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Healing Surge healing from Ancestors increased by 60%.
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Ancestral Swiftness is now a 30 second cooldown (was 45 seconds).
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Heed My Call now increases the duration of Ancestors by 4 seconds (was 2 seconds).
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Ancient Fellowship now has a 20% chance to trigger (was 15%).
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Ancient Fellowship is now less random.
Stormbringer (Elemental/Enhancement)
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Stormcaller now increases the critical strike chance of your Nature spells by 5% (was 10%).
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Tempest secondary cleave damage lowered to 50% (was 70%).
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Unlimited Power reduced from 3% Haste per stack to 1% per stack.
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Arc Discharge lowered to 2 Chain Lightnings (was 3).
Enhancement
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Conductive Energy’s lightning rod variant is now 10% of damage transfer (was 20%).
Totemic (Enhancement/Restoration)
Enhancement
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Tremor now deals Flamestrike damage.
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Surging Totem’s Tremor frequency is now affected by Haste.
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Tremor damage reduced by 35%.
Restoration
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Imbuement Mastery now increases the duration of Earthliving Weapon by 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
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Chain Heals from Lively Totems no longer consume Whirling Air, Nature’s Swiftness, Tidal Waves, or Tidebringer.
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Healing Surges cast while Whirling Air and Spiritwalker’s Tidal Totem are active no longer consume Whirling Air.
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Healing spells cast while Whirling Air and Nature’s Swiftness is active no longer consumes Whirling Air.
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WoW The War Within Beta Shaman Changes
Elemental
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Thunderstrike Ward now has its own spell visual.
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An issue with Thunderstrike Ward dropping off has been fixed.
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Earthquake now triggers Storm Frenzy on cast only.
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An issue with Fusion of Elements buff activating from the Icefury override instead of the cast has been fixed.
Enhancement
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Fire and Ice now properly buffs Primordial Wave.
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Nature’s Fury now properly affects Primordial Wave.
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Primordial Wave baseline passive buff lowered to 250% (was 500%).
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Primordial Wave now properly scales with Enhancement Shaman’s Mastery and Elemental Spirits’ elemental damage buffs.
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Restoration
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Tidebringer is no longer consumed if Chain Heal is cast while Nature’s Swiftness or Ancestral Swiftness is active.
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Earthliving Weapon’s heal over time duration is now 6 seconds (was 12 seconds), and healing has been increased by 75%.
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Undulation now displays and highlights Healing Surge or Healing Wave when it triggers instead of being consumed immediately.
And that covers all of the Shaman changes that were announced in the most recent development notes for The War Within Beta. You can check out the full notes, here.
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