Comments on: Official 3.2 Patchnotes for Shamans

By: Cataclysm Spoiler Thoughts « Rez The Weak!

Cataclysm Spoiler Thoughts « Rez The Weak! — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:15:46 +0000

[...] I don’t play her as much is because she is a space goat… I don’t like them.Â The recent changes to shamans has made them quite a bit more fun though.Â I find myself wanting to raid with her more [...]

By: Matticus

Matticus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:11:51 +0000

@Zorash: Yup, you’re right. I got my to’s and of’s mixed up. There’s a reason why Matt doesn’t theorycraft! Either way, it’s a nerf for everyone across the board.

By: Zorash

Zorash — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:26:44 +0000

@Matticus Isn’t it a loss of .25% of total mana every 5 seconds? Assuming a 5 second period of regen:

Current:
.25% x 5 = 1.25% over 5 seconds

New:
1% x 1 = 1% over 5 seconds

So assuming a 25k mana pool we’ll be losing approximately 62.5 mp5 with this replen change. (Down to 250 from 312.5 … yes, replen is that big, talk about raid-critical)

Did I miss something? This is definitely a nerf to replen regeneration, but not a.2% mana per second nerf. I think you just mixed up your last statement. It’s a nerf TO .20% mana per second, not OF .20% mana per second. Right? Just making sure I’m not going to get blind-sided with not enough mp5.

-Z

By: Matticus

Matticus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:54:04 +0000

Jon B: Yeah, you did miss something. Quick note: Replenishment is being changed to 1% of your mana every five seconds, not every second. That’s a nerf of approximately 0.20% mana every second.

By: Jon B.

Jon B. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:39:34 +0000

The replenishment change is not a nerf. It’s currently 0.25% mana per second for 15 seconds, for a total of (0.25*15) = 3.75% of your maximum mana over 15 seconds. The change is 1% per second for 5 seconds, or 5% maximum mana over 5 seconds. It hits much harder over a shorter period; that’s good all around.

Am I missing something there?

By: Lysenis

Lysenis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:50 +0000

Lets see. . .

Yes I can agree that the TW loss of haste to LHW is heartbreaking but think of this, that HW that is used rarely now is pumped up BIG TIME! It still has the TW Haste, the boost with AH, AA, NOT TO MENTION the INCREASE in healing output from your Healing Way. to me the loss of that haste is worth the very possible 1.2 sec HW.

From the looks of it it was Blizz’s goal to turn us from just raid healing to tank healing. Which IMHO is fantastic!

Well I am out

Lys

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:02:59 +0000

I smell a Shaman alt coming
.-= We Fly Spitfires´s last blog ..Improving Group Combat In MMORPGs =-.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:49:38 +0000

Yes they finally fixed elemental so it scales with 25-man buffs!

oh wait…

By: Percy

Percy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:59:56 +0000

Odds are the Ancestral Healing (and identical Inspiration) change will be completely unnoticed for tanks. It will be good for other raid members without tons of armor however so its certainly a buff overall.

It all depends on when the 10% reduction is added, odds are it will be added AFTER the armor reduces the damage already (armor reduces damage by over 60% as is). So it’d be a 10% reduction of the remaining 40% hit, so only a 4% reduction in reality.

Tanks I know have told me that a 25% armor buff causes similar 3-4% reductions for them already.

Glad you guys got some nice buffs finally =)

By: Zorash

Zorash — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:21:55 +0000

I guess my point is that a .8 LHW only helps on the first cast. You can’t chain them at .8 seconds, since the lowest possible GCD is 1. So getting a 65% crit LHW to 1 second should be far more powerful than a 40% crit LHW at .8 seconds, I would think.

But then again I’m not much of a hardcore PvPer, so I’ll leave that to the people that know the stuff.

As far as PvE, this is a lot of extra crit on LHW, even if you stack haste again (which you shouldn’t to a crazy degree anyway)

-Z