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1. What level is your shaman? 80
2. What spec is your shaman? Resto/Enhance
3. Why did you pick your spec? Resto because I learned to like healing through TBC. Enhance because it's the only decent spec to solo with.
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was? Druid actually. But it was a long time ago.
5. What compelled you to make a shaman? Being a master of buffing.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell? Chain Heal
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes? Depends if they screw us over in regen again to balance the other healers. >.>
8. What spec did you level with? Enhance
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle? 9 button priority queue on enhance is best handled by power auras. >.> <.< Resto is fine, so long as you don't just spam one spell every second.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right? In terms of regen, shaman have always had the short end of the stick. We're the only healer in this game that has to worry about going oom (having played every healer) even when geared appropriately for the content. However, shaman have a high max to make up for it. I don't raid dps, so I can't say anything about enhance.
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CaoimheX
1. What level is your shaman?
80
2. What spec is your shaman?
Elemental main / Resto off-spec
3. Why did you pick your spec?
I didn't choose my spec, my spec chose me
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
A warlock was my first
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
Because I knew so little about them, they fascinated me
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
Chain lighting, lava burst, ghost wolf... uhm, all of them
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
meh
8. What spec did you level with?
Elemental
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
I think so. Some more mobility would be nice, but I'm mostly satisfied.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
Elemental is slightly under-powered, resto are slightly over-powered, imho.
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1. What level is your shaman?
- my main is 58, my shaman alt is 25
2. What spec is your shaman?
- main is enhance, alt has the remains of a WSG hybrid, and will get a new BG spec next level (haven’t decided the details yet)
3. Why did you pick your spec?
- Main: instant cast ghost wolves? Actually I think I was running short of mana when questing a lot, so the increased intellect looked attractive so I started there (was a complete noob playing the ten day free trial at the time), and came to really enjoy enhance.
- Alt: picked the most common spec from
http://armorydatamining.appspot.com/reports/twinks?c=Shaman&l=19
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
- Yes, my main was my first character
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
- Main: I liked the sound of being able to do a little bit of everything, since I didn’t know what I would like best. (turns out what I like best is melee, so shaman worked out OK)
- Alt: Once I’d played the AH enough to have some spare gold, wanted to build a character for the battlegrounds (not a real Twink, but at least equipped well enough to not die within seven seconds of running into an enemy, as my main had when sent into a BG in quest gear). I’d read that Druids were great in WSG, but when I tried one it just didn’t work well for me. I decided that shamans should be able to run flags just about as well, and I understood them a lot better, so made another shaman for that purpose.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
- Somewhat embarrassingly, probably Ghost Wolf. I use it more than I should. In terms of spells that do more in the game, probably Storm Strike.
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
- Some mix of excited and anxious. I’m a bit worried that some of that ‘do a bit of everything’ that was so appealing to me for solo play may be going away, although the increased specialization will no doubt make them better in groups
8. What spec did you level with?
- Main: Enhance
- Alt: mostly resto-ish
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
- Mostly. I love having tools to deal with almost any situation (when one of my shamans die, I usually realize that it was avoidable if I’d used all my tools better). Although I’ve been playing a warrior more than my shamans recently, which I guess says I’m not totally happy with it.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
- While leveling I think classes tend to all have their stronger and weaker periods, so it is kind of hard to say in general (actually, when tanking with my warriors I’ve found every run that has a shaman in it has been a cake walk…maybe coincidence, or maybe they help a group too much?) No idea about end game, not having gotten there yet.
Post by
Milleuda
1. What level is your shaman?
80
2. What spec is your shaman?
Elemental ... offspec varies greatly.
3. Why did you pick your spec?
I intended to be Enhancement in WotLK, but my luck with drops for Enhance gear was abyssmal. I switched to Elemental and have been getting drops since.
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
No. First character was a Rogue, who was my main through Vanilla.
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
Being able to be one as Alliance in TBC. Also, one of my friends at the time had a Shaman and his talking about it made me want to try it.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
Chain Lightning,
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
Very much so. Earthquake looks awesome.
8. What spec did you level with?
I leveled in WotLK as Enhance, as stated earlier. Will most likely stay Elemental for Cata.
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
Tough call. I like the "machine gun" feel of Elemental with Lightning Overload. I also like being able to walk on water and self-res. I wish Resto had a couple more "oh shi-" options.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
Resto is just right. The two DPS specs are lagging behind compared to other hybrids. Damage in PvP is fine, but Elemental and Enhance could really use some better survivability abilities.
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Likkan
1. 80.
2. Enhancement.
3. I like melee.
4. Warrior.
5. Dont know what Compelled means sorry.
6. Ghost Wolf.
7. Aha.
8. Enhancement.
9. Aha.
10. Need some knowledge to get the full power of a shaman but worth it.
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Cambo
1. Level 80
2. Dual-spec Elemental and Restoration
3. Elemental was for levelling, picked it because of William Shatner and lightning bolts. Resto is for raiding, and I picked that because I wanted to get into groups.
4. My shaman was my 3rd level 80 character. My first was a hunter.
5. Thunderstorm.
6. Lavaburst and Chain Heal.
7. I am SUPER excited.
8. Elemental from 1 to 80
9. I feel very satisfied. Elemental and Resto are both simple and rewarding to play.
10. PvE - All specs are just right. PvP - All specs are underpowered.
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BrokenHip
1. What level is your shaman?
80
2. What spec is your shaman?
Enhancement
3. Why did you pick your spec?
I've been healer/tank for the last two expansions, figured I'd try dps and ele was just boooring.
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
This one wasn't but a shaman was my first character.
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
I liked the feel of the class.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
Windfury Weapon
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
I've tried some and i find them a bit boring.
8. What spec did you level with?
Enhancement
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
Resto is fine, Ele is boring and Enhancement is a bit hectic for some people.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
Slightly underpowered by gear restrictions from my experience, having to share gear with a class that doesn't need expertise, likes armor penetration and doesn't need the same amount of hit can get annoying.
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dimichan
1. What level is your shaman?
80
2. What spec is your shaman?
Enhance/Resto
3. Why did you pick your spec?
The two specs I had to respec between every week in BC are now a 2
for 1 special bonus!
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
Yes, made at the end of Vanilla right as BC was being preordered
.
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
I had no clue what I was doing, honestly. Out of the older races, I
liked the look of the female troll, hubby rolled a hunter and didn't
want the same thing, and wanted to smack things. Shammy
description suited me.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
Reincarnation in resto (raid saver) and Maelstrom enhance
.
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
Waiting to see what gets finalized after the testing
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8. What spec did you level with?
Enhance
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
More or less. More moreso than less.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
Tough one. Resto - in many ways is a bit OP. I say this after
raiding wrath as a holy/shadow priest though, which has given me
no little bias there. Even simcrafting though, my considerably less
geared resto/enh shammy has more potential output on both ends
than my priest - and considering she still has a couple of ilvl 200
pieces like her alchemist's stones, there's something wrong with
that.
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Zokudu
1. What level is your shaman?
80
2. What spec is your shaman?
Elemental/Restoration
3. Why did you pick your spec?
It was my first caster DPS
4. Was your shaman your first character? If not, what was?
It was my third 80 after my warrior and death knight tanks.
5. What compelled you to make a shaman?
I really wanted to make a shaman as my first 80 but I wanted to make level cap first. I wanted a caster DPS but I didn;t have a healer either so it was shaman or druid and shaman won out.
6. What is your favorite shaman spell?
Probably Ghost Wolf I leveled Enhance and I miss instant ghost wolf daily. Its really useful while leveling.
7. Are you excited for the shaman cata changes?
Not really I am not a fan of the mechanics of Lava Surge I spend so much time in raids focusing on other things adding a reactive proc may just put me over the edge. Ele sham is a utility spec after all.
8. What spec did you level with?
Enhance
9. Do you feel satisfied with the shaman playstyle?
I love Elemental playstyle thought I feel like Resto needs some works its by far the most difficult of the healing classes this late within Wrath and only shines in a few situations.
10. Do you think shamans are overpowered, underpowered, or just right?
I feel as though shaman did not fare well the farther into wrath we went. Ele scales poorly and gets next to no itemization. Enhance is close in difficulty to a Kitty dps spec with not nearly as many returns and resto is in my opinion the most difficult healing class. Shamans are a unique breed and we play for the love of the class but I feel that even though we get a lot of bullet points in patches we get very little in the way of improvements.
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