World Of Warcraft: CM Responds to Shaman Complaints

Tseric stopped by the Shaman forums earlier this week to respond to the growing discontent expressed by players over various perceived issues with the class. Here's one part of it:

For the record, there are other specifics which have been brought up many times, which are regarded as issues that the devs and players may disagree on, such as:

* Counterspell locking out a primary source of damage, nature. Paladins are in the same boat and this is deliberate.
* Along with that, nature immune creatures. The devs do see this as an issue and are being more relaxed with immune mobs. While these immune mobs may crop up from time to time, it isn't in such a way as to block progress.
* Mana Tide has been considered for trainability, but it is not seen as a candidate. I'm sure this will come up again at some point, but it has been acknowledged before and the answer doesn't seem to be changing for now or the foreseeable future.
* Threat generation, or more particularly, the ability to remove threat has been considered, but as shaman, for the most part, share standard 10% threat reduction with other casters, the devs don't see it as a pressing issue.
* Weapon itemization for healing or damage spec'ced shaman not comparing to wands. The point has been brought up and acknowledged, but there isn't anything to say beyond that at this time.
* Windfury buff scaling with weapons better than other weapon buffs, making it the obvious choice, which also seems to exacerbate people's concern over the upcoming off-hand buff change. Yes, windfury does scale better and that's fine, however the devs don't see a necessity for buffing the other buffs to make them "more desirable".

For more information and updates, check out the post on the Shaman forums here.