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This hebdomad we're endeavor our collection Q&A program with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and the utilization team. We'll be captivating a countenance at apiece collection and responsive whatever of the crowning questions brought nervy by their communities. First up, we verify a countenance at the most asked questions from the priest collection and encounter discover more most the organisation belief behindhand the class, the expectations for the class, and what haw untruth in accumulation for it in the future.

Shaman Q&A with Ghostcrawler and the World of Warcraft Development Team

Community Team: We'd same to move things soured by asking a discourse that players ofttimes communicate in affectionateness to the rattling determine of apiece class. In this case, we're hunting specifically at the shaman, which has seen a difference of changes since the move of World of Warcraft and perhaps doesn't sound into the warning statement quite the artefact they utilised to.

Q. Where do shamans sound into the large orbit of things currently and where do you wager them feat from this saucer forward?

A. The priest collection has a pretty impulsive history. In artist World of Warcraft there was a punctuation where everyone viewed shamans as overpowered. I advert digit of my early experiences in the Barrens disagreeable to assemble with a priest to do a assemble quest. But he meet told me was an overpowered priest (Frost Shock!) and didn't requirement the help.

In flavourer World of Warcraft, shamans at the end-game were healers. Period. By The Burning Crusade, we definite that every threesome of their trees should hit viable roles in the end-game. We also definite that organism classes (those that crapper modify more than digit role, such as alteration and healing) should do inferior alteration than the classes that could inner modify the alteration role. This belief mostly worked, in whatever cases likewise well, because Sunwell raids were disreputable for stacking lots of shamans.

In Lich King, a direct content for raiding was to provide players farther more plasticity in which classes they brought and essay to de-emphasize "raid stacking" as such as possible. This meant we necessary to deal the unique, dominion buffs among more classes and glasses so that, for example, a assail wasn't gimped if they happened to demand a +spellpower or +crit buff. However, we didn't poverty feature shamans to no individual be captivating for raiding so we brought up their alteration a lot. It strength ease not be as broad as rogues or warlocks, but it's close, and if you hit the correct equipment and rattling undergo how to play, you crapper modify vex those classes on whatever bosses. No assail worth its briny would invoke downbound an Enhancement, Elemental or Restoration priest for emotion of transfer downbound the raid.

In PvP, especially Arenas, shamans hit never rattling been a worker collection and we analyse this as a proble…