Shaman Casted DD - Phoenix Freeshard

Just wondering if there was a chance of having the 20 second cooldown removed on the Shaman's spec DD? It was removed on live, eventually. Since the damage delve and level are both rather low (148 @ lvl41) I can't imagine it would cause imbalance issues but more of a QoL improvement for Cave Shaman in groups, solo as well.

Sun 9 Jun 2019 5:13 PM by teiloh

That's not a QOL change, it'd be a buff

Mon 10 Jun 2019 2:32 AM by gotwqqd

I’d be for just changing it to an instant or uninterruptible spell

Mon 10 Jun 2019 3:26 AM by Boltman

Yeah, having a casted spell with a cool down is wierd, only spell like it. Just make it an insta.

Mon 10 Jun 2019 3:41 AM by ColdHands

Shaman has too much access to dps from dots give them a baseline nuke. Combine that with heals, Frigs, spec buffs, and resists they would be way overpowered.

There may be a case for making it an insta on the same cool down, but imo its just fine and doesn't need to be changed.

Mon 10 Jun 2019 6:03 AM by teiloh

The DD was originally put in the game to help Shamans damage something that was in combat, when bolt combat code was much more strict. I don't think they're meant to have a spammable DD, and BS granting them one on live recently was a mistake imo.

If anything it could be changed so that there's a DoT or some other rider effect on it.

Mon 10 Jun 2019 10:27 AM by jelzinga_EU

ColdHands wrote: ↑
Mon 10 Jun 2019 3:41 AM
Shaman has too much access to dps from dots give them a baseline nuke. Combine that with heals, Frigs, spec buffs, and resists they would be way overpowered.

There may be a case for making it an insta on the same cool down, but imo its just fine and doesn't need to be changed.

Too much DPS ? What, the infamous 50/50/50 shaman ?

Shaman has only 1X spec-points ; in order to get access to any decent Frigs and spec-buffs their is not nearly enough points left to spec Cave to make a castable DD do any decent dps. If you want to make up such a spec, you end up with something like 27 Mend, 38 Aug which leaves 27 in Cave, meaning a 92 delve DD - not affected by Acuity... do you honestly consider that "way overpowered" ?

Or do you mean a shaman who is actually committed to Cave and as such has no access to buffs better than a potion and his mending is probably just enough to get the cure disease?

I think it would be fine and would add some more fun to the shaman-class.

Mon 10 Jun 2019 2:36 PM by gotwqqd

Reason for making it insta cast

Aggro mob. Mob attacks
Ever have to kill a mob with unstyled attacks?
This would ease the pain in a minor way

Mon 10 Jun 2019 5:18 PM by Sixin2082

Making it an insta on the same cool down world make more sense.