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It's sometimes hard to not be caught up in it. It's partially because Elemental, especially, cry out and get active about giving feedback, but you just can't shake what you've been told in the past. "it's just Beta, they're going to do numbers tuning, just relax and it's not the end of the world" just feels like someone getting to you sleep in your grave before they kill you. So I just need to vent a bit. But thankfully, people like Taka and Zul are great cheerleaders to keep me in ...

Total since Pre-Patch:

Elemental Blast damage increased 30%.
Lava Burst up 45%, with an additional chance to 'crit' for an extra multistrike hit.
Chain Lightning's damage has been increased 30%.
Lightning Bolt increased 10%.
Earthquake won't knockdown more than once per cast, but it won't DR other stuns.

Well, looks like all that fear from the Beta forums talking about how bad elemental damage was true after all. I think it's just hard for ...

Tell me this is a joke:
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/3...es-october-30/

Shaman

General


Elemental

• Earthquake's visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.
• Shamanism now increases Lightning Bolt's damage by 70% (up from 36%).

Enhancement

• Fire Nova now has a maximum of 7 novas that can be triggered if more than 7 targets are affected

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And with the squish changing how numbers are perceived in general, most of you probably had no clue that you were a little overpowered, and that's fine.

Current notes:

Shaman
• Elemental Blast’s damage has been increased by 20%.
• Shamanism now increase Lightning Bolt damage by 70% (up from 36%).

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Yup yup, we'll probably see more buffs as time goes on.

But letsee... Lightning bolt does ~2874, so a 34% increase ...

...I'm still not in Beta, so I have to just watch for videos and keep up on the forums for Ele Sham. Someone had asked what they were like, so I posted the quoted sections below in the WoW Forums. There's really three prominent players/theorycrafters: Gistwiki, Binklestein and Tickletotem. Gistwiki responded to my post. It's an interesting read about the State of Elemental Shamans.

To explain a bit further, only Haste and Multistrike are our go to stats. It's similar to the way ...