Patch 3.2 – Shaman Changes Summary

Class Changes

• Base health increased by approximately 7% to correct for shamans having lower health than other classes.
• Ghost Wolf: Can now be learned at level 16. While in this form, snaring effects may not bring the shaman below base normal run speed.

Totem Bar

A customizable totem bar will now be available for shamans allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems. The naming scheme of the spells to summon the different totem sets has been changed to make it less confusing for players:

• Call of Fire (Totem Bar 1, the first one gained at level 30) is now named Call of the Elements.
• Call of Water (Totem Bar 2) is now named Call of the Ancestors.
• Call of Air (Totem Bar 3) is now named Call of the Spirits.
• Call of Earth (the spell to recall all summoned totems) is now named Totemic Recall.

Shocks

• All Shocks now have a default range of 25 yards, up from 20 yards.
• Earth Shock: Redesigned. This spell no longer interrupts spell casting, but rather reduces melee attack speed by 10% for 8 seconds (exclusive with similar effects such as Thunder Clap).
• Wind Shock: Has been renamed Wind Shear and no longer shares a cooldown with Flame, Frost or Earth Shock.
• Convection now affects Wind Shear
• Reverberation now affects Wind Shear.

Restoration

• Chain Heal: Jump distance increased by 25% to 12.5 yards. In addition, the amount of healing now decreases by 40% as it jumps to each new target, instead of 50%.
• Ancestral Healing: The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 3/7/10% instead of increasing the target’s armor.
• Cure Poison and Cure Disease: Combined into a single spell, Cure Toxins.
• Ancestral Healing: The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 3/7/10% instead of increasing the target’s armor.
• Earth Shield: Dispel effects will now remove charges of Earth Shield rather than the entire aura.
• Healing Way: Redesigned. Rather than providing a chance of increasing Healing Wave spells on a friendly target, this talent now innately increases the effectiveness of the shaman’s Healing Wave by 8/16/25%.
• Mana Tide Totem: Totem health now equal to 10% of the shaman’s health.
• Nature’s Guardian: Redesigned. Now has a fixed 100% proc rate, has a 30-second internal cooldown and increases the shaman’s maximum health by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds.
• Nature’s Swiftness: Cooldown is now 2 minutes, down from 3 minutes.
• Tidal Waves: No longer reduces the cast time of Lesser Healing Wave by 30%. It instead now provides +25% critical strike chance to Lesser Healing Wave, along with the previous 30% cast time benefit to Healing Wave.
• Improved Water Shield: This talent now has a 10/20/30% chance to be triggered by Chain Heal, and the charges of Water Shield are no longer consumed by this talent.

Enhancement

• Maelstrom Weapon: Now also has a chance to reduce the cast time of Hex.
• Shamanistic Rage: Cooldown is now 1 minute, down from 2 minutes. Successful melee attacks now have a chance to generate mana equal to 15% of the shaman’s attack power, down from 30%.

Tooltip changes and Fixes

• Elemental Devastation: Tooltip revised to indicate it does not work with critical strikes from periodic damage.
• Elemental Focus: Tooltip revised to indicate it does not work with critical strikes from periodic damage.
• Elemental Oath: Tooltip revised to indicate it does not work with critical strikes from periodic damage.
• Flametongue Weapon: Fixed tooltip error.
• Frostbrand Weapon: Fixed a bug where rank 9 was not scaling properly with a shaman’s spell power.