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[Gorion]

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/burningcrusade/townhall/classcombo.html

[Bob]

Cool :woot2:

Many of the things that made me roll a druid as my first character, I also find with the shamans.  Started a tauren shaman on a PvP server once, but never got it further than lvl 13, so looking forward to try this on the alliance side

[Gorion]

yeah, ime making one too

also looking foward to lvl 60 shamans in raids mana tide totem ftw!

[Bastet]

hmmm, that might give some issues squeezing them into a 40 man raid though (nice and eazy now w/ 5 of each class)
 
But, ill make one too :happy:

[Deadlyspirit]

I think it is lame. I like the size 40 man raid. and if you get 9 classes it can not be balanced.

[Gorion]

lame? no.. more challenging.. yes..

mana users will just love shamans, mana tide totem..hmm.. can you apply windfury on a friends weapon too?

[Neff]

No, only on yourself.
But what will suck is, who will get dropped out, when the shamans need space too? And we just got another class on the loottable, what happens if there isnt any shaman , and a tier 2 BP drops f.ex? DE!
That and they totally raped the lore.

[DarkAngel]

Hmm looks like half of the alliance will be making Shaman's then....:lmfao:

[Bastet]

well leveling up to 70 might take a long while, allthough leveling an entire raid group from 60-70 might take a while too... so i wouldnt worry about it too much

[Sandrion]

hmm.. can you apply windfury on a friends weapon too?

No, but they do have a windfury totem :norty: .
 
It will be fun having some along with raids. Because we will get more 'healing power' in the raids (four out of nine classes that can heal), it might become more interessing to have some off builds along; since having a raid filled with 40-50% healers doesn't make sense at all :tongue: .
 
Btw, this change was made to enable cross faction transfers, too help balance the server population. (silently announced @ BlizzCon last year).

[Sandrion]

well leveling up to 70 might take a long while, allthough leveling an entire raid group from 60-70 might take a while too... so i wouldnt worry about it too much

Well we should start hoarding Tribal troll neckleases then; for the repeatable quest. 450xp per 5, if you can get enough you won't even have to kill a mob to get to 70 :narnar: .

[Bastet]

Apart from the 1000's to get to the level required to turn them in <_<

[Sheperdbook]

Pfffft, any shammies are likely to be alts of existing players by the time we get to the expansion thus no overcrowding issues will be caused that don't already exist.

The fact that 40 doesn't divide by 9 to an integer, well, that's just unfortunate.

Not too sure about the whole thing though, if anything it reduces the challenge as there'll be more holes filled up in the talents area. Makes me think that there is a second reason behind all of this (apart from the whiners who can't bear to have a character on the other side on a server). I think the later instances of Outland will be requiring Shammies/Pallies (pending which side of the server) to balance out the raid groups enough to succeed.

Anyways I'll try and get a Dranei Shammy upto Lvl60 if I get the time, I quite like shammies.


Shep

[Bastet]

There is some word that several encounters (maybe not the ones directly in the first release) will need either a paladin, or a shaman, like broodlords place needs a few rogues for suppresion

[Carr0t]

mana users will just love shamans, mana tide totem..hmm.. can you apply windfury on a friends weapon too?

Yes, you can. It's a totem you get at around level 30/35ish (I can't recall exactly when I got it). It uses the air totem slot, and applies Windfury Weapon to everyone within your party (not sure how that works for raids and raidgroups) within the totem radius (20 yds standard, 30 if you have the improved totems talent).  You can also do the same with the Flame bonus on weapons that Shamans can do. I'm not sure if you get it for Frost or Rockbiter at a later level, as my Shaman is only lvl 38.