Shaman Talents Released!

[Artega]

So... wrong... must... resist flame!

EM vs NS for PvP - its a legit debate... I guess.  600 mana and about 600 damage, against an instant spell that can do the same damage, and is instant cast OR ~2500 heal.  The or is the key.  You _should_ still be healing in PvP, very often.  Personally, I find mana not to be much of a problem in PvP.

The comment "better if you have more spell crit" is just flat wrong.  If you had a theoretical 100% spell crit, an auto crit would have zero value.  If you had 0 spell crit, it would garentee a bonus 600 damage.  So the less spell crit you have (and hopefully more spell damage), the relativly better that talent is.

Shaman only have a woeful mana pool in a few situations.  1 - You are deep enhance, and are using a lot of hunter gear to support it.  2 - you are grinding, and want to use shocks to up your so-so dps, but dont want to drink every 3rd fight.  3 - You are trying to frost shock a high HP raid boss to death.
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Or you're spam-healing a flagcarrier in Warsong in a team with either no other healers, or healers that aren't healing because they're "dps spec."

Or you're throwing shocks, lightning bolts, and totems around while healing yourself and others.

Or any other many situations. Shamans have innately small mana pools and horrible mana efficiency. Maybe epics alleviate this, but my experience is in tier0, not tier5000.

I don't recall my healing waves ever reaching 2500+. And I know for a fact that an Earth Shock crit will hit for at least 1000, not 600. Add an automatic 9% melee crit boost on your next attack following that spell crit, and I'm thinking EM might become more popular or at least AS popular as NS, especially now that it's on the same three-minute cooldown.