05-18-2006, 06:27 AM
Hello again. NS is such a rough situation. The skill itself is incredibly good and complimentary to any build both PvE and PvP. For a shaman with a Resto "minor", it's quite limiting choices in a way. Nature's Swiftness is amazing to the point that Stormstrike and Elemental Mastery would have to be buffed to silly unbalanced levels for them to be considered for a 30 point Elem or Enhance shaman. Elemental Mastery is getting close, but it's one-dimensionality vs. NS's utility still shows there is little contest. Druids, and to a lesser extent Mages with PoM are in the same boat.
It's a hard thing... how do you go about fixing that? The options present no clear cut solution - the two 31 point talents of the other trees would need to be ridiculously buffed; make Nature's Swiftness a core ability; move NS lower in the talent tree; change the functionality of NS to heals-only... those are a few considerations albeit all but the last creating nasty imbalances. I don't know. There's an excellent discussion on the Elitist Jerks forums regarding this and similar things currently. As much as I'd love to pick up EM and blast some faces, many shamans (and more) are locked into partial talent specs due to indispensible 21 point skills.
It's a hard thing... how do you go about fixing that? The options present no clear cut solution - the two 31 point talents of the other trees would need to be ridiculously buffed; make Nature's Swiftness a core ability; move NS lower in the talent tree; change the functionality of NS to heals-only... those are a few considerations albeit all but the last creating nasty imbalances. I don't know. There's an excellent discussion on the Elitist Jerks forums regarding this and similar things currently. As much as I'd love to pick up EM and blast some faces, many shamans (and more) are locked into partial talent specs due to indispensible 21 point skills.