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Legend 'Earth shock' gone dead
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Post by
mashi
I 'm a big fan in using earth shock to interrupt spells but in next patch, this spell will die
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).
Tbh, i prefer Spell interrupts than reduce melee attack speed.
I can see why attack speed can effect raids and heroics but still.. Spell Interrupts was an awesome ability for shamans
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390676
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Post by
GenXCub
What's the source on this?
Also wind shock can interrupt. It will be named Wind Shear and will not share cooldowns with shocks (and if it's like wind shock, doesn't trip the gcd)... so if it still doesn't trip the GCD, I'm sure shamans will just macro them together.
Edit, nvm, found it on the 7/10 mmo-champion post.
Post by
Craje
Hey guys, don't freak out.
They changed wind shock to wind shear, and it doesn't share a cooldown with the shocks anymore. That actually allows us to be more versatile. Make sure to read the patch notes more carefully ;P
Thats actually a GREAT change in my opinion
*edited for clarity*
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270623
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Post by
synthetique
It's also awesome since we now get an extra magic effect that eats dispels.
Post by
Booterang
RIP earthshock.
But it's a buff, go look up Wind Shear.
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195614
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Post by
tomgc
Its a buff, you just need an extra slot on your action bars now.
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235177
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Post by
Valer
What do u mean eats dispells?
Purge is still the only dispel shamans have even in next patch.
Post by
jafar
What do u mean eats dispells?
Purge is still the only dispel shamans have even in next patch.
I believe he meant someone dispelling your debuffs in pvp
Post by
66520
What do u mean eats dispells?
Purge is still the only dispel shamans have even in next patch.
He means other people's cleanses. As the melee slow will be a magic debuff like the other slows of its category it will help keep other, more useful, debuffs like Frost Shock/Flame Shock/Earthbind/Hex on them.
Post by
mashi
i guess Wind Shear could be the new spell interrupt. guess i gotta start using it, should be useful since it doesn't share an CD with other shocks.
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235177
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Post by
Windreaver
You know if Blizzard removes the shock cooldown from windshear they will be adding a GCD to it. Otherwise all the enhancement shaman will just macro windshear to earth shock.
Post by
lucius
You realize macroing Wind shear onto your Earthshock cooldown is a bad idea, right? The entire point of removing the spell interrupt from Earth shock is so that you don't have to stop dps while waiting for a spell you want to interrupt.
Wind shear won't have a GCD, because no other class's damageless interrupt has one. Again, for the same reason of having to 'camp' for a specific spellcast.
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Post by
Windreaver
You are right, in PvP it would be stupid to macro the two together. I PvE though, I am never asked to interupt except maybe Gundurak when ppl are trying to get the achievement.
Meanwhile, wind shock drops threat...by a stupid amount true, but it still drops threat. So I don't really see macroing the two together as an issue, especially when you can use modifiers to not cast windshear in situations were you need to interupt.
And don't forget, while interupts are not supposed to be on the GCD traditionally, ours HAS been tied to a universal (shock) 6 second cooldown since it was introduced. If Blizzard truely meant for it to be used as an interupt in the traditional since, they would have done this sooner.
Yes, I hope it doesn't happen, but Blizzard doesn't have a track record of just
giving
shaman anything.
Post by
GenXCub
There will be no GCD to Wind Shear. 100% guaranteed. In no way does an ability that
only
interrupts have a global cooldown.
If it continues to lower threat like Wind Shock does, maybe they will say that is the reason it keeps a gcd.
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