zokudu
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- Nov 11, 2009
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When I poked around the talent choices, I would take that as Feral Cat or Bear. There's very little ways to heal yourself that quickly and for such a relatively low mana cost.
Except how the Shaman's last tier is, at least from what I can see, fairly useless. The only time I would have wanted to use more than one totem of the same element would be to provide multiple buffs, but that won't even be necessary in 5.0. The thing doesn't work on fire totems either. The cooldown reduction seems far more PVP oriented as you tend to get your totems destroyed in there. Moving your totems is only a big deal if you're dealing with a lot of cooldown-oriented totems. It might be nice in PVE in conjunction with the Repulsor Totem as it will allow you to knock back about twice as far.
The use of Ursol's Vortex is fairly limited, but so is Typhoon. In situations where add control is important, such as Ragnaros, a Druid with both abilities is incredibly useful. Boomkins are already pretty popular (along with Elemental Shamans) on Ragnaros because of Typhoon being able to push the sons back. Imagine if you could push them back with Typhoon, charge, move back and then pull them all back again with Ursol's Vortex.
Really I thought Master Shapeshifter would work best for feral cat. Tranq and Rebirth are the only situation any of the 4 specs would ever need to use that talent and only really a cat would benefit from that use.
And I think shaman have a similar issue to druids. I understand where they are coming from they just seem...lackluster. They gut and mess with our "class uniqueness" by removing buff totems and neutering shapeshifting then give us a talent tier based around our now nerfed/ruined unique mechanic.
As for typhoon I'm more excited for my healers getting it vs me. i will more likely than not be bringing 12% armor reduction to our raids leaving that tier taken for me
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