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Shaman Patch History
From wow.incgamers.com
The history of the changes made to the Shaman class during the beta and beyond are detailed below with the most recent at the top.
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Patch 2.1.3 (2007-10-07)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.1.2 (2007-06-19)
- Focused Mind: This ability has been changed to reduce the duration of silence and interrupt effects, rather than increase resistance to them.
- Frostbrand Weapon Rank 5: The damage on this spell was reduced slightly such that it will never do more damage than Frostbrand Rank 6.
- Lightning Shield: Procs from this buff will no longer cause neutral town guards to attack the Shaman. In addition, Nightmare Vine will no longer cause charges of this buff to be consumed.
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Patch 2.1.1 (2007-06-05)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.1.0b (2007-05-30)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22)
- Earth Elemental Totem: This pet will now come into the game with full health, including that gained from a percentage of its master's stamina.
- Earth Shield: Adjusted the tooltip to indicate this ability works against all types of attacks, not just melee. This ability will also now properly trigger only from taking direct damage effects.
- Earth Shock: Rank 8 is now properly considered an Interrupt effect for talents and abilities that affect interrupts.
- Elemental Focus: This talent now reduces the cost of the next damage spell by 60%. It will also now trigger from bonus spells cast by Lightning Overload.
- Eye of the Storm (Elemental): Clarified the tooltip on this talent to indicate it only works with Shaman spells.
- Fire Elemental Totem: This pet will now come into the game with full health and mana, including that gained from a percentage of its master's stamina and intellect. It will also now properly get increased stamina from a percentage of its master's stamina.
- Flametongue Weapon: This effect will no longer trigger while you are disarmed.
- Frostbrand Weapon: Rank 6 now properly receives increased effect from spell damage bonuses.
- Healing Focus: The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it only works with Shaman spells. e.g.: Does not work with Gift of the Naaru.
- Healing Way: This talent now correctly modifies the healing done after all bonus effects have been applied.
- Heroism: Training cost increased to match the cost of Bloodlust.
- Lightning Shield: Ranks 8 and 9 of this spell now trigger correctly while mounted.
- Magma Totem: This totem will now correctly do damage on its 10th tick, right before despawning.
- Mana Spring Totem: Duration increased to 2 minutes.
- Mana Tide Totem: This totem will no longer sometimes grant mana after it has been destroyed. It will also consistently grant mana 4 times instead of sometimes 3 and sometimes 5.
- Healing Stream Totem: Duration increased to 2 minutes.
- Mental Quickness: This talent now correctly reduces the cost of Purge, Flame Shock, Frost Shock, Earth Shock, Bloodlust, Heroism, Lightning Shield, Cure Poison, and Cure Disease.
- Nature's Guardian (Restoration): Some spells and abilities did not trigger this talent. That has been fixed.
- Restorative Totems (Restoration): This talent no longer gives a bonus to a variety of jewelcrafting items.
- Trainer Animations: All new Shaman abilities will now correctly play the training animation when learned.
- Water Shield: When a Shaman with this spell active is afflicted with Cyclone, the charge burned will now grant mana.
- Windfury Weapon: Mixing two different ranks of Windfury Weapon while dual-wielding will no longer increase the number of Windfury Weapon procs.
- Windfury Weapon: A bug with this spell was making off-hand procs receive less bonus damage than intended. It is now fixed.
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Patch 2.0.12 (2007-04-06)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.10 (2007-03-06)
- The clearcasting effect from "Elemental Focus" now triggers on all spell critical strikes, rather than a chance on any spell hit.
- The shaman will no longer generate additional threat when "Unleashed Rage" triggers.
- The free Lightning spell cast from "Lightning Overload" will now cause reduced threat.
- "Stoneclaw Totem" now has a 50% chance to stun attackers for 3 sec. when struck.
- The bonus of the "Wrath of Air" totem now applies to healing spells as well.
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Patch 2.0.8 (2007-02-15)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.7 (2007-02-13)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.6 (2007-01-23)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.5 (2007-01-15)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.4 (2007-01-12)
- No changes.
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Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09)
- "Earth Shock" no longer causes increased threat.
- "Frost Shock" now causes increased threat.
- The training cost for "Strength of Earth Totem (Rank 5)" is now correct.
- "Nature's Guardian" will now work properly even when you don't have an enemy targeted.
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Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05)
- Shaman with the appropriate talent spec are now able to dual-wield.
- Self-weapon buffs such as Windfury Weapon can be applied to both main and off-hand weapons.
- Rockbiter's weapon functionality has been changed. It is now a damage proc instead of a flat attack power bonus.
- Windfury Weapon and Rockbiter Weapon enchantments will only benefit the weapon with the enchantment on it.
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Patch 1.12.2 (2006-10-12)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.12.1 (2006-09-26)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22)
- Reincarnation should now display the cooldown timer when used.
- Chain Heal - After the initial target is healed, the healing effect will jump to the most damaged target (by absolute health) within range. In addition, if a raid member is the initial target it will look for valid raid targets to jump to rather than non-raid targets as a priority, making it consistent with group targeted Chain Heals.
- Lightning Shield: Air Bubble pockets in underwater regions will no longer consume a charge from this spell.
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Patch 1.11.2 (2006-07-11)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.11.1 (2006-06-28)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-20)
- Due to significant talent changes, Shaman will have all talent points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
- Anticipation : Now increases chance to dodge by 1-5%.
- Following durations have been increased - Disease Cleansing Totem, Fire Resistance Totem, Flametongue Totem, Frost Resistance Totem, Grace of Air Totem - Ranks 1 and 2 increased, Nature Resistance Totem, Poison Cleansing Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Strength of Earth Totem - Ranks 1 through 4 increased, Tremor Totem, Windfury Totem, Windwall Totem.
- The following mana costs have been reduced - Searing Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Rockbiter, Frostbrand, Flametongue and Windfury.
- Two-Handed Axes/Maces (Enhancement Talent) - Skill levels gained
with these two weapons will now be retained if you decide to unspend this talent point and return to it later.
- Flame Shock - Damage over time portion of all ranks slightly increased. Mana cost of ranks 3 through 5 decreased.
- Improved Reincarnation (Restoration Talent) - Fixed a bug where rank 1 of this talent was not decreasing the cooldown properly.
- Elemental Fury: Tooltip now indicates it increases the critical damage for Searing Totem, Magma Totem, and Fire Nova Totem.
- Fire Nova Totem: This totem now receives increased healing from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage.
- Grounding Totem: This totem will no longer reflect the Mage talent Combustion back onto the Mage.
- Healing Stream Totem: This totem now receives increased healing from effects that increase the Shaman's healing.
- Lightning Bolt: Mana cost reduced approximately 17%.
- Lightning Shield: Some battleground power-up effects were consuming charges of Lightning Shield. They no longer cause charges to be consumed. The range on Lightning Shield has been extended to hit anyone within vision range.
- Magma Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage.
- Searing Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage.
- Elemental Mastery: If you have this effect and Clearcasting at the same time, the Clearcasting effect will be consumed first.
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Patch 1.10.2 (2006-05-02)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.10.1 (2006-04-11)
- No changes.
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Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28)
- Lightning Shield - Bonfires and other environmental damage sources will no longer consume charges of the Lightning Shield. Warsong Gulch power-ups will also no longer consume the charges.
- Grounding Totem - This totem will no longer absorb the procs from: Frostguard, Annihilator, Bludgeon of the Grinning Dog, The Chief's Enforcer, The Judge's Gavel, Hammer of the Titans, Blackblade of Shahram, and Bonereaver's Edge. Tooltip updated to be more clear.
- Flurry - Your haste will now last only the intended next 3 swings.
- Healing Wave - Mana cost on all ranks reduced approximately 9%.
- Shaman can now use equipped items while in Ghost Wolf form.
- Shaman will no longer stop falling when they use a Sentry Totem.
- Relics have been introduced to the game. These are class specific items for Druids, Paladins, and Shaman which can be equipped in the ranged slot. Currently there are a handful for each class which can be found scattered throughout Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire, Dire Maul, Scholomance, Stratholme, and The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. We hope that you enjoy the first round of available relics and we will continue to add more in future patches.
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Patch 1.9.0 (3 January 2006)
- Lightning Shield - This spell will now proc when the shaman is struck by elemental attacks.
- Stormstrike - Earthbind and Stoneclaw totems will no longer use up charges of Stormstrike.
- New Spell - Tranquil Air Totem. Creates a totem that reduces the threat caused by nearby party members by 20%.
- Grounding Totem - This totem will no longer absorb the spell from Crippling Poison or Deadly Poison.
- Purge - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
- Cure Poison - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
- Cure Disease - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
- Poison Cleansing Totem - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
- Disease Cleansing Totem - Mana cost now based on a percentage of base mana.
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Patch 1.8.0 (11 October 2005)
- Lightning Shield - Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality.
- Ghost Wolf - Will now correctly have its cast time reduced by Nature's Swiftness.
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Patch 1.6.0 (12 July 2005)
- Frost Shock - Targets that are immune to movement slowing effects will no longer be affected by Frost Shock's *movement slowing effect. Damage will still be caused.
- Reincarnation will no longer be an option on death when a Soulstone effect is active on the Shaman. The *Soulstone will be used as the higher priority effect.
- Frostbrand Weapon - Targets that are immune to movement slowing effects will no longer be affected by *Frostbrand Weapon's movement slowing effect. Damage will still be caused.
- Call of Flame - Fixed a bug where the damage bonus did not always increase various totems.
- Chain spells cast on PvP targets by an unflagged Shaman will now properly bounce to other PvP targets.
- The tooltip for Fire Nova Totem now correctly reflects the damage the totems deal.
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Patch 1.5.0 (7 June 2005)
- Fixed a bug where Fire Nova, Flametongue, Stoneclaw and Windfury Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman. All totems should now be summoned at the level of the caster.
- Flametongue Totem - Tooltip updated to clarify that only the main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Windfury Totem - Tooltip updated to clarify that only the main-hand weapon is enchanted.
- Fire Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Frost Resistance Totem - New icon.
- Grounding Totem - Fixed a bug that allowed some area of effect spells to be "grounded" and/or destroy the totem.
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Patch 1.4.0 (20 April 2005)
- Earth Shock - The visual for ranks two through seven has been changed to be consistent with rank one.
- Windfury - Fixed a bug that caused an additional attack beyond what was intended. In addition, fixed a bug that caused the next normal melee attack to happen sooner than intended.
- Level 58+ Shaman should talk to Sagorne Creststrider in Orgrimmar; there is a special quest for them involving a dreaded death knight who dwells in the depths of the Scholomance.
- Frost Shock - Now subject to diminishing returns in PvP. This is considered a slowing effect.
- Grounding Totem - Should no longer redirect area effect spells or be destroyed by area effects spells.
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Patch 1.3.0 (22 March 2005)
- Training costs adjusted. Total training cost was decreased.
- Tremor Totem - Now creates the appropriate looking earth totem; tooltip updated to clarify what effects it counters; radius of effect increased; now pulses more frequently.
- Astral Recall - The tooltip now includes the home point the spell will recall you to.
- We've changed the spell icon of several totem spells. They should now all be unique.
- Searing Totem - Damage slightly increased.
- Reincarnation - No longer causes resurrection sickness.
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Patch 1.2.2 (27 January 2005)
- Fixed a bug with Troll Shamans and the Berserk ability. Troll Shamans can only go Berserk when they are in the wounded state.
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Patch 1.2.0 (21 December 2004)
- Earthbind Totem: Added a 15-second cool down.
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Patch 1.1.1 (17 November 2004)
- New Spell: Reincarnation (Level 30). Reincarnation is a passive ability that will give you to option of letting you resurrect yourself once every half hour upon death.
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Patch 1.1.0 (7 November 2004
- Removed facing requirement from Purge.
- Rebirth: Renamed Ancestral Spirit, no longer useable in combat.
- Water Walking: Now cancelled if any damage is taken, requires reagent.
- Water Breathing: Now requires a reagent.
- Earth Shock: Now causes additional threat.
- Healing Stream Totem: Heals in smaller, more frequent intervals (roughly the same total over time).
- Mana Spring Totem: Restores mana in smaller, more frequent intervals (roughly the same total over time).
- Rockbiter Weapon: Now also makes your melee attacks cause additional threat.
- Windfury Weapon: Much more responsive.
- Windfury Totem: Much more responsive.
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Patch 0.12.0 (10 October 2004)
- Stoneclaw Totem is now useable against targets that are immune to nature attacks.Rebirth range reduced.
- Ghost Wolf is now only useable outdoors.
- Earthbind Totem movement slow effect has been reduced.
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Beta Patch 0.11.0 (28 September 2004)
- Stoneclaw Totem changed. All ranks now have increased health.
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Beta Patch 0.10.0 (16 September 2004)
- Flametongue Weapon now always procs, but damage depends onweapon speed.
- Flametongue Totem moved to level 28, now always procs, but damage depends on weapon speed.
- Frostbrand Weapon: Levels at which each rank can be learned have been changed; now procs equally frequently for all weapon speeds.
- Magma Totem moved to level 26.
- Rockbiter Weapon: Levels at which each rank can be learned have been changed.
- Stoneskin Totem effect slightly reduced.
- Windfury Weapon: Levels at which each rank can be learned have been changed.
- Windfury Totem: Levels at which each rank can be learned have been changed.
- Windwall Totem effect slightly reduced.
- Shaman talents are now available.
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Beta Patch 0.9.0 (15 August 2004)
- Mana Font Totem renamed Mana Spring Totem.
- New Spell: Chain Heal (Levels 40, 46, 54).
- When in Ghost Wolf form, the shaman is now considered a Beast.
- Frost Shock slowing effect will now obey the standard stacking rules.
- Lightning Shock spell removed.
- Stoneskin Totem now reduces melee damage only, not ranged attacks.
- Chain Lightning cast time slightly reduced, damage increased, now deals less damage to each target after the first.
- Earthbind Totem initial effect should no longer be heavily resisted.
- Fire Nova Totem now generates less threat.
- Flametongue Weapon replacements adjusted.
- Flametongue Totem replacements adjusted.
- Frostbrand Weapon slow effect reduced, damage increased, replacements adjusted.
- Lightning Bolt cast time reduced, damage and mana cost reducedaccordingly, replacements adjusted.
- Molten Blast removed.
- Purge moved to level 14.
- Rockbiter Weapon replacements adjusted.
- Water Breathing moved to level 22.
- Windfury Weapon moved to level 30, replacements adjusted, effectsimplified.
- Windfury Totem replacements adjusted, effect simplified.
- New Spell: Windwall Totem (Level 36, 46, 56)
- Stoneskin Totem’s damage reduction slightly reduced at higher levels.
