Totem Talk: Is Enhancement too squishy?
Yes, that’s Thoralius the Wise from the Howling Fjord starting quests. When I saw him get up and start zoning out to his smoke brazier, the look on his face just meshed too well with today’s subject matter, which is the health of shamans in melee. We talked about shaman health in PvP a while back, now it’s PvE’s turn. I don’t play my shaman in a melee role in raids right now, because I basically don’t have the gear for it. My resto set’s a lot better so that’s what I go as, but that only means I often notice how difficult it is to keep enhancement shamans on their feet. There are several possible culprits for the disparity, although in most cases I believe the killer to be aoe damage, so wearing mail really isn’t the issue: rogues aren’t nearly as hard to keep up as shamans, for instance, because rogues have cooldowns and abilities that allow them to avoid or escape damage. (If you’ve ever seen a rogue go sprinting through several mines on a Mimiron kill you’ll know what I mean.) No, excepting those giant whirlwinding maniacs in Razorscale and Thorim, what’s generally killing shamans in melee is AoE
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