Posted Mar 01, 2007 at 05:01PM by Ceasar S. Listed in: News Tags: Blizzard, Tseric, spam, The Collective
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World of Warcraft - the Shaman class - Image 1The crowd control capability, especially in serious aggro grinds and particularly at PvP, is a welcome addition to any class in the World of Warcraft universe. Crowd control, or CC for short, is a coined term for any ability (may it be spell or talent) that could allow you to select which enemies to fight first.

This is achieved by disabling or inhibiting their other companions fighting capability. If you've played Warcraft III prior to WoW, you could compare it with the Dread Lord's Sleep spell. The CC is a contributing element to survivability, if you can pull off the right skill at the most crucial moment.

While some shammies are planning to spam the forums with requests for more crowd control skills, there's talk of getting anti-CC skills up to counter the other classes' CC capabilities. In fact, some players think that other classes are overflowing with CC tactics that the Shaman could be better off thwarting such tactics with polished anti-CC punts.

But let's not forget, Shamans do have CC capability, just not all that impressive. To use the Earthbind Totem with Frost Shock (or either one of each) must be done at the right place at the right time.

Frostband Weapon can also enchant your blade with freeze/slow capability for a shammy to make a quick getaway. The official word from Blizzard goes a little something like what Tseric said:

I think [this will] be a long standing contention because the devs don't want to copy/paste a CC ability and the players have built it up as a necessity. Sometimes repeating a thing over and over makes it true in the mind. Sometimes this strikes me the same as people saying 'My survivability in PVP is terrible'. I think I've practically heard every single class petition that as a primary class concern at one time or another. It sounds reasonable on the face, but doesn't make sense the more you look into it. Granted, this isn't really the same situation, but I think the collective might be so adamant as a collective decision, not necessarily based on the merit of the claim, itself.


Pretty slippery words, huh? If you're the pessimist like we think you are, you could translate that as "Devs say no, you say yes, [Tseric says] maybe. But the final answer is no."


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   by Fix Shaman!!!!! (Unregistered) - 2007-03-02
 » But the point is....

that Sammies are now totally useless in Arena fighting.

Tseric comments are ignorant, considering the new expansion creates a whole new scenario where cooldowns and CC (or anti-CC) are essential for Shaman.

On the flip side, Pallies now own PvP because bubble is practically unbeatable in Arena. Yet Blizzz dev ignore this. I think they have reached the point where they are making so much money they don't need to appeal to the 640,000 shamans in WoW.



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