@@ashamancito4630 Currently the dots are pretty weak. Most of feral's damage is coming from bite and shred. I'd like to see a buff to dots directly, but for burst something to speed up the dot damage might be useful. Even something like bites cause all bleeds to do a bit of immediate damage or something like that. I think affliction locks have/had a similar interaction at one point.
Yep xD that mic is pretty much garbage, not the meh it can pass garbage xD nonono it is the, fml what a waste of money and fail purchase, should have bought myself a pet stone instead, kinda garbage🤣
Re: SV Hunter I want my "blow everything up" SV back. The ranged spec they attempted to half-heartedly baked into MM. Or, if they really want to give SV a bit more flexibility in their weapon choice: give them the option for dual-wielding. You know, hunters always could dual wield. And there is a famous (sv) hunter that dual wields. Frost DK got their flexibility with 2h, and fury warriors can roll 1H now. Opportunity would have been there.
Yeah. In Legion, it made sense they tailored the abilities to certain weapons choices, because you were supposed to always use only the given Artifact weapon for your spec. But after that, they forgot to lift the restrictions when those were no longer relevant.
Man Im main SV and now Im crying how SAD the talent page so empty and no plans to give us our dignity back. And dont get me wrong, I like SV being melee but we need more skills and less dependence on pet, compared to MM and BM. The issue isnt dual welding or not, its lack of options and skills...
Feral's damage is so low right now its getting beaten by most healers , and in pvp its melee is dealing more damage then any one its bleeds OR abilities , And thats not saying its doing good damage its terrible
Feral has been shafted for so long outside of pvp 🤦♂️ a few times it has been decent but for the effort it has historically taken to get close to the skill cap with the class it's rarely worth it in terms of damage output. Sad really, one of my favorite specs in the game.
Do you even play feral bro? just see how much those blood talon ferocious bites are hitting for. its very good. Maybe its overall DPS might be low. But FB hits like truck.
I mailed enhancement in BC and Wrath, this version of Enhancement is so similar to those “glory days” that i am finally playing mine again. The builder spender mechanic killed the spec for me.
So happy to see Shadow Priest and MM Hunter (seem to be getting a ton of love lately!) here! They have been mains, with Destro Warlock (full time main for Shadowlands), for a very long time. I was not the biggest fan of MM hunter in BFA either. It felt very clunky with a boring 3 to 4 ability rotation but I still enjoy the bursts. I much prefer Wrath style MM hunter instead.
Been a priest since literal release day of WoW and played Shadow non stop from Burning Crusade to Mists. Love playing Shadow now that I've picked up Shadowlands.
Frost Mage is pretty fun now with them basically mainlining Ice Lance. Hitting for 5-6k Ice Lances is amazing...even more so when you chain them back to back.
Mid tier dps is acceptable for a feral so long as they compensate with some tools. Give them LotP and innervate back. With that said, I'm a lifelong feral main and I've always been able to get in top 5. Playing your class at 95%+ efficiency will still yield amazing results.
I find feral pretty good as long as not many I. The raid.. They Don’t stack well, and simple!, so could use more to do imo. I have a Druid healer and Paladin Tanking... I have a healing Shaman that’s really fun And different from Druids.. now Druids are nice to tank with but kinda simple like feral cat.. nice skills too use in Guardian.,.. Nice Dmg reduction skills, with no heal and not the huge armor mitigation anymore, only Dodge. No block or parry, so the bark skin , iron fur and self heals make them fun.. Palidan tanking is a ton of fun, but to be really good, because they cast their Dmg reduction! Shielding and dropping agro off people that pick it up on accident, get rid of Dots off others, absorbing some of others DMg.. tanks in wow are much more diverse in play more so than healer but they are different too. I never understood why Blizzard use 2 dps mods In shamans.. I wish they had gave their old shield build for tanking,, Shamans could have been great tanks with a ton of fun because of totems and they missed a great buil imo. I don’t see the point in any class having 3 dps builds. Hunters could have had a Tank build using pets and traps all for a pet tank class. Miss direct shot was perfect.. In vanilla (original) my hunter tanked every level 60 dungeon before raids and was SO MUCH FUN.. Ice mage could of been a cool healing and ice shielding.. give Rouges a Bard spec or something.. I would of thought a healing hunter with say a pixie pet to heal... just some ideas.. 3 dps specs never end up with 3 playable specs..
Always considered feral being bad rogues.. I wish they did something that would make them feel more of a all around fighter instead of being specifically a rogue with less options or at least something that made the spec feel.. more unique. And survival hunters... nah I tried it today.. can’t do it still. Cool concept but idk.. but I’m one of those guys who likes marksmanship hunters over beast mastery ones. Despite having two pets is awesome I just love the pve experience of sniping things. (I also play with a pet in pve despite the 10% dmg buff), because the buff is basically the same or on pair with the pet and I like having that tank. But if you’re melee.. then why have a pet? Maybe that’s just me..
If ppl miss classic shaman so much, go play classic. "Totems" could be placed back, Isuppose, if Blizzard revamped the class altogether and made the wood poles interact. But they couldn't do that, they just made them boring cds you click and forget. And that is what people liked about shaman in classic, apparently, but it is not fun to play. You can get your rocks off with it, fine, to each its own. But don't contaminate retail with the plain boring classic design that maybe worked for a game 15 years ago.
I'm having fun leveling up different alts, still deciding on my main though. Was maining balance druid for a couple of years, but i don't really like the eclipse change. So far i'm enjoying frost mage & affliction warlock the most!
@@BellularGaming I think it's more people hearing the audio in between a professionally mixed high-end microphone. Usually advertisers either sandwich it in between normal background-audio and give it a slight EQ or compare it to a shittier mic so it stands out positively instead of negatively. But that's just a marketing comment :)
Hi, audio engineer here. I get this request a lot (especially as of late with people not going into studios): "Please make this cellphone recorded voicing sound less terrible". There's little we can do to make it sound studio quality because we're EQing what we're provided. You can't add in clearer, less peaked/distorted frequencies with EQ. We're not alchemists, we cannot transmute fish into gems (even though clients think we can). We can roll those fish in glitter thanks to EQ though. In terms of a headset mic, that's really really good quality with what @BellularGaming demonstrated.
The best change for UH DK - you get second empowered pet via level 2 apocalypse later in expansion, and the AoE Death Coil thingy is now baseline and works with all Death Coil procs (sorry, don't remember the names)
It’s just a well designed spec now. Idk how good they will be in SL meta once things have settled, but they are only top damage right now bc of spiteful apparitions
ever since DK came out i rolled Unholy, there's just something really fun about amassing an Army of the Dead and send them charging at a Boss/Elite/Rare while i'm pulling out my blades and march into battle.
after 8 years of DK i'm changing to warlock. DK is just kinda boring regardless of spec anymore so something new that is almost guaranteed to be great is worth the switch. DKs don't seem to be as consistent as warlocks when it comes to ranking highly.
I’ve been running 10-12 keys with my unholy DK topping DPS charts even though I’m 20-25 Ilvl below the next DPS. 93 ilvl unholy out DPS’ing 120 ilvl toons. I’m gonna enjoy it while it lasts because I’m sure Blizz is gonna nerf it at some point lol
@Emilien what makes you say that? He is the only person we’re aware of that could resist the Jailer’s influence within the helm of domination. Seems pretty strong to me
Affliction aoe feels pretty clunky to me actually, especially compared to what I remember in Legion. Takes way too long to set up for and by then, if you're doing group content like warfronts, all the mobs are dead. I don't main one though so maybe it's just me being bad
Has one of the worst type of rotations, the spec is such so bad right now. They are trying to do way to much with enhance and sometimes to much is just bad. Even if dps was high the synergy is just terrible
it really isnt the lowest dps atm though. WCL with all the raid data atm for prepatch with Fury warrior, demonology and Feral druid at the bottom of the bucket.
Im sure its a great headset, but it sounded like you were speaking directly onto metal, and to hear it, I have to press my ear to the other side of the metal wall.
People are really underestimating the sound quality of those headphones because the video switches from the crystal clear standard mic, to a decent quality mic that could use with an EQ tune at most; I paused for a couple minutes and the sound is absoutely fine when heard on it's own. The brain reacts to change, especially for audio quality so ofc it sounds tinny as a mix :)
Been testing out all specs on the beta and have been trying to find something that vibed nicely with me. Shadow was one of those specs I liked the least of them all because it felt so much clunkier than it used to (measured in fun factor, not damage), so I find it funny how everyone is just drooling over Shadow. Enhancement on the other hand plays really well when you got the legendary that resets cooldown on Stormstrike. Sure it feels a bit less fun without the legendary, but its still fun to play and react to all the procs and stuff. Affliction and Marksmanship feels pretty good, same with Arms and Fury(fury feels slightly better)
So they rework Enhancement into a "cooldown management" spec and the fun comes in once you get rid of the fun management with a legendary that will get taken away from us in two years? What will enhancement be left with after that? Hardcasting lightning bolt?
I thought that Devouring Plague was supposed to stack on the target(either in duration or damage) but it doesnt. That is still a small thing that they need to impliment, otherwise traits/legendaries/soulbinds and Talents that boost the SP's insanity generation, like Surrender To Madness, will be totally useless in any area other than multi dotting.
Are you saying that it hasn't been implemented due to an error, because DP is supposed to do exactly that; stack its remaining damage onto the new application.
been playing feral for the last 2 expansion, i really love this spec but if it will be in this state when shadowlands is out i will unfortunately have no option but to make another main, its sad but it really sucks to play a class that has been one of the worst class overall for so long now.
i actually like enhancement now (as opposed to liking nothing). it's like a more polished and complete version of it's WOTLK incarnation. it feels really nice being a genuine offensive support.
I always think that BM hunter should be melee spec rather than survival, if u think about it, if u love animal u dnt just sent animal to do damage for u and u sit at the back, u go charge with them like Rexxar (i think they dnt want to go this direction bcs afraid will feel same like unholy), and survival hunter more likely dots, bomb, trap, poison
I think that Blizzard wants Rexxar to not be a specific spec but a spec for all hunters (?). Idk I don’t like thinking about what Blizzard thinks anymore
I've seen 100 different shamans leveling through the new system. Been maining this broken and often nerfed class since 2008, really don't feel like it suddenly being fotm.
Why is there no healers/tanks that's recommended there? Even if there is less changes, for someone who is coming back from a few expansions back it's hard to know what "Well no changes were made" well but how good are they at what they do? :)
Will shadow stay on top when we lose azerite gear because alot of there crazy damage is coming from the azerite trait that increases the damaged of the shadow apparitions
For myself: the steelseries arctis series are one of the best gaming headsets out there. Mic quality is insanely good, sound quality is good and they are comfy af Maybe you will get sponsored by steelseries and do a sincere review =) Love your videos bellular
It's like before the legion re-design. It's OK, but weakauras is mandatory to track malestrom... What I don't like is that you have to reapply the weaponbuffs... There is no situation or spec where you don't want to have them applied, so it's just stupid...
@@Blazehoof It has more buttons now than before Legion cus of Crash lightning, Azerite (and I'm not counting non passive talents). Seens a lil bit clustered, I'm leveling a new enhance just to feel how the new/old spells can be slotted in my hotkeys
Empowerments back to Eclipse moved my favorite ranged spec to least liked, still plenty to enjoy and I'll still play it but feels such a shame they didn't do more to provide the optional choice between styles
I kiiiinda like it though I preferred earlier playstyle, don't like starsurge's new mechanic tho. But at least casting while moving as far as you want while starfall is up is so much fun now
Just got back into wow after a couple years, Mostly played disc priest as my main but my goodness shadow priest is SO fun in shadowlands, it just feels good to play, it also fits with the theme of the expansion!
Enhance is way better if your having troubles its purely down to player skill , I've been having a blast and the spec has a harmonic flow once you get it down.
Only change that really matters is having curses back and getting demonic circle baselined. Hard-casting corruption for a 12-second dot is a drag on demo or destro rotation.
The optimal havoc build right no longer utilizes blade dance or demon's bite. You auto attack for fury and collect orbs so you can spam more chaos strikes. You spam chaos strikes over and over and over so you can eye beam a few seconds faster. Repeat. Immo aura on cooldown and you better not miss your unbound chaos. I find it hard to believe that blizzard will let havoc continue this way, but this is of their creation and hopeful thinking only goes so far with blizz. They took the dodge out of blade dance and then added unbound chaos into the row that we've never had to make a choice in. I would love to be a fly on the wall during developer discussion on some of these choices they make.
With the new warrior abilities as a fury main im dissapointed. Never going to use shields, never going to use slam, the only thing useful is ignore pain and when i pop that it still doesn't feel that great
I feel like I'm crazy because I think the old design for Void Eruption turning into void bolt is a nightmare to keybind and doesn't fit well with the new design. They should just turn Mind Blast into Void bolt and have all the effects of both in Void Form.
@@The8BitBasedGod I'm not sure. I just went resto for raiding and ele for leveling. I didnt look into enhancement back then. I wasnt saying that enhance was never good I was just saying I never bothered to play it. But enhancement rotation looks fun I shadowlands.
Shadowpriest is awesome right now. But dont forget you cant take those juicy azerite traits the spec relies on for its crazy dmg right now with you to SL.
Come on bro, I just came back home after a full day of work. I am usually checking out the daily news Tagesschau, but now I need to push the sleep further away. Need to watch this right away. Thanks!
Shadow reminds me of the old nightfall SL warlock, dot drain life and shadow bolt on proc. --> dot, mind flay / seer, mind blast on proc. That isn't a bad thing, happy with the changes
Hi, Michael! Really good video! Certainly will be trying some of those out. One thing I miss, however, is your brilliant DynamicCam preset. I lost it and can't find it anywhere. It worked SOOOO good for leveling. There are many other new immersion addons. Like there was a weather enhancing addon with proper forecasts and players sharing the same weather so you and your friend can actually see the same visuals. It's kind of dope. There are probably more of those. My point it is - can we have another immersive leveling preset for 9.0?
@@hairtrigger8317 we got some of those lowkey buffs that people don’t want to see like “raw spell power scaling on xyz ability” and now almost every ability you press FEELS good to press and the different covenants (venth/Necro atleast) let ele do some pretty degenerate things. Add on the huge damage buffs to lava burst and the talent change giving us access 2x lava burst and elemental blast or double tap button which name I’m spacing on and you going to have a fun ride.
@@Ashmishmer Well I can't really comment on anything outside of a newly arrived lvl 50 elemental shaman experience right now. I just know going from 45-50 was very fast and running dungeons I was doing crazy damage whether it was single or aoe situation but on boss fights I was generally so far ahead in dps that some I did more than the entire grp put together.
@@hairtrigger8317 we have the Lava burst azerite trait right now that amplifies the damage of LB which they gave us a big buff on lava burst making it hit overall a lot harder even though we lose that trait.... well right now on live prepatch we are kind of double dipping which is making our meatballs hit almost as hard as geared characters at 60 on beta haha. Check out @Tiqqle if you’re looking for more shaman gameplay for ele and enhance! :D
Looks like Enh Shaman just went back to the MoP/Cata style with crash lightning for AoE instead of flameshock spreading/fire nova, which was way better than the Legion/BFA style of Enh, IMO. The RNG is a bit more controlled with the stacking mechanic(s), and there's less ramp time for single target, which will make shaman better in fights with a lot of movement/target switching, which was a major problem for the spec in Legion/BFA. With the ramp time on AoE gone from the MoP/Cata/WoD spec, Shaman can contribute more on short AOE fights, which was a major problem back in MoP/Cata - needing 2 GCDs (Flame shock -> lavalash) just to set up the AoE was too much, and often meant your initial flameshock target was dead before you could firenova, cutting the AoE damage significantly.
One of the best features for enhancement for solo content was consuming maelstrom for instant healing surges. And with healing surge at rank 2 for Enh, plus with the warmode talent that gave you a second lesser burst healing a few seconds after a healing wave, that gave enhancement shammies a great tool for survivability. It let me go toe to toe with paladins and their cheat on hands. Putting that awesome versatile mechanic on a five stack rng build does not satisfy me. I've yet to log to my shaman and test this new mechanic, but I didn't much like it
Enhancement is doing bad in Prepatch (as per usual), however Enhance has one of the most insane Legendaries that turns it into a Proc CHAINSAW and increases gameplay pace. It's weird that Blizzard is trying to balance the class via it's Legendary instead of just buffing the damn Shaman itself.
I was so happy when I bought my Sennheiser headset a few yrs back, was normally $250 but I got it on sale for $149, it had great sound and mic quality but sadly after a few months the wires got loose inside the cord and I have to constantly mess with it to get the sound to work and if I move it will get loose and I have to mess with it again. Not sure I'll ever buy one from them again tbh even though while it did work it was great.
Blood talons was just fine before they fucked it up. Making regrowth a natural part of the rotation not only added a button more commonly used but also help the survivability of feral cuz you’d normally be “casting” regrowth and basically always have a hot on you. I’ve been running omen of clarity. It’s smooth and it’s nice that it stacks and when it’s procs, that adds another button in thrash cuz even on a single target, thrash does nicely
I really wish they’d do something for feral.
Yea, someone suggesting Feral is very questionable at best.
feral is for weirdos. always has been
They should give it shroud and make a rogue alternative for m+. And while the dots are fine, they need burst.
Just play a rogue. Has ALWAYS been like this.
@@ashamancito4630 Currently the dots are pretty weak. Most of feral's damage is coming from bite and shred. I'd like to see a buff to dots directly, but for burst something to speed up the dot damage might be useful. Even something like bites cause all bleeds to do a bit of immediate damage or something like that.
I think affliction locks have/had a similar interaction at one point.
"and it had an absolutely fantastic microphone!". Proceeds to demo absolutely aweful sounding voice recording
Yep xD that mic is pretty much garbage, not the meh it can pass garbage xD nonono it is the, fml what a waste of money and fail purchase, should have bought myself a pet stone instead, kinda garbage🤣
I bought a $300 pair of sennheiser headphones that sounds crystal clear. I'd be embarrassed if I was sennheiser and put my name on those.
Not the worst headset mic out there. Trust that.
Shhhh we want him to get sponsors
@@apblolol They expected a professional-level transmission for a headset. Talk about unreal expectations
That transition between show intro and drop was smooth. Do not trust the slide up mic to mute you, that’s all I will say.
I've got a (much older) Rig headset that does this legitimately. Was a clearance item I got for 50$ that was originally 200$, so can't complain.
Re: SV Hunter
I want my "blow everything up" SV back. The ranged spec they attempted to half-heartedly baked into MM.
Or, if they really want to give SV a bit more flexibility in their weapon choice: give them the option for dual-wielding. You know, hunters always could dual wield. And there is a famous (sv) hunter that dual wields. Frost DK got their flexibility with 2h, and fury warriors can roll 1H now. Opportunity would have been there.
Yeah and Enhance Shamans deserve 2handers as well.
I'll never understand why they made SV melee instead of BM. The most iconic pet tamer in the game dual wields axes.
Yeah. In Legion, it made sense they tailored the abilities to certain weapons choices, because you were supposed to always use only the given Artifact weapon for your spec. But after that, they forgot to lift the restrictions when those were no longer relevant.
Man Im main SV and now Im crying how SAD the talent page so empty and no plans to give us our dignity back. And dont get me wrong, I like SV being melee but we need more skills and less dependence on pet, compared to MM and BM.
The issue isnt dual welding or not, its lack of options and skills...
"Famous hunter that dual wields." Rexxar?
Great timing
I literally just resubscribed to, and opened wow and figured i'd make a new class for this expansion :)
tis the season to be alting, that's for sure.
Easy to level now
I hope blizzard does something for feral, they've been the bottom tier all BFA, and most of Legion, and now it looks like it's the same for SL.
Same.. they gave us all these pretty skins for cat form but it’s not even worth playing
The advertisement of the headset, the mic sounded like one would before technology was even invented xD
You know you're comparing a $90 headset mic to a $450 one that goes into a $4.5k camera and THEN gets EQ'd?
@@BellularGaming Not ideal to put those 2 together, the terrible sound quality really hits you in the face on this one :')
Sounds like that might not have been the best advertising strategy since the comparison is natural to make. Cool idea though I guess.
That mic was bad any way you slice it. You can spend $30 in a v-moda mic and get way better quality.
@@BellularGaming gotta be honest my 90e HyperX mic sounds at least 4x better, but I guess most of us get it, they are the sponsor.
Feral's damage is so low right now its getting beaten by most healers , and in pvp its melee is dealing more damage then any one its bleeds OR abilities , And thats not saying its doing good damage its terrible
Feral has been shafted for so long outside of pvp 🤦♂️ a few times it has been decent but for the effort it has historically taken to get close to the skill cap with the class it's rarely worth it in terms of damage output. Sad really, one of my favorite specs in the game.
Still better than enhancement
@@zachary9813 ferals dead last atm from what ive seen
Do you even play feral bro? just see how much those blood talon ferocious bites are hitting for. its very good. Maybe its overall DPS might be low. But FB hits like truck.
A Feral literally just killed me in a single opener stun. I've got no idea what OP is talking about
I've played for 3 years and not once did I sit down and level a shaman.
Yesterday I rolled one and I'm actually having fun
I mailed enhancement in BC and Wrath, this version of Enhancement is so similar to those “glory days” that i am finally playing mine again. The builder spender mechanic killed the spec for me.
3 year gets you..
****looks at manual
...zero clout.
@@spikeslobodian "Crabs in a bucket."
So happy to see Shadow Priest and MM Hunter (seem to be getting a ton of love lately!) here! They have been mains, with Destro Warlock (full time main for Shadowlands), for a very long time. I was not the biggest fan of MM hunter in BFA either. It felt very clunky with a boring 3 to 4 ability rotation but I still enjoy the bursts. I much prefer Wrath style MM hunter instead.
Do you find Destruction is handling better than Affliction in Shadowlands? I'm about to resub, and my main is an Affliction lock.
Been a priest since literal release day of WoW and played Shadow non stop from Burning Crusade to Mists. Love playing Shadow now that I've picked up Shadowlands.
Frost Mage is pretty fun now with them basically mainlining Ice Lance. Hitting for 5-6k Ice Lances is amazing...even more so when you chain them back to back.
Ugh that freezing wind legendary makes frost feel so smoooth with FoF procs. ☺️
Feral Druids and Survival Hunters still need a LOT of tweaking.
They're meme specs. Throwaways
They are good and fun in pvp. The Problem is, they just do no dmg in PvE. The gameplay is imo fun.
Mid tier dps is acceptable for a feral so long as they compensate with some tools. Give them LotP and innervate back. With that said, I'm a lifelong feral main and I've always been able to get in top 5. Playing your class at 95%+ efficiency will still yield amazing results.
I find feral pretty good as long as not many I. The raid.. They Don’t stack well, and simple!, so could use more to do imo. I have a Druid healer and Paladin Tanking... I have a healing Shaman that’s really fun And different from Druids.. now Druids are nice to tank with but kinda simple like feral cat.. nice skills too use in Guardian.,.. Nice Dmg reduction skills, with no heal and not the huge armor mitigation anymore, only Dodge. No block or parry, so the bark skin , iron fur and self heals make them fun.. Palidan tanking is a ton of fun, but to be really good, because they cast their Dmg reduction! Shielding and dropping agro off people that pick it up on accident, get rid of Dots off others, absorbing some of others DMg.. tanks in wow are much more diverse in play more so than healer but they are different too. I never understood why Blizzard use 2 dps mods In shamans.. I wish they had gave their old shield build for tanking,, Shamans could have been great tanks with a ton of fun because of totems and they missed a great buil imo. I don’t see the point in any class having 3 dps builds. Hunters could have had a Tank build using pets and traps all for a pet tank class. Miss direct shot was perfect.. In vanilla (original) my hunter tanked every level 60 dungeon before raids and was SO MUCH FUN.. Ice mage could of been a cool healing and ice shielding.. give Rouges a Bard spec or something.. I would of thought a healing hunter with say a pixie pet to heal... just some ideas.. 3 dps specs never end up with 3 playable specs..
Always considered feral being bad rogues.. I wish they did something that would make them feel more of a all around fighter instead of being specifically a rogue with less options or at least something that made the spec feel.. more unique.
And survival hunters... nah I tried it today.. can’t do it still. Cool concept but idk.. but I’m one of those guys who likes marksmanship hunters over beast mastery ones. Despite having two pets is awesome I just love the pve experience of sniping things. (I also play with a pet in pve despite the 10% dmg buff), because the buff is basically the same or on pair with the pet and I like having that tank.
But if you’re melee.. then why have a pet? Maybe that’s just me..
I was playing Balance Druid today & I thought it was pretty OP imo.
Blizzard: people miss totems, we are trying to fix that.
Also Blizzard: We removed more totems.
@Hydra you are no real shaman.
@Hydra it creates depth and gives the gamer more complex choises.
what do you know about shamans you play as a priest
@Hydra Stick to retail
@Hydra i just assume everyone with ur nick plays priest
If ppl miss classic shaman so much, go play classic. "Totems" could be placed back, Isuppose, if Blizzard revamped the class altogether and made the wood poles interact. But they couldn't do that, they just made them boring cds you click and forget. And that is what people liked about shaman in classic, apparently, but it is not fun to play. You can get your rocks off with it, fine, to each its own. But don't contaminate retail with the plain boring classic design that maybe worked for a game 15 years ago.
I'm having fun leveling up different alts, still deciding on my main though. Was maining balance druid for a couple of years, but i don't really like the eclipse change. So far i'm enjoying frost mage & affliction warlock the most!
Also with the new shadowy apparitions for shadow priest, it will literally crash your computer in aoe situations. Very fun, though.
Crash will only occur on potato PCs. Nice try poor boi.
Yeah. You need a new computer broseff. Or try updating your driver's.
People still play on potatoes in 2020?
that audio quality from the senheiser mic needs some EQ.
Would people really prefer EQ'd mic tests over raw audio? Do people use EQ on Discord?
Unfortunately my mic died in 4 months of ownership... audio still works great though.
@@BellularGaming I think it's more people hearing the audio in between a professionally mixed high-end microphone. Usually advertisers either sandwich it in between normal background-audio and give it a slight EQ or compare it to a shittier mic so it stands out positively instead of negatively. But that's just a marketing comment :)
Hi, audio engineer here. I get this request a lot (especially as of late with people not going into studios): "Please make this cellphone recorded voicing sound less terrible". There's little we can do to make it sound studio quality because we're EQing what we're provided. You can't add in clearer, less peaked/distorted frequencies with EQ. We're not alchemists, we cannot transmute fish into gems (even though clients think we can). We can roll those fish in glitter thanks to EQ though.
In terms of a headset mic, that's really really good quality with what @BellularGaming demonstrated.
@@BellularGaming /r/whoosh
The best change for UH DK - you get second empowered pet via level 2 apocalypse later in expansion, and the AoE Death Coil thingy is now baseline and works with all Death Coil procs (sorry, don't remember the names)
Good vid. Looking forward to trying several of the "new" playing specs. Now I just need survival hunter to become a tank.
That would be cool!
I said that same thing awhile ago.
Not SV. Enhance shaman, way back in classic it was originally geared towards tanking and then they abandoned the idea
If SV became a tank I would play it. Make the one with the beast talent allow one to enter the beast and tank thru the beast
Yes! And you can tank switch with your pet!!
shadowlands should be renamed shadowpriest because the spec is so good.
Its good in preparation, with essences and azerite and full sockets still in play. Shush youre face, no data from prepatch matters for sl. None of it.
@@Fleato in Beta logs they are A tier DPS
If history is any guide they will be nerfed into the ground within a month.
It’s just a well designed spec now. Idk how good they will be in SL meta once things have settled, but they are only top damage right now bc of spiteful apparitions
Nerfed today 😂
I love the hell out of this channel. Please never stop.
ever since DK came out i rolled Unholy, there's just something really fun about amassing an Army of the Dead and send them charging at a Boss/Elite/Rare while i'm pulling out my blades and march into battle.
Same, its such a fun spec, and has so many skills to use
Just came back to dk after many years (wotlk) and the only question I have is, why did I ever switch!
@@PerfektStrike idk, curiosity perhaps?
i love it. tho i feel really sad about how squishy they became al ofs a suden
after 8 years of DK i'm changing to warlock. DK is just kinda boring regardless of spec anymore so something new that is almost guaranteed to be great is worth the switch. DKs don't seem to be as consistent as warlocks when it comes to ranking highly.
Unholy is literally stronger than Bolvar
Let's keep this comment on top
If you think that, you missed the point.
@@menecross What point
I’ve been running 10-12 keys with my unholy DK topping DPS charts even though I’m 20-25 Ilvl below the next DPS. 93 ilvl unholy out DPS’ing 120 ilvl toons. I’m gonna enjoy it while it lasts because I’m sure Blizz is gonna nerf it at some point lol
@Emilien what makes you say that? He is the only person we’re aware of that could resist the Jailer’s influence within the helm of domination. Seems pretty strong to me
Affliction aoe feels pretty clunky to me actually, especially compared to what I remember in Legion. Takes way too long to set up for and by then, if you're doing group content like warfronts, all the mobs are dead. I don't main one though so maybe it's just me being bad
Gimilkhad no your exactly right and I did main afflict for a time in legion
I know what you mean.
Should be a talent that makes SoC also apply Agony or something.
Well any content that is trivialized feels bad for DoT specs...
@Rollingstone thats why you will play them in high keys
GOod thing i have all classes at max level can't go wrong lmfao
This is the way
loser
I started leveling all classes about a week ago. Its so stupid easy to level to 50.
Haha goddamn man you are so fuckin cool.
im starting to make one of each race now. i just enjoy leveling
Ah dang, I loved stacking unstable affliction! Such a nice bursty melter in questing and pvp
I wish Enhancement was worth trying if it wasn’t one of the lowest DPS and still just as fragile in PvP. Was really hoping to main it.
was my main in legion :( and it was fun in pvp it feels different now
I've just leveled one hella fun until I got into BGs....
I wanted to main it as well, it's in the dumpster now. Horrible flow. I may check out balance tho, looks interesting.
Has one of the worst type of rotations, the spec is such so bad right now. They are trying to do way to much with enhance and sometimes to much is just bad. Even if dps was high the synergy is just terrible
it really isnt the lowest dps atm though. WCL with all the raid data atm for prepatch with Fury warrior, demonology and Feral druid at the bottom of the bucket.
Feral is my favorite spec to play...I hope they get it figured out eventually.
Im sure its a great headset, but it sounded like you were speaking directly onto metal, and to hear it, I have to press my ear to the other side of the metal wall.
That mic sounds like someone farting through a walkie-talkie
Yeah like man, I love these videos but that ad was dog shit. But if they’re paying for this high quality content. Fuck it
Its immersive sound for modern type games :)
to be fair ive heard much worse from 'gaming' headsets, usually the sound quality justifies it
You know you're comparing a $90 headset mic to a $450 one that goes into a $4.5k camera and THEN gets EQ'd?
People are really underestimating the sound quality of those headphones because the video switches from the crystal clear standard mic, to a decent quality mic that could use with an EQ tune at most; I paused for a couple minutes and the sound is absoutely fine when heard on it's own. The brain reacts to change, especially for audio quality so ofc it sounds tinny as a mix :)
It makes me so happy to see both warlock and dh on the list, these have been my mains for most of the game since bc (:
I mean....they have both been ridiculous for a very, very long time...
Must have kicked ass on that dh in tbc!
DH was added in Legion.
@@Lucy4n89 lol. Yh the only dh to ever exist. Lucky guy.
one would assume he played lock till legion and picked up DH after that
Been testing out all specs on the beta and have been trying to find something that vibed nicely with me. Shadow was one of those specs I liked the least of them all because it felt so much clunkier than it used to (measured in fun factor, not damage), so I find it funny how everyone is just drooling over Shadow.
Enhancement on the other hand plays really well when you got the legendary that resets cooldown on Stormstrike.
Sure it feels a bit less fun without the legendary, but its still fun to play and react to all the procs and stuff.
Affliction and Marksmanship feels pretty good, same with Arms and Fury(fury feels slightly better)
So they rework Enhancement into a "cooldown management" spec and the fun comes in once you get rid of the fun management with a legendary that will get taken away from us in two years? What will enhancement be left with after that? Hardcasting lightning bolt?
Do you have a link to the UI addons used for balance druid?
I'm looking for this too!
I would also like to know
seems like ELVUI
Man can I please have back mists aff and destro lock
Mist destro was the best
@@cruschdillon12 KJC was dirty af. What were Blizzard thinking. Felt amazing to play though.
BC lock was godly.
I thought that Devouring Plague was supposed to stack on the target(either in duration or damage) but it doesnt. That is still a small thing that they need to impliment, otherwise traits/legendaries/soulbinds and Talents that boost the SP's insanity generation, like Surrender To Madness, will be totally useless in any area other than multi dotting.
Are you saying that it hasn't been implemented due to an error, because DP is supposed to do exactly that; stack its remaining damage onto the new application.
@@livebythews it doesn’t do it on pre patch it just refreshes
@@glaivinorc9159 well when it does get implemented that will be nice, I agree haha
been playing feral for the last 2 expansion, i really love this spec but if it will be in this state when shadowlands is out i will unfortunately have no option but to make another main, its sad but it really sucks to play a class that has been one of the worst class overall for so long now.
Guardian and booking are fun tho
i actually like enhancement now (as opposed to liking nothing). it's like a more polished and complete version of it's WOTLK incarnation. it feels really nice being a genuine offensive support.
I always think that BM hunter should be melee spec rather than survival, if u think about it, if u love animal u dnt just sent animal to do damage for u and u sit at the back, u go charge with them like Rexxar (i think they dnt want to go this direction bcs afraid will feel same like unholy), and survival hunter more likely dots, bomb, trap, poison
I think that Blizzard wants Rexxar to not be a specific spec but a spec for all hunters (?). Idk I don’t like thinking about what Blizzard thinks anymore
THE WAY YOU INCORPORATE SPONSORED ITEMS/WEBSITES/SERVICES IS GODLIKE !!!
I've seen 100 different shamans leveling through the new system. Been maining this broken and often nerfed class since 2008, really don't feel like it suddenly being fotm.
I might be making enhance lol. One shotting things never gets old.
how is leveling on aflliction better, it feels so workheavy now compared to before?
I am so excited for shadow priest after maining a warrior for the past like 4 expacs.
Why is there no healers/tanks that's recommended there? Even if there is less changes, for someone who is coming back from a few expansions back it's hard to know what "Well no changes were made" well but how good are they at what they do? :)
Brewmaster monk, vengeance dh - both were mentioned, and brewmaster even got its own timestamp. Looks like you didn't even mouseover the video.
Will shadow stay on top when we lose azerite gear because alot of there crazy damage is coming from the azerite trait that increases the damaged of the shadow apparitions
technically Azerite isnt going away, but it is going to be inactive outside of BFA content.
Hey Check out this really great Headset...Heres a demo. Sounds absolutely terrible.
Thank you for saving me can cash on a bad headset!
For myself: the steelseries arctis series are one of the best gaming headsets out there.
Mic quality is insanely good, sound quality is good and they are comfy af
Maybe you will get sponsored by steelseries and do a sincere review =)
Love your videos bellular
I love how he's promoting a headset and talks about how good it's mic is....while showing it sounds terrible lol.
My thought exactly
Balance is back to what it was in cata/mop as well
Enhancement to me just looks a mess.
It's like before the legion re-design. It's OK, but weakauras is mandatory to track malestrom...
What I don't like is that you have to reapply the weaponbuffs...
There is no situation or spec where you don't want to have them applied, so it's just stupid...
Too energy starved when i was working at the test dummies. Waiting on GCD to come up. Didnt feel smooth or fun
@@Blazehoof It has more buttons now than before Legion cus of Crash lightning, Azerite (and I'm not counting non passive talents). Seens a lil bit clustered, I'm leveling a new enhance just to feel how the new/old spells can be slotted in my hotkeys
I'm interested how it works out with the SL stuff.
@Gentlemen's Club This was the BfA gameplay, its not like that anymore, alot of things to do now
''give it a spin'' as the monk is spinning around xD good one lol
Empowerments back to Eclipse moved my favorite ranged spec to least liked, still plenty to enjoy and I'll still play it but feels such a shame they didn't do more to provide the optional choice between styles
I kiiiinda like it though I preferred earlier playstyle, don't like starsurge's new mechanic tho. But at least casting while moving as far as you want while starfall is up is so much fun now
Just got back into wow after a couple years, Mostly played disc priest as my main but my goodness shadow priest is SO fun in shadowlands, it just feels good to play, it also fits with the theme of the expansion!
Loaded up my warlock and almost got scared with all the extra buttons I have now
Enhance is way better if your having troubles its purely down to player skill , I've been having a blast and the spec has a harmonic flow once you get it down.
Only change that really matters is having curses back and getting demonic circle baselined. Hard-casting corruption for a 12-second dot is a drag on demo or destro rotation.
That whirlwind pun ❤️
The optimal havoc build right no longer utilizes blade dance or demon's bite. You auto attack for fury and collect orbs so you can spam more chaos strikes. You spam chaos strikes over and over and over so you can eye beam a few seconds faster. Repeat. Immo aura on cooldown and you better not miss your unbound chaos. I find it hard to believe that blizzard will let havoc continue this way, but this is of their creation and hopeful thinking only goes so far with blizz. They took the dodge out of blade dance and then added unbound chaos into the row that we've never had to make a choice in. I would love to be a fly on the wall during developer discussion on some of these choices they make.
With the new warrior abilities as a fury main im dissapointed. Never going to use shields, never going to use slam, the only thing useful is ignore pain and when i pop that it still doesn't feel that great
Just don’t use them. Be happy you can break paladin bubbles.
Some day Bellular will talk about ilus bear druids.
Maybe...
*cries*
Ads a bit old. They have an updated PC37x called the PC38x. Though it is just a slightly more, I'd opt to go for that (as a 37x owner).
What UI addons are you using in these footages? It looks so clean!
I feel like I'm crazy because I think the old design for Void Eruption turning into void bolt is a nightmare to keybind and doesn't fit well with the new design. They should just turn Mind Blast into Void bolt and have all the effects of both in Void Form.
Balance would be so much simpler to understand if Blizzard would JUST GIVE US BACK THE ECLIPSE BAR.
The only ad I support. Used Sennheiser for years, velvet pads and so freakin light. Love em to death
Sweet! Just so happens the classes I am currently about to level up are the highlighted classes. 👍
The audio is all over the place in volume in this one jeeeesus guys
Bellular: "Shadow Crash. It's so cool!"
Entire Shadow Priest community: "uhh..." {bursts into uncontrollable laughter}
Balance Druid kinda looks like as it was back in WoD with the eclipse. Of course back then it was automaticly, but it looks simular. I like it
I have played a Shaman since Wotlk and have never gone enhancement... i think its time! Looks Good!
@@The8BitBasedGod I'm not sure. I just went resto for raiding and ele for leveling. I didnt look into enhancement back then. I wasnt saying that enhance was never good I was just saying I never bothered to play it. But enhancement rotation looks fun I shadowlands.
Shadowpriest is awesome right now. But dont forget you cant take those juicy azerite traits the spec relies on for its crazy dmg right now with you to SL.
Bell never stop posting loads of vids!
Feral BT change is the worst thing they could have done with BT. It's so clunky.
DH - a half rogue half dk half warlock (ManBearPig) class with 2 specs and so OP that made blizzard introduce cap in aoe.Thx G
The title of this video should have been "The names are the same but they do different things"
What's the nameplate he's using at 9:05 ? Seems to me not the basic ElvUI
*uses sponsored headset mic to prove it's good*
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*sound quality drops 300%*
i love this man
Come on bro, I just came back home after a full day of work. I am usually checking out the daily news Tagesschau, but now I need to push the sleep further away. Need to watch this right away. Thanks!
Shadow reminds me of the old nightfall SL warlock, dot drain life and shadow bolt on proc. --> dot, mind flay / seer, mind blast on proc. That isn't a bad thing, happy with the changes
Shadow is so fun now
idk why people think the mic sounds bad, for a $120 gaming headset it sounds pretty good. better quality than my kraken's mic
Because it's edgy to piss on Bellular for some cheap advertisement. They complained less when he mentioned shaving his balls.
Or maybe they want more shavingballs ads
Hi, Michael! Really good video! Certainly will be trying some of those out.
One thing I miss, however, is your brilliant DynamicCam preset. I lost it and can't find it anywhere. It worked SOOOO good for leveling.
There are many other new immersion addons. Like there was a weather enhancing addon with proper forecasts and players sharing the same weather so you and your friend can actually see the same visuals. It's kind of dope. There are probably more of those.
My point it is - can we have another immersive leveling preset for 9.0?
Just here to hear you say "affliction warlock, heck yes!" love the class already and i'm not going to change if you don't namedrop it.
Affliction warlock is always good and always annoying as fuck.
Can’t wait to absolutely destroy like back when legion dropped
This video reassured me that I was playing these specs relatively right. :D
I really like your UI configuration! Wich addons do you use? (especially for the nameplates)
I think it’s just elviui or something like that
I feel like the elemental portion was a bit unfair. It plays similar but they completely reworked the damage portfolio to make it feel way way better.
Elemental shamans seem really crazy to me atm and fun to play.
@@hairtrigger8317 we got some of those lowkey buffs that people don’t want to see like “raw spell power scaling on xyz ability” and now almost every ability you press FEELS good to press and the different covenants (venth/Necro atleast) let ele do some pretty degenerate things. Add on the huge damage buffs to lava burst and the talent change giving us access 2x lava burst and elemental blast or double tap button which name I’m spacing on and you going to have a fun ride.
@@Ashmishmer Well I can't really comment on anything outside of a newly arrived lvl 50 elemental shaman experience right now. I just know going from 45-50 was very fast and running dungeons I was doing crazy damage whether it was single or aoe situation but on boss fights I was generally so far ahead in dps that some I did more than the entire grp put together.
@@hairtrigger8317 we have the Lava burst azerite trait right now that amplifies the damage of LB which they gave us a big buff on lava burst making it hit overall a lot harder even though we lose that trait.... well right now on live prepatch we are kind of double dipping which is making our meatballs hit almost as hard as geared characters at 60 on beta haha. Check out @Tiqqle if you’re looking for more shaman gameplay for ele and enhance! :D
I am loving Shadow, the damage on it is amazing!
the legion demonic build is still the best (read: most fun) havoc build there was
Looks like Enh Shaman just went back to the MoP/Cata style with crash lightning for AoE instead of flameshock spreading/fire nova, which was way better than the Legion/BFA style of Enh, IMO. The RNG is a bit more controlled with the stacking mechanic(s), and there's less ramp time for single target, which will make shaman better in fights with a lot of movement/target switching, which was a major problem for the spec in Legion/BFA.
With the ramp time on AoE gone from the MoP/Cata/WoD spec, Shaman can contribute more on short AOE fights, which was a major problem back in MoP/Cata - needing 2 GCDs (Flame shock -> lavalash) just to set up the AoE was too much, and often meant your initial flameshock target was dead before you could firenova, cutting the AoE damage significantly.
One of the best features for enhancement for solo content was consuming maelstrom for instant healing surges. And with healing surge at rank 2 for Enh, plus with the warmode talent that gave you a second lesser burst healing a few seconds after a healing wave, that gave enhancement shammies a great tool for survivability. It let me go toe to toe with paladins and their cheat on hands. Putting that awesome versatile mechanic on a five stack rng build does not satisfy me. I've yet to log to my shaman and test this new mechanic, but I didn't much like it
Nice to see that shadow priest got changed for the better. I might probably main shadow priest and balance druid.
I feel sorry for the poor squirrels at 16:47
Enhancement is doing bad in Prepatch (as per usual), however Enhance has one of the most insane Legendaries that turns it into a Proc CHAINSAW and increases gameplay pace. It's weird that Blizzard is trying to balance the class via it's Legendary instead of just buffing the damn Shaman itself.
This
I would love that balance druid weak aura
What are those "dragon wings" that happen [visible in the video...] from time to time on the Shamans and Paladins???
I think it is from the trinket that drops from Wrathion
I have never changed my main (DK) but Balance Druid feels really good right now and it is very tempting.
I have only one question... what is that player hud being used in the Elemental Shaman section?
*enhancement is action packed*
Here i am casting chain lightning because all my spells are on cooldown.
I was so happy when I bought my Sennheiser headset a few yrs back, was normally $250 but I got it on sale for $149, it had great sound and mic quality but sadly after a few months the wires got loose inside the cord and I have to constantly mess with it to get the sound to work and if I move it will get loose and I have to mess with it again. Not sure I'll ever buy one from them again tbh even though while it did work it was great.
Blood talons was just fine before they fucked it up. Making regrowth a natural part of the rotation not only added a button more commonly used but also help the survivability of feral cuz you’d normally be “casting” regrowth and basically always have a hot on you.
I’ve been running omen of clarity. It’s smooth and it’s nice that it stacks and when it’s procs, that adds another button in thrash cuz even on a single target, thrash does nicely
What is the addon for the nameplates in the marksmanship hunter bit?
2:04 what is the mod that puts timers on the dots on the targets nameplates?
26:05 How was toxic blade baked into the spec? I dont see that in the abilities or passives.
@Reppü from what I read on the tool tip I was under the impression that shiv doesn't increase poison damage for a duration like toxic blade did