Aye, gief instant ghostwolf as well... and maybe plate?!

[Kenu]

just kidding, of course shammies deserved a buff(s). Gratz to all shammies. now a little story about how shammies were born

once upon a time there was once a kid who went to the blizzard god..

he said,
"i want 2 be an ubar tank?!11", and blizzard gave him shield and mail
he said,
"o i wunt 2 be a maege 2", and blizzard gave him instant nukes
he said,
"i want to heal", and blizzard gave him heals
he said,
"but wtf? druids getz formz so ken i tu plxz?", and blizzard gave him wolf form
he said,
"omglolol, my heals r not teh instantz", and blizzard gave him nature's swift
he said,
"omg but warriorz r teh hit so hard wit teh weaponz?", and blizzard gave him windfury
he said,
"but tetz no fairz, teh enemyz r having pewerful bufforz?", and blizzard gave him an instant low mana
cast purge
he said,
"k but i still kent kite 4ever lyk teh omg?", and blizzard made the frostshock effect last longer than
the cooldown

so the kid went on killing lowbies, shouting "wtflolol pwnd n00bz0rs" and using /spit.
after 7 hours of corpse camping, something terrible happened! a bunch of level 60 alliance guys managed
to kill the shaman!

the kid went to the blizzard god and said,

"omgwtf, i r teh diedz bt i dunt wunt 2 do teh corpze runzors? i die lyk wtf i shundnt rofl!"", and blizzard
gave him a self rez with no sickness

and so the shaman class was born.

PS: not hand effort, just copy paste

[Algorath]

The shaman returned from arena with a sad face.
"WTF I nuked the warrior to 20% hp but then the fuckin priest healed him!"

And so, blizz gave them MS too.

[Jealousy2]

As i'm sure you're both aware shaman only make up 1% of the make up of the top 2v2 teams, in 3v3 i think it's 3%. Yes we shine in 5v5 as ele - or we did till they removed a significant part of our burst damage (the only reason we're in the team in the first place). If you look at the shaman forums you will see shaman haven't asked for mortal strike, what they asked for (but didn't get) was a way to break rooting/snares (there is a 50% reduction in snare duration as things stand but most snares are spammable so we still are totally reliant on BoF to kite/catch up with things).

Yes pally's need some love but no other class needed buffing more than shaman, i'm not sure this is the way to do it though.

EDIT: and yes we'd like plate but only cos it has the stats we need on it - none of the mail gear does so we end up ninja'ing bear gear

[ChrisPalos]

But Jeal you look hotter in mail!