by Sordar-Cazic » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:22 am
I'm an old shaman, started playing before kunark. I usually just lurk on the forums, but i've gotten active lately on the main boards, and i've been in beta this round. Figured i'd stop by and drop some details since no one else had yet, and the NDA is down.
Healing Counterbias:
The slow got boosted to mirror Balance of Discord (75%, -60 resist mod, 1.5 min duration), so it's a fairly reliable first cast that gets a nice HoT fired off as well. The mana costs are getting reduced a bit to the 1100 range soon. I think it's supposed to have Halcyon heal values per tick, but it currently ticks for a little over 3k. It used to tick for over 4k, but that was unintended, and it has been bouncing around ever since.
The HoT still goes in the buff bar, but it was changed to not overwrite our regen (yay). It still stacks with our other HoTs, and listlessness recourse, so it's very nice actually.
Winds of Malis:
We got spreading malo changed to a free-target (click spell gem, then position the target circle where you want it casted) AE malis. I think the numbers are the same as malis rank 1, which is the same as malosinete, as this and malosinete will overwrite each other. It seems to be unresistable, and hits up to 5 mobs currently. 700 mana i think. Fast cast/recast.
Frost Gift:
Not much to add here. Basically Ice Sheet and we get twinheal. It goes to song window, and has a 2-cast limit, but we can recast it every 12 seconds now. Twinheal not working on HoTs right now, but it CAN if they want them to. Mana cost is based off nuke + Dannal's cost. It's a bit unfair to us since our costs are overinflated as it is, but the druid and cleric versions are based off the same calculations.
Splash of Runedust:
Probably not done yet. May very well get changed, but no other info than that atm.
Edit: Oh yeah, AAs. Not a lot new, and even less new that's worthwhile. Inconspicuous Totem is really, really nice. Escape on a 10 min timer? You bet it's useful. Not bad for splitting mobs with VP either. We get a new rank of Canni AA, which doesn't really fix our mana regen issues, but is nice nonetheless (8k hp for 4800mana iirc). We also get some of our best lines upgraded. Shield block, healing boon/adept/gift, DoT crit stuff, nuke crits, more hastened VP, etc. The count is kind of low, but i'm not too disappointed.