Lightning Shield feedback

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Lightning Shield

Lightning shield is fine if it’s the only spell you’re casting during combat. Mixing other spells will quickly drain mana.

Good for single mob combat.
Less effective for multiple mobs.
(A pity Earth Shield and Water Shield are learned at level 60)

Thunderhead talent pulls threat off of the friendly target. Not recommended to cast on tanks.

Stormstrike debuff, on target, doesn’t react to Lightning Shield. Don’t know if this was intended.

Most of my attention is on my Hp and what the mobs are doing so recasting it can be overlooked at times. Even the floating text indicating Lightning Shield as faded can be missed as well as the spinning orb. A lot of the time I’ll go through a fight and forget to recast it.

Suggest having a sound effects when a Shield losses a charge. Maybe more special effects.

[Manletow]

Its painfully mediocre especially compared to its newfound competition

Needs 4 Talent points to be viable
Does not crit

Earth Shield CAN crit and is 70 Mana cheaper by default

Reduce the default cost of Lightning Shield down to 300 to match Earth Shield.
Change Thunderheads "20% mana reduction" to literally anything else.
Like 1 extra orb or 'Allow ANY Elemental Shield to be cast on others".

[Manletow]

Fun Fact: Lightning Shield buff spell has UNLIMITED Range

With Thunderhead you can cast it on literally any (friendly) player that is within your vision. So like 500 yards or some crazy shit IDK exactly.

This is cuz in one of the last Vanilla patches Blizzard made its range unlimited -- but Thunderhead did not exist in Vanilla so I have NO CLUE why they made this change. lolwut

[Imonobor]

Yeah, changes to the shaman shields are needed, and I hope they will come with the class changes patch.
Water shiels and earth shield should be available at lower levels.
The lightning shield talent should buff the other shields as well.

About recasting it, I use a poweraura to track when I'm missing a shield buff, similar to when I'm missing a weapon buff. It works really well.

[Glipo]

lol just make an war3 wersion of Lightning Shield what damage everything in aoe that loong as spell last on target

[Ataika]

i wonder why not a single shaman using zg trinket
shield + trinket and meeles literally killing themselves