New Early Shaman Level Experience vs Other Reworks

Luda

Seems valid Greater Spirit Mending should be at 16.

There could be another gap in the late 20s as the next heal doesn't come till 28... then an even bigger gap in the 30s till you hit the double 44 upgrade.

Feels like there's a potential missing tier or scaling or timing... or all the above. It's pretty clear where the struggles will hit but perhaps those are offset with debuff improvements. In actual play though, you need the heal and debuffs improvements to keep up with mob ramping.

Grand

I'm assuming in the 20s and 30s and so on, its not AS noticeable, as the slow will have a higher %, and consuming pact scales as you level...

Currently; I couldn't even cast my debuffs as the solo healer, because I was healing from the second they say incoming, until the moment you see 'you gained experience' and could only med during the GCD, maybe you got half a tick but most likely not.

Grand

I have a 17 goblin shaman I was playing before Deep Gnomes released - I'll be the masochist and record 17-20 again.

Jiver

Grand

The crazy part of this all is that if they don't adjust this is going to be way better than the experience for EA launch because the chances people you are grouped with are twinked in some capacity is quite high at this stage in the game, so it's going to feel even worse come EA.

odz

the early game experience is great, you'll have plenty of resources to spare for debuffing + dotting in the early game with little to no downtime on your behalf. rebuffing is rebuffing, i don't mind 35m buff timers but that's going to be different depending on who you ask.

so long as your group is pulling safely and controlling adds you'll have a blast, the only time things get iffy is when you've gotta commit resource to direct healing spells to catch up on bad pulls, or when loose caster/range adds start pelting you while you have the pact of consume debuff.

overall i've given quite a bit of feedback regarding shaman changes and pact of consume specifically, but i've got nothing but good things to say about the early game grouping experience, even with the hefty penalty applied by pact of consume, you very rarely pay the price in low level groups.

e: you will feel a lull/power disparity into the mid 40s, and notice clerics specifically having a much easier time moving health bars than you will, but that's to be expected.

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