With the Build 41726 of Patch 9.2: Eternity’s End of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, new glyphs dedicated to the Shaman were discovered. These allow players of this class to take the form of two new creatures through their form of Ghost wolf. However, and taking a step back, we can only be doubtful about the interest shown in this class: would it not be underexploited, at least visually speaking?
New ghostly forms
As mentioned above, two new forms of Ghost wolf will appear with Patch 9.2. Obtainable through glyphs, these forms are added to the very long list of side transformations proposed for this spell … No, that’s a joke, obviously, since the Shaman actually only has two alternative forms for his only shapeshifter spell.
These new glyphs are:
- Glyph of the Spectral Vulpine
- Glyph of Spectral Lupine
(We say ONE glyph by the way, ONE tentacle too but that’s not the subject, editor’s note)
The Shaman, a sub-Druid?
The title of this passage will undoubtedly hurt our Shaman friends, yet it is clear that this is the path that Blizzard seems to have chosen to take for many years already, at least visually speaking, and again.
While the Nocturnal Fae, one of the Shadowlands Congregations, regularly see an astronomical (and even absurd in force) amount of new forms added for their Soul Form, the Druids have very recently benefited from four exclusive forms. Better yet, each of these forms is obtained in a very specific way: little secret requiring research to be successful, defeat a raid boss, open a treasure or kill a rare, they are always awarded in exchange for a small one. effort. Additional content of course, but content.
Going back to Legion in particular, the Druids benefited from new forms through their prodigious weapon. A bewildering amount of new felines and bears were roaming all over the place, not to mention the Killer Whale Form, of cheetah and other forms of related theft.
On the Shaman’s side, it’s been the same soup forever, and Shadowlands hasn’t changed that if you don’t go for the Night Fae Congregation. The only two new obtainable forms arrive with Patch 9.2 and are, forgive us the words, miserable glyphs that can be bought from the local Calligrapher in exchange for a few coins.
Regularly, certain classes benefit from small appreciable cosmetic changes, often the same ones besides. The Warlock in particular, the Druid also obviously, but the Hunter has already benefited from it in the past as well and benefits from it passively with the regular addition of new types of tame pets. But not the Shaman.
We can easily regret that part of the forms of the nocturnal Fae were not redirected exclusively to the Shaman. Worse yet, with the arrival of Zereth Mortis new elementals (“geomentaries”) are appearing in-game and could be introduced as side versions of the Shaman’s fire, storm, and earth elementals. Do you think ! Not at all !
This unpleasant feeling has been going on for a long time now, and even if some efforts have been made to improve the visual of elementals quite recently, for example, this remains too little compared to the Druid to whom this class is strongly related. Loristically speaking. Of course, let’s not overlook the incredible lack of interest of the Shaman in most PvE content: it was very rare to see a group claiming a Shaman pending before Patch 9.1 … And again, this sudden attraction only affects the Restoration specialization if the player has chosen to play Kyrian. Do we know, historically, a class as neglected as the Shaman in PvE? Even with a lot of bad faith, difficult to find one!
To support this idea, let us specify that the Elemental and Shaman Improvement specializations are among the few that do nothing more than their melee or ranged counterparts. Why would I take an Elemental Shaman in my party? What more does a Mage or a Hunter give me, for example? Nothing, that’s right, and that’s the whole Shaman’s problem overall: it does the same thing as other classes, but often with a lot of flaws not compensated for elsewhere. Where is the fate Link an elementary ? Where is the Squall ?!
In our opinion, the Shaman has been arguably one of the most forgotten and neglected classes in World of Warcraft for many years. It seems unfortunate to us that with so many possibilities as obvious as those mentioned, and much others found everywhere on the internet, nothing has ever been done in its favor for the benefit of the Druid more often than not. Our observation is even crazier: the rare times the Shaman wins a cosmetic of any kind, he has nothing to do to obtain it, just run towards the nearest auction house. If that’s not sorry …
Let us love our Shamans. Blizzard, help our Shamans!
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Patch 9.2 is titled Eternity’s End. It includes a new zone (Zereth Mortis), a new raid (the Founders’ Sepulcher) and many other major novelties. This is also the last major update for Shadowlands.