Question.

Why is Nethaera dealing with the Shaman questions when she's openly admitted the only experience she has of playing a Shaman is levelling as Enhancement?

... Considering Shaman's (prioritising Resto, as that's my main spec) is utter garbage in both PvE and PvP how can someone who's had no experience at playing the class where it is considered garbage: high end PvP (2k+, Glad range), high end PvE (hard modes) possibly know which are valid questions to submit to the developers?

I can tell a loss to my main class, that's why I'm levelling a Priest (priest isn't fotm, it's flavour of the expansion) but I cannot in all good grace accept a mediocre attempt to try and bandaid the class I rolled 4-5 years ago because of WC.

May something be done about Nethaera being 'in charge' of the Shaman questions thread when she has openly admitting to basically having zero experience at high end game play, in both PvP and PvE, as any Shaman spec? It would be most heart warming to see Meka or Sixthy take over, really.

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Question.

Why is Nethaera dealing with the Shaman questions when she's openly admitted the only experience she has of playing a Shaman is levelling as Enhancement?

... Considering Shaman's (prioritising Resto, as that's my main spec) is utter garbage in both PvE and PvP how can someone who's had no experience at playing the class where it is considered garbage: high end PvP (2k+, Glad range), high end PvE (hard modes) possibly know which are valid questions to submit to the developers?

I can tell a loss to my main class, that's why I'm levelling a Priest (priest isn't fotm, it's flavour of the expansion) but I cannot in all good grace accept a mediocre attempt to try and bandaid the class I rolled 4-5 years ago because of WC.

May something be done about Nethaera being 'in charge' of the Shaman questions thread when she has openly admitting to basically having zero experience at high end game play, in both PvP and PvE, as any Shaman spec? It would be most heart warming to see Meka or Sixthy take over, really.

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while they'r at it, replace ghostcrawler too.

Hint: Her job as CM is to relay information between the community and the devs. With the exclusion of ghostcrawler the devs usually don't post, so the CM's post the things they say.

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Yes I think there is some confusion here. Nobody from any Community team is assigned to just one particular class. We monitor the forums of all classes, and collect feedback from all classes too.

In the case of our current Class Q&A series, we are collecting questions from all classes across every WoW region in the world, and sending them through to our developers to be answered. We're not making major edits to the questions, so they are being sent pretty much as they are (as long as they are actual questions and not veiled suggestions! ;-)). So don't worry, we don't necessarily need to be an expert in your class to collect your questions.

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Sorry Wryxian, but I've hijacked these forums now, I broke into blizzard HQ and am sitting under the desk with the coffee stain on the corner and the wonkey lamp. No one has been around for months so by Law this Forum is a missing person - and I have claimed that missing person, So you Must Bow Down to Me!!!

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Yes I think there is some confusion here. Nobody from any Community team is assigned to just one particular class. We monitor the forums of all classes, and collect feedback from all classes too.

In the case of our current Class Q&A series, we are collecting questions from all classes across every WoW region in the world, and sending them through to our developers to be answered. We're not making major edits to the questions, so they are being sent pretty much as they are (as long as they are actual questions and not veiled suggestions! ;-)). So don't worry, we don't necessarily need to be an expert in your class to collect your questions.

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When are the answers coming? Because tbh those answers will decide if i will play my shaman in the future.

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Yes I think there is some confusion here. Nobody from any Community team is assigned to just one particular class. We monitor the forums of all classes, and collect feedback from all classes too.

In the case of our current Class Q&A series, we are collecting questions from all classes across every WoW region in the world, and sending them through to our developers to be answered. We're not making major edits to the questions, so they are being sent pretty much as they are (as long as they are actual questions and not veiled suggestions! ;-)). So don't worry, we don't necessarily need to be an expert in your class to collect your questions.

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Thanks for your post Wryxian. This clears up a lot.
Altho i think most people would enjoy some GM posts so now and then ;)

Again, thanks for posting =)

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Yes I think there is some confusion here. Nobody from any Community team is assigned to just one particular class. We monitor the forums of all classes, and collect feedback from all classes too.

In the case of our current Class Q&A series, we are collecting questions from all classes across every WoW region in the world, and sending them through to our developers to be answered. We're not making major edits to the questions, so they are being sent pretty much as they are (as long as they are actual questions and not veiled suggestions! ;-)). So don't worry, we don't necessarily need to be an expert in your class to collect your questions.

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Hmm.. this is quite weird claim..
How can you pick up the right questions under all the QQ posts if you haven't played the class?

If i'd go, let's say for example in Warlock forums (class that I have the least aknowledge of ) and look at the front page.
Zillions of questions asked, many of them just plain QQ, but I'm sure there is also many real questions that should be answered, but when I don't know the class inside out, I just can't spot the "hot spots" and I just pass them as being another QQ thread.

This brings me another question in mind.. What does it really require to be in that duty?
- Basic knowledge of Mysql and hphBB with no knowledge on the game itself?
- Able to read and write english?
- Able to open random thread, copy paste one post in the thread to devs and then copypaste the answer back in the thread.. let's say once a month, reply in thread like:
Q:"can we get new icon for riptide?"
A: " you betcha!"

Ps: this in no ways meant to be a post against you personally Wryxian, it's just a question that has been bugging my mind for a while and this is the perfect post where to ask it =)

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I assume you mean CM and not GM, because there's only one forum here that GMs post in, and that's the In-Game Support forum. We would love to post more often, and we do try, but unlike the US our team is spread across multiple languages in the EU, and so there's a lot to cover. Please don't assume we don't care about you, because we most certainly do. Even if we aren't always posting, we are definitely reading and moderating and trying, every day, to post when we can.

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Yes, i meant CM :) sorry for the confusion.
I understand that its hard for the CMs to post on forums, but we've been told that CMs always read all posts (cant remember who said that and where tho), but we never get a real reply (unlike now =))

It just gets a bit frustrating to play my main so now and then...

great..
now you've gone and spend our 2 annual blue posts on something irelevant

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great..
now you've gone and spend our 2 annual blue posts on something irelevant

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... soooooooo? imo its not wasted, and i rather have 'wasted' posts than no posts.
Thank you.

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great..
now you've gone and spend our 2 annual blue posts on something irelevant

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Who cares if we get a blue response or not? AFAIK class forums aren't meant for that anyway. And the question seemed quite relevant.

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Who cares if we get a blue response or not? AFAIK class forums aren't meant for that anyway. And the question seemed quite relevant.

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Aye.
Class forums are meant for players of the class to discuss the classes' stuff among each other. The blue posters only tag along if you mention cake or naked pictures of horny female murlocs (independant of the gender of the blizz).

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Who cares if we get a blue response or not? AFAIK class forums aren't meant for that anyway. And the question seemed quite relevant.

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uhuh...would you care to explain where i'm suposed to voice my concerns regarding my class ?
and then when i do voice said concerns,how the hell am i to know if there is actually some1 on the other end listening?
in the end when i broke up with my ex she would call me regularly still,which made me put down the phone ,whack it on speaker,and go uhuh every now and then,while continueing playing.
on hindsight i can see how terribly frustrating this must have been for her,as i now find myself in a simular position.
if we are dependant on the americans,we are screwed .who the hell wants a ghost eagle flight form?
i would like to keep up hps-wise with the other raidhealing classes ,i dont need new skins for my totems...

Good we have a reply on an ETA on the Shaman/Class Q&A's though, many thanks Blue!

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uhuh...would you care to explain where i'm suposed to voice my concerns regarding my class ?
and then when i do voice said concerns,how the hell am i to know if there is actually some1 on the other end listening?
in the end when i broke up with my ex she would call me regularly still,which made me put down the phone ,whack it on speaker,and go uhuh every now and then,while continueing playing.
on hindsight i can see how terribly frustrating this must have been for her,as i now find myself in a simular position.
if we are dependant on the americans,we are screwed .who the hell wants a ghost eagle flight form?
i would like to keep up hps-wise with the other raidhealing classes ,i dont need new skins for my totems...

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http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9163981416&sid=1

EDIT: Oh and also you were just told there will be an answer compiled for next week, read closer :P

you either havent played a shaman for that long ,or you must have missed the 10+ threads over the years where we were in a dire state trying to get anything done about it.
i can link you a few of these threads but i wont bother because i dont want to ruin the pink cloud you are sitting on.
we should be getting yogg down this reset,in which case i can look forward to some benchwarming on a lot of hardmodes for the simple fact that resto doesnt cut it compared to other healers.
when you are standing at a busstop,and some one starts f@#ing you up the ass,are you gonna stand there
filling out a questionnaire,or would you turn around and ask him what the hell they are doing?

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you either havent played a shaman for that long ,or you must have missed the 10+ threads over the years where we were in a dire state trying to get anything done about it.

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Oddly enough, the class is still there, all the old Shaman players I know are still playing, and we're still kicking ass. And I'm still leading raids.

Funny how such "grave imbalances" at best get a few FOTM rerollers to quit again. Or maybe it's that my peers nearly all are oldtimer MMO players and as such are used to imbalance and just shrug and play anyways.
It's a RPG - can't be balanced. Well not to a degree where you wouldn't drop a couple classes/specs from super min/max'ed runs.