{"id":92509,"date":"2026-11-03T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92509"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:50:39","slug":"wow-forever-shamans-are-protesting-class-changes-after-being-completely-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92509","title":{"rendered":"WoW: Forever Shamans Are Protesting Class Changes After Being \u201cCompletely Ignored\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft: Forever<\/a> just received a massive batch of class-balance updates ahead of launch that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-giving-players-a-big-damage-boost-for-launch\/?_thumbnail_id=1947018\">boosted power<\/a> across the board, but one group of players isn&#8217;t happy with the changes: Shamans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer Blizzard recently released Forever&#8217;s launch <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-november-2\/2360696\/9\">patch notes<\/a> based on feedback and data accumulated during the beta, resulting in a power spike for all classes and major reworks for classes like Paladin and Rogue. Shamans, too, received some significant changes, most notably the removal of a key Elemental specialization ability, Lava Burst, along with any interactions other abilities had with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s that change, and other changes to specialization-specific abilities like Restoration&#8217;s Riptide and Enhancement&#8217;s Maelstrom Weapon, that have resulted in the WoW Classic Shaman Discord going into lockdown in protest. The entire server, which has around 80,000 members, has been made read-only, with a message declaring the reason for why it took what it described as such a &#8220;drastic measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Community feedback gets completely ignored and class fantasies are getting destroyed,&#8221; the server declared. &#8220;With this we intend to give them [Blizzard] a sign and show them that the community is not [happy] with how they approached our beloved class. Give us back our class and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Forever just received a massive batch of class-balance updates ahead of launch that have boosted power across the board, but one group of players isn&#8217;t happy with the changes: Shamans. Developer Blizzard recently released Forever&#8217;s launch patch notes based on feedback and data accumulated during the beta, resulting in a power spike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":92511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92512,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509\/revisions\/92512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}