Feedback: Shamans

#1 - Sept. 30, 2025, 9:10 p.m.

This thread is dedicated to leaving feedback on Shamans in Midnight. Look in this thread and in the Midnight Alpha Development Notes for adjustments and bugfixes made throughout the testing period.

Please note that off-topic or inappropriate posts will be strictly removed.

Apex Talents

Many Apex Talents are available for playtesting and may be selected using specialization tree points in the final specialization tree node. The current User interface (UI) is temporary for playtesting purposes and will be replaced with a final UI later in development. As with any test cycle, we will be adding more Apex Talents to the test over time and not all will be available with the start of the alpha test.

To help us refine Apex Talents, please consider the following questions as you playtest:

• How gameplay-impacting, exciting, and fantasy forward is your Apex Talent to you?
• Are your Apex Talents and new Hero Talents meeting the approachability goals laid out in our Combat for Everyone in Midnight article?
• Are there cases you would consider not selecting your Apex talent?
• Does the Apex talent disproportionally favor a particular talent build or Hero Talent tree?

For feedback regarding the changes on making the combat system more approachable for players of all skill levels, leave your feedback in the Combat Approachability feedback thread.

Thank You

We greatly appreciate all your feedback and are very excited for you to test out all the changes in Midnight!

#43 - Dec. 13, 2025, 12:11 a.m.

The following Restoration Shaman changes were hotfixed to the 12.0.1 Beta realms:

• SHAMAN
  • Restoration
    • Developers’ notes: We’re pulling back on the power of some healing effects that are harder to control, particularly Stormstream Totem, and increasing the healing of controlled sources with the goal of a more consistent healing experience. We also made a recent change to allow Stormstream Totem to also be usable after casting Nature’s Swiftness which works in tandem with these goals.
    • Healing Rain healing increased by 30%.
    • Chain Heal healing increased by 10%.
    • Healing Wave healing increased by 10%.
    • Riptide healing increased by 10%.
    • Stormstream Totem now causes Riptide to have a 6% chance to upgrade Healing Stream Totem to Stormstream Totem (was 10%).
    • Stormstream Totem now heals for 10% more than Healing Stream Totem (was 30%).
    • Totemic: Primal Catalyst chance for Earthliving to trigger is now 8% (was 20%).