Daev,

I think whats not being taken into account in this argument...is the wealth of utility/functionality your shaman revamp just brought to the shaman class.

I would argue that you are 100% right that shaman dispel needed to be the way it is to give them a much needed 'edge' pre-revamp.

The versatility that your revamp just added to the class closed the 'gap' quite significantly from my observations.

I do not think shaman dispel was out of 'whack' with old shamans - hence I've never posted about it

I do think its a bit out of whack on a new double-path poison/whatever shaman...

Old shamans had maledicts - sure...only a few of them had 'good damage' AND a maledict (Wither/Fatigue/Etc)

poison/plague didn't do outright nasty damage

now mr poison path has spammable thief poison success that comes along with NICE damage...

This wasn't the case before...shaman needed that dispel so his hellfire would be 'effective' by stripping an opponents preps..

Now, I've seen logs of these shamans spamming noxious cloud for good damage through sanc, not to mention adding a bunch of arguably extremely nasty debuffs...

Neo shaman != Old shaman, please re-examine dispel.