/cringe tailoring lol

Anyone else think you should be required to play gems in order to meditate?

And you only gain back mana when you clear a line....

Finally the best gems players shall have their day in the sun and be the most powerful casters the world has ever known!!!!

I’m 100% in.

Gems is the real endgame.

Excellent, I've found kiting to be challenging as a wizard when you can't sit for each med tick.

This is incorrect as the post with the patch message points out. In 1999 and in to 2000, you had to click the ned button every time you sat down. It was changed after a while as noted above.

The old macro was

/sit
/meditate

Which was so much better than what we have now, which is a lot of mouse work.

i bound the book to a hotkey 1-6

had to click meditate every time.... did that for 35 lvls now i can just sit?

I do notice tho that if you open the spell book and swap out spells that the meditate button can still be pressed in, can anyone confirm you are actually meditating. I thought the button is suppose to be perma pressed in 35+

i might ticket this

I hit 24 on my Shammy. This is the first Shaman I've played, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. But so far canni dancing hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I have hotkey 2 set up to cast Canni and then hotkey 3 set up to sit and open the book. I have my spellbook parked in a specific place. It takes a second to reorient myself if it's been a couple of minutes since I did it, but once you get into the groove it's not a big deal.

The only thing I'd say that really bothers me about it is it makes it harder to pay attention to what's going on around me, including my group's health. Not impossible, but requires more mental bandwidth than I'm used to giving to my normally chill shammy.

EDIT: I'd say that the thing that makes it harder to tell what's going on is that, not only do you have to hit canni (which fizzles way more often than I expected it would), open book, manually click meditate button, but then you have to watch for the tick, which seems to be weirdly inconsistent, at least on this server (I never played Blue, I did play Live but it was never something I paid attention to before.) Like you'll see your health jump up, back down. Sometimes I see my mana tick up twice with about half a second to a second between. So I THINK I'm doing ok but it's hard to tell, and requires way more focus than I wish it did.

You could save a bit of work if you make a macro with:

/stand
/pause ##, /cast # (Add this line again if you are able to cast twice between ticks.)
/book


I have never played a Shammy and don't know the specifics of canna dancing, but I don't see why that wouldn't work. Should take you down to 2 clicks, just the macro button and med button.

Unfortunately fizzles kill that macro. My canni button does stand though!