wotc please consider making elemental shaman a cleric or druid

barbarian as a base will be weird for a casting class who shoots lighting and i want to shoot some lightining. it makes for sense for enhance  but how you gonna square a ranged blaster with a barb?

Rage doesn't work with casting spells, but you could make a sorcerer and call it a barbarian or a sorcerer/fighter and play it like a barbarian. Tempest Clerics get lightning-like abilities, but again, they don't work with rage.

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barbarian as a base will be weird for a casting class who shoots lighting and i want to shoot some lightining. it makes for sense for enhance  but how you gonna square a ranged blaster with a barb?

 Hate to break it to you but these books take a couple of years to write. They are not going to change a major thing like a class two weeks before it hits shops. It’s already printed and sitting in a warehouse 

 Yeah, the time to make edits was six months ago.

Yeah it's definitely too late now, the book has been printed and several youtubers even have an advance copy already.

But since most if not all of us seem to agree that Druid is a better choice for Ele/Resto than Barbarian, it shouldn't be too difficult to take the Druid class and swap out Wild Shape for that totem feature the Shambarian is getting.

Definitely seems unfortunate they went the barbarian route for elemental and restoration shaman. If you're looking for an alternative I've always really liked laserllama's shaman class. On the 2nd of the links you'll find his elementalist subclass which for me hits the WoW elemental shaman feel quite well.

https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-M-6Rt87VW4p1cfPpPWO

https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-N6Oo4k2AJmkFG06__DB