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Post by
totemmunkey
Well, first off you have absolutely ZERO enchantments (scratch that, you have 1 shoulder pvp enchant).
Get these:
Helm
Chest
(
suffices
)
Bracer
(or
this
, or
this
)
Gloves
(
1
,
2
,
3
depending on whats needed)
Belt
Legs
Boots
(
1
,
2
)
Weapon
x2
Drop a
Nightmare Tear
into a blue socket (that will make it the only Blue Gem you need to activate your Meta Gem)
Also, while you are Hit-capped you are nowhere near Expertise capped (26 expertise--NOT rating). You get 9 Expertise from
Unleashed Rage
, so you will need 17 Expertise from gear. I'm not sure exactly how much that is when transferred to "Expertise Rating".
You're gear, talents and glyphs are not bad. While some things are debatable about them, you're certainly in the right direction so I won't get into them. Your totem relic is extremely lame but I've had trouble replacing it myself and had it for so long until I replaced it with
this
. I strongly recommend its the first purchase you make with your Emblems of Triumphs.
Hope all this helps. By making these adjustments you should see a major boost in your DPS. Good luck.
Edit: Oh yeah I forgot about rotation. I can't seem to make sense of yours but Tim seems to have it covered.
1. Lighting Bolt/Chain Lightning (at 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon)
2. Stormstrike
3. Earth Shock
4. Lava Lash
5. Refresh totem(magma)/shields
Tip: Never use Lava Burst in your rotation, that's an ability purely for Elemental spec.
Post by
tomgc
My Shaman uses the "less geared" cookie cutter spec. You may as well use that. At higher tiers, the following talents may be removed...
Improved Stormstrike, if you can survive without the regen.
Shamanistic Focus, again, if you can go without the regen.
Improved Shields, which is the weakest Enhance-tree talent you take until you get 2pc t9.
The following talents may be taken...
Reverberation, for more shocks.
Anchestral Knowledge, a tiny AP increase, not something i'd do.
In Patch 3.3: Improved Fire Nova, makes it fit perfectly into your rotation.
Tip: Never use Lava Burst in your rotation, that's an ability purely for Elemental spec.
Nitpick but melee, yes, if you have to go ranged then Lava Burst is good
Post by
Fulgurah
Nitpick but melee, yes, if you have to go ranged then Lava Burst is good
Considering this person has such low dps, I don't think it's necessary to confuse them like this. A good rule of thumb is "never use Lava Burst as enhancement," especially for beginners.
Post by
magik8ball
First of all, magic number is 140 expertise rating. You also want to make sure you have 17%
spell
hit chance (14% if you consistently group with spriests or boomkins.)
Next, spec. First of all, I don't think the LB glyph is very useful for enhancement shamans. I recommend either the spirit wolves or the fire shock glyph. I've heard that the fire elemental glyph isn't bad, but I haven't tried it. It's not quite practical for fights lasting under 11 min. For talents, static shock is much better than imp. shields. And ancestral knowledge really isn't that good, all it provides is a
very
minor ap and spell crit increase. Personally, I like the reverb talent, but it's really a personal choice.
Your gear leaves much to be desired. Enchants have already been mentioned. And you should definitely focus on hitting the proper caps. After that, try to get about 34% melee crit to keep a high flurry uptime. After that, general enhancement stats suffice. Agility and intellect are the stats enhance shamans benefit the least from (although they do benefit) because they are a melee class with spells.
Now for the actual combat. First of all, keep your totems up. You should use a magma totem or fire elemental totem for the fire totem, strength of earth for the earth one, and windfury for wind. The water totem is far more situational. Use windfury weapon on your mainhand and flametongue on your offhand. My personal rotation goes as follows: Lightning Bolt (with 5 MW stacks) > FS (if the DoT is gone) > ES (if SS debuff is up) > SS > ES > LL > refresh magma totem/shield. Try to pop cooldowns at good times (wolves right before BL works very well), but don't hold on to them too much.
As a side note, enhancement shamans benefit a lot from buffs, so don't let dummy dps worry you too much.
Post by
tomgc
First of all, keep your totems up. You should use a magma totem or fire elemental totem for the fire totem, strength of earth for the earth one, and windfury for wind. The water totem is far more situational.
Every
totem we use is situational. Earth is easy. Tremor > Strength of Earth > Stoneskin Totem, SoE should always be dropped over Horn of Winter unless there is another Enhance Shaman in the group.
Fire, depends. You'll be dropping Magma if someone else is providing Flametongue or ToW. But if they aren't, you have to figue out the benefit to casters of dropping improved (important) FT totem.
Air Totem, again, check the group. Windfury benefits melee and pets, Wrath of Air is casters. Figure out how much you think tanks + melee dps will get and how much caster dps will get from WoA and if healers need the buff.
Water is a priority system. Fire Resist is top. If someone else is providing... Cleansing is second. If there are no poisons/diseases going around... third is Mana Spring, drop this if you have to provide it. If not, skip it. Last is Healing Stream.
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Post by
Astal
Like someone said before always enchant/gem your gear
try to get 26 exp ( 140 rating as tauren ) and spell hit cap 14% with Moonkin or Spriest , 17% w/o Moonkin or Spriest in grp or raid,. If ur not capped exp/hit from your gear gem for it otherwise go for AP
as for your gear
- get 2p T8 Helm and Chest
-
Cloak
-
Finger
-
Hands
-
Legs
-
Totem
-
Neck
-
Waist
( leather one because of exp )
also you can craft some very nice gear if you have enough gold for it
-
Wrist
-
Boots
Change your spec to this one
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#hVhhVZhbxIoxdIhusRuVo:hfNM
Rotation
1 MWx5 LB
2 ES if SS debuff is on target
3 SS
4 ES
5 LL
6 Magma Totem
7 Lightning Shield
Shamanistic Rage if you're below 10% mana
If you have some problems with "rotation" try to use ShockandAwe addon
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