WotLK Shaman Info Part 2
Has it been nearly a month since my first post on WotLK for enhancement Shamans? I need to spend less time gaming and more time blogging apparently. If you want to read the first post it can be found here.
Improved Stormstrike - Increases the amount of Stormstrike of charges by 2 and reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds (with 2 points in it). Requires 30 points in Enhancement; requires 1 point in Stormstrike.
This will be interesting. On the surface this looks awesome. It looks like the synergy of Enhancement with Elemental in one raid/party will continue, and that we'll have time to use up our own SS bonus during our Flame/Earth shock rotation instead of them being immediately eaten by those Ele hogs! No doubt the extra 2 charges will be well worth the point investment for the raiding Enhancer. But Stormstrike every 8 seconds, is it going to be a good thing? Will we have to start timing our Stormstrikes with our WF procs? Just a guess, but I'm going to say, no. WF runs independent of the GCD, meaning by having an extra SS attack you are only delaying a possible WF by a split second and not 1.5 secs. My guess is this will be among the best 2 points spent in the tree. We'll see how it pans out.
Mental Dexterity - Increases your Attack Power by 33/66/100% of your Intellect. 11 point talent.
Stoney's current intelly: 247. Even if your Int didn't change one bit over the next 10 levels and the subsequent gearing that's 247 free AP. And we know the Int will go up and be prevalent among the mail gear. This will be the easiest 3 points to spend at that level. As an aside, it seems to me that Blizzard is doing this to make rogue/leather gear less appetizing in comparison to hunter/mail gear. They are trying to keep Shamans in mail in my opinion. What it means to me is more gear options as both leather and mail will bring different benefits, oh and a much larger gear comparison spreadsheet.
Elemental Shields - Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 5/10/15%, increases the amount of mana gained from your Mana Shield orbs by 5/10/15% and increases the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 5/10/15%.
In a pure PvE spec this will couple nicely with Static Shock, the 41 point talent where your Lightning Orbs have a chance to proc when you strike, as opposed to when you get struck. I've already been toying with PvE versus PvP specs for Stoney and I will be including both this talent and Static Shock for PvE/Raiding.
Other changes to the enhancement tree include:
Enhancing Totems was moved up to the first tier.
Improved Lightning Shield was removed.
Shield Specialization changed to a 2 point talent
Ancentral Knowledge changed to a 3 point talent.
That covers the Enhance tree for WotLK as it stands now. Next post: the spell changes unrelated to the talent points.
I did opt-in for the beta. I want to get Stoney in there and start poking around as soon as possible. Hope to see you in there!
Improved Stormstrike - Increases the amount of Stormstrike of charges by 2 and reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds (with 2 points in it). Requires 30 points in Enhancement; requires 1 point in Stormstrike.
This will be interesting. On the surface this looks awesome. It looks like the synergy of Enhancement with Elemental in one raid/party will continue, and that we'll have time to use up our own SS bonus during our Flame/Earth shock rotation instead of them being immediately eaten by those Ele hogs! No doubt the extra 2 charges will be well worth the point investment for the raiding Enhancer. But Stormstrike every 8 seconds, is it going to be a good thing? Will we have to start timing our Stormstrikes with our WF procs? Just a guess, but I'm going to say, no. WF runs independent of the GCD, meaning by having an extra SS attack you are only delaying a possible WF by a split second and not 1.5 secs. My guess is this will be among the best 2 points spent in the tree. We'll see how it pans out.
Mental Dexterity - Increases your Attack Power by 33/66/100% of your Intellect. 11 point talent.
Stoney's current intelly: 247. Even if your Int didn't change one bit over the next 10 levels and the subsequent gearing that's 247 free AP. And we know the Int will go up and be prevalent among the mail gear. This will be the easiest 3 points to spend at that level. As an aside, it seems to me that Blizzard is doing this to make rogue/leather gear less appetizing in comparison to hunter/mail gear. They are trying to keep Shamans in mail in my opinion. What it means to me is more gear options as both leather and mail will bring different benefits, oh and a much larger gear comparison spreadsheet.
Elemental Shields - Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 5/10/15%, increases the amount of mana gained from your Mana Shield orbs by 5/10/15% and increases the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 5/10/15%.
In a pure PvE spec this will couple nicely with Static Shock, the 41 point talent where your Lightning Orbs have a chance to proc when you strike, as opposed to when you get struck. I've already been toying with PvE versus PvP specs for Stoney and I will be including both this talent and Static Shock for PvE/Raiding.
Other changes to the enhancement tree include:
Enhancing Totems was moved up to the first tier.
Improved Lightning Shield was removed.
Shield Specialization changed to a 2 point talent
Ancentral Knowledge changed to a 3 point talent.
That covers the Enhance tree for WotLK as it stands now. Next post: the spell changes unrelated to the talent points.
I did opt-in for the beta. I want to get Stoney in there and start poking around as soon as possible. Hope to see you in there!
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