Results: Black Temple

I was finally back online last night and back in raid on Stoney. We chain pulled and AoE'd down every last bit of trash in BT and came close to a full clear in 3 hours. In the end some hiccups on the Illidari Council pulls caused a few wipes and cost us the full clear. But really, that's an awesome night: 8 bosses in 3 hours. It is kind of a let down that it's so easy, but I guess the trade-off is that we all get to into content we otherwise wouldn't get to experience.

As for Stoney, I was pleased with the performance for the most part.

Ability	Total	%	Avg Dmg	Crit%
Swing	2,322,489	40.5%	436	43%
Windfury	1,346,239	23.5%	788	41.0%
Lightning Bolt	468,521	8.2%	1535	27.0%
Stormstrike	453,131	7.9%	461	40.0%
Earth Shock	430,508	7.5%	1,233	26.0%
Chain Lightning	225,635	3.9%	1179	32.0%
Spirit Wolves	212,376	3.7%	188	11.0%
Lava Lash	149,734	2.6%	434	33.0%
Searing Totem	65,186	1.1%	214	32.0%
Fire Nova Totem	48,438	0.8%	992	33.0%
Magma Totem	9,973	0.2%	164	32.0%

What I like is that 64% or nearly two thirds of my damage is coming from auto-attack! However, the majority of the remaining requires a lot of attention.

LB & CL were only cast when I had 5 procs of MW. That's 12.1% of my total damage output that's on standby until the procs uhm, proc.

The combination of SS, ES, and LL are 18% of my total damage. This is the most important point: the key to maximizing Enhancement Shaman DPS is to maximize your cooldown usage. Throughout the three hour raid there was only a handful of times that I did not have SS, ES, LL, or MW5 available when the GCD came up. After a while I got in a good rhythm and wasn't struggling to see what was going to come up next. I also started to get a feel for whether MW was going to turn over from 4 to 5 procs in the few milliseconds and if I should hold my CGD for that 5th proc or burn it and then have to wait 1.5 sec to throw a LB.

As for fights, it was a fun night and surprising in some ways. In summary:

• I need to use my Spirit Wolves every time they are off CD, I simply wasn't using them enough
• Wind Shock is very effective at reducing overall threat when used in succession, and doing so doesn't hurt total output too terribly
  
• Amazing what a difference it makes being able to stand still and maximize cooldowns as opposed to running around like an idiot.
  

Below is the total output per fight:

• High Warlord - 1854 DPS, 6% of total damage
• A pretty bad start for the night, I hit my groove later in the raid
  
• Supremus - 2002 DPS, 5% of total damage
• You have to expect melee will be much less effective in this hate-on-melee fight
• Still, while I was in there I was making the most of it
• Shade of Akama - 1608 DPS, 8% of total damage
• I was doing 1600 DPS on this fight pre-patch
• With channelers dying so fast I guess I couldn't get in a good rhythm
• But was still outputting most of the raid damage
  
• Teron Gorefiend - 2759 DPS, 7% of total damage
• ohhh yeah! That's what I'm talking about!
• I specifically remember that during this fight MW was procing so fast and so often I felt like I was mashing it all the time
• Gurtogg Bloodboil - 1997 DPS, 7% of total damage
• I used Wind Shock instead of ES here to help keep my threat under control
• It was very effective, and surprisingly didn't gimp my DPS too terribly
• Reliquary of Souls - 1917 DPS, 7% of total damage
• meh, pretty standard, I think the only reason I was low here was from backing off to prevent killing myself with the debuff in phase 2
• Mother Shahraz - 2276 DPS, 8% of total damage
• Another all-out fight that requires just standing in one place and beating the ever living crap out of a boss
• Illidari Council - 1674 DPS, 9% of total damage
• What's interesting here is the low DPS but high total damage, but that is because I was not assigned to interrupt duty and could just go to town on the Pally.

My armory profile still has not updated since I made the changes in gear. But I swapped out 1 ring and put the +hit enchant on my gloves so that I could eat Warped Flesh or Grilled Mudfish as my buff food instead of Spicy Hot Talbuk. And as for consumables I was popping Elixir of Greater Agility and Elixir of Draeneic Wisdom. And I made sure that WF was up at 100% of the time.

Tonight is GF night, then we'll be running some old stuff this weekend for kicks (SSC, TK, MC, maybe even BWL or AQ!)

How are your new specs panning out? Are you seeing different numbers than me?