Researching Respecs

Stoney is badly in need of a respec. I would link my current spec here if it wasn't such an embarrassment--a mashup of leveling and PvP with no clear purpose. /sigh.

With raiding starting tonight I need to take a hard look at the raid viability of a few talents.

Improved Windfury Totem - this overlaps with a Death Knight's Improved Icy Talons. Our tanking Death Knight says he has this as part of his regular rotation so my totems become moot when I'm in raids with him. The consideration is when I'm NOT in raids with him. Right now we are running two 10-man groups and I may or may not be in his group. For now I'm going to hang on to this talent, but when we switch to 25s I will reinvest the points elsewhere.

Enhancing Totems - Without points this overlaps with another DK talent: Horn of Winter. Like Icy Talons, our DK tank will keep this up all the time. However, our improved SoE Totem provides a greater boost so these points are well spent regardless of a DK's horn blowing. Furthermore, the points here also increase FT totem though those points are usually taken by a resto shaman in the group AND the SoE totems stack.

Unleashed Rage - This overlaps with a Hunter's Trueshot Aura. I will have to check with our hunters to find out if they plan on running this aura for the raid. I suspect with the amount of hunters we have in the guild one of them will keep this up. It has a 45 yard range which should suffice for 95% of raid encounters. That's 5 talent points I can invest elsewhere, unless I want to keep this talent for soloing. (For PvP I'll be setting up a different spec).

That looks like 7 points I can reinvest from the cookie-cutter spec, and to say nothing of the goofy shit I put talents in while leveling. I'm not sure what my raid spec will be right now but as soon as I decide on a spec I'll post it up here.