I think all of this has been said before and there are tons of other threads on these topics, just an FYI.
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Dor
- mastery is a new stat (that I dont understand well enough yet) -- for ele shammies mastery allows and increases the proc rate of the 3rd class ability (why 3rd? I dont know yet) which is Overload procs (allows man free aggro free automatic recast of lightning bolt and lava blast for 75% damage and non crit).. I stacked mastery as much as I could( had 542 mastery) and it felt like a machine gun casting LB at times.
This whole sentence is confusing beyond belief.
Mastery stat for elemental shaman is basically the old Lightning Overload talent with Lava Burst added into the possibilities. When you're talking "class abilities" I'm assuming you refer to the abilities you get for choose your spec, not class. It's 3rd because there are 2 other passive effects you get (Shamanism which was an old talent combined with reduced cast time on offensive spells talent & Elemental Fury which is the 100% crit bonus talent)?
Lightning Overload can crit and can effect Chain Lightning as well, which wasn't mentioned.
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- The priority of stats seems to be spellpower/int> haste = mastery>crit for ele shammies from what Ive seen on test (assuming youre hit capped otherwise hit is top priority)
This is the priority for lvl 80, crit becomes critically (no pun intended) at 85 - I think I have 13% crit at 85 now...
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- bizuris relic lost its haste effect and was made a flat stat relic with a gem slot -- not sure if it's bis atm
ALL relics/totems/sigils/librams changed in this fashion.
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- ele shammies might want to look for that mp5 belt in ah ...usually go for 3 to 5 k might be higher now that a lot of shammies will want it since itll go to spi = hit and has higher haste than despair
I really didn't see that much of a hit loss at 80 on the PTR. The spirit you get from the mp5 should make up for it. You talk like we lost a TON of hit - it's 3% or 78 hit rating. You should have made up that 78 hit rating from spirit.
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--- rotation is now more or less a priority rotation
start off with flame shock then:
LvB>LB>Earth Shock (when reaches 9 stacks of lightning shield)
-- watch for LvB to refresh as you cast LB since LB can randomly reset the timer on LvB
Our rotation has always been priority. CL should be in that rotation (situationally - 2+ targets minimum for extra fulminations). LB does NOT reduce the timer on Lava Burst. Flame shock ticks do.
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- ele shammies dont use water shield anymore.. they use lightning shield-- every LB returns 600ish mana meaning you have a hard time losing mana if youre using LB
No. No. Every LB or CL (on each target hit) has a 60% chance to return mana, not every hit.
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- also with the LB resetting the timer on LvB, flame shock never drops off
... I stood going all out damage rotation for 30 mins and was still sitting at 95% mana at the end..never had to redo flame shock either ....pulled 14k dps over that period self buffed only
Ok. First of all, we've covered the LB resetting LvB. Wrong.
What world are you living in where flame shock was refreshed? Unless they've drastically changed a glyph in the past 24 hours or I missed something big, then this is flat our wrong. Mana regen at 80 isn't an issue, period.
Edit: You're probably using full t10 which will extend FS by 2 ticks but this would hardly keep it 100% uptime.
However, your claim of 14k dps over a 30 minute period? Shenanigans. As a burst dps, believable with a lava burst + overload + 9 stack fulmination. Over the long haul stretch of 30 minutes with your proposed rotation... not likely. Even haste capped with a 1 second GCD (around 1500 haste btw - with wrath of air down), constant lava burst procs and resets. At a realistic 1.2 second cast time for LvB and assuming this luck, you'd have to hit ~17.5k lava bursts - mathematically. Assuming this setup, you wouldn't get fulmination charges or mana regen. Add in the fact you'd have to eat at least a GCD every minutes to redrop a searing totem for single target dps to keep up your Totemic Wrath
So, not believable.
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edit-- also has anyone noticed any addons made to keep track of lightning shield stacks? and/or LvB refreshes?
Built in UI works just fine for me. New grid style party frames show your LS charges on your frame and the built in UI shows the <Lava Surge> proc for Lava Bursts.
