Ok then it might be a good idea to gear faster
Cant wait to play 5s, I'll do my first session on friday
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Ok then it might be a good idea to gear faster
Cant wait to play 5s, I'll do my first session on friday
just did isle dailys and still at 1800/2200 :/
5s at tuesday
i did av to gear up my group and i capped out at 1800/2200. so i not done any arena.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
queue so slow in US servers for 5s. 6-10mins wait per game. And mostly a loss per 8 min is not fun for me. Sounds like GG for arena for me.
ya it seems to still be sticking with battle groups.Quote:
Originally Posted by remanz
Queue seems bugged atm
The queues are still based on which bg the party leader is from. If your PL is from tich you will still get bg9 queues first conversely if you have the party leader from emberstorm and the rest from tich you will get emberstorm queues.Quote:
Originally Posted by remanz
Region wide queues are being fixed. Just gotta wait.
Holinka @holinka19 Sep
@Hovah1138 we're not getting the results we want from this so we're looking into it.
I am personally enjoying 2v2 and 3v3 again.
some nice stuff here via hotfix
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...s/ishamans.gif Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- General
- Flametongue Weapon Flametongue Attack effect now deals 50% more damage.
- Lightning Bolt damage has been increased by 10%.
- Enhancement
- Windfury Weapon Windfury Attack effect now deals 50% more damage.
Was kind of surprised about buffing windfury. I thought they were trying to tone down burst.
50% is quite big for all 3 attacks, especially vs cloth
I can't remember any damage buffs for pvp reasons since I started playing. Definitely not in hotfixes. Only can recall the opposite, i.e. nerfs for pvp reasons. Point being, those tweaks are mainly based on pve. so pvp burst isn't their main concern.Quote:
Originally Posted by Multibocks
I just set up my 5 person team (4 enhancement and one protadin (for questing)). I used alot pf the ideas from this thread for it and with my crappy iLvl 400 or so gear have manage to get my party wide DPS to around 20K each with crappy green weapons. I will probably start grinding some AV and isle soon for some honor gear or pay some one for carrying for a win. In the off time I have been hitting the new content and have managed to get some plate an mail gear to update my toons to some PVE 497 gear, still have a long way to go but had to get started somewhere. My ascendance macro is hanging up on the slot 13 an 14 trinkets as I have crappy green questing trinkets as opposed to buff trinkets.
I am currently running WF on main hand and FT on off hand, is that what the basic plan is? I hate to admit it I mostly played elemental or resto before in big "The Zerg" AV, Isle and FTH events so getting into enhancement has taken some practice. On a different but related issue I have my 4th shaman and 5th toon always lagging behind on DPS even though it is set up 100% identical to the rest. Any ideas or is it probably just latency forwarding the commands through ISBoxer and Jamba you all think?
yes wf/ft is the way to go now, unless you play with unleash fury (which is the worst of the 3 talents)Quote:
Originally Posted by smalltanker
for gearing get 4p set bonus first and then double trinket for the extra 10% damage reduce
beeing different in dps isnt uncommon since there is a lot of rng aside from crit with enhance (wf and eote proccs/eb buff)
I did some 2s today to cap points on second shaman team and I have to say primal elementalist feels stronger in 2s but I'd say eb is better in 5s, still didnt play any 5s because my pally didnt show up today, not sure about taking a druid now they seem to be weak according to aj. I hope I can do some 5s tomorrow..
In regards of 2s, just leave vs every heal x (except heal mage) and enjoy 100% win vs a majority of double dps comps, double enhance seems to own every two dps comp now since I cant get killed in rogue opener anymore (ok 1700 mmr but still)
did my 1st arena game last night and wow they are really strong lots of healing as well that is nice. i hope to get some more games done when am feeling better.
Did some games today capped out two of the clones 8-13 38% MMR of about 1432
some groups i won
warrior/warrior
rouge/rouge
ele/hunter
dk/rouge
lost a ech/ech and most games with a healer.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...513_204351.jpg
Going to try and start farming some gear for weapons this weekend and hopefully will be in arena next weekend with the team. Nice work on the accomplishment.
congrats :) havent done any 5s yet because eu queue sucks this week somehow had to wait 5+min for 2v2 invite yesterday and didnt get a 5s invite after 15 min so again 5s delayed to some other day, but as diablous said "you can only delay the inevitable"
cant wait to get weps then 100-0 oneshots should just work out fine, surviving rogue openers without having to panic oneshot and immortality vs dotcleave teams will also be a big deal this season :D
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Originally Posted by ebony
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Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
Ya I managed to win 2healer groups so when I see a healer I just take it as am not going to win if it lasts to long I let them win or leave. Still going to lose anyway. Talked to a gm about ques last night they said there working on it as its a little bugged. asked about follow in bg's said good things come to them that wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
Well even with my Krushpak-lite set up and sucky gear managed to eek out a few 4 wins today before I kept getting into the same team (UH DK, Ele Shammy, Warrior, HPally, Disc Priest). Will try for more later. Did start buying some S14 Honor and hopefully soon will be able to get some conquest gear. Rating only around 384 for now but I am on the boards this season at least, not bad considering I quit playing in S12 on my paladin and never even tried it with my newly 90 enhancement shammies. In the mean time I did grab the 10000 coin 497 weapons off the isle (only 1 each at this point so still need a offhand), missing the PVP power but higher DPS weapons were better than the blue and green ones I had.
where do you get those weapons from? only weapons I seem to be able to find on the isle are 476 onesQuote:
Originally Posted by smalltanker
nice, checked 2s queue again today and seems it got fixed so I'll try some 5s tomorrow hopefully, but I think without the new weapons I'll struggle on 2k+ so I'll play my former mainteam with 1500 mmr at first to get some impressionsQuote:
Originally Posted by smalltanker
oops... Seems they are 476 weapons after all. Dang it. But the 2750 DPS vs the 2150 of my 450 blue or even less for the green ones helps me out a bit.
remember to save up next two weeks for s14 weapons ;)
Yeah I still have to win enough to get capped. May have to find some one to carry me. I may be getting some time off from work due to the budget issues, so yeah time to grind the BGs and get some points. I did take my Warlock into the BGs with his S12 gear, was 3rd for damage in some WSG and never died the entire time. So I am getting the bug again, I haven't boxed a BG since S12 when they nerfed /follow. All of my team has Mechano choppers or the RAF rocket so I can /IWT to it. And I used to use my druid with the travel form glyph so I could do that to her.
But I do need to get better gear, I did go for the crafted medalion of tenacity from the isle that my inscriptionist can do. Was a slight step up from the green PVE trinkets and added some PVPower if I recalled. But yes S14 weapons are where it is at, and I need to get past the 7200 cap to get them. So tonight I may be grinding them indepently in 2s to get as many points as possible.
Can't wait to see how your enhance team turns out! Also would like to see some vids on the tube if you get around to it. Good luck tanker
have to do 2s now to cap out on second team, hi 5 min queue!
5min queue to meet a warrior and a feather priestQuote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
Got my second 476 weapon on my shamans so my DPS is now up to between 29-40K each in an average rotation with out CDs. The second weapon was a 5-6K jump which is very nice for my team. I have been doing the isle of thunder PVP dailies for honor and picked up my first new piece of S14 honor gear on all my girls to get some better PVPower and stats. The Paladin has 4 pieces of new honor gear and looted a belt off of one of the celestial bosses.
Now if I could only find a way to cast maelstrom weapon procs automatically ... thinking of programming another button to fire off of a 6-7 second reset, my only question would be do I go for lightning bolt which does more single target damage or chain lightning which can hit five but is only 3/5ths as much top end damage? So I might modify my spam key to do a shift-1 for fire nova and a shift-2 for lightning bolt or chain lightning. I have been running some AV and Isle, not much for wins but as I am gearing up I am getting closer to being more viable for any BG a my confidence in my set up, ability to contribute goes up.
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Originally Posted by smalltanker
i use http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/power-auras-classic-v4 thats shows me when maelstrom weapon procs. as sometimes i use it for chainheal/heal/LB
but......
i have not tried it but i used to do this on my warlocks (unless the api has changed)Code:/stopcasting
/cast Lightning Bolt
using an auto cast for enh shaman is bad, because even if you do the /stopcasting you reset their swing timer. White hit dps is fair amount of shaman total dps and I think it is a bad idea to try and macro. I wish it worked like paladins where you can't spend it until you have 3 holy power. Honestly though, why would you want to automate it? Sometimes you need to save it for chain heal when you are getting low or 5 times healing rain. It's just not a good idea to automate it when enh shaman thrive on their versatility.
I most recently went to using micro-movement for my Shaman instead of stopcasting because of the swing timer reset on stopcasting. Obviously, that's going to be a problem in PvP because you kinda want to keep them moving when you want them to move.
It also includes a visual indicator from Pitbull Unit Frames that pops up when I have 5 stacks on MW. Pitbull setup
It's set up with a mouseover region that allows me to manually use MW if it's taking too long for my automatic cast to go off. Part 4 - Procs
I have a couple of "spam keys". 2 is my single target. If I'm pressing 2 while I mouse over the MW region, it triggers my Lightning Bolt macro. 3 is my AOE, if I'm pressing 3 over the mouseover region, it sends Chain Lightning. For a while I had a duplicate one that used MW for healing under the same conditions - 2 over the second region sent Chain Heal, 3 sent Healing Rain, but it wasn't terribly useful for PvE.
I have yet to use it for chain heal... I have one key for my heal CD heal totem, and I normally just drop 4 healing rains with a broadcast next click. Ideally, the goal is one kill during ascendance and hope to get another shortly there after.
As for the holy power version for some abilities you can use 1-2-3 holy power, I often times when fighting rares will swap to my tanks window and will spam word of glory to keep him up. He makes so much holy power it makes sense to use it to keep himself up. But the DPS abilities will sometimes require 3 HP.
i find healing rain is been hit to hard now. chain heal in my eyes will heal them a lot better with 2/3/4 shammys
please dont use healing rain in pvp, even without echo chainheal is better and you stay mobile
To help address issues with input lag, Stormlash Totem Stormlash effect now has a 20% to activate but deals 5 times more damage (down from a 100% chance to activate). Overall damage output should remain unchanged.
Thats interresting, just hope stacking stormlash increases the trigger chance since its not an aura, i got 15-55k damage from stormlash totem per shaman in the Stormblast global with auto hit, usually 3-4 stormlash proccs so a 100% increase would be, if I'm lucky it could boost my damage anywhere from 0 to ~275k (avarage) during that global (even more in theory: 4 attacks have a 20% chance to trigger a ~20-65k or <130k crit with ~28% crit chance), stormlash numbers are pretty rng, dummy numbers ofc
I'd say thats amazing if it stacks, and it does stack for now you got the buff 4 times but it cant trigger multiple times from the same attack
another note, before the patch it happend sometimes that I blew ascendance and stormblast was on cooldown without hitting the target, nothing happend, since 5.4 i get this bug very often and yet I dont know what exactly is going wrong but I'm suggesting to NOT use stormblast together with ascendance in a macro, I think thats the problem because I havent noticed it with the 2nd stormblast during asc
update on slt, had only one hour of testing so better try it out yourself
getting 1-5 proccs within 10 seconds with 1 stormlash doing 2x stormstrike 1x ll 1x earth shock 1x ue with wf/ft enchant,
1-7 proccs with 4 stormlash up, same rotation/window
in both cases a shaman had 0 proccs once
I think I prefer to rotate them as always, but for sure the damage peaks can be very retarded with stormblast
would be great if I could find out if elemental force could trigger slt
i got my conquest weps on my 3 main shammys!
Congrats :-) get them too today
Stormlash totem applies an aura, so stacking them together should in theory do nothing (and it didn't for sure until the change). If you see more procs when you stack them then I believe it's a bug or just luck. Unless they made it a pulsing chance (1s stormlash 1 pulses for a chance, 2s stormlash 2 pulses for a chance, 3s stormlash 1 pulses for a chance ... etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruschpakx4
dropping 4 stormlash still applies 4 buffs but before the hotfix it made no sense because you had 100% procc chance anyway, so I thought it should stack now, more testing now
# got new weapons now, oneshot damage through 75% resilience ranges from 480 to 600k avarage, looks great, stormlash rarely does even more damage than stormblast
well just done like 10 games lost every one but one.
Death Kights are just owning me to hell now. warriors are a big prob still even more stronger then before now they have gear. they can aoe my two chars without even trying all my games are over in less then 20 secs with the other team winning most of the time both my chars die at the same time. can not get past 1280 even if i win a few games ill just lose to many after.
this season is not going well for me at all.
Spending less and less time on the shammys and more time on my locks just framing the timeless isle.