[Enhancement Shamans] Preperation for 5v5, macros, talent build and other partly useful stuff

[zenga]

There is no way that current elemental and enhancement or going to get live in its current condition for pve. Well maybe they do get live, but they will need buffs after the first week. Blizzard is once again seeing other things than every progress shaman sees. It's been like that ever since, and every time (not a single exception) they were proven wrong.
Long story short, on PTR raid testing, enhancement are way at the bottom of the melee spectrum, and eles are dead last by a massive margin. Now typically this data comes from progress raiders, who have a really good understanding about their class mechanics and how to squeeze out every inch of dps.
Not going to bore you guys with the details, but I spend some time putting all shaman patch notes together since 4.0 and it's pretty obvious they either don;t have a good clue about shamans or it's less of a priority. Either way, expect enhancement buffs soon.

[Kruschpakx4]

I hope for dps buffs (ofc burst is always welcome) but for now more damage between ascendance would be great as healing, surviveability and mobility are pretty much top notch with 5.4

[zenga]

I hope for dps buffs (ofc burst is always welcome) but for now more damage between ascendance would be great as healing, surviveability and mobility are pretty much top notch with 5.4

This guy called 'purge' is considered as one of the worlds best enhancement shamans and the main enh theorycrafter in PVE:

'Meh. Seems enhancement damage really is as bad as the doom-and-gloom'ers are saying.'

These guys have direct feedback lines with blizzard during PTR tests, matter of fact blizzard relies on them to weed out bugs and balance the game (again PVE). So fairly sure that buffs will happen before the next patch (maybe in other areas that are not that useful for pvp though).

[djensen2010]

Krusch, how do you have you dps button in isboxer set up? Do you have one button that you spam that assist, iwt, and uses SS, LL, and UE? Or you you have each ability bound to a button and you use them as you would if you were playing solo?

[Kruschpakx4]

I'm only using a dps castsequence for ss/ll other stuff got its own key

#edit went up to 2170 today aaaand back to 2,1

gonna play with druid in the last week then maybe can break 2,2 before patch

[djensen2010]

was looking at paragons stream and they were doing ptr raid testing. An enhance shaman came in second place in their 25man. When they broke down his dps via recount his biggest damage came from LL and right behinf was melee. I hope blizz doesnt justify their changes with this because yeah in PvE you can just stand still and be in melee range 24/7 but in pvp we know that theres no way you would be able to maintain melee range nearly 60% of the time

[zenga]

was looking at paragons stream and they were doing ptr raid testing. An enhance shaman came in second place in their 25man. When they broke down his dps via recount his biggest damage came from LL and right behinf was melee. I hope blizz doesnt justify their changes with this because yeah in PvE you can just stand still and be in melee range 24/7 but in pvp we know that theres no way you would be able to maintain melee range nearly 60% of the time

can you link that stream please?

[djensen2010]

http://www.twitch.tv/devahi offline atm.

He was doing 175k. I dont know which boss it was though.

[suicidesspyder]

I was tinkering around on my shaman and getting quite pissed at mages being enhanced. But if i can get the drop on them and burst him fast enough he does iceblock. What do mages do after ice block they blink. So i took the charge time for cap totem and looked at up time for ice block. Then i saw the missing time counted that on ice block dropped cap totem. What this did was as soon as he came out it stunned him so i could burst again. If he escapes that i hit frost shock cause i talented it to freeze in place. Nice taste of a mages own meds huh. This causes him to freeze you ok trinket out spirit walk get up to them burst if he tries to flee u still have speed buff to keep up with him. It works most of the time. Cause honestly as melee i really hate rogues.

[zenga]

Seems like they are going to revert the lava burst and lava lash nerfs.

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