How much is too much Spell Damage?

[Schwarz]

If you are that worried about the stacking nerfs, the far better solution is to go level up some other classes. Stacking up nothing but spell damage isn't making you more powerful than you would have been. As soon as you get a boss that doesn't go down in 10 seconds and starts pounding on you, all the utility of the spell damage goes out the door. You'll need good armor and stamina at that point just as much.

However, the items you mentioned do have plenty of stamina and they're mail epics, so I don't know what you're really missing out on in terms of stats if that's the stuff you're gearing up with.

I am really not that worried about the "nerfs" shamen are going to undergo. I think the team will be able to do everything that it could do before. The only problem that I see is you need to gear out a little bit before you tackle the hard stuff. Gearing out my shamens was vastly different that gearing out my warrior. With my shamen I go to maxdps and check out what is the best thing I can possibly get then I try to get 5 of them. Typically these are badge items so grinding heroics only takes time. With my warrior I would take lots of small upgrades over time. I am thinking in wotlk I am going to have to spend some time getting the in between items before I transition to heroics.

So the advice so far is spell damage is good but don't forget about armor/stam. All my stuff if mail pieces and will continue to be mail I think I am doing good in this area.

To be honest what I am really scared of in the future is if the earth elemental will be a good tank or not. Alot of the bosses I do I can only do b/c of earth elementals. If this guys stays at 70 or doesn't get somewhat of an upgrade then I think it will be time to goto plan b. Plan b is 1 pally tank 1 boomkin 1 tree 2 elemental shamen.