Requesting a Gear Check

[Zzyzxx71]

Links in sig - mainly asking for check on the Shammies, they're duplicate except for a pair of OS10 pants.

Recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

[daviddoran]

Well, its hard to check when we dont know what you are going for, PvE, PvP, raids, heroics, arenas, etc.

Anyway, The First Shaboom is an enchanter, but doesn't have ring enchants, so thats a bit of extra spellpower you can squeeze out. Also, if you have a lot of spare stone keeper's shards, you can get shoulder and head enchants from a vendor in Wintergrasp, add some spellpower and resilliance while you are at it. Also, if you have enough honor, you can upgrade your helm and shoulders to the epic lvl 213 ones.

For your tank, make sure you farm the brewfest boss, you can get a huge upgrade to that lvl 70 stam trinket, and since you are 4 ele, no resto, more stam on your tank is even more important. Also, since the tank is an engineer, aren't there some more engineering specific item enhancements?

All in all, your team looks very good. I bet you farm heroics pretty well with that comp? If not, I'd dual spec one shaman resto, it may be slower on a lot of fights, but it's much more controlled having a dedicated healer.

[Zzyzxx71]

Well, its hard to check when we dont know what you are going for, PvE, PvP, raids, heroics, arenas, etc.

Good call - will clarify - I PVE 5 man heroics with Tank+shammies, I PVP and raid (10/25 man) with just the 4 shammies.

Thanks for pointing these items out - having just came back around a week ago, I'm missing out on a lot of the changes that have happened within the last 6 or so months.

As far as the healing, 1 pop from LHW from all 4 is 12k health with a 1.5s cast time. On trash I nearly never heal, on bosses I heal maybe 2-3 times. I've been tossing around the idea of dual speccing one of them resto and setting him up with some LB/LB/LB/LHW macros.

Thanks Fur, will check that out. As far as the enchanter, he's not capped yet.

[Whowantstoknow]

Not a bad start but there are some curious gemming/enchants or lack thereof - there are still a lot of upgrades available to you even if you do not raid. In general you will see the most dps gains by following this general rule

hit (to cap) > Spell Damage > Haste >>Crit

(haste is about twice as good for Ele Shams as crit)

I would recommend using RAWR as the latest version is a pretty good guide (though the earlier builds were frankly terrible) and downloading the latest SEIC from Bink's Blog on EJ if you prefer a spreadsheet.