Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
Contrary to popular belief, there are still people who are new to WoW

I tried to explain my reasoning in my previous post: due to a pve habit that used to work for me.

- blocking is useless while casting like Svpernova09 said
- most 2H weaps i've used have increase my critical strike a lot whereas the shields i've used mainly have defensive stats (that is from world pve drops)
- a shield gives me roughly 2-2.5k armor; but a stoneskin totem with the devotion aura has approx the same armor increase.
- I tend to use a 2H axe or a 2H staff when I get one, again most staves i've seen increase my spell stats more than the shield does

So actually I was not trolling but just asking how to improve my build And yeah I will use a shield in pvp/harder pve fights in combination with the stoneskin totem and devotion aura (which should give me 4-5k extra armor) from now on. But I 'll stick to my staves in pve until i find a shield that can replace the spell stats.

Thanks all for the info.
-you don't use a shield for the blocking on elemental shaman
-shields have better caster stats than 2hnders, try looking around at some caster shields
-shields at lvl 80 have around 7000 to 8000 armor... annnnnnd you can also use stoneskin/devotion with them too...
-staves suck for melee and are only tolerated by classes that can't use shields.

do you know how much melee damage you mitigate with 8k armor?