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[Nikita]

Because damage meters suck and don't stop "counting" DPS uptime until combat falls off (at least on target dummies). If you call it 6 seconds just to pad in some fudge, the real DPS over those 6 seconds was about 31k/28k/28k/26k. Not too shabby.

Just bought the ruthless weapons on my team, lava burst is hitting for 55 000 on target dummies with a combo of FS, UE, trinket and lava burst. Ele shamans are back

[zenga]

Wait, so am I to understand that Ele is viable again?!?

A few follow up questions then:
What changed?
How it our survivability?
Mobility?
and manna consumption?

Or is a DK team still the only hope?

In PVE, elemental is one of the top damage dealing classes at the moment. From last position it jumped to the top. And it only gets better with gear. The 2 set T12 pve bonus means you can have your fire elemental out nearly all the time.

In PVP, mobility is great now, but still no real defensive cooldown. It's possible the global people again with multiple ele.

Mana conservation is shit, but it depends on your playstyle. You can't heal yourself from nothing to full without going oom.

[Nikita]

Wait, so am I to understand that Ele is viable again?!?

A few follow up questions then:
What changed?
How it our survivability?
Mobility?
and manna consumption?

Or is a DK team still the only hope?

The 4 set bonus on the PvP ele gear is amazing, you get lightning orb stacks by taking/doing dmg. Which means more fulimination, which equals insane burst potential.

Survivability is decent, I can survive burst waves from 3 players by using TS on round robin, grounding totems, earthbind, and the stoneclaw shield glyph.

I havent put points into insta ghost wolf form, its a waste if you ask me. But casting lb on the move is awesome, helps alot keeping the pressure up. Some fights both healers on the other team is oom due to the pressure I do.

Mana is still a huge issue, when my healer gets trained I need to heal him, and it doesnt take long before I start using TS for mana instead of blowing melees away. I wish Blizzard would fix that issue for ele shamans. BUT I often get time to drink in arenas cus of the other teams runs away to reset the fight since I killed 1 of their players. Cant wait to see what this season will bring.

[Lpwned]

It seems that I have been convinced to give it another go Looks like Bliz will give me 7 days free.

[Lpwned]

Nikita,

Do you use Lava Surge?

I have seen something like it set up for DKs where one spell takes priority 1, then what ever spell you are clicking Priority 2. Its done with down and up clicks treated independently (As separate spells).



I left before they even changed tremor totem. What else has changed from a boxer point of view?

Also are Mages still OP as f$%#?

[Nikita]

Nikita,

Do you use Lava Surge?

I have seen something like it set up for DKs where one spell takes priority 1, then what ever spell you are clicking Priority 2. Its done with down and up clicks treated independently (As separate spells).



I left before they even changed tremor totem. What else has changed from a boxer point of view?

Also are Mages still OP as f$%#?

No, I dont use lava surge, when you go for a kill there is a high chance LvB would be on CD on 1 or more shamans. Fights are tougher, but in a good week I should be able to get to 2000 rating. Kinda depends on the teams im queing against.

Mages are decent, I blow em up fairly quick, one of the classes on my n1 kill prio list in arena. Just train the mage until he iceblocks, switch to another target, and when hes out, switch back to him. He wont last long

[zenga]

No, I dont use lava surge, when you go for a kill there is a high chance LvB would be on CD on 1 or more shamans.

Lava surge: Gives your Flame Shock periodic damage ticks a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of your Lava Burst spell.

So provided each shaman casts flame shock at the same time on a target chances per tick of flame shock that 1 lava burst comes off cd is:

1- (0.8*0.8*0.8*0.8) = 59% chance per tick of flame shock that you get 1 lava burst cd reset

which basically means that if you have used your lava burst on target one, the chance is much higher that you can go for a kill faster with lava surge than without. having fs up on multiple target increases this effect even more

withpowerauras on your main you could easily create a symbol that shows up if all 4 lvb are available, or just how many

[Nikita]

Well, Ive tried using Lava Surge in my spec earlier in Cataclysm, but wasnt that happy with it. Think im gonna stick with my spec for now

[Lpwned]

Well, Ive tried using Lava Surge in my spec earlier in Cataclysm, but wasnt that happy with it. Think im gonna stick with my spec for now

There is no doubt that it is a good ability, the question is if it can be utilized well. I think the ONLY way to use it would be as a steady form of DPS. Probably bound to Number 1, where every DPS key you press hits 1, then the DPS key.

It will however add a 'out of sync' element to your team.

Ill try it out some time. Still getting everything re-set up.

[Nikita]

There is no doubt that it is a good ability, the question is if it can be utilized well. I think the ONLY way to use it would be as a steady form of DPS. Probably bound to Number 1, where every DPS key you press hits 1, then the DPS key.

It will however add a 'out of sync' element to your team.

Ill try it out some time. Still getting everything re-set up.

I use it in PvE, but find little use of it in the arena im afraid as I said earlier, its too RNG based. And when I want dmg, I want my DMG! I go for mastery, so everytime I use my kill rotation, I get atleast 1 LvB/CL proc divided on all 4 shamans, and thats all I need!