Quad Shamans Reforging 4.2

[Maleick]

What are they other quad shamans reforging to? Mastery? Haste?

[Nikita]

Since Blizz is buffing ele shamans with some insane haste procs Id go for mastery.

[death]

im guessing elemental is still strong in bg's? as far as casters go?,

im also going to level a quad boomy team, should be fun

[Lyonheart]

Since Blizz is buffing ele shamans with some insane haste procs Id go for mastery.

Just for PvP though right? when flame shock gets dispelled?

[Multibocks]

im guessing elemental is still strong in bg's? as far as casters go?,

im also going to level a quad boomy team, should be fun

I find them pretty weak. They just dont hit very hard.

[RSM72]

I find them pretty weak. They just dont hit very hard.

This. Its probably my lack of understanding how to play ele shamans right but I have alot more fun playing 5x arcane mages then 5x ele shamans in pvp.

[Oatboat]

Well you have to think of the utility that comes with...

DPS might be lower but durability is definitely higher with heals/totems.

I'd give up a little dps to be able to rez/heal anyday.

[remanz]

This. Its probably my lack of understanding how to play ele shamans right but I have alot more fun playing 5x arcane mages then 5x ele shamans in pvp.

I've never had a full mages team. Trying to level a team now but find mages are hella squishy without kiting. So 1 rogue jumps one of your mages with COS, he can probably drop the mage before you figure out which mage to iceblock. Say you kill the rogue after he kills 1 mage. then it becomes very annoying as 4 has to wait for 1 at the gy and once rezzed it has to come up by itself to regroup.

[zenga]

I find them pretty weak. They just dont hit very hard.

If you let an elemental cast, they can still hit like a truck. The thing is that you really need the 372 weapons & full gear, that makes such a massive different. And I'm specced into fulmination, definitely when boxing.

Since Blizz is buffing ele shamans with some insane haste procs Id go for mastery.

I've tried everything in 4.0/4.1, and a full haste build is > full mastery. The paradox is that we both need haste AND mastery. The net gain from reforging into mastery is very low on current tier gear. On my main I run around with a full haste build, literally reforged everything I could into haste (even mastery) and I use Therallion's Mirror as my trinket. That's however a proc since there are no on use mastery trinkets available.

In 4.2 we gonna get the haste buff you refer to from dispelling flame shock. Now in general only decent players know their dispell button. In most situations it's just gonna be better to eat a lava burst than dispelling it and take a shitload of dmg from the 90% haste, cause 5 seconds later the shaman will reapply it and same choice should be made. My point being: I don't expect us to have the haste buff up a lot, unless we get CC'd immediately afterwards. That reasoning + my playing around on ptr makes me believe a haste build is still much betetr than a mastery build. However the good news is that there is a mastery on use trinket available now from quests. That could really make a difference for our on demand burst.

[pinotnoir]

5 Enhancement shaman in BG's are very good.