performanace of Ele shaman in 4.2?

[Nikita]

What's your gear like?

I can pretty much global people again with my 4 shamans and have been having a blast with them. With the new 4 piece bonus, fulmination hits like a truck and when i get 9 stacks, earth shock alone will one shot people. Really fun have a warrior bladestorm me and give me charges, target switching and killing someone outright with earth shock.

Full bloodthirsty gear + the vicious weps and trinket. Perhaps its a gear issue :/ you gonna do arena with your shamans?

[Toned]

Ele died with the Ulduar patch actually. Ever since then it's been catch-up.

Ulduar patch, same gear, same fights, same group, 1-1.5k less dps

True I cleared everything in Wotlk as an ele sham, and towards the end of ICC geared out a hunter alt. It was ridiculous how hard I had to work to get top 5DPS... Got on my hunter I could drool on my keyboard for #1 dps slot.

[Alemi]

Full bloodthirsty gear + the vicious weps and trinket. Perhaps its a gear issue :/ you gonna do arena with your shamans?

That's the plan.

I pretty much dropped flame shock and lava burst from my rotation, completely and respeced into a full on lightning bolt spam machine. Mana is much more efficient using lightning bolt + chain lightning and, lightning bolt + chain lightning + earth shock, pretty much kills a target outright. 60k Fulminations on a target with no resilience is stupid. Even with max resilience you're looking at around 25k-30k with 9 stacks. It hits harder than lava burst without the ramp up.

That, and in arena, flame shock and lava burst are easy to see coming. Lava Flows is dispellable and spellstealable (and the last thing you want to do is give an arcane mage 90% haste) so I don't see it being too overly useful. With how fast I was generating charges, I want to use my shock cd for earth shock and fulminations. With the new unleashed lightning glyph is allows shamans to actually go offensive at the start of an arena match. Charge in, ramp up with a few lightning bolts + spiritwalkers to get a chain lightning while on the move and you should be able to drop a target and get a mobile hex in and turn the match to our advantage from the get go.

The biggest changes are the new 4 piece bonus and the undispellable nature of Lightning Shield, which we didn't have before.

[Nikita]

Seems like ele shamans will soon be viable in arena, since Blizz is uping the item lvl of PvP gear which equals more dmg we can only hope. New tacs for arena could be to flame shock one target then switch to another, making the other team believe an incoming burst is inc, then BAM!! Fulimination baby!!

Btw, do you get fulimination stacks on mastery procs? What do you gem and enchant for? Haste, intellect or mastery?

[Toned]

3 frost DK 3s is semi working... it's sad how any team with a DK = train the dk for profit lol.

[zenga]

Btw, do you get fulimination stacks on mastery procs? What do you gem and enchant for? Haste, intellect or mastery?

Yeah elemental overload can proc rolling thunder (extra lightning shield charge + mana restore).

[death]

Seems like ele shamans will soon be viable in arena, since Blizz is uping the item lvl of PvP gear which equals more dmg we can only hope. New tacs for arena could be to flame shock one target then switch to another, making the other team believe an incoming burst is inc, then BAM!! Fulimination baby!!

Btw, do you get fulimination stacks on mastery procs? What do you gem and enchant for? Haste, intellect or mastery?

im gemming for int and int haste, with some spell pen/int + spirit

just done an IoC and defended the docks against 6 people, feral kitty, affi lock, 2 warriors and a frost mage

FULMINATION FTW

im really noticing a difference with better gear and the 4.2 changes.....although now i have to grind for the 371's >.< after i grinded 7 pieces of 365 over AV weekend.....going to upgrade the remaining slots first though

[Alemi]

Seems like ele shamans will soon be viable in arena, since Blizz is uping the item lvl of PvP gear which equals more dmg we can only hope. New tacs for arena could be to flame shock one target then switch to another, making the other team believe an incoming burst is inc, then BAM!! Fulimination baby!!

Btw, do you get fulimination stacks on mastery procs? What do you gem and enchant for? Haste, intellect or mastery?

I played about 40 games yesterday trying different things, trying to get a feel for what works and what doesn't and trying to remember how to play arena. I'm way out of practice from my Duelist days. Shiznit. Interact with target spam, while hysterical to see a warrior shit his pants with 4 ele shaman running circles around him, wasn't so good since it pretty much killed my healing (since i'm 5 boxing). For you 4 boxers out there with a healer, it should work great for you against melee.

I gem int then haste. I'm probably going to reforge my gear tonight towards haste as well.

Mastery, while nice, is still too RNG based. I've always preferred stats that are a flat benefit. Just my two cents.

[Multibocks]

When using Spellsteal on a shaman, Lava Flows will no longer be given to the mage as a buff. The buff, however, will be removed from the shaman.

Hmm...

[Nikita]

I played about 40 games yesterday trying different things, trying to get a feel for what works and what doesn't and trying to remember how to play arena. I'm way out of practice from my Duelist days. Shiznit. Interact with target spam, while hysterical to see a warrior shit his pants with 4 ele shaman running circles around him, wasn't so good since it pretty much killed my healing (since i'm 5 boxing). For you 4 boxers out there with a healer, it should work great for you against melee.

I gem int then haste. I'm probably going to reforge my gear tonight towards haste as well.

Mastery, while nice, is still too RNG based. I've always preferred stats that are a flat benefit. Just my two cents.

I think im gonna farm full s10 gear, gem, enchant and reforge to mastery + get a mastery use/proc trinket ill let you guys know how it goes