performanace of Ele shaman in 4.2?

[death]

how do you guys think itll shape up

[Multibocks]

Unless you can move them all in synch and jump turn to throw out lightning bolts.... I'm gonna go with same old sucky ele pvp.

[death]

yeah, though as much, im going to be leveling boomies soon, should be more fun lol i hope

[Cookiebo]

i have just farmed 5x full set of heirlooms to casters with trinkets + got helm and cloak.
Im thinking of starting either 4x ele sham + pala/war tank. or 5 mages.. I cant realy deside which one, im gonna buy 5 new accounts and get that new 1-80 recruit a friend system on them, so 5 mages would be ALOT easier with recruit.

[death]

yeah guess im choosing between 4 ele sham or 4 boom for my main Box

[Lyonheart]

They will be much better as solo.. for PvP, and PvE once you get the two set bonus!

[Ashley]

What are the set bonuses?

[Lyonheart]

2-Piece - Your offensive spells have a chance to reset the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem.

4-Piece - Your Lava Surge talent also makes Lava Burst instant when it triggers.

According to testers, this makes it available almost non stop. I think this should be a glpyh..not a set bonus, Ele needs the help.

[zenga]

2-Piece - Your offensive spells have a chance to reset the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem.

4-Piece - Your Lava Surge talent also makes Lava Burst instant when it triggers.

According to testers, this makes it available almost non stop. I think this should be a glpyh..not a set bonus, Ele needs the help.

I've been playing ele a lot on ptr with a premade toon and the 2 piece bonus is plain awesome (but our fire ele is still plain dumb, rather than fixing the AI of the fire ele, they now give us a way to cast it again). The 4 piece is not a huge dps increase, but it's more a problem to deal with lava surge procs that we get while we are casting lvb, which was basically a waste so far. There is quite a lot of speculation on totemspot (main ele site) whether this is meant as test case for a future talent change (perma pet for ele and lava surge = instant in talent tree).

In pve ele shaman was at the bottom of all dps specs in current raid tier. And to be viable the skill cap was pretty high. That will be solved through new lightning bolt movement glyph though. But there is still the fact that we don't have the burst we used to have, our lava burst is not the hardest hitting spell in the game. Good thing is that we scale extremely well with gear.

[Littleburst]

I've been playing ele a lot on ptr with a premade toon and the 2 piece bonus is plain awesome (but our fire ele is still plain dumb, rather than fixing the AI of the fire ele, they now give us a way to cast it again). The 4 piece is not a huge dps increase, but it's more a problem to deal with lava surge procs that we get while we are casting lvb, which was basically a waste so far. There is quite a lot of speculation on totemspot (main ele site) whether this is meant as test case for a future talent change (perma pet for ele and lava surge = instant in talent tree).

In pve ele shaman was at the bottom of all dps specs in current raid tier. And to be viable the skill cap was pretty high. That will be solved through new lightning bolt movement glyph though. But there is still the fact that we don't have the burst we used to have, our lava burst is not the hardest hitting spell in the game. Good thing is that we scale extremely well with gear.

Could be. First I was thinking, that could be OP. But then again, you need several Flame shocks rolling to get a good proc rate. Which are dispellable. Besides that it's not like you got much to offer atm anyway, as ele sham in a pvp scenario.