Wondering why shammies DPS is so damn low

[Lyonheart]

Quote "My gear is still mostly ilvl 359, with 4 ilvl 378 items. I reforge crit into mastery and gem for int, int/mastery and int/spirit."




also.. reforge crit into HASTE not mastery. the stat priority for reforging is hit/spirit until capped..haste>mastery>crit

[zenga]

Quote "My gear is still mostly ilvl 359, with 4 ilvl 378 items. I reforge crit into mastery and gem for int, int/mastery and int/spirit."




also.. reforge crit into HASTE not mastery. the stat priority for reforging is hit/spirit until capped..haste>mastery>crit

that totally depends on your gear, your trinkets and playstyle/encounter
haste and mastery are so close to eachother in value that simcraft might prio haste and when you swap a piece around it will prio mastery

on my 1 shaman i use necromantic focus, which gives me around 35% mastery during the fight in total, therefore i reforge all mastery to haste on my current gear. (2700 haste)

on my other shaman i use theralion's mirror hc and I have more pieces with haste on, and there it's more beneficial to reforge into mastery

simcraft with chardev makes the job really easy to discover your statweight

[Bollwerk]

Thanks very much for the advice. Definitely some good things to work on!

[Daeri]

Thanks for this very detailed explanations Zenga, this gonna be very useful to me as well

[Shania]

Ele Shammys DPS now is amazing they got a boost they needed and its working well.

Our shammy in our core raid does around 27k out dpses my main hunter which pisses me right off now :P

[zenga]

Ele Shammys DPS now is amazing they got a boost they needed and its working well.

Our shammy in our core raid does around 27k out dpses my main hunter which pisses me right off now :P

Indeed, can do easily 28/29k vs dummy without any buffs for 5-6m damage. Single target ele shaman is among the top of the spectrum. But it obviously requires you to have 2x T12 pieces. And the 4x T12 with instant lava burst is quite a gain for ele's that were not good at catching lava surge procs.

[Bollwerk]

How do you get the fire elemental to attack the dummy?
I dropped it and it didn't "autoassist" me. It just stood there.

[zenga]

It follows your flame shock. So put flame shock on target, then cast fire elemental or searing totem. That's the theory that works most of the time, they still act like dicks though now and then wondering around wtf he is supposed to do.

[Shania]

What is better stat for ele shammys in pve is it haste all the way or mastery ?
My pvp shammys are stacking mastery atm, and wanted to try haste instead, my guildie who raids with us stacks pure haste for PVE tho I heard mastery is/can be good too.

I love my ele shammys atm in pvp, they havent seen much pve yet, tho plan too pve them more as well, took them into ZG with my fiance on his tank and a pug healer, healer was great he understood it might fail 3 boxing ZG but we actually got it all down, only 1 toon died on first boss, was fun.

[Multibocks]

For pve haste>mastery>crit. PvP is a tossup in playstyle. Some recommend haste and some recommend mastery. Don't ever reforge to crit.