shaman enhanced

[suicidesspyder]

This is my macro

/castsequence reset=target flame shock, stormstrike, lava lash,fire nova
/cast unleash elements


now is there a way to also use fire nova on its cd like i have unleashed elements cause i notice fire nova when used right gives a lot of extra dps

[Khatovar]

I use multi-step macros.

By the way, where is your Earth Shock? Clipping the DoT to reapply FS every time your shocks are off cooldown is lowering your DPS, especially since SS increases the chance for ES to crit, and that crit carries over to triggering ED for more melee crits. It takes about 3 DoT ticks {9 seconds} for FS to surpass the damage of a non-crit ES.

Your castsequence will eventually cause you to fairly reliably get 3 DoT ticks in before refreshing due to your sequence sitting around waiting for LL to come off cooldown, but your fights will need to be longer than 30 seconds and you're still losing DPS because in some spots you've got 6 seconds of dead time between SS casting and LL where nothing's going on but autoattacks. You're also building up delays to the point where SS is constantly waiting off cooldown for 2+seconds while you get through casting FN and FS. All those delays quickly add up to a point where another SS could have been.

/castsequence [@party1target] reset=target Flame Shock, Earth Shock, Earth Shock
/cast Fire Nova

This gives 2 ES to 1 FS, allowing FS's DoT to run. With Reverberation, you can end up clipping the tail end of the DoT, but it'll still run long enough to be worthwhile. Without Reverberation, you chance FS dropping, but likely only for a second or two.

/castsequence reset=combat Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike,  Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike
/cast Fire Nova

Or

/castsequence reset=combat Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Stormstrike, Lava Lash
/cast Fire Nova

Why not just Stormstrike -> Lava Lash once? At about 30 seconds you get to a point where the differences in cooldowns means LL and SS are both ready within 0.5s of each other, which means there will be a point where you can fit in an additional SS between LL cooldowns.

The first one casts LL first, as it will be up slightly before SS, which means SS will still be on CD for a little tiny bit of the GCD that LL will incur. The second holds off to cast the extra SS before LL. Either way will work fine, but you might need or want to throw a Fire Nova or Lightning Shield refresh between the back to back Stormstrikes in case the macro gets wonky with repeating spells.

/castsequence reset=combat 10, Searing Totem
/cast [@party1target] Unleash Elements

In the best of worlds, I'd have UE tied in to FS, but I don't want to lock up my shocks macro for it, so I got lazy and stuck it in another step that deals with my glove tinker and Searing Totem.

[suicidesspyder]

So ur telling me to make 2 buttons one that will do fs and es and one that i just spam for ss and LL.

Or is this all on one button that just spams the use of the gcds and all. New to the shaman but i so love the dps enhanced pushes out.

[Heavyd]

OMG these macros are awesome. I had to tweak them a little (i'm not boxing atm so no isboxer) but my dps at 82 went from ~4k with my old ones to ~6k with these.

Thanks!

Ran the underwater instance @82 and my dps was 8k.

[suicidesspyder]

Ok i went over all them and seen what u ment so i decided to tweak mine to an all in one not sure if this is good but it did bring up my dps a little and i only sometimes have to wait for ether fs or es cd for like a sec or two. Was trying to find something else to put in there but nothing. Only time i dont have to wait is when i have my maelstrom pop.


/castsequence reset=target stormstrike, flame shock,fire nova, , lava lash ,earth shock, fire nova
/cast unleash elements


kinda want to add in haste and drop lava burst under a sec cast cause that could possibly keep everything fine and dandy and add in another source of dps. Is there anything to do to possibly keep it so i can get that 1 sec wait out of the way lol.

[Khatovar]

Haste is a pretty useless stat for Enhancement. You'd be giving up an awful lot to spend GCDs you don't have on a spell you don't need. Nevermind the fact that we're talking multiboxing. In order to make LvB useful, you'd have to have some top end gear and the freedom to manually cast only when all other abilities are on cooldown, and it would also mean you're losing out on white damage and potential WF and MW procs....a further DPS loss.

Use a multistep macro. No one has rotations anymore, it's all priority casts and you can't account for priorities in a tiny macro anymore.


Multistep macros with ISBoxer
Multistep Macros with HotKeyNet
Multistep Macros In Game

[luxlunae]

I also wanted to pop on and thank khatovar for the sexy macros. I reactivated last week and am attempting two enhance shammies as my first melee. Picking up your macros has made them somewhat competitive on dps.

[suicidesspyder]

I guess i must not be grabbing this multi step macro. I had no problem with jamba and isboxer setting up teams or any of that. Its the multi step macro thats confusing me everytime i try to use what u put in it keeps getting stuck. Not sure if this is all on one button or a bunch of different ones. I know its alot to ask but can i get a tad more help since im not getting it.

[Khatovar]

It's 3 macros triggered by 1 button in ISBoxer. Or you can skip doing it in ISBoxer and do it directly in game by tacking on /changeactionbar # at the end of each macro. Since I haven't had coffee and I never used ISBoxer, I can't explain that beyond what I gleaned from that thread.

Doing it in game -

Create a new macro -

/castsequence [@party1target] reset=target Flame Shock, Earth Shock, Earth Shock
/cast Fire Nova
/changeactionbar 2

Put that on button 1 of your main action bar.
Press the macro. It should automatically page your main acrion bar to action bar 2.

Create another new macro

/castsequence reset=combat Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Stormstrike, Stormstrike, Lava Lash
/cast Fire Nova
/changeactionbar 3

Put that macro on button one of the new action bar.
Press the macro. Again, it should swap you to a new action bar.

Create a third macro

/castsequence reset=combat 10, Searing Totem
/cast [@party1target] Unleash Elements
/changeactionbar 1

Put this on button 1 of the new action bar.
Press the macro, it should swap you back to your original action bar.

Now spam 1. It should put you through the various macros, switching the action bar, and thus the macro that is triggered by pressing 1, every time you hit the 1 key.

[suicidesspyder]

Thats so awesome my question is how do we get maelstorm instant cast of lb to work right i tried including it but it will use it ne time its up.