Very short enhance PvP clip

[Owltoid]

I haven't taken much video due to hard drive limitations, but a friend wanted to see the burst so I put it on YouTube. Enjoy

[Ualaa]

It doesn't seem like they have a lot of burst, compared to previous seasons with a DK or Feral type team.
Like the Ferals, the damage seemed to be one target at a time.
That said, you certainly didn't have issues in killing anyone, so there was enough DPS to get the job done.

From arena threads, during Ascendance you should be able to kill almost anything given sufficient/equal gearing.
That's a nice bonus for the team.

I absolutely love the utility of all those totems.
Tremor on round-robin, in particular sticks out as a tremendous strength of a Shaman team.
The Windwalk totem would help to stay on target, that a lot of other melee teams would like to have.

It looked like you didn't have a healer on the team, so being relatively self sufficient is nice too.

Good quality video.
Thanks for sharing it.

[pinotnoir]

What server you on?

[Owltoid]

Dalaran-US

It doesn't seem like they have a lot of burst, compared to previous seasons with a DK or Feral type team.
Like the Ferals, the damage seemed to be one target at a time.
That said, you certainly didn't have issues in killing anyone, so there was enough DPS to get the job done.

From arena threads, during Ascendance you should be able to kill almost anything given sufficient/equal gearing.
That's a nice bonus for the team.

I absolutely love the utility of all those totems.
Tremor on round-robin, in particular sticks out as a tremendous strength of a Shaman team.
The Windwalk totem would help to stay on target, that a lot of other melee teams would like to have.

It looked like you didn't have a healer on the team, so being relatively self sufficient is nice too.

Good quality video.
Thanks for sharing it.

Not much burst? That warrior was dead in one GCD. Their burst outside of ascendance is really good too with 4x Elemental Blast. I usually run with a pocket healer - in this video I had a great priest keeping me alive. With the current hybrid healing it's not even worth wasting maelstrom procs on heals, they hit for too little. Elemental Blast, on the other hand, can hit like a truck.

[Feehza]

Dalaran-US



Not much burst? That warrior was dead in one GCD. Their burst outside of ascendance is really good too with 4x Elemental Blast. I usually run with a pocket healer - in this video I had a great priest keeping me alive. With the current hybrid healing it's not even worth wasting maelstrom procs on heals, they hit for too little. Elemental Blast, on the other hand, can hit like a truck.

For a lot targets 4x Asc Stormstrike/autohits are enough. In arena iam not able to insta kill a warrior with blood fury + Trinket + 5x Asc + Stormstrike + Autohits at the beginning.
Anyway, enhance burst ist the best burst for multiboxers atm.

With no pockethealer i choose the talent echo of elements and heal with chainheal. so i can trigger 1 chainheal up to 12 hits instead of 4.

[heyaz]

For a lot targets 4x Asc Stormstrike/autohits are enough. In arena iam not able to insta kill a warrior with blood fury + Trinket + 5x Asc + Stormstrike + Autohits at the beginning.
Anyway, enhance burst ist the best burst for multiboxers atm.

With no pockethealer i choose the talent echo of elements and heal with chainheal. so i can trigger 1 chainheal up to 12 hits instead of 4.

I guess you have to get lucky with the crits, mastery procs, off hand attacks, etc. And a second GCD if there is time may be enough. I did a wargame with someone in my guild to test mitigation and my druid in bear form with might of ursoc and barkskin up (over 600k effective health) was killed in two GCDs.

We did find though that a geared DK in blood presence with AMS up cannot be killed in one GCD - they have about 430k HP, take 10% less damage, and half can be absorbed through AMS. It's over 700k damage that needs to be done. If they spec anti-magic zone, a kill definitely isn't happening.

[pinotnoir]

Did you get your macros from the forums? I am about to start leveling my enhance team from 80. I have a 5 enhance lvl 85 team on KJ I use to play. Since everything changed I am starting from scratch. How did you make it show all your totems on the screen? You use videoFX?

[Owltoid]

I'm still working on my UI, some parts I hate and some parts I love. To show the totems use TellMeWhen.

I don't think I use any of the macros on this forum. I don't know if it's Mosg's method (as I never really read what it was), but basically I have all abilities spamming at the same time, if I want them spammed. So I don't care if it's stormstrike, lava lash, whatever, when I'm mashing my DPS button those are going to be used as soon as possible. Then I have other buttons for using abilities only when I want to, such as elemental blast and searing totem. Most of the totems I have on a rotation system and I don't know when they're being dropped. For example my grounding totem gets dropped every 7 seconds or so by a different toon, unless i hit the button that says all drop your grounding. Same with my capacitor. One gets dropped every 12 seconds or so. I'm starting to move away from the passive totem dropping, but I'm taking it slowly.

For maelstrom procs (the red lightning) I use weak auras, similar to Nox (though his things look better).

[pinotnoir]

Here is my 5 man team when I was gearing them up in bg's long ago. Looks like I have to do some work to get my shamans going again.

[Owltoid]

Nice, pinotnoir. I'd say the Cata enhance looks similar to MOP with two very large exceptions, which I'm sure you already know: we now have a ridiculously powerful burst cooldown, and I don't think we have near the survivability that you displayed in the video. The heals just don't move the meter at the moment (hybrids getting healing buff in 5.2, though).