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Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« on: June 02, 2010, 06:37:19 AM »
I dinged 80 yesterday and haven't instanced en route. I jumped in an instance last night and did okay, but was wondering if there was any hint simple I could do to improve nocturnal my and the party performance. Any pointers? I'll be picking up some cheap ilvl200 epics to help, but any general pointers would be appreciated.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 07:00:16 AM »
Not sure parts of that were in English but here's Enhancement 101.

Standard Totems: Strength of Earth, Windfury, Magma, <random water totem>.

Priorities
Lightning Bolt at MW5
Lightning Shield if empty
Magma Totem if expired
Stormstrike
Flame Shock if not already ticking
Earth Shock if flame shock is ticking
Lava Lash
Fire Nova

Doggies and Shamanistic Rage as appropriate really, in a 3 minute fight use them at the best time, in a longer fight use them immediately, refresh lightning shield or magma totem if there's a free GCD somewhere (LOL).  Fire elemental is handy for getting more GCDs as you don't need to refresh it every 15 seconds.

Addons
Shock and Awe - The best shaman addon out there
Totem Timers - My preferred totem management addon, others like YATA

Slow weapons in both hands, fast weapons are disastrous for enhancement DPS.  Windfury on the main hand, flametongue on the offhand.

Spell hit needs to be capped, that's 420 for a spacegoat.  Hit above that level is less useful as it only affects white damage, it's not completely useless but almost anything else will be better.

Gems should be 40 AP at low gear or 20 haste at high gear, enhsim needed to tell you which you're at (ShockandAwe has a character export function for enhsim as it's written by the same guy).

Always recall totems when the fight is over, accidentally pulling a pat with totems while the healer drinks means you fail at shaman.  Forgetting to use cleansing totem and tremor totem where appropriate is also fail.

My lightning bolt button is a macro with Alt triggering a healing wave instead, useful for oh crap moments and means both MW5 abilities are on the same button/keybind.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 07:06:35 AM »
Stupid Android predictive text...

Seems that I'm doing pretty much everything correctly though, so on with the gear I go.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2010, 07:09:54 AM »
Seems that I'm doing pretty much everything correctly though, so on with the gear I go.
These days Enhancement DPS is generally considered to be the second hardest to do right (after kitty), however that's tempered by the fact that it's very forgiving.  Getting it perfect is a button mashing fight against the GCD but doing it completely arse about face will still get you decent DPS :)
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2010, 07:10:45 AM »
Forgot one major tip but as a pala you already know this I guess: ArP is bollocks.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2010, 07:37:04 AM »
Aye, can't wait for the stat to bugger off, got so tired of avoiding items purely because they could be itemised better for my chosen class and spec.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2010, 05:58:01 PM »
Aw crap - with those 2 addons I can see I'm going to need to heavily customise my UI...


Away I go :) - picked up 2 Titansteel Bonegrinders as starter weapons, will see if I can pick up some other goodies from instances once I have a functioning UI.


Aw crap mk2 - just equipped both bonegrinders to find that it's MH only... arse.
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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2010, 06:27:09 PM »
You can get most of the gear you need from the ICC heroics. For details you will need to ask daff as its only a fun spec for me.  :)

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Re: Enhancement Shaman totems : am I doing it all wrong?
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2010, 06:39:44 PM »
Yeah, I need to get to heroic level first though, I've not even touched Storm Peaks or Icecrown zones and I'm about a quarter through Sholazar so I'm not even carrying most of the nice quest rewards yet. That said, I seem to recall that the Amphitheater quests reward pretty decent weapons, might see if I can wangle that before the weekend.
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