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Post by
T0rin
Hi all!
I wish to know your opinion about sham's weapon imbues:
Rockbiter Weapon
,
Flametongue Weapon
,
Frostbrand Weapon
or
Windfury Weapon
(why there is no weapon picture for this?=]).As for me,i use FRW for right-hand weapon and FLW for left-hand just for
Frozen Power
and
Lava Lash
talents.And what about you?
PS:if the same topic is already exist,just excuse me and give me a link.
Post by
Nerfmytotemz
You forgot
Earthliving Weapon
.
Anyway, i use Earthliving Weapon because i'm a healer.
I like the 150 extra +healing, but the HoT is most of the time overhealing.
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Post by
T0rin
Your true,Nerf,i forgot it =)
And,actually,i had i little crazy idea to try using Earthliving Weapon for ench shaman.With
Maelstrom Weapon
you can always heal yourself,or your friends on BattleGrounds or Arenas.Sure,you will get less DPS,but you will alive;)
Post by
T0rin
Another question for you,MrProcrastin8,does spell damage have an influence on damage from weapon with Flametongue?
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Post by
MegaVolt
Another question for you,MrProcrastin8,does spell damage have an influence on damage from weapon with Flametongue?
Flametongue's damage scales with your spellpower, yes.
But it is important to add that you never ever want to stack spellpower as enhancement Shaman. Never.
You get 30% of your AP as SP from Mental Agility. So AP is always superior to SP since AP increases ALL your attacks.
There is a very nice enhancement guide in the "helpful threads" sticky in this forum which explains all this in detail.
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Post by
Booterang
Rockbiter used to rank up to level 70 in BC, but it was eventually removed in the pre-woltk patch since windfury was far superior.
As for the weapon imbues, it pretty much goes like this:
Enhance uses rockbiter until level 30, then uses windfury on both weapons until elemental fury is 5/5. Then (your pretty much level 80 by then) enhance uses windfury/flametongue. PvP enhance shamans will talent frozen power and use windfury/frostbrand.
Elemental shamans use flametongue
Restoration shamans use earthliving
Post by
T0rin
Another question about Windfury Weapon.
Many times i read,that it's 3 sec. cooldown for procs and shaman need slow weapon about 2.5 speed just to have procs more often.Actually,i can't understand why =\
For example,if i have pretty fast dagger with speed 1.5 or 1.6 i can expect procs every second strike,and (if WW will 100% chance to proc) cooldown will always spinning,or standing idle just 0.2 sec.
But with axe or fist weapon with 2.5 or 2.6 speed i still can have procs every second strike,but WW cooldown idle time will 2 or 2.2 sec.
Maybe i'm going wrong way in my calculates?
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Post by
T0rin
Ok,i'll think about it.Thanks,guys,for all your replies.
Post by
66520
10% of your spellpower, to be precise.
Incorrect. It depends on your weapon speed.
Another question about Windfury Weapon.
Many times i read,that it's 3 sec. cooldown for procs and shaman need slow weapon about 2.5 speed just to have procs more often.Actually,i can't understand why =\
For example,if i have pretty fast dagger with speed 1.5 or 1.6 i can expect procs every second strike,and (if WW will 100% chance to proc) cooldown will always spinning,or standing idle just 0.2 sec.
But with axe or fist weapon with 2.5 or 2.6 speed i still can have procs every second strike,but WW cooldown idle time will 2 or 2.2 sec.
It's less for the cooldowns and more for the power. The cooldown is largely immaterial because haste, windfury totem, and flurry will all push your weapon speed down below 2s anyway.
White damage on weapons is set to a particular amount by Blizzard according to the weapon tier - for instance,
Golden Saronite Dragon
and
Delirium's Touch
have virtually identical dps despite one of them being almost twice as fast - but one of them has a much higher damage range to compensate.
Because Windfury hits twice instantly with whatever weapon the swing speed is vital - now, 367x2 might appear better than 610x2 if you get twice the procs, but here's where AP comes in. Every 14 points of AP is 1
dps
- and this is multipled by the swing speed to get the per-hit damage bonus.
A slow weapon is essential not because of the Windfury cooldown (which you will always have some downtime on regardless of weapon or situation) but because it scales with gear better.
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Post by
madstrategist
The desire for slow weapons is in large part because of storm strike and lava lash. Each of these depends on your weapon damage. Since slower weapons hit harder, you'll get much harder hits from these abilities with a slow weapon than with a fast one.
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