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give me a good dps rotation for enhance shaman please
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If you're not able to hit one of the things on the priority list, it's best to just wait a second. Don't try to pull out a Lightning bolt with less than 5 maelstrom weapon charges. With the increases to haste for us in general, you should hardly ever have a time where 1 of the skills isn't off CD. Just wait until you get the Tier 8 4-piece bonus and MW procs on every other string!
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totemmunkey
on the above listed "rotation" there is a big gap at the end of the rotation, is there any way to address this?
i would guess flame shock
If there was a gap, I'd assume Earth Shock is still on cooldown...which means he wouldn't be able to cast Flame Shock as all Shocks share cooldowns.
During the gap, you can refresh Magma Totem and/or Lightning Shield...if you need to.
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tomgc
Feral Spirits (1)
Bloodlust, when your raid wants it.
Fire Elemental Totem (2)
Maelstrom Weapon 5_Lightning Bolt
Earth Shock when the target has Flame Shock AND Stormstrike debuffs (3)
Stormstrike
Flame Shock (keep this on the mob, refresh it only when it drops off)
Earth Shock
(4)
Lava Lash (5)
Magma Totem
Refresh Lightning Shield (6)
Cast MW_LB when at 3-4 stacks, inbetween your swings so they don't get reset (7)
(1) These can be Bloodlusted... so pop them first. Even when you're sated.
(2) Can't be bloodlusted, popped once per fight making it the lowest priority "cooldown" move you have.
(3) SS debuff may be consumed by an (un)lucky Static Shock proc, so watch out!
(4) Fire Nova will probably go here when it gets released
(5) If your Magma Totem or Lightning Shield are about to drop off and can't be refreshed without delaying Stormstrike, Lava Lash should be skipped.
(6) Do this when you have spare time.
(7) Doing this right is a DPS increase, doing it wrong isn't.
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MegaVolt
Just going off the Wowhead tooltips:
Flame Shock = 500 Instant + 556 DoT = 1056
Earth Shock = 849-895*1.2 = 1018-1074 (1046 average)
I don't think it's worth the effort though. If you were to execute that flawlessly and keep it up 100% of the time that's only an extra 50 damage a minute.... less than 1 DPS.
Not sure how scaling and all would effect this in actual situations, but it can't be that large of a difference.
No. Nono. nonononononono
Please, never EVER look at tooltips and try to judge an ability from that. It will be totally and utterly wrong.
You caught your own mistake: Scaling. Flame Shock will scale about twice as good with SP then Earth Shock. Meaning that FS will do a
lot
more damage then ES with sufficient spellpower. The 28% extra nature damage and the lack of crit on the FS DoT reduce that advantage a little bit so in a long fight the difference between ES and FS is very small but FS, if allowed to run the full duration, will have a (minor) damage advantage.
When running up to the enemy however FS is by far the best choice. The SS debuff won't be up yet so FS will be a major advantage over ES. Start off with FS while running to the boss, continue with 2x ES and from then on use either ES only or an occasional FS, it doesn't matter much.
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tomgc
FS doesn't really scale that much better than ES does, since while it gains more from SP, that damage can't crit.
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MegaVolt
FS doesn't really scale that much better than ES does, since while it gains more from SP, that damage can't crit.
That's what I wrote ;) The by far better SP scaling will partly be compensated by the lack of crit / SS debuff. That's why the damage gain from using FS is quite small - but it still is a damage gain and not a damage loss, at least according to EJ.
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rakkarage
I agree, with the one exception that you should use Flame Shock to start with. Flame shock does more dps if allowed to run the full DoT. Just Earth Shock if the DoT is still ticking and reapply Flame Shock as necessary.
That was only true pre-WotLK ;)
Using exclusively earth shock now is better DPS.
if that really is the case, sounds like a bug/something that will change
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Fulgurah
Why was this thread necro'ed from about 7 months ago?
There are plenty of threads concerning our priority system and specifically about what in the hell we are to do now that 3.3 is released. Seems a little odd.
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izuul
No. Nono. nonononononono
Please, never EVER look at tooltips and try to judge an ability from that. It will be totally and utterly wrong.
You caught your own mistake: Scaling. Flame Shock will scale about twice as good with SP then Earth Shock. Meaning that FS will do a
lot
more damage then ES with sufficient spellpower. The 28% extra nature damage and the lack of crit on the FS DoT reduce that advantage a little bit so in a long fight the difference between ES and FS is very small but FS, if allowed to run the full duration, will have a (minor) damage advantage.
When running up to the enemy however FS is by far the best choice. The SS debuff won't be up yet so FS will be a major advantage over ES. Start off with FS while running to the boss, continue with 2x ES and from then on use either ES only or an occasional FS, it doesn't matter much.
Well first off, i posted that 7 months ago.. check the date.
Yeah, it was simplistic and wrong (i know alot more about this stuff now), but little of what you said is relevant because that was way before the FS buff and other changes, gear additions, etc.
Necroing threads sucks. Let this thing die before people get confused and misled.
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