Elemental 5-man Heroic DPS rotation

Post by Stigoz

Hi, I'm currently leveling and enh. shaman, and are at the moment planning to respec to this spec. and DPS some 5-man heroics. Been wondering what would be the best DPS rotation, and came up with this. Dunno how effective it'll be though, as I've never really tried elemental DPS.
This is my first theorycraft-thread, don't judge it too hard :)

The rotation:
0.0: Magma Totem
1.5: Flame Shock
3.0: Chain Lightning
4.5: Lightning Bolt
6.5: Earh Shock
8.0: Lightning Bolt
10.0: Chain Lightning
11.5: Lava Burst
12.0: Earth Shock
13.5: Chain Lightning
15.0: Lightning Bolt
17.0: Flame Shock
18.5: Lightning Bolt
20.5: Chain Lightning
Repeat.

The math (750 Spellpower and Glyp of Fireshock and Glyph of Lava):

Magma Totem - 1720 damage over 21 seconds. 1187 mana cost.
Magma Totem has a coeff. of 66.8%, and will therefore receive a 501 bonus damage from the 750 spellpower. Resulting in a total of 2221 damage. But if we calculate with 3 mobs standing within range of the totem, it'll give a total of 6663 damage.That's 5.61 DPM and 317 DPS, or 4442 DPSC, right there for a fire-and-forget spell.

Flame Shock - 425 direct damage and 476 damage over 12 seconds. 747 mana cost.
The direct damage has a 20% coeff. which will add 150 damage to the direct damage, totaling in 575 damage.
The DoT part of the shock has a 60% coeff. and will receive 450 bonus damage, totaling in 926 damage, ticking once every 3 seconds, that's 231 damage per tick.
The glyphed version of Flame Shock adds 6 seconds to the DoT, resulting in 2 additional ticks, at 231 damage each. All this comes together in a 18 sec. long DoT, dealing a total of 1386 damage.
The DoT (1386) and the direct damage (575) added together deals a total of 1961 damage, or 108 DPS/1307 DPSC.
With Shamanistic Focus, the mana cost of the ability will be reduced to just 336 mana per cast. That'll give you 5.8 DPM on an instant cast ability, not bad.

Chain Lightning - 1042 damage (average). 1143 mana cost.
This spell's initial hit (the primary target) has a 57% coeff, giving it 428 bonus damage. 428 + 1042 = 1470. And with Concussion, which increases the damage by 5%, it sums up with 1544 damage on the initial hit.
This amount is reduced by 30%, dealing 1081 damage on the second hit. This amount is yet again reduced by 30%, and finaly hits the last target for 757 damage.
1544 + 1081+ 757 = 3388 damage for 1143 mana. With Convection the mana cost will be reduced to 1028, giving it a final DPM of 3.3.
With the talent Lightning Mastery, the cast time of this spell will be reduced to 1.5 second, giving it 2258 DPS (cooldown excluded).

More coming up tomorrow ;)

Post by Machar

Don't worry about rotation. Get Earth Shock and Magma totem out of there, you should be using Totem of Wrath.

Always keep Flame Shock on the target. Get the glyph of Flame Shock.

If Lave Burst is ready, cast it.
If Chain Lightning is ready and there's no threat of breaking CC, cast it.
Cast Lightning bolt if both Lava Burst and Chain Lightning are on cooldown.

You're going to have a lot of haste flying around, which makes perfect planning of most rotations almost useless.

Post by windcrusher

I agree with Mach. Totem of Wrath will give you more DPS, and your other caster friends as well. We don't really have a "rotation" anymore, it's more of a keep certain procs/spells up in order of priority. Heres my recommended order:

1- Totem of Wrath
2- Flameshock
3- Lavaburst if its not on cooldown.
4- If 3 is on cooldown, and no cc issues, Chain Lightning
5- If 3 and 4 are on cooldown, Lightning Bolt

With certain talent/glyph changes coming up, I am going to test out dropping CL from the list and seeing how it fares with a straight FS/LvB/LB priority list. FS + LvB every 8-9 seconds (depending on lag) should keep all our nifty crit based procs up ideally all the time. The change to talents next patch, and the new glyph of LB will give LB a +14% increase in damage and a boost to LvB damage as well.

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Elemental 5-man Heroic DPS rotation

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