3.0.2 – Enhancement Shaman, a short test run
I beat on a level 70 target dummy in Org for a bit on my shaman. Went 8/53/0, for Elemental Devastation and Ghost Wolves.
This has netted me an attack power increase but a critical strike chance decrease. I could probably make some headway by fitting in some more mail gear now that more of it is valuable to enhancement, but I’m thinking of specing elemental for the expansion to level alongside a destruction warlock anyway : )
Anyhow, here’s the deal. I am running oom before Shamanistic Rage’s cooldown is reset. I feel I can largely blame this on the lightning bolts I’m casting, but I really get down to about nothing with 25% of the cooldown still left to run. Perhaps this would be fixed with 5/5 Convection (10% cost reduction to most spells) instead of Concussion (5% increase to damage to same spells). But even with a mana totem and water shield both running (though I don’t have imp water shield or anything) I was out.
Perhaps this is a call to go out and get more intellect! With agi and intellect both providing attack power now, and 30% of a shaman’s attack power being converted to spellpower to empower shocks and lightning spells, it’s difficult for me to say what stat is best for shaman. I’ll wait and see what the folks at EJ find out.
/EDIT: Oh, and I suppose I should note…I didn’t have a dps meter running (for some reason, Afflicted was my only mod that stuck through the patch update), but it seemed pretty good. Spell dps is going to make up a much larger part of the enhancement shaman’s output percentages. I’m interested to see where that takes us.
October 19, 2008 at 8:03 am
I got an enhance shaman too…. pretty similar build but gonna try it out now
October 31, 2008 at 2:29 pm
My character is Sequence, Shandris realm.
In raids, on bosses (single-target), I put out between 1800 and 2000 dps. I use Chain Lightning over Lightning Bolt. I use one leather piece (regular Magister’s Terrace epic boots). I have no mana issues. Shamanistic Rage should be enough to keep your mana up if you are using Lightning Bolt and a standard SS/LL with FS/ES shock rotation. Intellect and agility are extremely important and cannot be overlooked. I have started using WF MH and FT OH. My totems are SoE, Mana Spring, WFT, and FTT. I top about 3500 (sometimes 4000) AP in raids, with over 1700 spell power. Recount always puts me near the top of damage (most of the time the top damage) in pre-SWP T6 and T5 content.
My damage and dps would be higher if I did not through in Chain Heals for the melee around me (one for every three Chain Lightning Casts), and if I did not absolutely have to use Wind Shock (Flame Shock, Earth Shock, Flame Shock, Wind Shock rotation).
Hope this helps.
October 31, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Thanks, Keith.
My issue, largely, is that I am still using leather pieces that pretty much completely lack intellect (rogue gear). My shaman is not at that level of content (I believe her highest iLvl item is 128, and probably averages at 120), really just don’t have the mana pool to support using every MW proc.