PTR Patch 3.3 Shaman Fire Nova (Enhancement)

Patch 3.3 has been applied to the Public Test Realm. The Fire Nova Totem wil be removed and instead we get an AoE fire Nova Spell. You can find the complete Patch Notes here. Shamans * Fire Nova Totem: This totem has been replaced with a new spell, Fire Nova, which is available at the same ranks as the old Fire Nova Totem. Existing characters will automatically learn this new spell in place of the totem. With a Fire Totem active, shamans will be able to use Fire Nova (fire magic) to emit the same area-of-effect damage as the old Fire Nova Totem from the active Fire Totem, not consuming the totem in the process. Fire Nova will activate a 1.5-second global cooldown when used and has a 10-second spell cooldown. The caster must be within 30 yards of the totem to use this ability, but does not need to be within line of sight of the totem. o Talents + Elemental Combat # Improved Fire Nova Totem: Renamed Improved Fire Nova. This talent now provides an additional 10/20% damage to the spell and reduces the cooldown by 2/4 seconds. * Glyph of Fire Nova Totem: Renamed Glyph of Fire Nova. This glyph now reduces the cooldown of Fire Nova by 3 seconds.

Since these changes are quite interesting I have been to the PTR and made a little video demonstrating the new Fire Nova spell.

Since Fire Nova, costs about 1k Mana it is really no option as enhancement to use it glyphed, while the Talents with 20% more damage sound quite interesting. Especially since we will end up with a 6 second cooldown which will blend in nicely to lava lash and our shocks. As you can see I am busy pressing buttons all the time so I am not sure if the new glyph will do enhancement any good.

I used the following Talents as a quick test:

talent mmo-champion
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Fire Nova each 6 sec will cost 10k Mana per minute. For this reason I took talents like Improved Storm Strike and Elemental Focus, which seems to be the only way to keep enough Mana to be able to use it each cooldown.

Basically I used 2 points from Lightning Shield and put them in into Improved Fire Nova, not sure where to use the last Talent Point. Either 1 point in improved Storm Strike, Elemental Focus.

Here is the macro I used:
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/castsequence [noworn:Shields]reset=6\target Earth Shock,Lava Lash,Fire Nova,Earth Shock,Lava Lash,Fire Nova,Lightning Shield,Earth Shock,Lava Lash, fire Nova;Earth Shock,Earth Shock,Earth Shock,Lightning Shield,Earth Shock

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Lava Lash
• Fire Nova
• Earth Shock
• Lightning Shield
• fire Nova;Earth Shock
• Earth Shock

[orlrlz]

i tried that macro of yours and its great but mine doesn't change spell icons like yours in the video what should i do?

[myrddinde]

@orlrlz

select the red "?" as icon :D

[Joohaan53]

Hey can u lay out a vedio when u show what macros u use and how to get them in? :)

[myrddinde]

@Joohaan53

think I explained a lot of macros on my website myrddin de

[qsdfqsdfqsdfq]

wjhy bother use elemental shield on a dummy .. use watershield to get mana regen?

[myrddinde]

@qsdfqsdfqsdfq

Its still dps, so ye .... why ever use water shield? As you can see there is plenty on mana - even if I spam it glyphed I do not run oom.

[yourmomissofunny]

@qsdfqsdfqsdfq Talented into Static Shock

[vortic5]

grindin has just become easier!

[resengan94]

dude sorry for the stupid question but how does the spells change in the second bar (lavalash,firenova....)?