Enhancement Shaman DPS 3.3.5

Just a help vid for some ppl that asked me to upload a dummy bash session to help them. Tryed to turn it semi into a propper help vid but was fealing shy so there are only text help comments, no voice overs... sorry!

By all means point out any mistakes with my advise if you see any though I did check it all quite allot before releasing.

NOTE: I just realised I forgot to mention BL and a few other things, weather I use youtube tags or redo the vid and upload a new one I havenot decided yet though! Sorry about this!

PS: Had a few people ask what my DPS was, I think it was around 6.6-6.8k on recount that time, though it normaly was 6.8-7k with that gear (seems i forgot to BL on this dummy bash... of all the times to do it :( ). On single target (excluding the dmg done to the nearby dummies) I am on about 6.2k dps, and yes I realise I should of done this on the silvermoon dummy now...

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[adrytzu]

i am using 1x berserking and 1 x black magic:) what do you think

[AntyScum]

@adrytzu In Wrath that may of been plausable, less casts than casters would of made black magic slightly weaker (asuming you went with stacking haste). In Cata however haste is realy weak for us, some estimates came out at half as good as crit/mastery for me and on enhsim it came out as negative dps (could be a wf proc issue or i set it up wrong ;) ). Basicly in Cata keep away from haste so i wouldnt recomend it no. Avalanch is a nice alternative to Landslide if your tight on mats :)

[pitofede]

Hey, where did u get that amount of expertise?

[AntyScum]

@pitofede I`m not sure what you are asking realy. I got it from gear if thats what you were realy asking, bare in mind i am an orc useing fist/axe's so gain free experties rating, and that this was in WotLK at 80 where less experties is needed for the 26/26 experties cap (my 25/25 was because i was so close to 26 that any more would almost certainly result in a waste of stats due to going over the experties cap)

[MrJfresh97]

i do windfury on both weapons so everytime i hit it goes off like 2 times and its instant death for my opponent

[AntyScum]

@MrJfresh97 yeh, this is for 3.3.5, the rotation is slightly different in 4.0, but i think you are talking about pvp, in which case 2 wf may be better (i dont pvp on my sham personaly). I may post a vid of lvl85 rotations in time but if i`m honest i dont like my enh anymore! so many dead gcd`s, it just isnt right for an enh! i got bored practising rotations on the dummy so circled round it while dpsing to make it more of a challenge:/

[pitofede]

@AntyScum Oh, i see.

Im draenei shaman, so its nos easy to get the expertise cap. Need bunch of gems :P

[AntyScum]

@BalloonGaming At the time i uploaded this vidio it was Berserking (400AP procs), but now we are in Cata. you want Landslide (1000AP proc if i recall corectly)

[lamicorp]

@AntyScum sorry my bad i messed it all together :-X i played shaman last time on 3.1 i think.. there was no mana restore talent when you use SS but instead this talent provided -1 / -2 sec CD on SS from 10 sec down to 8 sec

nowadays SS has 8 sec CD base :)

[AntyScum]

@lamicorp yeh, when under geared or on fights where you have to keep replacing totems the 20% mana back on SS is very handy, but i find in 10 and 25man raids (buffs depending ofc) that i wouldnt drop below 70% mana, so dropping those mana regen tallents for slight dps increase tallents seemed prefrable to me. As for the -2sec CD, I havenot seen that, are you sure you didnt missinterpret a tooltip?

[lamicorp]

i personally like WF procs much more and since SS is insta attack that can proc it its #1 priority for me, talents -2sec CD and 20% base mana when used is a must ^^

[AntyScum]

@Lessien881 Unfortunatly the wolfs don't take a snapshot of your AP, only your ele does (wasnt 100% sure so just tested it). Thus as long as you pop them while the wolves have 20 secs or more uptime there is no dps difference for the wolves. Popping them with SR gives all your sham benafitial CDs a 12% stat increase every time you use them which is a dps/dmg increase.

BL! after looking over my vid again it seems I didnt mention it!!! and didnt use it... so wrongly corrected you before! sorry :(

[Lessien881]

@AntyScum Also remember in a 25 man time your wolfs with bloodlust You pop them at the start of the fight and they have a 3 minute CD so you pop them then BL ... in a 25 man there will be another shaman with lust up and even though you have the debuff after 3 minutes the wolves will not so have them lust with your wolves out for even more dps

[Lessien881]

@AntyScum That depends on what would give you the most dps increase. Since the wolfs take a snapshot of your stats to me it would be better to save cooldowns for them to get the most dps out of them as possible as apposed to a slight increase just from using it with SR

[AntyScum]

@Lessien881 In addition to that you also pop BL right after your wolves so they get +30% haste for their uptime, you would be useing a no dps GCD with all your CD`s popped in this case in addition to not haveing BL for the first 1.5 secs of the cd`s uptime. Ontop of this you would want to pop SR so would lose 2 buffed GCDs. But yes, you are correct, the more you link up the less time wasted, however I would recomend the use of SR in your macro, not Feral Spirit. :)

[AntyScum]

@Lessien881 Aye, except Feral Spirit is a 3min CD and Blood Fury is 2mins so I prefir to have them seperate. I do have one simila to yours but with SR and the glove cd linked up instead of Feral Spirit. Reason being Wolves are up for 45 secs, SR 15, BF 15, trinket 20, so I prefir to time my burst dps with shammy rage (12% bonus dmg) as it falls in the wolves up time anyway so makes little difference to them. Saying that, I have just concidered a 2nd SR cast with BF etc. linked and alternate CDs.

[Lessien881]

@AntyScum I knew i forgot a buff in there! You would be best off to make macros for trinkets to pop with your wolfs

#showtooltip Feral Spirit

/use Feral Spirit

/use 13

/use 14

/use potion of speed

/use Blood Fury

[AntyScum]

@Lessien881 It may be unclear but I actualy popped wolves, then BL, then the ratial and trinket while the GCD ticks as they are not GCD bound (and are macroed together as they share a CD) then shammy rage macroed with the eng haste buff (got bombs too now). Dummys dont give good dps figures, but run a sim (EnhSim/RAWR), only select your buffs, then dps the dummy and you can get a % performance. Tho the value is for the most part pointless the % is still credable.

PS: I also miss ramp/LotP :)

[Lessien881]

@idioticinc Ohh and he used his wolfs, racial and trinkets all in a row instead of a macro to do them all which would of saved him 2-3 GCD of time

[Lessien881]

@idioticinc They do not require more hit he is not getting max dps because testing dps on a dummy is stupid. The dummy is missing: 20% armor reduction 13% increased spell dmg 3% increased crit chance 4% increased physical dmg He is missing: Kings Might TotT (if he is the 2nd in dps the rogue should be tricking him) Demonic Pact or Flametongue totem ( he should be using magma totem every 20 seconds if ele is on CD) Arcane Empowerment Flask of Endless Rage Potion of speed x2 I think thats it

[AntyScum]

@idioticinc I wasnot awair they needed more hit, I may have to look in to that then, or do you meen because of no misery/fairy fire buffs we need more hit? in which case it falls in to the same point that "TheFOURYEARSTRONG" and I were already mentioning re raid buffs:) For me the hit isnt an issue on the dummys tho as when I do occationaly raid on this it is 10man where we lack SPriests and Boomys:) but yeh, another example where dummy dps is inacurate compared to raid dps:)

[idioticinc]

@AntyScum the dummies also require more hit so you are not getting max dps.

[AntyScum]

@TheFOURYEARSTRONG no problem, always hoped it would help someone:) yeh, actual dps on a dummy is missleading, and yes, we gain allot of dps from raid buffs. Dummys are handy for practising "rotations" though, and testing ui tweeks. You can also compare dummy bash sessions for gear or "rotation" tweek checks, but it shouldnt be seen as an acurate way of assessing raid dps as you say. PS: I now realise the Silvermoon dummy can be dpsed without AoE messing up the meters.

[TheFOURYEARSTRONG]

dps to the dummy is really misleading which is why i dont even do it..liek on my hunter Samljackson-rexxar i do 5k dps on the dummy but when the 20% icc buff was active i was doing 13k average...mot of ur dps comes form raid buffs and obviously the now 30% icc buff. i just ignore the dummy now so it doesnt lower my self esteem for dps hahaha btw thanks for the video i have a newly 80 shammy and im gonna try and go enhance this was rly helpful