WotLK [Guide] Enhancement Shaman DPS

[Narwien]

I specced my Enhancing Totems since str of the earth totem does stack with the horn from dks through a bug, try /cancelaura Horn of Winter then drop str of the earth totem then just w8 for a dk to recast his horn.
I find Improved Windfury Totem worthless since most of the time in a raid (specially in a 25man composition), there will be atleast 1 frost dk since frost is the most commonly use dps spec in raid.


Is having 1point only on Maelstrom Weapon good enough?


Maybe because the pet scaling has not yet fix, I haven't try to dps as an enhance in icc after the patch, but I'm quite sure that the fire elemental totem will be a dps increase.

Currently, I'm using ap+haste, pure haste, expertise and hit+pure expertise gems. So far my expertise is 18/18, with 471 hit rating. What i wonder is: Should i drop pure expertise gems for more ap+haste, or pure haste gems? Do i really need so much expertise, because so far our expertise talents seems to be broken. Also, don't forget more WF procs means more MW procs, which leads to dps increase.

[6r33n]

I haven't try to dps as an enhance in icc after the patch, but I'm quite sure that the fire elemental totem will be a dps increase.

For some reasons my skada counts the ele totem as a seperate player. Anyway on a dummy its doing 1-1.5k dps. Single target ofc.

[danito98]

Is WF wepon still buged and is it better to use 2x WF wepon or WF/FT wepon?

[Aradash]

Is WF wepon still buged and is it better to use 2x WF wepon or WF/FT wepon?

yes, it still bugged both main and off hand weapons have different cooldown for it
so basicaly ~12% of your dps is findfury, and ~7% is flametongue so ~19% both
and with 2x windfury it's 2x 12% so ~5% more... -ish...

[danito98]

Ah ok tnx a lot :). Do you know by any chance what should be the hit and expertise cap for enhancement on molten?

[Anzerou]

I know that everything on EJ etc. says that EnhSham should use slow mh/oh, however with WF being bugged on here, does this still hold true or should we use a fast weapon (dagger?)? In offhand only, or in both?

[Anzerou]

Also, since we aren't using FT in the offhand, is it worth having lavalash?


I would also like to know if only 1 point in maelstrom weapon is enough - I'm still relatively new here and don't really have the gold to be respeccing every 10 minutes to test out different things :$

(I know that I've double posted, but I felt like this topic needed a bump after 3 weeks without a reply :()

For anyone on Ragnaros, /w me ingame if you want - Koranthal.

[Anzerou]

I know that everything on EJ etc. says that EnhSham should use slow mh/oh, however with WF being bugged on here, does this still hold true or should we use a fast weapon (dagger?)? In offhand only, or in both?

A triple post, I know; berate me if you will but I'd rather keep the flow of things rather than go back and edit what comes before and confused potential future readers.

After some more thorough research, fast OH is bad even for dual WF.

Slow/Slow is best, regardless of WF/WF or WF/FT. Slower weapons have higher DPS on them, which is better for WF procs and avoids "clipping" the WF cooldown. (i.e. swing hits just before CD and then have to wait 1.5s for next swing before proc can happen).

This doesn't however mean haste is bad, if a slow weapon is hasted down to 1.5 although there is potential to lose some WF procs, the increased white damage at least equates to the downtime, so it's still beneficial.

[SIGTRY]

As a RATHER experienced ENHA shaman of Ragnaros, I decided to give you guys some easy info. No unneccesary things to make it complicated. I've topped out at Deathbringer Saurfang 25man with 20k dps, along with my now dead guild oOSanityOo. I've gotten LK down to 30% at 25hc. 6.3k GS, 100% non-donated.
http://armory.molten-wow.com/charact...weaf/Ragnaros/

Feel free to copy my talents. If you're 5-5.5k GS, it may be worth putting in some points into improving your Magma totem/Nova.

Stats: Focus Crit/Haste items if you have capped hit.

Race: Orc/Troll. I myself am a Orc, due to the expertise bonus from axes. Tauren don't really get any benefits for the Shaman class.

Weapons: ALWAYS 2.6/2.6 weapons, fk anything lower.
Windfury/Windfury. As the original post stated: Windfury doesn't have an internal cooldown here on Molten.

Gems/Enchants: AP AP, Agility if AP is not an option.

"Rotation": More like prioritization.

#1. Stormstrike
#2. Lightning bolt(Only when the enemy is afflicted by a Stormstrike charge.)
#3. Lava lash(Since you have double WF, and not Flametongue, Lava lash is rather low priority.)
#4. Fire Nova(#1. If you need to cause some serious AoE Damage.)
#5. Earth shock(You will rarely use this, because you will be too busy with the higher priority abilities.)

Keep Magma totem and Fire shock DoT active AT ALL TIMES. Naturally, the same goes for Lightning shield.
Use Damage buffs whenever they're up, especially Shamanistic Rage.

Addon: ShockAndAwe is an OH so precious addon for enhancement shamans. It helps you to keep track of Maelstrom stacks, Fire shock duration and Lightning orb Charges.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/shoc...ther-downloads

(NOTE: My talent build is for almost BiS gear, do not use if you do not have enough hit rating/mana income.)

My name is Aweaf of the Ragnaros server, if there is anything you wana ask, send me a whisper or reply to this post.

[Moaraxes]

As a RATHER experienced ENHA shaman of Ragnaros, I decided to give you guys some easy info. No unneccesary things to make it complicated. I've topped out at Deathbringer Saurfang 25man with 20k dps, along with my now dead guild oOSanityOo. I've gotten LK down to 30% at 25hc. 6.3k GS, 100% non-donated.
http://armory.molten-wow.com/charact...weaf/Ragnaros/

Feel free to copy my talents. If you're 5-5.5k GS, it may be worth putting in some points into improving your Magma totem/Nova.

Stats: Focus Crit/Haste items if you have capped hit.

Race: Orc/Troll. I myself am a Orc, due to the expertise bonus from axes. Tauren don't really get any benefits for the Shaman class.

Weapons: ALWAYS 2.6/2.6 weapons, fk anything lower.
Windfury/Windfury. As the original post stated: Windfury doesn't have an internal cooldown here on Molten.

Gems/Enchants: AP AP, Agility if AP is not an option.

"Rotation": More like prioritization.

#1. Stormstrike
#2. Lightning bolt(Only when the enemy is afflicted by a Stormstrike charge.)
#3. Lava lash(Since you have double WF, and not Flametongue, Lava lash is rather low priority.)
#4. Fire Nova(#1. If you need to cause some serious AoE Damage.)
#5. Earth shock(You will rarely use this, because you will be too busy with the higher priority abilities.)

Keep Magma totem and Fire shock DoT active AT ALL TIMES. Naturally, the same goes for Lightning shield.
Use Damage buffs whenever they're up, especially Shamanistic Rage.

Addon: ShockAndAwe is an OH so precious addon for enhancement shamans. It helps you to keep track of Maelstrom stacks, Fire shock duration and Lightning orb Charges.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/shoc...ther-downloads

(NOTE: My talent build is for almost BiS gear, do not use if you do not have enough hit rating/mana income.)

My name is Aweaf of the Ragnaros server, if there is anything you wana ask, send me a whisper or reply to this post.

Maybe a stupid question but still I wonder.Why skip the wolfs ?

[aeeaeeaa]

Hello, can some shaman plese tell me what are the caps in molten? I've been searching and found several different answers to this question. Some say its like retail, some say it's different and then proceed to throw in various numbers.

Can someone indicate me clearly what is:
_the hit cap (im horde): 368 ? 446? other ?
_the expertise cap: 26 ? 20?
_the crit cap: what average % would be best unbuffed ? Is gemming crit when you're pretty low geared (but hit & expertise capped) like 5k a good idea ?

Another question for SIGTRY: I can't access you armory anymore atm, but I remember you didn't max haste at all, do you feel like it's mostly useless after a certain cap ? What would be the lowest haste you would consider getting ?

[SIGTRY]

Maybe a stupid question but still I wonder.Why skip the wolfs ?

I had actually not changed my talents in quite some time. When I was lower GS, I really didn't feel like wolves were worth it, because I did not have enough stats to make them strong enough to make a difference.
So:
High GS: Wolves
Low GS: No Wolves

I recently changed my talents a little bit, to adjust them to my gear.

Hello, can some shaman plese tell me what are the caps in molten? I've been searching and found several different answers to this question. Some say its like retail, some say it's different and then proceed to throw in various numbers.

Can someone indicate me clearly what is:
_the hit cap (im horde): 368 ? 446? other ?
_the expertise cap: 26 ? 20?
_the crit cap: what average % would be best unbuffed ? Is gemming crit when you're pretty low geared (but hit & expertise capped) like 5k a good idea ?

Another question for SIGTRY: I can't access you armory anymore atm, but I remember you didn't max haste at all, do you feel like it's mostly useless after a certain cap ? What would be the lowest haste you would consider getting ?

AP is more important, but you can never get enough haste. Try getting items/trinkets with as much haste as you can, and then gem/enchant them with AP.

[Scourgemommy]

Which fire totem are we supposed to be using? searing? thanks in advance! :]

[SIGTRY]

Which fire totem are we supposed to be using? searing? thanks in advance! :]

On a regular basis: Magma.

On a single target, fire elemental.

[Allanias]

Hey fellow enhance shammys, I have been playing enhance for a quite a while, and I was just wondering if anyone could help me out by taking a look at my armory. I feel like I'm well balanced with a solid 20k-21k on dbs, although i feel like i could do more. Anyways, check me out and see if you think I could improve my dps with diff gems/trinkets/enchants.

Armory -- http://armory.molten-wow.com/search/...aus&sType=char

Thanks :)