this makes me really excited. i main Ele for wrath and i love it, despite its shortcomings. and while i am consistently top 5 DPS, i think that speaks more about the others in the raid haha. ive heard ICC doesnt really do Ele any favors either, so ive been debating on leveling a more viable class... but this gives me a lot of hope
EVERYTHING about Ele is better compared to Wrath. No more awkward having to run into melee with Fire Nova being used by Enhance only; now you spam Chain Lightnings into fulmination procs, with Earthquake if they will stay alive and in the same position for a full 10 sec. They fixed ALL of the scaling issues with your spells and especially totems down to editing the baseline damage and modifiers; talents now include more percentage modifiers and this makes all the difference. You do ACTUAL damage now like a real big boy DPS and scale properly. Mastery was wonderful since Crit has limited use for us; this is a BIG reason why they actually scale up now! ANY fire totem gives the SP buff and it's now a flat 10% the same as Demo so the buff is now EQUAL. This is killing two birds with one stone and makes totems feel GOOD to use. Fire Ele feels really good and you can use him with powerful buffs and notice the difference. With them becoming CDs later on this was the best iteration of totems in the history of the game. With more people sharing buffs the ability of Paladins and ESPECIALLY Shaman to change which buffs they bring still gives them the feel of a hybrid support while allowing you to do significant and relevant damage. The changes to gearing are amazing and means you WANT to be wearing mail and you have almost no competition for those pieces. Your CDs feel much better to push, and with a glyph you can CAST LIGHTNING BOLT WHILE MOVING! Then you also get another spell that allows you to cast anything while moving for a duration which comes in really handy. The only things really missing are the Lava Burst procs aren't instant and you don't have degenerate Lava Burst spam as your CD which admittedly feels good in the same way taking a massive dump does. If it had those two things it would be perfect. Downsides.... almost none... Devo aura and Stoneskin Totem no longer stack, Earthquake kinda meh outside of PvP bgs (hilarious when guarding a flag) and most of the time not worth it to use in PvE outside of raid trash that will live for a long time, and not many opportunities to use Unleash Elements outside of a super niche scenario that might come up once in a fight. It's a wonderful xpac for Ele.
@@afscrew123 I think it was the very last patch had a buff to Earthquake. What I am remembering is: if there are six or more targets who will live for the full 10 seconds AND not move for the duration it is worth it, but even then only edges out against just spamming Chain Lightining and dropping fulmination charges on Earth Shock. So yeah, basically not in most situations. You can definitely skip it in your spec unless you wanna protect flags in bgs. IMO if they wanted it to be a must have ability they could have made it so any target hit by Earth Shock that is standing in Earthquake causes an AoE explosion of damage. Then they would have had their interesting AoE rotation they wanted.
I played a ton of ele shaman in MoP and my god what a blast, opening a fight with heroism into ascendence and just slinging insane amounts of meatballs back to back was AMAZING feeling. Not to mention spamming chain lightning with all the overload procs you felt like emperor palpatine. Simple spec and yet so so good
you really do know your elemental shaman. i played one from cata through draenor as my main. first thing i did was see the stat priority say "mastery = haste > crit" and thought.... no mastery has to be way better. even before you get the tier bonuses, mastery is still amazing because when your tanks are gearing up the mastery causes zero extra threat, so i always went mastery right from the get go, so i wouldn't pull agro.
Will it be bad if I play Enhance in Cata, because I was lucky (unlucky) in BH raid, and now I have 2 items for mele set?? And BTW, I saw a mele shaman with 2x Obsidium Cleaver. Is it a good idea to use the best DPS weapon instead of 359 Agility ones?
In most scenarios for weapons you'd take the highest ilvl yeah. I mean if you have the tier, definatley give it a go, its not horrible, its definatley slightly harder to play than le tho
you just made me playing my shaman on and not roll smth new. You saved me some big amount of time. god bless you.
Shaman is BiS!
this makes me really excited. i main Ele for wrath and i love it, despite its shortcomings. and while i am consistently top 5 DPS, i think that speaks more about the others in the raid haha. ive heard ICC doesnt really do Ele any favors either, so ive been debating on leveling a more viable class... but this gives me a lot of hope
Ele is FIIINE in Icc, good movement and positioning and good ABC's and you'll be fine in ICC and they beasts in cata
U didn't change my mind
becuase i always planned on going ele shaman ;)
Thats cheating!
Good info man ty!
EVERYTHING about Ele is better compared to Wrath. No more awkward having to run into melee with Fire Nova being used by Enhance only; now you spam Chain Lightnings into fulmination procs, with Earthquake if they will stay alive and in the same position for a full 10 sec. They fixed ALL of the scaling issues with your spells and especially totems down to editing the baseline damage and modifiers; talents now include more percentage modifiers and this makes all the difference. You do ACTUAL damage now like a real big boy DPS and scale properly. Mastery was wonderful since Crit has limited use for us; this is a BIG reason why they actually scale up now!
ANY fire totem gives the SP buff and it's now a flat 10% the same as Demo so the buff is now EQUAL. This is killing two birds with one stone and makes totems feel GOOD to use. Fire Ele feels really good and you can use him with powerful buffs and notice the difference. With them becoming CDs later on this was the best iteration of totems in the history of the game. With more people sharing buffs the ability of Paladins and ESPECIALLY Shaman to change which buffs they bring still gives them the feel of a hybrid support while allowing you to do significant and relevant damage.
The changes to gearing are amazing and means you WANT to be wearing mail and you have almost no competition for those pieces. Your CDs feel much better to push, and with a glyph you can CAST LIGHTNING BOLT WHILE MOVING! Then you also get another spell that allows you to cast anything while moving for a duration which comes in really handy. The only things really missing are the Lava Burst procs aren't instant and you don't have degenerate Lava Burst spam as your CD which admittedly feels good in the same way taking a massive dump does. If it had those two things it would be perfect.
Downsides.... almost none... Devo aura and Stoneskin Totem no longer stack, Earthquake kinda meh outside of PvP bgs (hilarious when guarding a flag) and most of the time not worth it to use in PvE outside of raid trash that will live for a long time, and not many opportunities to use Unleash Elements outside of a super niche scenario that might come up once in a fight. It's a wonderful xpac for Ele.
Just a heads up, im pretty sure you dont tend to spec into earthquake actually, its like a dps loss over just spamming CLightning even on bigger packs
Also lava burst is insant with ur firelands 4piece set bonus ;) thats when we pop off even harder
@@afscrew123 I think it was the very last patch had a buff to Earthquake. What I am remembering is: if there are six or more targets who will live for the full 10 seconds AND not move for the duration it is worth it, but even then only edges out against just spamming Chain Lightining and dropping fulmination charges on Earth Shock. So yeah, basically not in most situations. You can definitely skip it in your spec unless you wanna protect flags in bgs.
IMO if they wanted it to be a must have ability they could have made it so any target hit by Earth Shock that is standing in Earthquake causes an AoE explosion of damage. Then they would have had their interesting AoE rotation they wanted.
Earthquake is very rarely worth it unless you need the CC element, i take it for certain fights on prog but rarely for farm
I played a ton of ele shaman in MoP and my god what a blast, opening a fight with heroism into ascendence and just slinging insane amounts of meatballs back to back was AMAZING feeling. Not to mention spamming chain lightning with all the overload procs you felt like emperor palpatine. Simple spec and yet so so good
MoP Ele sham is peak gameplay!
you really do know your elemental shaman. i played one from cata through draenor as my main. first thing i did was see the stat priority say "mastery = haste > crit" and thought.... no mastery has to be way better. even before you get the tier bonuses, mastery is still amazing because when your tanks are gearing up the mastery causes zero extra threat, so i always went mastery right from the get go, so i wouldn't pull agro.
Older video but relevant thank you
Will always main resto but always good to have Ele strong. Started playing shaman in mists, really excited to play it in Cata!
I'll play it for cata because for me personally, it got a lot better in MOP but so far it's a ton of fun.
might be my main spec, so tired of an enhancement spec that blizz doesn't even understand with mismatched gear
i go so oom spamming chain on aoe i dont get much mana back im confused never gone so oom on shaman
Its because we have low int and not enough crit for clearcasting / mastery for LS generation. In full hc gear im not having mana issues anymore
Could you do deep dives into all specs im really thinking of mm hunter or fire mage
That'll be the plan!
Hopefully we can get mike back then! We need a good shaman!
Wasnt Mike a Warrior when he left? or a Fire Mage? Or Ele? Or name "x" class here lmao, man rerolls more than me!
What is the WA pack you’re using? Pleaaaaase share!!
This was recorded a while ago and it wouldve been a random pack unfortunatley :(
How does snapshot work
Would you mind making a video on healer specs or one by one going over them?
I have a video talking about the best healers already and will be doing more indepth coverage soon!
Hi, what professions do you recomment for ele with resto off spec potentially in cata?
Tailoring Definatley, with either Engi or a stat proff (any of your choice)
Will it be bad if I play Enhance in Cata, because I was lucky (unlucky) in BH raid, and now I have 2 items for mele set??
And BTW, I saw a mele shaman with 2x Obsidium Cleaver. Is it a good idea to use the best DPS weapon instead of 359 Agility ones?
In most scenarios for weapons you'd take the highest ilvl yeah. I mean if you have the tier, definatley give it a go, its not horrible, its definatley slightly harder to play than le tho