Please do another video for phase 4 like this. Also, keep up the content. Not many enh shams that post vods or vids and so having someone as good as you post commentary helps a lot. Much love bro ❤😇
Loved this video, been wanting to play enhance for the longest time but it always felt a bit intimidating with the priority cast rotation but after seeing this feeling a little more confident! Subbed and liked
Just a head up for fellow enhancers that are switching from physical wf/ft to spellpower ft/ft. Get rid of that snake syncing weakaura. You will actually lose actual melee swings if you don't. I found out the hard way.
Awesome video man! WoTLK has been my first xpac maining enhance and I picked up so many small little things to incorporate into my gameplay. The mammoth treats I had no idea helped with wolves and that macro is HUGE. Look forward to adding in these small changes on our tribute run tonight! GGs buddy
cleave does work through gormok which includes chain lightning Abilities that Cleave TO Snobolds while targeting Gormok: Cleave Heart Strike / Dancing Rune Weapon copy follows same rules Chain Lightning Lightning Overload Chain Lightning Swipe (Cat) Multi-Shot Seal of Command Avenger's Shield Hammer of the Righteous
So i summon wolves at 3:00 (when spell is ready) of fight with anub'arak and when phase 3 begins i right click dog frame and dismiss them so they don't heal the boss, correct?
what did you mean by 'lava lash totem' and 'lightning bolt totem'? great video dude, ty. i just came back to a top guild on my server and theyre making me swap to enhnce (rip the dream of tanking HLK) so i gotta git gud pretty quickly here
These are fairly accurate stat weights for evaluating gear this phase: i.imgur.com/ULl244O.png Hit crit and haste are lumped together for spell and melee since gear affects both.
If you have a resto shaman in your group, i recommend dropping 3/3 str/agi totem and going into full lightning shield. I have also been testing using glyph of lightning shield and I think it will be really good for single target.
Lightning shield glyph is worse than FT, nova, and stormstrike. You wouldn't drop any of those for it even specced out of enhancing totems for the shield talent unless you feel like losing dps.
@@WalterBurn we’re not talkin about the glyph, we’re talking about the talent. It is worth dropping enhancing totem points for improved lightning shield points
There are windows to weave still, it's more difficult to line up though since you're working with unsynced weapons but it's very much possible, mostly on 4. This guy doesn't look like he even uses a swing timer so I doubt he weaves.
I might need to switch from ELE which I'm awesome at to Enhance which I never played before because our frost DK wants to go Unholy and we need the melee haste. So you don't find it necessary to desync your weapons and use the enhance swing timers to time your LB's to hit before the off hand hits? It honestly what turned me off of enhance to begin with lol. Edit: I heard you mention that as spellhance we don't desync and pay attn to the swing timers. In ICC what will be the meta, spellhance or physical wf?
for levleing would you use double flametongue and still downrank one? some guides say double windfury some say double flame and other windury mh flame oh
Thank you, this was really helpful. I main a Hunter and was excited to play enhance shaman alt. Until I saw my horrendous dps. I definitely needed some pointers and those Weak Aura trackers are the BEST. Holy cow. I went from major suck to middling suck. ^_^ Enhance shamans are by far the busiest dps class I've ever played.
I just deleted my 455/450 JC on my main, leveling tailoring as I type. Painful because I had 16 epic patterns. Atleast I have 2 other 450 JCs with some tokens saved up to replace some of my more important gem cuts
Idk if you still look at comments for this vid, but for bis list, I’ve seen argument for “true bis” is Belt of Biting Cold and Dark Essence Bindings vs Belt of Pitiless and Armbands of the Northern Stalker. What do you think about that? Is there any merit?
With using the 1.8 and 2.7 speed weapons, dont we want to wait to LB until 5 stack since you have a higher chance of clipping the swing timer? Also, shouldnt you save your 2nd pot (speed) for when you have a damage proc, not another haste proc?
If you run sims you can see that using maelstrom exclusively at 5 stacks is a dps loss. That works great for the 2nd pot! I don’t have any attack power procs so I use it with my gloves. Either way works fine.
Someone please clarify, he said keep your flame shock up as much as possible but followed it with “cuz it’s gonna be a dps loss if you refresh it before it drops off your target” was that a mess up? Are you supposed to refresh flame shock around 3-1 second left on it ? Or is it better to earthshock if it’s prio when FS has less than 6 seconds on it ? I’ve always wondered This and hearing him say that confused me say this
Lol and watching his dps section wheres he’s attacking I literally see him refresh Flame shock after and before it falls off. 😂 so idk which one is the mistake
Hey @Stooki, great video. One question, now that we don't use the swing timer and you saying that you can use Mael procs from 3-5 it means that you can clip the autos correct?
The rotation guide would be just so much better and easier to understand if you would use the WA or Addon that shows the flow of spells you just cast on your screen. Cause right now you only see that you cast something every GCD, but not in what order.
There's an internal CD on flame tongue weapons damage component. If you use rank 9 on your main hand and rank 10 on your offhand, they won't interfere with each other. You put rank 10 on your offhand as your lava lash will deal more damage with the higher rank.
Thanks for the guide, man. I have a question about fire ele on Jaraxxus and other fights where the boss can get moved away from the totem. Is it worth destroying the fire ele to replace a magma totem so I can continue to use fire nova in my rotation when the boss is moved, or do you just keep the ele and not press fire nova? I'm in pug runs so I don't wanna be the guy telling the tank to move the boss back to my totem all the time.
New Shammy here, I found it really curious that Flametongue Rank 9 is used over the classic Windfury from back in the OG days. I assume it sims higher?
i always prio'd fire nova over stormstrike cuz i read it somewhere, i suppose stormstrike over fire nova is the way to go? extra maelstrom and increases the overall uptime of it
Good video, really nice tip with the mammoth treats. You could update it with the new parse rules for Anub, phase 3 adds do count for parse up until you've done 600K damage to them
@@OscarPedreros-g2b you can get away with 89+ the only reason I gemmed exp is because the sim suggested it was a dps increase with my current gear setup
I quit after naxx but i want to come back to play whats the best thing i can buy from conq, triump or the new shard ? Weapon ? Trinket ? What would you buy from the things what i can earn in beta dungeons.
Heyoo , new enhancer in the making - question how good is double caress as a enhance? is it more worth farming the Aesuga in the long run? its the one day extra farm - and if i am to weapon swap do i go SP wep for 3+ targets? and stay phys on single? and o i also attach WF ench on single tar?
You need a spellpower mainhand for this spec. Phys weapons are awful, and they only get worse the more targets you add to a fight. There was a brief moment in Ulduar where if you had exactly GSD+Caress+Constellus, it was worth swapping to GSD for certain fights that have no cleave like Algalon, IC, Thorim, but only after using the SP mainhand to snapshot your fire ele, and you also needed to be good at weaving since the main benefit of this swapping was being able to bolt weave with synced weapons (There are no spellpower weapons you can sync past wraith strike, but there are phys weapons. This is their main benefit.) This phase, however, every fight has some cleave component to it. It's pretty much never worth it to swap off your spellpower mainhand in ToGC, and once you're farming ToGC and you get a reign of the dead, there's really no debate anymore since windfury weapon cannot proc the trinket. After you get the trinket there's never a time where phys mainhand or windfury enhancement are worth using. If you're new to the spec you should just grab a spellpower weapon ASAP and use that always. You'll probably find guides or random people on the street using phys weapons and pure phys gear but they're either clueless about the spec or using out of date info, this spec's classic wotlk iteration is being theorycrafted in real time as each phase releases so I would not trust any info you read online at face value.
Hey man great vid! Question though, which flask are you using? Ive seen people use Frost Wyrm and Endless Rage. Frost Wyrm seems to sim higher to me but it looks like you're using Endless rage.
@@WalterBurn is it still a dps loss to clip weapon attacks then(by not using swingtimer)? Also i dont sim higher with lb weaving on, thought it was only dps increase to clip weapons since so many still lb weave
Any tips on fire ele placement for Jaraxus? I found that when I placed it on top of the boss at the beginning of the fight, after we shifted to the portal my fire nova was not in range of the enemies sometimes. Same with beasts, is there a spot to place it on the 1st boss such that it will be in range to proc fire nova on acidmaw? Thanks.
You can wait until the first portal goes out and then use your fire ele but you'll be missing the spell power from wild magic pot for your snapshot. The best way is to ask your raid lead to move back to fire nova range after portals/volcanoes die.
If the tank moves away from your totem, I would just replace your fire ele, as the cleave from magma and your fire nova will out dps the ele. I did this and parsed 99.
I have a question regarding Maelstrom, would it be more beneficial to hold onto a 5 stack and apply Stormstrike debuff, or use the maelstrom and then apply stormstrike
So when your using a SP weapon you still weave your lightning bolt/chain lightning at 3/4 stacks? I thought we only did it with physical weapons cause theyre same speed and it doesnt clip our autos? Or is the clipped autos worth missing for extra lightning bolts?
@stookishaman fair enough! I'll give it a shot! Also do you drop your fire elemental totem as soon as Jaraxxus starts or wait till the portal spawns and drop it there?
Oh hells yeah, king shit. Any tips for northrend beast worms though? I feel like that's the biggest DPS loss and RNG of all as far as enhancement goes. The other fights are pretty straightforward and I already have 99 on jarraxus and 98 on twins but Beasts man...
The best way to parse is for the tank to stack the worms on top of each other and you spam CL. Other than that I’ll pre pop shamanistic rage before the debuff goes so I don’t die
What are you thoughts on gemming all AP/Haste gems? I know you can min max sim that but I feel like it’s a good balance to just do every slot with those
Yeah we kinda discussed it in the comments. If you have a frost dk or resto sham w/ enhancing totems then drop those points and go full into LS. thanks for the comment
Dont wanna snapshot fire ele instead of using it so early? Also for me Barb/Blade of Tarasque and Armbands/Bracers of Dark Determination sims higher for me.
@@stookishaman You said under the rotation that u use it right after hero rather then waiting as long as u can before prepot runs out for berserking/trinket progs. For me the dagger sims 80 dps more then the mace which is a huge difference.
The new equippable totem called "Totem of Electrifying Wind" can only be activated by lightning bolt. www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=47666/totem-of-electrifying-wind
Q1) If i have Flame shock debuff at 2-3seconds left on boss: Do i use earth shock(have few secs of no FS debuff on boss) or flame shock and override the last 2s of debuff or do i wait for the debuff to fall off and use FS? Q2) If i use fire elemental, but tank moves the boss away from the totem so my fire nova doesnt hit(refuse to move close back to it): Do i keep Fire elemental up without using Fire Nova or Do i recall Fire elemental and use Magma totem, so i can hit fire nova?
Hello. Am I correct? In raid with improved devotion aura or tree of life and mortal strike or aimed shot or wound poison my spirit wolves will heal me for 159% of their damage. Anub'arak will leech 30% of my hp every second and will heal for 115% of damage dealt. For example if my spirit wolf hit boss for 1000 damage he will heal me for 1000*159%=1590 hp. When boss leeches this 1590 hp under mortal strike he will get healed for 1590*115%=1828.5 hp. So if my wolfes for example deal 70000 damage over 45 seconds they will heal boss for 70000*182.85%=127 995 so they will do negative 57955 damage am i correct? In the end boss will just heal for 50k hp from my wolves and they will be useless?
wolves are a dps loss on anub P3, ideally you summon outside of leeching, but if you have to summon them during it you should summon them either during lust then put them on passive or summon when you get penetrating cold. In either case you only attack with them when you have penetrating cold to keep yourself alive. Any other time during anub P3 they shouldn't be attacking.
It sims pretty much identically on single target swapped with Ancestral Knowledge, and aoe the intellect is better. It’s a terrible set bonus basically lol
The spellpower one is better generally, but there's tech where you can proc the spellpower enchant pre-pull, swap to a cloak with the AP enchant, and proc that as you get into melee then snapshot fire ele with both. They have no ICD on equip, the buffs persist after unequip, making this possible. If you don't want to bother with that then SP one is the best to have on for general gameplay. If you're min-maxing the pre-pull fire ele buffs then you want AP on your bis cloak and spellpower on a side cloak that you swap off pre-pull.
It’s still decent at single target fights like northrend beasts. But honestly wraith strike will more than likely outperform physical on the other fights .
@@stookishaman sims currently as a 5dps gain over wraith strike. even constellus is only 10dps higher than wraith. I dont know if Im doing somethin strange with the sims but i dont think so.
Only 1 glaring issue is that you mention to use maelstrom at 3 to 5 stacks and you have no swing timer. You're def losing attacks by clipping this way. I'd recommend getting a swing timer with both hands visible and only really using 5 stack LB (occasional 4 but only really outside of lust window to weave properly)
What if I told you clipping your melees with a spell power wep is a very very minimal dps loss. We want to cast as many LBs as we can. Clipping your weapons with a physical weapon is a greater dps loss and will require a swing timer to be optimal.
Please do another video for phase 4 like this. Also, keep up the content. Not many enh shams that post vods or vids and so having someone as good as you post commentary helps a lot. Much love bro ❤😇
You got it!
Instant sub when a parser builds a detailed guide for their spec
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Thanks for the video dude, there has been zero coverage for p3 enhancement shamans on yt!
Thanks for watchin! I realized I missed a few things but I hope to get better at makin guides for you guys.
This is awesome, great tips man.
New shaman here so really appreciated.
Btw on Icehowl you can outrange the stomp if you stay max range (huge hitbox).
thanks for the tip! I'll try that this week.
Papa bless, thank you for your contribution.
Great guide man been looking for something like this with all the new stuff going on in phase 3. Appreciate your time
Swapping from ele to enh for phase 3 and further, sick guide great work keep it up.
Hi man - Great video. Helped a lot. Do you need to worry about keeping your weapons synced in WotLK? I dont see a swing timer?
Thanks for watching! If you are using a spell power main hand (which you should) then you DO NOT have to worry about a swing timer.
Thanks so much for getting back to me so fast. While leveling nothing matters right haha?@@stookishaman
Loved this video, been wanting to play enhance for the longest time but it always felt a bit intimidating with the priority cast rotation but after seeing this feeling a little more confident! Subbed and liked
Just a head up for fellow enhancers that are switching from physical wf/ft to spellpower ft/ft. Get rid of that snake syncing weakaura. You will actually lose actual melee swings if you don't.
I found out the hard way.
Awesome video man! WoTLK has been my first xpac maining enhance and I picked up so many small little things to incorporate into my gameplay. The mammoth treats I had no idea helped with wolves and that macro is HUGE. Look forward to adding in these small changes on our tribute run tonight! GGs buddy
awesome video!! I've been waiting for you to make a guide video since Naxx, best enh shaman out there!! KEEP IT UP!!!!
ty for video, just started playing my enhance, so this will help for sure.
cleave does work through gormok which includes chain lightning
Abilities that Cleave TO Snobolds while targeting Gormok:
Cleave
Heart Strike / Dancing Rune Weapon copy follows same rules
Chain Lightning
Lightning Overload Chain Lightning
Swipe (Cat)
Multi-Shot
Seal of Command
Avenger's Shield
Hammer of the Righteous
Thanks for the comment! They hotfixed the kobolds several weeks ago and they will now chain as long as you’re facing them!
So i summon wolves at 3:00 (when spell is ready) of fight with anub'arak and when phase 3 begins i right click dog frame and dismiss them so they don't heal the boss, correct?
Correct
Great guide, well done. Would be great if you could make a followup for min-max glyphs for each boss :)
I’ve been waiting for this for so long, Stooki!!!
what did you mean by 'lava lash totem' and 'lightning bolt totem'? great video dude, ty. i just came back to a top guild on my server and theyre making me swap to enhnce (rip the dream of tanking HLK) so i gotta git gud pretty quickly here
Totem of quaking earth = Lava Lash
Totem of electrifying winds = lightning bolt
Good luck man! I’m here if you have any questions.
@@stookishaman poggers big guy thank you very much. liked and subbed man, seriously would pay money for another one of these for icc
Hello man, please can You tell me how much hit/expertise do U go with? Really solid guide otherwise, loving every bit of it!
thanks for the kind words! I only use around ~100 expertise and ATM i'm now at 400 hit after upgrades (was at 341 which is fine for draenei).
@@stookishaman Thanks for sharing, will adjust/regem to have similar amounts then.
Stay pumpy our shaman senpai!
Great guide, tons of work put into this. Thank you!
Thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
thanks for the vid! very helpful - also love ur voice rawr
thanks for watching
Thanks for the guide! Are we still switching between GSD and a SP mainhand in P3?
Thanks for watching! I do not.
Thank you very much for the guide! I have a question though. Should I be using r10 flamet on main hand which hits more, or off hand?
Thanks for watching! Put rank 9 flametongue on your mainhand and rank 10 flametongue on your offhand.
Can you make a video on stat priorities and and your thought process on choosing one gear over another and what to look for?
These are fairly accurate stat weights for evaluating gear this phase: i.imgur.com/ULl244O.png
Hit crit and haste are lumped together for spell and melee since gear affects both.
great guide! really good job - was waiting for you to upload one
If you have a resto shaman in your group, i recommend dropping 3/3 str/agi totem and going into full lightning shield. I have also been testing using glyph of lightning shield and I think it will be really good for single target.
This is what I've done all through P2 (and now P3) as well, otherwise it's just a wasted/redundant use of talent points
This is 100% the move if you have a resto shaman.
Are you saying for enh to drop stoneskin?
Lightning shield glyph is worse than FT, nova, and stormstrike. You wouldn't drop any of those for it even specced out of enhancing totems for the shield talent unless you feel like losing dps.
@@WalterBurn we’re not talkin about the glyph, we’re talking about the talent. It is worth dropping enhancing totem points for improved lightning shield points
Thanks for the video really healpful
Incredibly helpful stuff, man! Definitely gonna get yelled at less in raids now.
Caress of Insanity is simming more than Hellscream Slicer[H] with bis gear.
Any idea why?
Might be the sim perfectly weaving
I turned off the LB weaving and still shows more DPS than with Hellscream Slicer [H]@@Gigatheologian
hey dude quick question, should we be trying to lighting weave with a fast MH or does that only really work with two 2.6+ weapons?
There are windows to weave still, it's more difficult to line up though since you're working with unsynced weapons but it's very much possible, mostly on 4. This guy doesn't look like he even uses a swing timer so I doubt he weaves.
Dropped a like and a sub. I also play enhance on grob! Would love a phase 4 guide specifically talking about the tier set. Both bonuses look nutty
I might need to switch from ELE which I'm awesome at to Enhance which I never played before because our frost DK wants to go Unholy and we need the melee haste.
So you don't find it necessary to desync your weapons and use the enhance swing timers to time your LB's to hit before the off hand hits? It honestly what turned me off of enhance to begin with lol.
Edit: I heard you mention that as spellhance we don't desync and pay attn to the swing timers. In ICC what will be the meta, spellhance or physical wf?
I learned on the yeti melee can stand max melee range and not get tossed back as well might help your numbers just a little
for levleing would you use double flametongue and still downrank one? some guides say double windfury some say double flame and other windury mh flame oh
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you, this was really helpful. I main a Hunter and was excited to play enhance shaman alt. Until I saw my horrendous dps. I definitely needed some pointers and those Weak Aura trackers are the BEST. Holy cow. I went from major suck to middling suck. ^_^
Enhance shamans are by far the busiest dps class I've ever played.
I just deleted my 455/450 JC on my main, leveling tailoring as I type. Painful because I had 16 epic patterns. Atleast I have 2 other 450 JCs with some tokens saved up to replace some of my more important gem cuts
Great video, not many enhancies out there any longer!
Only question I got is, Why us FT on both weps instead of WF on main hand?
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Great guide! Keep it up. What Glyph are you useing next to Flametounge and Firenova? Feral Spirit or Stormstrike?
Thank you! Feral spirit.
Can you poste your link to your Plater Profile als well? That would be great 😊
@@stats229 I use threatplates add on!
im new play encht sham this guide so good very thankss youu mr stooki god blessing you
Thank you for the kind words
Idk if you still look at comments for this vid, but for bis list, I’ve seen argument for “true bis” is Belt of Biting Cold and Dark Essence Bindings vs Belt of Pitiless and Armbands of the Northern Stalker. What do you think about that? Is there any merit?
Depending on your gear those can be a slight upgrade, the belt of biting cold is an upgrade for sure for aoe fights.
why different ranks on FT ?
Amazing video bro! Please keep them coming! Left a like and a sub
Awesome guide, would you be able to paste those macros?
Yeah I can do that when I get back from work!
Awesome thanks!
With using the 1.8 and 2.7 speed weapons, dont we want to wait to LB until 5 stack since you have a higher chance of clipping the swing timer? Also, shouldnt you save your 2nd pot (speed) for when you have a damage proc, not another haste proc?
If you run sims you can see that using maelstrom exclusively at 5 stacks is a dps loss. That works great for the 2nd pot! I don’t have any attack power procs so I use it with my gloves. Either way works fine.
Someone please clarify, he said keep your flame shock up as much as possible but followed it with “cuz it’s gonna be a dps loss if you refresh it before it drops off your target” was that a mess up? Are you supposed to refresh flame shock around 3-1 second left on it ? Or is it better to earthshock if it’s prio when FS has less than 6 seconds on it ? I’ve always wondered This and hearing him say that confused me say this
Lol and watching his dps section wheres he’s attacking I literally see him refresh Flame shock after and before it falls off. 😂 so idk which one is the mistake
Hey @Stooki, great video. One question, now that we don't use the swing timer and you saying that you can use Mael procs from 3-5 it means that you can clip the autos correct?
Yeah it’s not make or break. If you’re worried about clipping autos go 4-5 and you’ll thrive.
So, clipping your melee with a 4 stack maelstrom is a gain? Unless you were trying to weave it
Hey man. Great vid!
Would you still say tailoring/engi is the better option? I can see that you're using haste enchant on ur cloak on logs.
Are you weapon swapping in togc? I was told to just keep aesuga on and run with it.
The rotation guide would be just so much better and easier to understand if you would use the WA or Addon that shows the flow of spells you just cast on your screen.
Cause right now you only see that you cast something every GCD, but not in what order.
Really good idea. Will keep that in mind.
Such a great guide! "you got a sapper fck it use it " made me laugh hahaha
If a tank moves the boss away from your fire ele should you redrop magma totem or just not use fire nova?
Nice guide, thank you! May i ask why did you put different level of flametongue for the weapons?
There's an internal CD on flame tongue weapons damage component. If you use rank 9 on your main hand and rank 10 on your offhand, they won't interfere with each other. You put rank 10 on your offhand as your lava lash will deal more damage with the higher rank.
@@nabbrusc ah thank you, awesome
@@nabbrusc hello friend, has this already been confirmed? until today I saw no difference in using rank 9 and rank 10.
my friend, great video, a doubt, have you already tested 2 guns 2.60 with double Flementogue? I did a roll and got pretty good damage
Thanks for the guide, man. I have a question about fire ele on Jaraxxus and other fights where the boss can get moved away from the totem. Is it worth destroying the fire ele to replace a magma totem so I can continue to use fire nova in my rotation when the boss is moved, or do you just keep the ele and not press fire nova? I'm in pug runs so I don't wanna be the guy telling the tank to move the boss back to my totem all the time.
New Shammy here, I found it really curious that Flametongue Rank 9 is used over the classic Windfury from back in the OG days. I assume it sims higher?
i always prio'd fire nova over stormstrike cuz i read it somewhere, i suppose stormstrike over fire nova is the way to go? extra maelstrom and increases the overall uptime of it
Good video, really nice tip with the mammoth treats. You could update it with the new parse rules for Anub, phase 3 adds do count for parse up until you've done 600K damage to them
Thank you! It looks like they updated it to 900k but the phase 3 adds are still excluded :(
Thanks for magma totem placement tip. Is magma totem better than fire ele when there’s 2+ mobs? If we try to 1 phase anub what would you go for?
I use fire ele for 2+ mobs over magma totem. If you phase 1 anub and skip phase 2 then I would drop fire ele right after you pull.
Why do you use rank 9 flametongue on the main hand over rank 10?
I’ve been removing the storm strike rank 1 mana but it’s a struggle because now I have to actually focus on shamanistic rage
Are you using the default EP in wowsims?
Currently, I've seen your logs. You're not using AP gems anymore, are you playing with Haste gems now?
Yeah so after I dropped my 4 piece from ulduar I switched to full haste with a couple exceptions on my chest and belt.
@@stookishaman thanks for the answer, are you still using the improved WF totem?
And the other, do you think the 26 expertise points are necessary?
@@OscarPedreros-g2b you can get away with 89+ the only reason I gemmed exp is because the sim suggested it was a dps increase with my current gear setup
@@OscarPedreros-g2b no problem dude! I am not using imp wf because we have a frost dk in the group! I put those points into lightning shield
With our new totem...do i use LB instead of CL with 3 targets to get the Buff up?
I quit after naxx but i want to come back to play whats the best thing i can buy from conq, triump or the new shard ? Weapon ? Trinket ? What would you buy from the things what i can earn in beta dungeons.
Heyoo , new enhancer in the making - question how good is double caress as a enhance? is it more worth farming the Aesuga in the long run? its the one day extra farm - and if i am to weapon swap do i go SP wep for 3+ targets? and stay phys on single? and o i also attach WF ench on single tar?
You need a spellpower mainhand for this spec. Phys weapons are awful, and they only get worse the more targets you add to a fight. There was a brief moment in Ulduar where if you had exactly GSD+Caress+Constellus, it was worth swapping to GSD for certain fights that have no cleave like Algalon, IC, Thorim, but only after using the SP mainhand to snapshot your fire ele, and you also needed to be good at weaving since the main benefit of this swapping was being able to bolt weave with synced weapons (There are no spellpower weapons you can sync past wraith strike, but there are phys weapons. This is their main benefit.)
This phase, however, every fight has some cleave component to it. It's pretty much never worth it to swap off your spellpower mainhand in ToGC, and once you're farming ToGC and you get a reign of the dead, there's really no debate anymore since windfury weapon cannot proc the trinket. After you get the trinket there's never a time where phys mainhand or windfury enhancement are worth using.
If you're new to the spec you should just grab a spellpower weapon ASAP and use that always. You'll probably find guides or random people on the street using phys weapons and pure phys gear but they're either clueless about the spec or using out of date info, this spec's classic wotlk iteration is being theorycrafted in real time as each phase releases so I would not trust any info you read online at face value.
Spec priorites are Agility>Stamina>Intellect?
why use flamentogue rank 9 and rank 10, it has already been confirmed that it pays more? I tested it and it's the same. Thanks
Hey man great vid! Question though, which flask are you using? Ive seen people use Frost Wyrm and Endless Rage. Frost Wyrm seems to sim higher to me but it looks like you're using Endless rage.
Idk what it is but phase 2 I averaged 89 parses. Now I can bearly get 50s. I did focus on physical phase 2.
Testing today. But if you have the snake auto sync weak aura, get rid of it LOL!!!!
Is swing timer not as important? you dont mind clipping for a 3 maelstrom LB? i have hard time weaving with the 1.8 speed weapons hehe
ye ignore weapon timer if u have a fast sp MH.
Swing timer is important, even with a fast mainhand. It's still possible to weave on 4 with fast weapons without clipping
@@WalterBurn is it still a dps loss to clip weapon attacks then(by not using swingtimer)? Also i dont sim higher with lb weaving on, thought it was only dps increase to clip weapons since so many still lb weave
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Any tips on fire ele placement for Jaraxus? I found that when I placed it on top of the boss at the beginning of the fight, after we shifted to the portal my fire nova was not in range of the enemies sometimes. Same with beasts, is there a spot to place it on the 1st boss such that it will be in range to proc fire nova on acidmaw? Thanks.
You can wait until the first portal goes out and then use your fire ele but you'll be missing the spell power from wild magic pot for your snapshot. The best way is to ask your raid lead to move back to fire nova range after portals/volcanoes die.
If the tank moves away from your totem, I would just replace your fire ele, as the cleave from magma and your fire nova will out dps the ele. I did this and parsed 99.
@@markrobinson5151 good tip!
I have a question regarding Maelstrom, would it be more beneficial to hold onto a 5 stack and apply Stormstrike debuff, or use the maelstrom and then apply stormstrike
Maelstrom then apply stormstrike.
im wondering maybe its worth to go flame shock glyph together with FT and Nova? Since T9 adds up dmg for flame shock
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So when your using a SP weapon you still weave your lightning bolt/chain lightning at 3/4 stacks?
I thought we only did it with physical weapons cause theyre same speed and it doesnt clip our autos? Or is the clipped autos worth missing for extra lightning bolts?
I wouldn’t call it weaving but I consume my maelstrom stacks at 3-5. The clipped autos are worth the extra LBs.
@stookishaman fair enough! I'll give it a shot!
Also do you drop your fire elemental totem as soon as Jaraxxus starts or wait till the portal spawns and drop it there?
@@TheScabbyRat I use it right after I pop hero at the start and pray our tank moves the boss back into the totem after the portal 😂
@@stookishaman hahahaha ain't that the truth
Oh hells yeah, king shit. Any tips for northrend beast worms though? I feel like that's the biggest DPS loss and RNG of all as far as enhancement goes. The other fights are pretty straightforward and I already have 99 on jarraxus and 98 on twins but Beasts man...
The best way to parse is for the tank to stack the worms on top of each other and you spam CL. Other than that I’ll pre pop shamanistic rage before the debuff goes so I don’t die
What are you thoughts on gemming all AP/Haste gems? I know you can min max sim that but I feel like it’s a good balance to just do every slot with those
It's still very strong. its not as strong as full haste (after dropping ulduar 4p). You can definitely get away with stark gems through and through.
Really great job ! Thanks a lot
Why enhancing totems and not lightning shield but not Windfury? Are you expecting to be in a raid with a frost dk who’s not using horn of winter?
Yeah we kinda discussed it in the comments. If you have a frost dk or resto sham w/ enhancing totems then drop those points and go full into LS. thanks for the comment
@@stookishamanearly on do you do 2/2 SS or is it just assumed you don’t need the mana?
@@patrickhenry1249 you do not need 2/2 SS early on. Shamanistic rage is enough to keep your mana up.
Dont wanna snapshot fire ele instead of using it so early? Also for me Barb/Blade of Tarasque and Armbands/Bracers of Dark Determination sims higher for me.
Huh? You want to snapshot your fire ele with ur pre pot and buffs. And I explained that barb/blade is interchangeable with misery/sufferings end.
@@stookishaman You said under the rotation that u use it right after hero rather then waiting as long as u can before prepot runs out for berserking/trinket progs.
For me the dagger sims 80 dps more then the mace which is a huge difference.
@@ewweg check out the managing cooldowns section.
Why do you use Fire Elemental After popping lust and not the other way around like you are doing with wolfs? Doesn't Fire Ele benefit from lust?
Wolves benefit from bloodlust so they need to be out for them to get the buff, fire ele doesn't benefit at all from lust
@@markrobinson5151 what mark said
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What's this about using lightning bolt to trigger a totem? Am I missing something major?
The new equippable totem called "Totem of Electrifying Wind" can only be activated by lightning bolt. www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=47666/totem-of-electrifying-wind
@@stookishaman Oh god duh. Thanks for the response!
Q1) If i have Flame shock debuff at 2-3seconds left on boss: Do i use earth shock(have few secs of no FS debuff on boss) or flame shock and override the last 2s of debuff or do i wait for the debuff to fall off and use FS?
Q2) If i use fire elemental, but tank moves the boss away from the totem so my fire nova doesnt hit(refuse to move close back to it): Do i keep Fire elemental up without using Fire Nova or Do i recall Fire elemental and use Magma totem, so i can hit fire nova?
I would earth shock in that scenario.
Depends on the fight. Most of the time you would keep fire ele up even if it’s out of range
i have enchant if i would swap to engi it would be a big different ?
Yes engineering is by far the best.
Hello. Am I correct? In raid with improved devotion aura or tree of life and mortal strike or aimed shot or wound poison my spirit wolves will heal me for 159% of their damage. Anub'arak will leech 30% of my hp every second and will heal for 115% of damage dealt. For example if my spirit wolf hit boss for 1000 damage he will heal me for 1000*159%=1590 hp. When boss leeches this 1590 hp under mortal strike he will get healed for 1590*115%=1828.5 hp. So if my wolfes for example deal 70000 damage over 45 seconds they will heal boss for 70000*182.85%=127 995 so they will do negative 57955 damage am i correct? In the end boss will just heal for 50k hp from my wolves and they will be useless?
wolves are a dps loss on anub P3, ideally you summon outside of leeching, but if you have to summon them during it you should summon them either during lust then put them on passive or summon when you get penetrating cold. In either case you only attack with them when you have penetrating cold to keep yourself alive. Any other time during anub P3 they shouldn't be attacking.
So good guide helped me so much
Thanks! amazing stuff.
is it better to wait for a juicy SP snapshot with fire ele or just place him down asap?
Juicy snapshot
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Why not improved shield with the 4 pcs bonus from tier9?
It sims pretty much identically on single target swapped with Ancestral Knowledge, and aoe the intellect is better. It’s a terrible set bonus basically lol
So sp tailor buff instead of the attack power one? For cloak
The spellpower one is better generally, but there's tech where you can proc the spellpower enchant pre-pull, swap to a cloak with the AP enchant, and proc that as you get into melee then snapshot fire ele with both. They have no ICD on equip, the buffs persist after unequip, making this possible. If you don't want to bother with that then SP one is the best to have on for general gameplay. If you're min-maxing the pre-pull fire ele buffs then you want AP on your bis cloak and spellpower on a side cloak that you swap off pre-pull.
So is WF just never good? Even on single target? Coz i have 245 physical damage weps but still only wraith strike for spellhance.
It’s still decent at single target fights like northrend beasts. But honestly wraith strike will more than likely outperform physical on the other fights .
@@stookishaman ok cheers, ill just stick to wraithstrike till i get the dagger or mace
@@brazzledazzle-o9w you should pick up aesuga with sidereal essences
@@stookishaman sims currently as a 5dps gain over wraith strike. even constellus is only 10dps higher than wraith. I dont know if Im doing somethin strange with the sims but i dont think so.
@@brazzledazzle-o9w that is a bit odd. What are your weapon enhancements on the sim?
How do you have 2400 base spell power with that gear? I mean you didn't show full gear but you have 400 more then me and that's a lot
I believe I had a leftover flask on and food buff! That could be the difference. I posted my current gear and gems in description if that helps.
I am sitting at 2398 SP unbuffed @240 ilvl and i'm only using nebula band and Aesuga for SP items
Y i am missing the trinket i forgot that ap converts to sp
Only 1 glaring issue is that you mention to use maelstrom at 3 to 5 stacks and you have no swing timer. You're def losing attacks by clipping this way. I'd recommend getting a swing timer with both hands visible and only really using 5 stack LB (occasional 4 but only really outside of lust window to weave properly)
What if I told you clipping your melees with a spell power wep is a very very minimal dps loss. We want to cast as many LBs as we can. Clipping your weapons with a physical weapon is a greater dps loss and will require a swing timer to be optimal.
@@stookishaman that's only if you are clipping just the main hand, no?