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I did forget about the snare debuff produced by Frost Shock, however as previously mentioned, bosses are immune and thus I would assume Frost Shock does not add a debuff slot.
Stormstrike (used once per 10 seconds per enhancement shaman) produces a debuff on the boss which makes the next 2 DIRECT nature damage spells hit for 20% more. This effect is similar to the Imp Shadow Bolt effect, where Nature damage DoTs will tick for 20% more, but will NOT consume the debuff. That is, if you have a warlock keeping ISB up, shadow priest dots will tick higher. Similarily, if you have an enhancement shaman putting Stormstrike up.. your deadly poison will tick higher until the charges are eaten. Instant poison, Wrath (moonkin), Earth Shock (enhancement shaman), Lightning Bolt / Chain Lightning / Lightning Overload (Ele shaman) all eat the debuff. Talking to the elemental shaman in my guild, each enhancement shaman boosts his dps by roughly 150 dps due to SS charges (roughly 750 damage per attack which benefits from SS). Having a rogue eat that up with Instant poison is a bit of a nuisance. Moonkins tend to Moonfire and Starfire if I recall correctly, both of which are arcane damage. I believe they have a reasonable cycle which includes Wrath (their nature spell), but don't use it if an elemental shaman is present (since elemental shamans are forced to do nature damage).
I think what it boils down to.. if you have to drop a debuff, switch to Evis first (especially if you have good ArmPen and Crit or no Mangle). If you must drop Deadly poison, it is likely best to use a Sharpening Stone if you have an elemental shaman in the raid. The few dps you lose by going from IP -> Stone is made up by saving your elemental shamans dps.
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