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Old 06/13/08, 8:53 AM   #5 (permalink)
Dra
Von Kaiser
 
Dwarf Warrior
 
Frostmane (EU)
First of, Elemental Oath strikes me as especially useless given the nature of spellhit. I can't imagine ever taking this talent in pvp or pve, not accounting for the possibility that we're missing important information about spellhit mechanics in WotLK.

Secondly, Thunder looks like a horrible PvE talent. Its mp5 seems to be comparable to watershield, for almost 3 times the GCD usage. The AoE effect will not find any use in most PvE encounters and seems only moderately useful for actual AoE purpose. There are numerous ways of making this talent useful in both PvE and PvP, for example they could make it targetable, they could give it a spellhaste/spellcrit/spelldamage/spellcrit-damage-modifier buff or they could swap it with Feral Sprit in the enhancement tree (where it would fit a lot better in it's current state), lets just hope the developers don't leave it like this.

Besides that I'm irked out about the fact that we are still missing some sort of group synergy that would make it desirable to put an elemental shaman in the caster group rather than a resto, since Totem of wrath just doesn't cut it. This brings me back to swapping Feral Spirit and Thunder, as the spirit wolves are rumoured (hearsay, dont shoot me for this one) to apply a raid damage increasing debuff.

Last edited by Dra : 06/13/08 at 9:02 AM.
 
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