3.1.0 - Shaman Spell Changes + Tier 8 Sets

Spell Changes
* Flametongue Weapon had its tooltip corrected to reflect the proper amount of additional damage. (89 to 274 additional Fire damage for rank 10)
* Earth Elemental Totem: The summoned Earth Elemental should now have significantly more health and slightly more armor.
* Fire Elemental Totem: The summoned Fire Elemental should now have moderately more health and mana, and its damage scaling has been increased. In addition, the Fire Elemental’s spells now cost less mana.

Alchemy
*Mats updated for Flask of Endless Rage

Tier 8 Armor Sets
* 10 man
* 25 man

T7 vs T8
* 10 man comparison: wowhead comparison
Overall:
+12 Agi
+31 Int
+183 Armor
+174 AP
+11 Crit
+147 Haste
+4 Hit
- 11 STA
- 5 Expertise

* 25 man comparison: wowhead comparison
Overall:
+2 Agi
+21 Int
+113 Armor
+142 AP
+8 Crit
+156 Haste
-27 Sta
- 8 Expertise
- 4 Hit

Personal Thoughts on T7 vs T8

Obviously there is a huge Haste push this patch. Right now with T7 gear I have 252 haste rating which is 7.69% haste, so most likely Enhancement shamans with T8 will have at least 12% haste or more.

Expertise is obviously lost on both sets but with the new UR giving us Expertise reaching the cap will be easy. There is still a lack of +hit on our gear, which pretty much means we will continue gemming the same way with lots of +hit and perhaps a leather off set drop.

At least our set bonuses are amazing, they simply eclipse what we had for T7. I am expecting our EP values to gravitate towards AP and INT which continues the trend of enhancement shamans having a large part of their DPS come from spells.