Stop talking about Elemental. They have their own thread.

No, it's a straight buff, because only the basedamage of LO was halved. So with 1200 spelldam and normal lightningbolts hitting for 1530 avg, you have a 20% chance of another bolt with 1215 avg damage. And LO can proc from itself, without further halfing the dam. Elemental shamans are doing a small bit more dam then before, with lower mana costs, less threat and a better scaling with spellhaste.

AP = 1
Crit = 1.61
Hit = 1.17
Haste = 1.14
Armor pen = 0.19
Str = 2
Agi = 1.43

The new totem [Stonebreaker's Totem] is higher than 55 effective AP, since the duration is greater than shock cooldown, there can be a period of overlap where even if your most recent shock did not proc, if your second-most recent shock did proc you will have 4 seconds of the buff and 2 seconds of no buff, before your cooldown is up.

Probably of having the buff, for any specific point in time, equals:

[probably that your most recent shock will proc the buff] + [probably that your second most recent shock will proc the buff, and that you are in the overlaping duration]
0.50 + 0.50 * (10-6)/6 = 0.83 * 110 AP = 91.7 AP

Now, this is the best case scenario; it doesn't account for spell resists or cases when you aren't able to shock every 6 seconds

edit: this also assumes there is no hidden cooldown on the proc

Thank you Doctah!

I'll add those to the post.

Right. You get like 100 armor penetration on an item.

one 'rating point' of item budget buys you 7 points of armor penetration.

I have always found this to be a weakness of the AEP system, it should be normalized to reflect the item cost. People look at these numbers and think AP is mediocre not realizing that 1 point of AP is half as expensive as 1 point of str/crit/etc

It seems that same idol for ferals can refresh itself, but can proc on mangle after that one, so probably there is some kind of hidden cd, but around 15 sec max. I'd bet its same on this relic.

Berg I can add a note in there about that if you think that's an issue.

Is Yo's sim behaving badly for anyone else? Maybe its just on my mac, but I've tried using it now on 2 different browsers and it never finishes the sim, the java applet just goes blank.

Yeah, i was just gonna edit my post to say that it assumes no hidden cooldown. I guess if you wanted to get a benefit our of both totems, you could swap the new totem for the windfury AP buff, every time you gain the stonebreaker's buff; and then have a 15 sec timer (if this is what the hidden cooldown is) run, and then swap back to stonebreaker.

I'll check when I get home. I used to swap healing totems pretty regularly depending on if i had to throw a chain heal, or HW, when I was resto, but I can't remember if it causes the GCD.

So I'm checking out the new season 3 weapons on MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies.

Awesome weapons, nice stats...

103 dps one handers, 134 dps 2 handers, 247 spell damage caster weapons. The feral staff has over 1000 ap!


Except there is no 2.6 speed versions. I hope this is some joke.

Swapping a totem triggers the GCD, however it does not respect the GCD. So you can swap a totem while the GCD is still cooling-down, and swapping a totem will trigger the GCD. For this reason you can macro a spell like CH to begin casting, and then equip the totem of healing rains or what not.

Oh nevermind, seems like I overreacted and there is in fact one. Thank god.

No more tremendous gap between the heroic blues and Alar's fist weapon.

Fool's Bane and Decapitator Have just been found to be changed from Main hand only to One Handers. OH items for we lower raiding shaman just got way better. Do these changes affect Yo's model?

@ChaguraED: why would they? in the end they are simply stats and dps numbers, I cant really see this changing Yo!'s sim.

Sorry, My Mistake. Was curious about the 'Use' function of decapitator in the offhand. would it suffer 50% decrease in damage? I suppose it's fairly low in importance compared to the fact it will be usable in the OH

Sadly I'm in the same boat here. Every single one of our rogues (even those who already have a Dragonstrike crafted) want or have taken from me a Syphon. Our two fury warriors want it, too.

WTB some proof that Dragonstrike > Syphon, and that swords > maces in general.

That's pretty nice. Additionally, I am told that the Decapitator and Fool's Bane are now non-Unique and One Hand instead of Main Hand. This will fill a LOT of the itemization holes we face.

With my AEP values Madness of the Betrayer is 163.6 AEP because of higher value of hit rating and armor penetration. There's nothing wrong about this ZA trinket, it just gives different stats.