ive had the SAME experience, I am nothing but thrilled with these changes.

I currently use Wicked Edge of the Planes + Merciless Glad, and am looking to upgrade to RT/Syphon or Syphon/Syphon, but according to the Sim my DPS would go down with RT/Syphon and would only improve by 4dps with Syphon/Syphon... yet with Dragonstrike/Merciless Glad it goes up 14dps and Vengful Glad/Vengful Glad up 10dps... thinking about switching to mace spec and making a dragonstrike =/ Im pretty disappointed that the Syphons aren't a bigger upgrade.

The leather belt / helm that drop in ZA are amazing too - i am thrilled since my guild is only 2/5 3/9.

I'm ecstatic with these new changes, although I have to add the caveat that I'm yet to raid with them. With Shamanistic focus up Earth shock costs 181 mana. (I usually have the sound switched off in game so I can listen to TS/music. thie sound effect makes me wish I'd never switched it back on.) In my gear, with the SS debuff on the mob, it's hitting for about 1k-1.1k. The damage reduction from SR is also a big deal. I've only tested it while grinding mobs for rep and cash at the moment, but I like very much what I've seen of the changes.

I honestly think that enhancement shamans are very very good at grinding/farming mobs now. I was at legion hold last night grinding locks. People would show up, kill a few mobs, then notice that they could only get one of the three pylons. I had the other two locked down, my kill rate was so insane. The other benefit to grinding is that with so much mana efficiency I switched the 5 points I had in cheaper heals into imp healing wave, .5sec off cast times adds up over a 2 hour grinding session.

I realise this is just anecdotal evidence, but I'll try to get a wws parse up of tonight's ZA run. I'd much rather run that raid for as long as it takes to get some weapon upgrades than grind the 14k honour I need for a S1 weapon.

NO WONDER! I was freaking riding 125% threat on VR, TRYING to die so I could battle ankh... and never pulled agro!

Someone wanted to know dps breakdown for Enh/Res spec, but this was only for VR: But I'm a bit undergeared compared to the Ele/Enh poster I suspect.

Melee 174,815 = 45%
Windfury Attack 131,397 = 34%
Flame Shock 47,929 = 12%
Earth Shock 2,196 = 0%
StormStrike 29,390 = 7%

Note, my earth shocks were 'accidents' as we had an Elemental Shammy, and I was trying to ONLY flame shock, but habit... Also, I was twisting TA Totem like crazy because I was at 100% threat for so long. I probably spent a decent chunk of time not attacking because I thought I was hitting too much threat earlier. My shock damage probably could have hit upwards of 15% with a FS/ES rotation.

A quick look in the shaman module of Threat shows:

I updated my Ace mods yesterday evening.

And where do you have this information from?

I checked Omen\Libs\Threat-1.0\ClassModules\Shaman.lua and found:

-- Sets the Spirit Weapons modifier at 0.3 if we're dealing with a 2.3.x build
local SpiritWeaponsModifier = (self.IsTwoPointThree and 0.3) or 0.15

The file date is 28. Sep. 2007, so it seems like it is updated for spirit weapons since a long time already.

I said the Stonebreaker had a 10-11 second cooldown in my original posting... (can you put this in the OP Malan). Regardless, I got a 50%+ uptime on the buff on 0 resist targets (Blasted Lands Servants).

Malan, you write that Searing totem in 2.3 is doing 60-70dps. I wonder why mine was hitting for near or over 300 today (it variated). Thats 150 dps. Though i have call of flame talent, so 130 for enh/resto. That totem did 8% of my dps alone in void reaver. 150 dps that doesnt cause threat. what else can an enhancement shaman ask for...

Threat-lib issues

Threat lib had a bug where it never detected the new 2.3 version (Antiarc posted about it in the Omen/ThreatLib thread).

It should be fixed now.

(essentially, he had forgotten to retrieve the actual version number and just used a constant "2.2.0" instead)

Curious--I didn't check the code when I claimed it hasn't been updated, when it apparently has. Why I claimed that, though, was that yesterday, and even now (r54414.10) hitting a mob for 1000 melee damage causes Omen to display 850 threat, at least on my system. That should be only 700, right?

edit: the version check is the culprit, and the bug is still live. Specifically, self.IsTwoPointThree does not return true at the moment, so we are getting too much threat displayed on Omen. If it doesn't get fixed by your raid today, you can change the line quoted above to

Thanks for the omen heads up even though it was a bit late .

Best part about this latest patch was my whole play style changed.

I was basically dropping WF - Str then chilling for a sec then going in waiting for 3~4 seconds untill everything proced then dropped healing stream and searing totem.

It's fun seeing healing stream tick for 120+ on RoS

Seems it's time to start gemming my gear with 15+ stamina gems.

I just hit an all out low of 8k UB hp >_<.

Time to drop Blacksmithing & pick up enchanting for the 4+ to all stats.

The reason you are seeing an increase in Searing Totem DPS is the new AP -> spell damage talent in enhancement. In my current AP gear I have just under 500 +Spell damage... An increase of.... 500? I wonder if the temporary AP increase WF applies to the paper doll affects your spell damage for a split second? I wonder if you fluked out you could get an ES for 2300+ with the right conditions in T5 equivalent gear.

WTF you must be kidding me

Yeah I was wondering why that wasn't in the OP, had reservations about using the totem until I saw updated math with the CD info.

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Anyway, I have to agree with what's been already said here - no need to hold back due to threat, more damage, better on the spot heals, Shamanistic rage acting as a Diet Shield wall, close to none manaproblems, I consider this patch nice early Christmas present.

WWS

I had a 50% uptime in the Maulgar fight, and slightly less on Gruul. The resist % was around the same. Our WWS parses got de-synched though due to some people running outdated Recount and lagging out as a result. I think like 5+ people in the raid were relogging around grow 9. I will get better data on Sunday in TK.

This week is attunement week for us, so thankfully I have WWS parses from pre2.3 of the same bosses.
Also, before 2.3, I was a habitual totem twister with medium to low earth shock usage.
I've since honed my twisting skills and with 2.3 I use a ton of earth shock while still twisting to nearly 100% uptime of WF. I've not found an addon that counts debuffs on bosses, so I've not used flame shock all too often, fearing that I'd knock tongues off or something drastic.

2.2 _ the bladefist+merci glad axe, leatherboots from kara, no t5 4piece bonus, no band of devastation
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2.3_ syphon+syphon
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i interrupted priest on FL (so just look at my damage against Karathress himself)
On Vashj, i got the first two charges, so I did nearly zero damage in phase1.

Wow, i wish i could just delete this post. I was merely trying to put up what could be useful WWS information and it turns out that I did substantially less damage in 2.3 than in 2.2. Of course Leotheras is a terrible example to use, but Karathress and Vashj aren't shining examples of melee not influenced by randomness either. All in all, my data more or less just shows that in SSC, it doesn't matter what gear I'm wearing or what changes Blizzard does to my talents. The less than melee friendliness of the area counters any gearing decisions I could make. Hopefully keying is done and on Sunday or Monday, i can look through WWS of tier6 content and have some real results for folks, which I'll do some math on first, before wasting a post.

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Edit: Silly me, I respecced resto for some arena... But I know what your gear was like, I'm about at the same level now. (T6 helm, gloves and shoulders, midnight chestguard, bracers and neck from anetheron, cloak of darkness, DS + Syphon, Stonebreakers totem, Belt of One-Hundred Deaths, Bow-Stitched leggings, Soft-Step boots from Teron, exalted hyjal ring and unstoppable aggressor, DST + Ashtongue trinket)

Major Flurry Bug:

Just read it here and now tested it myself. If you have only one flurry charge left, you wont proc flurry with the next critical hit.

Thanks for the heads up. Went and tested it myself just to be sure before I posted on the US forums and it is indeed broken.

WoW Forums -> [Bug] Flurry is broken if you care.

Thank you so much for this information, Last night during ZA I was completely confused when I went over our tanks and didn't pull.
We didn't bring a paladin, No salvation for the night.