I modified your thing a bit, SentinelBorg:

Thoughts?

Edit to add: I also submitted this on PTR. For anyone curious how to easily do this, just use AtlasLoot or having someone link a T6 piece to you. Alt-left click the item link, then click "fill out a survey". Bam.

I didn't notice this question or discussion on it browsing back, but I was curious if it would be worth macroing my shocks to equip the Stonebreaker's Totem, Shock, the re-equip the Totem of Astral Winds. I am working on getting the badges for it, but I was curious if anyone else had tried it or would be able to try it and see if it's worth the effort.

Can you change relics in combat? I'd say no, but other classes equip weapons in that slot, so not sure.

You can change Relic's in combat, changing them triggers the GCD (only in combat) but changing them does not respect the GCD. To put it another way, you can macro together a spell with a cast time (Such as Healing Wave) and then equip the Totem of Healing Rains, and it will work, because you are equipping the totem after the spell is cast (during GCD) but the spell is going to use the totem when the spell is finished casting.

Combining this totem with a shock won't work, because the shock is instant, so you'd need to equip the totem before casting the shock, and that swap would incur the GCD, making the shock unable to cast until the GCD is over.

Edit:

It may be possible to use both totems if you have a rigorous shock/SS rotation that you adhere to. You could do:
/cast Stormstrike
/stopcasting
/equip shock totem

For SS macro, and

/cast Flame Shock
/stopcasting
/equip Totem of Astral Winds

I think this would be a major pain in the ass, though. I have my healing spells macro'd with totems, and it is actually not as awesome as you'd think, because if you happen to miss the GCD, you end up incurring an additional GCD (from the totem swap) and not casting the spell.

Another possible solution is a plugin (similar to ItemRack's trinket queue thingy) that would let you specify spells, and hook into events like casting-completed, casting-begin, etc, but I think it would still run into GCD issues.

Ah, thank you.

Just wanted to drop by and add that Enhancement Shaman will have two new slow off-hand weapons options in 2.3 that are worth noticing. The following weapons were originally main-hand only and will be changed to one-hand when the patch hits.

[Fool's Bane] (from Illhoof in kara)
Fool's Bane - Items - World of Warcraft

[The Decapitator] (from Prince in kara)
The Decapitator - Items - World of Warcraft

can you add to the first post the best epic gems to use from hyjal/bt?

Same as regular but the epic version,

[Sovereign Shadowsong Amethyst]
[Bold Crimson Spinel]
[Inscribed Pyrestone]

If people have a hard time figuring that out :P

I use Power Auras for alot of things:
-Invigorated
-Proc buffs such as Haste, (old) Hourglass, with timers so I know if it's worth popping Trinket/Bloodlust/Drums/Pot/what-have-you
-To check if I am in range of my buffing totems
-For debuffs such as MS (PvP)
-For HoTs ticking on me so I know I don't have to waste time healing myself
-To show if I don't have an elemental shield of some kind
-To show if I don't have a Shout while in combat

I can't recommend it enough.

On the subject of relic switching: it's not worth it for a melee class. Since switching relics will invoke the GCD, it means no auto-attacks then. It's difficult to time the GCD in between two swings, especially with all the haste effects we have occuring. It might actually completely reset the swing timer!

Malan: one thing you might want to add to the Stonebreaker analysis in the first post is that the observed uptime is around 50% with a 10 second cooldown between procs. It might be difficult for some to digest the results just based on the maths without the underlying premises. And then we'd get two months of people posting in this thread asking which is better: Astral Winds or Stonebreaker.

Im thinking on what spec would be the best overall dps for a raiding enh shaman once 2.3 is live.

SO few things. On the talent calc make some mental changes (at work so didnt look for a 2.3 talent calc).

2Handed weapons in 2.3 is Focused casting- Chance on Crit shocks cost 60% less

Mental quickness is the same as well as in 2.3 with 3 points -30% of your AP = spelldamage and healing

First is whats commonly known as the suicide spec:

Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Pros-

Increased fire totem damage
Faster shocks 5 sec shocks down from 6secs
Increased shock damage (5% increase)
Slightly cheaper shocks.

Cons vs enh resto spec (below) -

3% less hit
No extended totem range
Normal cost totems
Standard Heal speed
no healing focus


Enh/Resto spec

Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Pros -

Faster Healing wave
Cheaper totems
increased totem range
Healing focus (lol 14%)
Chance to hit increased by 3%

Cons Vs Suicide spec (1st link) -

Slower shocks
Standard fire totem damage
Standard shock damage & cost

Now my thoughts are that the suicide spec will push out more damage with the improved shocks and fire totem damage, especially with the new mental quickness.
My main concern is the 3% to hit is a big loss that would nerf melee damage to counteract the extra damage gained from the better shock/Fire totem damage.
Mana should not be a issue with focused state and Shamanistic rage.

Sure, I'll do it when I get home if the server's aren't down tonight (in 7 hours or so).

Really though, it's not hard to use, and you won't figure out what my auras are configured for.