New changes are weird. The totem GCD thing I approve of, was REALLY really needed in PVP, 1.5 sec GCD meant 6-7 seconds lost on dropping the essential totems, I wont even go into time loss if you had a rogue on your back while doing it. Its going to be a lot easier now.

The shamanistic rage thing I don't like at all. For one, it was great as a damage reducer in PVE, since it had long duration and some good timing on it would help a lot in overall survivability (RoS phase3, just as an example). In PVP it was even better, I loved my "shieldwall" macro (1h+shield+sham rage), not to mention that if you waited for warlock to put all his nice DOTs on you, then use sham rage, together with resilience it would almost make his DOTs do half damage.

Also, its another problem for threat sensitive fights with the new changes to SR. Before, gaining full mana during 30 seconds of SR meant increasing your TPS around 10-15% during 30 seconds, now it will become a 15 second 30% increase (those numbers are a rough estimate). Couple of lucky WF procs and lucky SR procs - HUGE threat burst.

Dunno what to think of FT yet, I'll wait until I try it out in arena...

I don't know if someone already said this. FT is bugged at the moment on PTR. Don't let people get you in duels or try this in BG's until you know it's fixed. Right now it's actually increasing heals by 50% on the target. I did an enhancement pvp spec and duelled a resto shaman for about 10 min before I finally just went oor of him and forced myself to forfeit the duel. It was misreable. He'd get off massive heals and go right back to full, it was BS. I realize it's a bug, just forwarning you to check it when you hit PTR for testing.

Instant GW + 50% slow duration decresed = OP fyi. You can kite anything except for a druid.

spamstring? they'll just have to put it on you twice as much; won't change much

I can't see kiting any class, because kiting requires range.

I can see escaping:
Priests
Rogues without cooldowns
Some locks
Paladins

And two of those were already on the list.

I am severely underwhelmed with our mobility changes. This half-assed way of going about our problems sucks. Just give us the stupid OP druid ability, or give us a stupid OP warrior ability, or a stupid OP rogue ability. Getting it halfsies is a poorly though out move that further increases our role as a chance based class.

With a warrior or a hunter, you know you're going to get that MS affect onto someone, due to ranged application or charge/intercept. With a shaman, it's still a crapshoot.

I am uncertain if twisting has been removed from 2.4; if it hasn't, then a 1s GCD for totems is a big deal for totem twisters.

Unfortunately, a 50% SR nerf means twisting is going to be that much harder. In fact, I'd wager that's one reason for the nerf. Why change the WFT mechanic when you can just make it prohibitively expensive to exploit? Twisting is more valuable to a raid than shocking with a resto spec; it's not better than shocking AND striking.

My question is regarding Executioner and Cloth Bosses.

I know we are still preferred to have Mongoose/Mongoose as stated in the main page. However has anyone done any tests on bosses that are considered "Caster" Bosses (Solarian, Kael, Rage, etc?)

For myself I sport about 1620 AP, 29% crit and 140 Hit with about 120 Armor Ignore. This is my regular gear with Mongoose/Mongoose. This is what I use for most boss fights.

Now when I have been doing the cloth bosses I have been dropping to about 1500 AP and 28% crit, but keeping the 140 Hit and also hitting 520 unbuffed AI. In this case I am seeing some pretty impressive DPS numbers especially when executioner goes off. (Mongoose / Exec)

So my question is... Has there been any simulations run which would support Executioner as the preferred imbue given a cloth boss and a healthy dose of AI already?

Mana gained from a proc is buffed from 15% to 30% to compensate.

Hi there,
I'm checking this thread nearly daily but most time as reader only. Now I have a small question, for which I hope I will not be flamed.

It's about weapon expertise and the AEP value.
There is this necklace available for heroic badges:
+48 Stamina
+22 Hitrating
+21 weapon expertise

To get AEP values i normally use Enhancer to just show me in the tooltip. But it has bugged me why this necklace is performing so miserable. Enhancer showed me an AEP value of 36.3.

My current weights for hitrating and weapon expertise are 1.65 and 3.1 (got with Yo's simulator)

So it's rather easy to calculate
22*1.65+21*3.1=101.4

Am I right or am I missing something?

The Enhancer value is just the hitrating (22*1.65=36.3)

So Enhancer is bugged and has to be fixed for correct evaluation of weapon expertise.

If your not telling me I went somewhere wrong, I'll have a look at the code.

PS: If my English is quite bad, sorry I'm not a native speaker but I'm trying to do my best

To deal with mana problems during fights I bound WS to my side mouse button and spam it when I have a GCD free. Ofcourse, when they fix WS that'll be out the door, but for now it seems to get me through fights where mana is an issue. I look forward to getting 800-1000 mana back from one SR proc, it might make it worth it to swap in windfuried daggers while SR is going on.

Sounds like you already found the answer, its a problem with that mod.

12str is better from a raiding PoV. Enchanting rings is always nice, and will probably benefit you more than most other profs.

The margins are so small however (imo) that I would just go for whatever you think is the most fun/profitable. Good thing that JC and enchanting is profitable when used correctly