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That is my dual wield setup, but with a Pugio Offhand and a ring which I escapes me at the moment. Not too bad to start levelling with.

With talents we can get some really excellent +hit and in levelling maces at 61 on beta, that gear allowed me to keep Unleashed Rage up 100% of the time, with 1.9 speed maces. One huge thing for enhancement shamans is the extra attack power they will provide to the entire group, SoE, GoA, Unleashed Rage, when you combine this with battleshout etc, you have a really powerful little melee group.

Right now, PvP is so funny with a DW shaman. If you're solo, we're the melee glass cannon, if we don't get attacked by anyone, we outright slaughter casters. Warlocks used to be annoying in PvP but I don't think I've seen a warlock that I'm targetting successfully get a fear cast off on me. However if we're targetted in PvP, we die faster than any class right now with a full enhancement spec which I'm sad about. If I get a partner shaman/priest, I will end up in the top, if not the top 3 of any Battlegrounds in killing blows and HKs because I go through enemies like mulch with dual Naxx weapons. But without a pocket healer, it's kind of a suicide bomber role, you go into a fight knowing you're going to end it at the GY :(.

If I had to spec PvP at level 70, I would take http://www.wowhead.com/?talent-bc=GZxVddV0sVuqZVfst00o. I miss healing focus, but with heals for in PvP, that seems rather irrelevant as I'd do more damage in 1.5 seconds than healing and an enemy attacking me with a shield could probably outdamage my weak heal. I really miss a 0/30/21 spec type build where I could be a melee beast and still have some form of protection in NS pre-20, but SS/UR is too good to pass up now, so it's just impossible to take that talent until level 70 at least.

I agree, your survivability goes right down the crapper as soon as you take off your shield; the extra AC makes a phenomenal difference in surviving against melees. Being able to live through the initial barrage of stuns, noobcoils, etc once the HP pool goes up will make things a little better, and the lack of itemization is an issue that will hopefully go away in TBC.

I'd probably think there was a problem with it if being able to wade in to a crowd of Alliance and instantly eradicate a caster with a monstrous Windfury + ES before all their friends kill me wasn't so much damn fun.

We saw quite significant Raid Dps gains pitting 2 groups of a TSA hunter, Lotp druid, Enh Shaman, Fury Warrior, and Rogue. We beat our best times on encounters which had static (some tauntable) bosses by large portions. Ysondre in under 2 minutes, Kazzak in just over 30 seconds, Onyxia fell like a rock, and Ebonroc/Flamegor which dropped like non-elites.

I have to concur that we suffer from being glass cannons, usually focus fired because of it in pvp, not to mention having difficulty with only hunters after they got the unnecessary dps buff. It makes for some good clean kill or be killed fun.

If Enhancement, don't hesitate to keep a shield bound to a hotkey to toggle when facing more melee dps than you can handle. Your immediate potential for dps will drop of course, but you'll more than likely live and your enemy will not. Lacking 15 points in Resto at this time is all the more reason to!

Mork- any easy way in 2.0 to make a macro that lets you bind/unbind easily? I just can't seem to get one to work.

I've just been using Itemrack. One of the built-in features is the ability to bind a hotkey to sets. I made one set for 1h+ shield and another set for dual-wield. Since both sets only have the primary/secondaries selected no other gear need change to swap between the two.

Yeah, Item Rack macro switches here too. Works well enough on my dual wield warrior alt.

Speaking of macros, is it still possible to create a NS+NW deal? I don't mind manually doing it, but it'd be nice to bind to a mouse button again.

/stopcasting
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast [modifier:alt,target=player] Healing Wave; [target=target,help] Healing Wave; [target=targettarget,help] Healing Wave; [target=player] Healing Wave

Do you have to hit that twice?

I actually like having my NS heal macro take two hits.....it allows me to use NS+CL when I need to.

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Okay, I found a very easy way to set up a onebutton macro without using up an itemrack set:

/equipslot [equipped:shield] 17 Amani Venom-Axe; 17 Malistar's Defender

Choose the ? macro icon and it even helpfully shows you what it's going to equip.

Totemic Call is now in.

Instant cast and triggers GCD. Destroys all totems and returns 25% of the mana cost to create them.

:woop:

Trainable, lvl 30. No mana cost, instant cast. Nice!

Now make Elemental as appealing as the other two trees please...

Hearing that earth shield got hit bad by the nerf bat, any news on it?

Looks exactly the same to me.

Why would Earth Shield get nerfed? It isn't overpowered -- it's a good 41pt talent. In PvE it's certainly balanced, and in PvP while it can be a bit of an "I Win" button against a solo melee class, we all know WoW isn't balanced for solo matchups. In group PvP against a competent group that has a priest, warlock, or shaman, it's going to be dispelled, and it's a really, really expensive spell to cast only to have it immediately dispelled. The problem is that most Alliance these days are too clueless about it to think to dispel it. The only time I lose ES is when a warlock puts his Felhunter on me. :(

NAC is now +250 damage and healing with 20% mana cost increase.

Didn't see that one coming, did we?

Other than when you cast it on the entire raid before they zone in to fight Vael. Not that we just did that.

Some asshole on the Beta forum was screaming that it got nurfed to a 2 min duration HoT. Like 10 people replied and said he was an idiot, but the damage was done. Oh and he was also claiming that they removed the interrupt prevention.

This asshole in fact. http://beta.worldofwarcraft.com/thre...=1861058&sid=1