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◊ Kaubel · 02/23/08, 12:23 PM

Post: Enhance Shaman: The Collected Works of Theorycraft, Vol I
User: Autolycus
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Original Post:

Hi, I play a rogue and I have a few questions in reguards to windfury and swing timers.

I looked through the Original post however I didn't see anything mentioned about swing timer resets due to windfury, so I'm curious if this still happens.

I know that there is a large difference between the way windfury on a shaman's weapon works, and windfury totem works. The shaman windfury lands as a yellow attack in the combat log and is incapable of a glancing blow, however, the proc'd extra attack from the windfury totem just says "You hit _____ for x damage." This is a white damage attack which IS capable of glancing blows. Other than the attack power buff you momentarily gain, the mechanics of this attack are more similar to sword specialization than to the actual shaman windfury weapon attacks.

Now a little while back sword specialization was changed to a yellow attack in the combat log, which meant two things:
1. It would no longer yield glancing blows
2. It reset the swing timer on the mainhand sword

They decided that it was too much of a buff and they reverted it back to the original mechanic of adding a white attack and NOT reseting the swing timer.

Anyways, my question is does the shaman windfury weapon proc reset the swing timer on whichever hand proc's it? That was my understanding, just looking for some clarification.

Thank you,
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