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◊ Kaubel · 06/14/08, 7:55 PM

Post: [Elemental Shaman] - Wotlk Talents discussion
User: Niche
Infraction: Grammar
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Originally Posted by Darian_TruBlade

I think it's dangerous to assume that Lava Burst can consume another Shaman's Flame Shock. The closest thing in the game currently is Conflagrate, which won't consume another Warlock's Immolate.

I'm fairly certain, therefore, that we'll have to rely on our own Flame Shocks for our DPS rotations. The rotation there would be FS/CL/LiB/LiB/LaB without haste, in order to get 3/4 Flame Shock ticks.

There may actually be a strange limbo as one get small bits of haste where replacing the CL with a LiB could be more damage simply because the extra .5 seconds of casting time will tighten the rotation.

you are correct from a dps standpoint, but druids can swiftmend other druids hots so the possibility is there.

as an enhancement shaman looking at these changes it looks to me that it would be worth it to use flameshock only instead of a ES/FS rotation like we use normally, this way the elemental shaman gets the 100% crit chance every 5 seconds at a decent but minimal dps loss to the enhancement shaman's loss of the earth shock.

you might try designing a cast sequence based on having flameshock up every 5 seconds instead of 10 like most people are assuming. edit: strike that. just realized reading another post that lava burst has 8 second cooldown.