Cataclysm Shaman bugs
 

Patch 4.0.1 introduced some minor bugs to the game. If you find a new one, post about it here, rather than cluttering up one of the spec discussion threads. Note that this is not an open invitation to make terrible posts that break our rules. Whiny stuff like "the game isn't fun any more" isn't a bug with WoW, it's a bug with you.

Searing totem

It won't attack target dummies.* We already know this. Stop posting about it, I'm getting tired of giving infractions for the same thing.

*It will attack the level 83 boss dummy in Orgrimmar.

According to the testimony of several shamans at totemspot, elemental spec does not trigger Sindragosa's Unchained Magic debuff.

I was under the impression that my Searing Totem simply didn't want to attack any mob that was already tagged by another player. So basicly, it doesn't work in any city (since they're all tagged 24/7) but it works fine on the dummies of the Argent Tournament in Northern Icecrown.


I noticed this too last night.

I am having issues with lava lash consuming the searing totem stacks and doing absolutely nothing. (happens about 1/3 of the time) Am I the only one with this issue?

This is probably a bug with Blizzard's scrolling combat text. I noticed the same thing even though the stacks were consumed and Lava Lash CD was triggered. Further inspection to combat logs showed that damage was indeed done. Other combat text addons do show the damage normally.

Searing Flames seems to have the ability to crit, but is not using the right critical strike chance.

If you look at a number of public logs for the past week, such as

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

you see a LOT of searing flame dot ticks (Fuljer has 1055 over the course of an entire raid night), but a small number of searing flame dot crits. (Fuljer has 9 over the course of the night.)

Also in our last ICC 10 person, we pulled H Sindy 4 times and the first 3 times she initially aggro'd to my Lightning Shield before the tank. Strange, but true. I clicked off my lightning shield on the 4th pull and tank was able to grab H Sindy no problems.

Yes, I am currently glyphed with [Glyph of Lightning Shield] and had my Lightning Shield on at the beginning of of the first 3 H Sindy pulls.

I remember having this problem on Vael. The applying of his aura would trigger the shield and then he'd turn towards the raid and breath on us :) Probably the same here although you're right that it's clearly a bug.

This has been the case with LS for a while and not just on Sindry (Freya comes to mind). It happens to me and I'm not running the LS glyph currently so I don't believe it's tied to that.

It's always happened. I have it on a lot of bosses in fact. Not entirely sure what's causing it. I figured the aura before but I've had it happen on bosses without any auras or anything like it being applied (that I know of at least). Never really been an issue though.

Loatheb is a good test if you want to prove this. I have personally seen this around 4-5 times (at Loatheb fight alone). If Loatheb is pulled and leashed so he resets and if there is a shaman with lightning shield on, he will actually keep resetting over and over and you can see the lightning proc'ing (and doing the pulling).

I can confirm this. Last night on Sindy achievement kill, there was only 2 casters, me, as Elemental Shaman, and a Mage. The Mage got the Unchained Magic every single time over a few tries, no exception.

I also observed simmilar behavior with heroic sindy on Tuesday; we pulled approximately 10 times and

1) She aggroed on me almost every time before the tank taunted
2) I didn't get unchained magic a single time

1.) If you are talking about the very start of the pull she will switch to you then back to the tank, it is due to Lightning Shield. Sindy's frost aura will proc Lightning Shield hitting her and you will gain a split second of aggro. This existed pre-4.0.1

I don't know if you care about from the addon/combatlog/tooltip point of view, but here are some 4.0.1 shaman bugs.

1) SPELL_AURA_BROKEN and SPELL_AURA_BROKEN_SPELL events do not work for Hex. These events seem to work for every CC in the game except for Hex, they do work for Bind Elemental. Shaman using Hex are the only CC where you can't have an addon easily tell you what broke it.
Edit: Other CC worked prior to 4.0 except Hex. Since 4.0 apparently lots of CC do not work with these events.
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> [BUG] Combat log SPELL_AURA_BROKEN[_SPELL]

2) Lava Surge! does not fire UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED or UNIT_SPELLCAST_SENT events. It does log to the combatlog as a SPELL_CAST_SUCCEEDED, so an addon can monitor the combatlog to detect it, but most spell alert addons will not work for Lava Surge.
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> [BUG] Lava Surge no event fired

Tooltip bug:

3) Glyph of Earthliving changes the Earthliving tooltip to say that it has a 40% chance to proc (in addition to showing an increase to the amount), however from my testing the proc chance is unaffected.

It might also be worth noting undocumented shaman bugs that were fixed in 4.0:

a) Riptide hot not applying when spellpower decreases seems to be fixed from my testing.
b) Shaman hots scale with haste.
c) Wind Shear and Windfury Weapon now have different icons.