Hi, smalliam, try out power auras classic. Its really good, there's tons of tutorial in youtube, and there is an official website with some premade ones for ele shaman that not only tracks FS ticks, but lava burst ready etc. http://powerauras.wikispaces.com/Sha...mental+Exports

Only spell power buffs fire elemental and i use forte for fs because it tracks duration and ticks

Well, these questions are related. Here is a picture of my shaman's grid:
imgur: the simple image sharer

Grid can use multiple text lines. My top line shows name or health deficit and 2nd line is a hot timer. Depending on how big your central icon is, that may solve your first problem.

You can have buffs and debuffs like PW:Shield (or water shield in my case) show as icons basically anywhere on grid with plugins below. You can have them only show if they're cast by you, show a stack count, or a time remaining. Those icons could solve both of your problems, if you prefer.

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I've always come to elitist jerks for helpful information, I just went enhance for my guild seeing we picked up holy priest. I'm confused on how EnhSim works, does the program gather information as you play? Or is it all done manually, seems a bit overwhelming. I Have searched for help on various forums can't come across any. This is what I'm looking at http://i52.tinypic.com/2rd7q6v.jpg. I didn't find it appropriate to post this in the EnhSim thread since it's a silly question. I have manually entered the information on the left.

In a Telluric Currents/Elemental Precision build, which provides better mana regen: Convection or Concussion?

Depends: Is 6% of 40% of your average LB damage more than 10% of 1405 (140.5)? Then choose Concussion. Else choose Convection.

Thanks (although I was curious if anyone else had already done the math).

The question is actually Convection 2/2 vs Concussion 2/3, so it's really 4% of 40%, or 1.6% of my average LB.

A quick test showed those landing for about 5650: 1.6% of which is 90, clearly less than the 140 mana gain from Convection. Although actually this would be somewhat higher when taking into account crits. (About 98)

In fact to get equal or higher gains from Concussion 2/3, LB would have to hit for 8750 on average (higher even than one of my LB would currently crit for), which seems very unlikely outside of special situations like Magmaw's impale phase.

I've been having the same problem, but casting Flame Shock usually causes it to attack the target. If not, I just drop it again. I play enha myself so my case is a bit different, as I can use my empty GCDs to drop it (and its first on our priority anyways.)

Casting Flame Shock on target dummy before dropping the totems also causes the totem to correctly attack it, and it continues attacking as long as you keep FS on it.

As far as I know, Searing Totem is the best normal fire totem for ele.

Personally I think this is not very good advice and I want to dig this back up briefly to discuss why.

You should never really cast HS or GHW without tidal waves up. So this analysis assumes that TW is up.

For my last 5 man, which is the only thing I currently have a log for, my average HS was 17627 with 43% crit. My crit for the run was 20%, so I obviously cast a few HS without TW. As you'll see if I had used them with TW it would have made HS even better than GHW. My average GHW hits for 19000.

Even though HS only procs improved water shield at 60%, I have a (0.43) * (0.6) = 25.8% chance to proc. I have a 20% chance with GHW. Right away I'm gaining more mana by casting healing surge. When you take this into account, the HPM for the two spells become:
GHW: 3.03 HPM
HS: 3.21 HPM
Not a huge difference, but good enough to keep me away from GHW. HS is also considerably more HPS with the crit buff.
Not including the global cooldown:
GHW: 19000 / 1.6 s ~ 11900 HPS
HS: 17600 / 1.3 s ~ 13500 HPS

Without going into a ton of detail, the simple answer is, healing surge outperforms in both HPM and HPS. If you have numbers to the contrary I'd love to see them, because I've been healing without GHW at all for most of cata.

Maybe tomorrow, after patch day, this conversation will change. But the numbers I've seen in the other thread here seem to indicate that GHW will simply come closer to HS, but not surpass it, so that the usage of either spell becomes more situational, i.e. you use GHW when you don't want to rely on a crit.

What I have noticed about Searing Totem is that you have to actually be in combat for it to start firing at anything. I don't even drop it before fights now; instead my initial sequence is: all other totems (including a flametongue totem if no other 10% spell damage buff in the party/raid) -> flame shock -> searing totem -> lava burst.
Another vexing behaviour is on Nefarian P1, where it will keep attacking cc'd adds if they are closer than any of the two dragons.
Aside from these, searing totem is a significant part of elemental dps, no other non-cd fire totem can contribute as much on a single target. (Magma totem is better on multiple targets but you have to be close to the mobs to drop it, just channeling earthquake is usually better.)

If you don't heal your Fire Elemental, he will die from environmental damage, just like anything else. He takes a significantly reduced amount like other pets, but unless he gets some amount of healing he is going to die (like other pets.) The only difference in our Fire Ele and other pets is the lack of a unitframe and control functions, which means he doesn't get random hops from smart heals, he'll only pick up environmental heals (like Healing Rain) unless he is specifically targeted.


Annoying, yes, unintended, no.

Also, I'm not actually suggesting YOU heal him. That is almost certainly a net negative beyond maybe tossing your Gift of the Naruu [if Draenei] on him while moving from a slime of your own. If you can bribe a heal to put him on focus, he'll have a much easier time living, even with something as simple as keeping a Rejuv or Renew on him.