Yes and he should add a signature with "My european main char shaman <Armory Link>", to save him from "post with your main char!"-trolls.

And I guess the current 10 sec stormstrike cooldown is a bug, because it clearly contradicts the patch notes. Most probably, the developer just substracted the 2 seconds of the wrong value (debuff length, instead of the cooldown).

Do we know how do the wolves currently scale with out AP? And from what I know, the sim. does not even simulate the wolves, which probably decreases the importance of AP a bit.

Anyway, I'll try and run some tests today to see how do they scale.

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Problem with 15 yards is the current UI give no way to know if you are 15 yards away or 14 yards away, just make it only root if outside of melee range since if you stick an "Attack" button on a bar it will tell you if you are in melee range of a target or not (which will also be important for using that ability on a focus macro to help peel from your healer in the Arenas).

(e) Wolves get 30% of your AP.

Haha, I think it's been awhile since they last tested it:

Ok try here instead World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Shaman: Unleashed Rage Change Request The PTR forum.

It's been a long time since there has been any need to test it but why would that invalidate the results?

When we get on the PTR it should be easy enough to run a proper timed test to validate the results, remove all haste and haste effects and autoattack a dummy for at least 100 minutes and see how many procs you get.

"Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem *new* -- Your Stoneclaw Totem also places a damage absorb shield on you, equal to 4 times the strength of the shield it places on your totems." -taken from MMOchamp list of changes to glyphs

I'm reading this to mean they are changing Stoneclaw to put a shield on the totems so they are not eaten as fast as they are in pvp as they are now.

Stoneclaw already puts a shield/extra health (its been this way since 3.0) on your totems to help prevent them from being destroyed.... this is only a change to add the personal shield.

Wonder if you drop it and then redrop another totem in its place if the shields goes away? I can't get into the PTR to test. I login walk about 3 steps and game crashes on me.

I am betting that stoneclaw has to be down for the shield to be up since thats how it works on the other totems but ya I'd like to see someone test this. Would be really handy for those silenced "oh crap" moments.

I might be wrong but I think wolves scale with our hit rating and stam, really obscure.

I had a 3-4 page thread begging for expertise on UR when the first posted the change. I made it on the shaman forums though, that was a huge mistake.

Ret palies are the only other melée class that doesn't have and endogenous source of expertise. Palies at least share gear with warriors though and their gear actually has some.

We share gear with hunters and no offset mail piece will (and shouldn't) have expertise. Only 2 pieces of our set has some as well. Most of use a 200 neck just because it has Exp/hit on it.

Some1 make a thread on the damage dealing forums and I'll help bump for justice.

Would you have casted stormstrike if it didn't give you mana back?

If yes (obviously you would have), then your pre 3.1 stormstrike = -351 mana.

Your post 3.1 stormstrike = +527 mana.
527 - (-351) = 878
878 / 8 seconds = 110 mps
110 mps = 550 mp5.

So, we have gained 550 mp5 compared to our former state. Or it if turns out that it's a 10 second cool down, then you're 440mp5 better off than before.

I'm confused why having more mana from the Imp. Stormstrike change would translate to a greater use of Lightning Shield. Lightning Shield doesn't have a mana cost. Or are you referring to talent points we might be able to invest into Static Shock or Improved Shields in place of talents like Shamanistic/Elemental Focus? Or is my brain as congested as my sinuses, at the moment?

Panny pvps.

I took it to mean in a pvp setting where enhance is forced to use Water shield due to mana concerns

Lightning Shield has an indirect mana cost in that you can't use Water Shield at the same time. Assuming that you always keep a shield up, having Lightning Shield up means you lose 100 mp5 and the orb procs. In an arena or extended PvP scenario, an Enhancement Shaman can easily run out of mana because Shamanistic Rage is usually reserved for reducing a damage burst rather than mana return.

I think it's obvious they're not intending ISS to be a raid talent. I think what they intend is everyone specing Enh to be using LS and not WS. With the new ISS that means that any non-raider (anyone leveling, in heroics or PvP) will be able to use LS with Static Shock like Blizz expects us to do.

* Stormstrike charges have been increased by 2, and cooldown reduced by 2 sec.

First time poster here, so any criticism on my post is welcome. I think a fix to this would be to give us 6 charges of SS instead of 4, allowing us to skip it in our priority rotation. This would in turn cause for us to spend more mana (and do more damage) by using ES/MW_LB/Magma Totem whenever they are available. Imp SS would fill the dip in mana this would create. This would be a significant buff to Enh imo.

While writing this and making sure I checked up on the facts, it appears that the up time of SS has been reduced to 10s. For my above suggestion to be effective, it would more than likely need to maintain a 12s up time, either by talent or glyph.

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A fix? A fix to what? What are you talking about?

I'm stupid and didn't notice it, but Savage Combat and Blood Frenzy were buffed to 4% physical so we should be seeing a ~1% dps increase.

A couple of things to note:

1.) SS gives us an instant attack for 2 more chances at MW procs and deals decent damage, so there's no reason to still skip it even if your proposed changes were taken.

2.) Considering that the patch notes imply that the old Imp SS has been rolled into base SS, yet on the PTR people are reporting that only the duration has been reduced, I'm inclined to believe that they were planning on reducing the duration in addition to the +2 charges and -2s CD. It's not like lowered duration, given that we spam it when it's up, is going to reduce our damage significantly. The only case where it might be a dps loss is if we get a MW5 proc near the end of the SS CD, but this would decrease our dps only slightly because of the low proc chance of Static Shock.

3.) As has been mentioned earlier, by taking the new Imp SS, we don't need to take Elemental and/or Shamanistic Focus to handle our mana management (this is mostly for 10-mans where you aren't as guaranteed to have replenishment or JoW; PvPers might still want them, though).

At present 4 SS charges are almost never used up before SS is off of cooldown, so I don't see what you intend to "fix" with adding more charges. Also, Why do you want to skip SS in priority rotation? At present, I already have holes in my rotation when all my cooldowns are running and I've got fully refreshed Magma totem and LS.

I don't understand what problem you're proposing to fix here...