While the current Troll racial is best for an elemental shaman, the preview of the Goblin racial looks even better, and we have no idea what existing classes will have for racial abilities after the cataclysm. This could be an interesting question to revisit once Blizzard gives us more information. You may want to wait for that time to make any decision about a paid race change.

Talents

I'd love to hear some input. Basically, I sim (EnhanceSim after export from Rawr) on a daily basis. The Talent-Scheme that I use sims higher than any that I see on any other enhance shaman, and in practice feels better, too. Am I a unique case, based on general gear, or is my talent-tree, in fact, superior?

Basically, Instead of 2/5 Ancestral Knowledge with 3/3 Improved Shields and either 1/1 Shamanstic Focus or 1/5 Reverberation/Elemental Focus, I use: 5/5 Ancestral Knowledge.

I absolutely never have mana issues, especially in 25-player raids. The only time I ever get even close to running out of mana is on a practice dummy with zero replenishment/wisdom/etc.

The Ancestral Knowledge 5/5 also, I believe, makes the most sense from a purely consistent basis. It's pure AP (Int = AP). Furthermore, it is a larger max-mana pool, which should also help with any mana issues that people may have, especially when considering it caps on every Shamanistic Rage cooldown.

Is there something I am missing? Why does no one else use my talent setup? Again, Enhancesim agrees with me.

Visual reference: The World of Warcraft Armory - Neverdawn @ Terokkar - Talents

Probably because you are making a mistake somewhere with the sim. Running your armory shows 11979.10 and then swapping 2 points out of AK into Imp Shields shows 12001.32.

If I had to guess it's because you haven't clicked use SR as soon as possible in the combat parameters panel of EnhSim.

This is a question that has been tickling my brain for sometime now. When I am playing as enhance and have 4 stacks of Maelstrom weapon, I always feel like hitting SS or LL could potentially waste stacks of MW. My question is would it be a DPS increase to wait x amount to time before hitting a special with 4 stacks of MW. I assume the answer is no, but I would like to understand it a little better than I do currently

Can anyone give me information regarding earth shock and flame shock? I have read the enhancement thread many times and i have looked through most of the pages of this thread to find information concerning the use of flame shock over earth shock without finding anything concrete. Is it now part of our cast cycle? Do we alternate like before? If anyone has any information regarding this topic it will be greatly appreciated.

Apply Flame Shock if your target is not already affected with a FS DoT, otherwise Earth Shock.

Also, pay a visit to Rava's compilation at [Enhancement] BiS gear and set-up discussion (3.3 and onward).

Kind of an odd question, a friend of mine was saying that using two weapons of the same speed was a DPS loss, does this have any truth? (Sorry if this sounds like a joke question, alas, couldn't find a definitive answer on any of the places I checked before posting here)

I'm trying to piece this together from a few sources of info and progress has been made but a (perhaps) simple question might speed this up somewhat.

Enhsim and shock and awe are obviously related. Is there a function to export/import the priority queue between the 2? Shock and Awe's default queue is pushing my DPS far past what enhsim thinks I should be getting. I can play around with enhsim queue by hand and get it close but if there is some way to pull/push this data around without doing it by hand i'd like pointing at it.

Has anyone else experienced a problem where Call of Elements/Spirits/Ancestors will sometimes fail to summon the fire totem? more specifically as I play enhance it's the Magma Totem that does not get refreshed.

I noticed this behaviour over several weeks maybe 3-5 times per raid and asked the restoration shamans in my guild if they had experienced anything similar, none of them had but one of them suggested I should see if I had enough mana to summon it together with the other 3 totems. So I made sure I would doublecheck my mana level each time my Call would not produce a Fire Totem and sure enough I did have enough mana on all occasions. I do not use a macro for the particular spell and the only addon have that involves totems is totemtimers wich I think is fairly standard.

This problem is rather annoying with our current rotation as you can imagine, casting a Call and then trying to use Fire Nova only to have to use that (now late) global on Magma Totem is very frustrating. I realize that this issue will mean a lot less in 4.0.1 but if it stays I am sure it will cause some problems even with a far less cluttered rotation. Has anyone else experienced this at all or is it just me?

Try refreshing your totems a few seconds before or after the old totem dies.

I've noticed this happen if I'm refreshing a totem right as it's expiring. It seems to be a latency issue -- the new totem is summoned, but then immediately destroyed by the old totem's expiration timer.

The reason you only notice this as enhancement is because the 5 minute totems other specs use don't need to be refreshed as often. Or for a fight with a lot of movement you refresh them when they still have lots of time before the timer ends. I've seen this happen as a healer on the ToC faction champions fight with grounding totem.

I've been searching all over, but I can't seem to find a macro for using another spell while the main one is on cooldown. What I mean is with the addition of Lava Surge, I was trying to make a macro to cast Lava Surge, but if it is on cooldown to cast Lightning Bolt instead.

I have tried a cast sequence macro, but that won't take into account when Lava Surge happens.

I've also tried:
/cast Lava Burst
/cast Lightning Bolt

I know I am missing it but I can't seem to find out how to do it.
If it can't be done with a macro, any ideas on an addon that might work if it is possible.