CL should provide more damage when using it for more than 1 target; however, if you aren't intending to kill his left arm during the fight, it is wasted damage and using LB would provide more damage on the chest than CL will.

Well, it's really hard to say without knowing the gear level, spec, glyphs, etc of the character. I tried to armory you as a reference to see what gear levels you are at, but your armory like doesn't work (ie. Fix It!!!). Judging from what I assume is you and your guild on the armory, the DPS should be much better than that. It would be hard to say what the problem is without more information, but judging from the info you gave, I'm going to take a rough estimate of approx 5k DPS for most 4-6m fights (assuming you have the proper buffs available for the shaman - Hit, Haste, Spell Damage, etc).

As far as her liking, or gearing towards haste, it might not be a bad thing. I don't know how she is gemmed, but if she is just going for haste on gear, it seems about right. As a general rule SP > Haste > Crit (assuming hit capped). So if you are just referring to a few specific items, like Razorscale weapon, KT weapon, etc that have high haste and SP on them, then yes, that is how to approx gear. Hope this helps (as it is about the best I can do without going into who it is specifically, which I assumed you didn't link/tell due to not wanting them to be called out.

Hopefully you find this data useful:
Lightning Bolt SP Coefficient: 71.43%
Chain Lightning SP Coefficient: 125% (57% + 40% + 28% on each "jump", respectively)

So basically, 2 jumps is sufficient to produce more damage.

Rotation should be the same no matter your set bonuses.

Feral Spirit, SS, and WF are considered the best. You have to run the EnhSim to get more concrete results.

I was talking with another enhance shaman friend of mine, and he was speculating that since I was using Wraith Strike on MH (my only other option at this moment is 'Greed') that perhaps FT/FT imbues would be better for me than WF/FT.

I know they made some changes to FT recently and now i'm not as certain as I was before about which imbues are best. Do any of you have any opinions on the matter. I know you'll probably just say to sim it and whatnot, but im just looking for a simple general answer - mostly because if you say no, WF/FT is still better then i won't bother worrying about it anymore, but if you say you think FT/FT is better perhaps i'll sim my personal stats and tweak it to my liking.

a second question would be, if FT/FT IS indeed a better option, I should then switch out my WF glyph for LS or FT, yes?
(currently i'm running with Feral Spirits, WF, SS)


thanks!

I use Wraith Strike in my main hand and have run EnhSim to test WF/FT vs FT/ FT. I don't remember the exact numbers, but WF/FT still wins by a considerable margin, even with the lower DPS of Wraith Strike.

In this same vein I use ForteXorcist to track my Living Bomb and Improved Scorch debuffs. I am sure it will be an adequate add-on for watching Flame Shock and Riptide durations.

Armor penetration is "always" a useful stat it just isn't rated as highly as other stats. Think about how much of your damage is magical and you'll understand why it isn't rated as highly as crit, haste etc.

What's the best way to compare EnhSim numbers with in-game numbers?

I would like to create a testing environment in which comparing EnhSim numbers to in-game numbers makes most sense. I could of course model the training dummy (no buffs and limited rotation) but I feel that's of limited interest since the raid buffs dramatically affect my stats (spell hit cap, to name just one).

Ideally the answer would be "fight X from Ulduar" - but I'm not sure it's that simple.

I have a quick question. I have been raiding as Resto and Elemental so far, but thought I would try out Enhancement as I have gotten quite a few "Rogue-Loot"-drops i Naxx10. We have no rogues in our raids, so I usually get those leather drops by default.
So I downloaded, installed and tried some tests of EnhSim. My results are not unlike what I expected, with numbers of agility ~1.8, crit ~2.1, haste ~1.3, int ~1.3, sp ~1.1 and weapon dps ~5. This all seems ok but ploting it into lootrank gives some unexpected results. Mainly a lot of my Elemental gear tops anything I can get outside Naxx10. And specifically it seems my good old [Titansteel Guardian] beats both [Titansteel Bonecrusher] and [Ironforge Smasher].

This means I can save a lot of gold, but I am wondering if I can trust this or should I still get an ordinary mellee weapon with high dps and no spellpower?

Thanks for the reply. I am currently grinding dailies for the Ironforge Smasher, mainly because of the stats. Is 0.1 speed enough to really make a diffenrece? I plan on using it, but didn't think the speed mattered much, when it was only a 0.1 difference.