Does anyone know how [Elixir of Demonslaying] interacts with Enh AP> spellpower conversion?

Maybe bloodlust outweighted minor buffs.
Shorter fights = more time under bloodlust (in % to total combat duration) = more dps
XT normal 10 = 2 minutes, Lord Jaraxxus 25 = 3 minutes.

Well, much of it has to do with the fight mechanics itself, not to mention that many fights are just quicker on 10-man (for my experience anyway). But assuming you have a boomkin/spriest in both 10 and 25, then you as an elemental shaman actually bring a large percentage of the same buffs you would be receiving in 25.

[quote=Rouncer;1345700]Yes, until you reach the spell hit cap there is no stat with more value then +hit.


but it is worth it for the hard melee hit cap (dualwielding)?

Edit found what I was looking for, someone delete this please.

Anyone know how much better Totem of Calming Tides is over Steamcaller's Totem? (If at all?)

Not sure whether to spend my first set of badges on this totem or wait a couple of days more and pickup Talisman of Resurgence

1) In theory, assuming you pop your Accelerators on cooldown, every cooldown, you are looking at a gain of approx 268 haste. I am not going to do the math for you (it's late, and I'm lazy) to what that amount of haste will do to your overall casting speed and GCD.

2) Yes and No. Overall, you want to use your cooldowns as much as possible, but timing your cooldowns with things like trinket procs, heroism/bloodlust, shadow crashes, storm power, etc are exponentially better. On higher SP procs or haste procs, having more crit/SP/Haste timed with those casts just product so much greater numbers. So yes, you want to use your cooldowns as much as you can, but try not to have your cooldowns down, when something like Hero/BL is popped.

3) Generally speaking: 268 Haste > 193 SP. Do the math to what the haste actually changes your casting times by and figure it out to be exact.

[Elemental Shammy]

A couple of queries here:

a) I been using Spectral Kris as my main weapon lately and a friend of mine been telling me to use a higher delay weapon for Flame Tongue. In raid and such I wont be meleeing the mobs anyway, does the delay also affect the sp bonus in any shape or form? I have tested with a 2.5 delay staff but the sp gain seems same.

b) my current rotation been FS > LvB > CL > LB > LB > LvB and such, although from the recommended rotation here seems like CL isn't as good as I expected, even with the higher spell power it offers. So for raid boss and such where I am likely to run out of mana I am considering leaving CL out of the cycle but just want to know if I am losing much overall dps there. At the moment I only leave CL out if I am down to like 20% mana on raid boss so I do that to help conserve mana.

c) the new relic from Triumph emblem, I been hearing many stories. Some said it has such a short internal cool down that it is pretty much up 100% of the time, whereas some say it has a 45sec internal cool down like most other trinkets/relic, anyone got it and been tested and proven yet?

d) the shammy guide a few pages back still using the old gems therefore single gem outweight 2 mixed gems, whereas the new epic gems 2 mix gems can out weight 1 epic gem, might need to change that in the guide

a) Weapon speed has no effect on the bonus spell power Flametongue gives. It only affects the melee damage done by Flametongue, which has been normalized so that it does the same dps over all weapon speeds.

b) Though I have limited experience in Elemental, I recall CL to be used only to tighten up a rotation when a final LB would be too long a cast time before you could use LvB again. It scales worse with spell power than LB, so don't use it unless its shorter cast time benefits your current haste rating.

c) and d) I can't comment on.

c) Totem of Electrifying Wind works like this:

- When not on ICD (internal cooldown), when you cast a Lightning Bolt you have a 70% chance to gain a 200 haste buff (about 8% haste), and the buff lasts 12 seconds.
- The ICD of the totem is 6 seconds, meaning that the first 6 seconds of the buff it can't refresh itself, but the second 6 seconds it can.

In practice, this means that in the 2-4 Lightning Bolts you will cast while the buff is still active but the ICD has finished you'll have a 91-99% (91 being 2 LBs, 99 being 4 LBs) chance of refreshing the buff before it even falls off.

The totem ends up having an uptime in the high-90%s, meaning it's worth almost 200 static haste rating. It's really good.

I am adjusted, just saying it is the other way round now, before (rare) was 1 19sp gem better than 2x 9sp mix gem, whereas now (epic) is 2x 12 mix gems better than 1 23sp gem,

Rare: 1 red 1 yellow > 2 orange
Epic: 2 orange > 1 red 1 yellow

If that is the same to you, I rest my case.

Thought you might wanna go change that, but then, obviously not.