We scale with every single raid buff. Most classes scale a little with some and really well with others but we scale perfectly with every single one of them (with the exception of divine spirit). If you are getting every single raid buff and debuff and still having the issue then there could be something else going on but if you are following that priority list and keeping your magma totem active then I would bet money that the variation is due to group makeup and not anything to do with personal play.

Unless you see a cast bar popping up - the delay you're experiencing is server lag.

Granted i thought about that aswell but i never noticed this gap when Earth Shock was the interrupting spell, either serverlag has gone up or something isn't completly right here.

thanks for the reply ^^ I'll look into it

Without being able to look at your gear, I can't really tell you exactly what you need.

The issue is that a lot of us are currently playing with stat distributions. Some people are still of the mindset that gemming for intellect is the way to go, but most of us are moving towards haste.

You really don't have to worry about the soft haste cap at your gear level. Many of the shamans in t8-t9 level gear have around 800 haste. The problem with trying to reach this level, however, is that you still need enough crit, spell power and mana regen (from int and MP5) to support your haste and make your heals effective.

So, essentially, try working on increasing your haste, but be mindful that you will need the gear to support higher levels (over 500) of haste. If you're mana starved, you may need to stick to int, or look for more pieces with some MP5 on them. Ultimately, I would suggest picking a set of gems, using them for a week and running stassart's shaman_hep combat log parser during that time to see how effective your choices have been.

EDIT: if you want to send me a PM with your armory link, I will be able to actually give you a real recommendation.

EDIT: thanks for clarifying, Jessamy. I meant to say that he needn't worry about trying to reach a soft haste cap anytime soon.

Enhancement

I tried searching but didn't have much luck finding the answer. With the addition of Fist Weapons to the orc racial, I am now above expertise cap on my Main Hand. Is being expertise cap on Off Hand important enough to leave it be, or would it be more beneficial to swap out my only expertise (8exp/12stam) gem for an AP, Crit, or AP/Crit gem and loose that little bit of expertise on the Off Hand?


I've played with the EhnSim but didn't have too much luck as I'm better sitting down with a calculator and figure it all out myself. The fine tuning is what's tricky.

The World of Warcraft Armory

That's not quite true. As this post shows, the soft haste cap of 50% required to attain a 1.0s global cooldown is 1270 haste rating at level 80. This includes 5% from totem and 3% from moonkin / paladin buff, but does not include bloodlust / heroism. If you use a lot of CH & HW, haste continues to have value past the cap. If you mostly rely on instants and LHW, the soft cap is effectively a hard cap for throughput. Unless you intend to gear for bloodlust / heroism, the cap is high enough it's not really worth worrying about.

Perhaps i'm blind but I spent my whole probation time yesterday searching for something I thought would be a simple and common question. If this is answered some where else then I am sorry and I'll try harder next time.

Does the weapon enchant from a shammy stack with his own totems. E.G. I use double windfury on my daggers. If I droped a WF totem and a FT totem would they stack or do I need another shammy to drop his or what?

You can drop whichever totems you like, and they will now always stack with your weapon enchants.

And even though you didn't ask about it, please use slow weapons. Slow weapons for shaman are better.

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