I saw this explanation today from GC regarding ghost wolf:

Without trying to QQ, I do not see how that helps enhance shamans chase someone. The moment I shift out and say SS I am back to being snared, so we get 1-2 hits for every GW usage.

I just play better than you to make up for lack of useful racials.

Assuming EP values of AP=1, SP=1 and Haste=1.6

Blood Fury:
(Level*4)+2 = Attack power gained.
(Level*2)+3 = Spell damage/healing gained.

So that's 322 AP and 163 SP for 15 seconds every 120 seconds.

(322AP+163SP)*0.125 = 60.625EP


Berserking:
1% haste = 32.79 haste rating

Berserking at full health grants 10% haste which is 327.9 haste rating points for 10 seconds every 180 seconds.

327.9H*10/180 = 29.146EP

Berserking at 70% health will grant 20% haste (58.292EP)
Berserking at 55% health will grant 25% haste (72.865EP)
Berserking at 40% health will grant 30% haste (87.438EP)

Err, can you please advise me of a Fist Weapon which is slow and equippable in the offhand from Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity, Obsidian Sanctum, Ulduar on normal or hard modes 10 or 25?

Because without an off hand weapon, you either accept your offhand being uncapped or you have to get 140 Expertise anyway.

Touch of Madness, One-Hand Axe from Ulduar. There aren't any Fist Weapons that can be equipped in the Off-Hand slot, but since the racial applies to both Axes and Fist Weapons, there is no need for it.

[Touch of Madness]

Yes but even for a Resto Shaman the change doesn't look particularly useful. The reason that Druids *work* is because while they are running away they can spam their instant cast HoTs on themselves and shapeshift into a form regardless of GCD. If the Resto Shaman wants to actually heal themselves they can :-

1. Pop a Riptide, exposing themselves to the snare for 1.5 seconds (less haste) till they can cast a new GW
2. Pop a Riptide and LHW, explosing themselves to being spelllocked, standing still for the LHW cast time and being snared for 3.0 seconds (less haste) till they can cast a new GW. I just checked WoWhead and it has Ghost Wolf listed as Nature not Physical so you're gonne get locked out of it on that long, nerfed LHW cast time.

Not to mention that 100% footspeed is not going to actually outrun most opponents. Even if you Frost Shock them, plenty of classes will still be able to continue to melee dps you as you run with or without the help of their partner.

YMMV, but to my mind this does not seem useful to a class with such limited ability to use Instant casts *and* GCD shapeshifting in.

Yes clearly, you can still use an axe but that wasn't my point. I'm simply pointing out that the utility is actually quite limited due to the restrictive nature of Fist Weapons.

Prior to this, some shamans were using a fist in their main and an axe in their offhand. They would have needed to cap expertise at the full amount, ignoring their racial, because the bonus only applied to the axe in the offhand. In 3.2, it will apply to both hands allowing the orc to take advantage of the racial.

Axe/Axe is the only option on live. Axe/axe, fist/axe, axe/fist, and fist/fist will all be options with the change. I wouldn't call that sort of change "limited".

Another upcoming change with 3.2 which may or may not have an impact on us:

"The intent is that macro will not work in 3.2 (for Ret paladins or Enhancement shamans). The intent is that you have to push the button at the right time, not just have the game push the button for you all the time.

Stopcasting a spell in this manner should reset your swing timer (at least for those two classes). We're not 100% sure at this time how the fix will work, but that's the intent or we would not have made this change."

Source: MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Ret is still faceroll

The only issue with that is that many shaman liked to macro stopcasting onto their lightning bolt just to prevent lag from making them start a long cast when they were trying to just get a single instant cast to fire. (I still have a macro saved that lets me cast LB with stopcasting by holding alt for dealing with crappy server days).

Hopefully they will just do something like making it so that /stopcasting won't work properly/will reset the swingtimer when used in the same macro as /castrandom or /castsequence.

Trolls also get 5% more damage to Beasts which would seem to equal out with Command and Weapon Spec.