[Enhancement] 3.2 Changes
 

Only carrying one rule forward from the old thread.

1. Anyone posting about Fast weapons without EnhSim or Simulationcraft or many hours of targeting dummy testing data explicitly proving their conclusions will be infracted. The game changed and Fast weapons are no longer on the table, if you want to say otherwise you better bring proof or you will get infracted.


Patch Notes that affect Enhancement Shaman


edited to add the line about Rogues and Axes to the patchnotes.

Think you forgot the main Enhancement change:

I read this as Blizzard will be bringing more axes fit for shamans into the world.

I welcome the 1-minute SR with open arms, goodbye to SF and Imp SS, but I'm pretty much dissapointed with the rogue axe change ;( and the change to orc racial is fucking imba, time to reroll orc =/

Expertise and hit capped wolves will be really overpower. Ghost wolf on PvP from no use to little use, better than nothing and <3 the stomping macros dead. I really hope the health increase stop killing me on hard mode combos in Ulduar.

I am concerned about:

I find not having replenishment keeps me from Magma spamming in 10 mans, so any large hit to this regen I am afraid will be missed. The 1 minute Sham Rage should help here but I am wanting to try it out in practice to ensure it is going to make up for it (or make us even better than we were).

Orc racial
 

Eventhough the Orc Racial expertise now also covers fist weapons I'm a bit concerned about what weapon to actually chose for getting the bonus. Off the bat it seems that [Touch of Madness] would be the best off hand choice for the bonus, since it seems like there's not really alot slow off hand fist weapons around and setting pvp weapons aside and looking purely pve am I wrong to think that [The Stray] is getting hot again?

Dont think about existing weapons, that new crappy instance will have loads of options for sure to cover the new changes on DW DK's and Axe Rogues.

The new instance will be nowhere near enough to keep us busy, so ulduar (particularly hardmode) weapons will still be on the table. Especially if the new weapons are 2.5/2.6 speed. (therefore could be inferior to 2.7 ulduar hardmode ones)

5 expertise = 41 rating, add it to the weapon's EP value and see if it competes. (probably not since we only need 140 rating now, and it's possible to achieve that through gear alone w/o gems etc.)

I have 2/2 imp SS and have no issues with magma spamming on 10's. It's worth a lot more dps than 2 points of ancestral knowledge IMO.

This might be slightly off-topic, but the 5% damage bonus to pets and the extra (free) 322AP trinket on a 2-minute cooldown were already enough reasons to reroll Orc. This is just icing on the cake, and seems to be a clear indication from Blizzard that Orcs really are the way to go for enhance shamans. At equal gear and skill levels, an orc will produce more DPS than a tauren or troll.

They may as well include that in their blue postings, next to statements such as "our goal is WF/FT MH/OH". Something along the lines of " if you're a horde enhance shaman and you didn't pick an orc, you should reroll".

I did no testing but description of command racial on wow homepage reads as follows:

WoW -> Info -> Races -> Orcs
Shamans are not listed.

AFAIK, Command affect Shaman wolves since patch 3.1

edit: yup they do "# Command (Orc Racial): Applies to shaman pets, and now correctly applies to death knight pets." source

You are right. 3.1 Patchnotes:

e, fb - That's what I get for actually looking for a real encounter to demonstrate the difference instead of just looking for the patchnotes. I can say that I raid with Malan and we are similarily geared. He is a Tauren and I am an Orc and my wolves consistently outdamage his, so anecdotally it would appear that the racial is indeed active on them.


As an aside, Malan and I are normally within a percentage point or two of each other so racials really do seem to matter a lot less then just good play in general. Min/Maxing based on racials seems silly to me considering they change all the time so play the race you like aesthetically and don't worry about those racials unless it is on the Tournament Realm. Being stuck in a avatar with an appearance you dislike just to get a small edge really isn't worth it.

Discussing the axe changes is certainly relevant since it has the potential to make Touch of Madness a contender for an Orc and discussing Command in regards to glyph selection is similar but otherwise leave the "racism" at the door.

brb rerolling orc see ya in icecrown, beware of my last war stomp

Well, from my point of view there is one small thing that will need clarification:

Since we are a melee class it should be melee hit chance, but I wonder what they will use - because if they set our maximum as the dual wield hit cap our wolves will most likely never be hit capped.

With 2/2 in imp SS I have 0 issues with keeping magma down right now on any fight (and that includes general hard mode). Actually not quite true - the only fight where this past week I had a 10s frame with SR down and oom was Kologarn, but that is due to the Magma + CL constant use.


As for PvE raiding as enhance, orcs seem to be by far best. As a tauren only the extra HP could be useful for hard modes. I should really sim what the difference in DPS is.

I wonder where trolls fit into that ranking and draenai as well since both of their racials are very strong as well. Tauren could definitely use a bit of love in the racial department for raiding but warstomp is a very powerful racial for PvP already.