Shaman

[Patch 4.3] Maybe I won’t spec into Reverb

September 28, 2011
Gazimoff's shaman, struggling with too many totems

So, in case you hadn’t noticed the final Tier for Cataclysm is now on the PTR. This expansion really seems to have flown by, partly because I’ve stepped out of the game for the latter half. As a keen shaman fan who has long been disappointed in blue posts about my class, I must admit the changes for 4.3 have piqued my interest. No more interrupts! First and foremost – Wind Shear is getting it’s uber-cooldown nerfed to 25 seconds. Shaman all around the world heave a sigh of relief. Except for elemental shaman, because Reverberation still brings Wind Shear down...

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Up close and personal with Feludius

February 11, 2011
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Oh sweet pickled onions. Interrupts. Not only that, but interrupting when I’ve not had any sleep. My guild is currently working on 25-man Twilight Ascendent Council in Bastion of Twilight and I was assigned to interrupt Hydro Lance in Phase 1, and so I did to the utter detriment of my DPS and my capacity to assess how the changes to Elemental have  impacted on me personally. Interrupting Hydrolance Now, it was the first time I’d done the fight and to be honest it was all a bit chaotic, but once you get the rhythm of Hydro Lance casts...

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DPS trinkets for elemental shaman

January 28, 2011
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You might have noticed that my latest post at WoW Insider was a quick run down of the hows and whys of choosing a trinket, followed by a quick run down of the better trinkets available at each level of play. In it I mentioned a spreadsheet that I’d used to calculate how good certain trinkets are in comparison to each other, but I refrained from linking to it. The spreadsheet If the WoW Insider article is a bit teal dear for you, then you can download the trinket spreadsheet. You can adjust internal cooldowns if they are wrong, and on...

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[Guest Post] Switching Sides – from Mage to Shaman

December 21, 2010
Gazimoff's shaman, struggling with too many totems

Thank goodness for the kindness of friends. I’ve been stretched very thin recently, what with one thing and another. My good friend Gazimoff, co-host of the Obscurecast, founder of the Mage Forums and blogger, offered to write about his experiences of trying out a shaman character from a mage’s perspective. Huzzah guest post! – Pewter I’ll let you into a secret: when I originally looked at getting into Warcraft back in 2005 I was planning on rolling a shaman. There was a group of us all planning on getting into the game together and we were all getting our...

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Elemental PvP happens, rotation sims, and T11 is blah

October 18, 2010
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That headline pretty much says it all. They hotfixed shaman T10 so that the Elemental Mastery cooldown reduction is now 1sec instead of 2sec. This is an expected nerf, and might explain why our dps dipped a little bit overnight, but it wasn’t in the patch notes so you might not have noticed it. It’s also worth watching out for the Lightning Bolt cast time change – they increased it, which is why even if you have more haste than you did before the patch (despite the loss of relic haste) you’ll be casting Lightning Bolts slightly slower than...

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