Enhancement Shaman BIS list for 3.3 (so far)
Hello everyone, it has been a while since I last posted, there has been much going on with the new year. This does not mean I have stopped playing (at all), I’ve been raiding regularly and keeping up to date with my readings as well with all class changes, loot available and of course, our BIS. I do not plan to make this a long thread of discussion about this BIS, I will only serve as a messenger delivering the findings of the EJ thread about our BIS.
As you will notice in the table at the bottom we hardly get any expertise from our gear, so we gem heavily for it. Many have asked about using expertise from gear such as the ring available in ICC, expertise trinkets, etc. These have all been evaluated and the findings remain the same as stated bellow. It works out best using full DPS pieces and making up for the expertise by gems. Same story goes for hit.
Another common thing to ask is if one should aim to gem for AP or Haste. In my experience both are valid choices, it comes down to very specific situations which one performs best. However, assuming these builds for raids aim best on a single target scenario where your focus is DPS and not running around, haste will perform best than AP slightly, simply due to the fact of the added benefits of Haste. This should come more than obvious now than before with the 4 piece set bonus of Tier 10.
Another worthy change in this BIS is the meta gem, the 21 Agi turned out to be a better choice this time around compared to the 21 crit. Most likely since it gives us only one blue gem requirement, giving us a better choice of gem to make up our required stats.
Full credits for this goes to EJ @ http://elitistjerks.com/f79/t88300-enhancement_bis_gear_set_up_discussion_3_3_onward/ and the posters responsible for the findings. Our current BIS at the time of this writing is as follows:
Last update on EJ on: January 17th, 2010
*Enchanting and Leatherworking were selected at random from the pool of professions that provide the generic +80 AP. Equivalent profession enhancements will yeild similar results.
**Run speed enchants provide superior DPS when you are running between targets for more than 10 seconds. This value was arrived at by simming the difference between Cats/Icewalker and follows the math located here
***Heroic Necrotic Touch is now being modeled properly. Be sure you are using it.
Glyph set-up
| 1) | [Glyph of Windfury Weapon] |
| 2) | [Glyph of Stormstrike] |
| 3) | [Glyph of Feral Spirit] |
Ability priority order
| 1 ) | Spirit Wolves |
| 2 ) | Shamanistic Rage |
| 3 ) | Stormstrike if no SS debuff present |
| 4 ) | Maelstrom Weapon x 5 stacks – Lightning Bolt |
| 5 ) | Flame Shock |
| 6 ) | Earthshock |
| 7 ) | Stormstrike |
| 8 ) | Fire Elemental |
| 9 ) | Magma Totem |
| 10 ) | Lightning Shield |
| 11 ) | Lava Lash |
| 12 ) | Fire Nova |
| Talent spec |
| Current max DPS talent spec |
Cheers,
Jose R. Lopez – AKA Chimi
Why is Flame shock highe ron the priority list than earthshock? I thought as an enh shammy earth shock was our biggest shock spell because of stormstrike. Has something changed?
Flame Shock is higher because FS will do more damage then ES if it fully finishes its duration, so the cast order for the shocks will look like this FS>ES>ES, after the 2 ES the FS will have fallen off alittle before it and then you reapply it as it gets to it int he Que again
Flameshock is also priority due to the fact that the new Relic is only activated through it, Haste is essential for faster maelstrom procs.
I also dissagree with this list, surely Havoc call, Blade of Lordaeron Kings is better main hand BiS then Black bruise?
Dear Visitors, I am sorry if this seems outdated, I stopped playing WoW back in February due to lacking time for it.
I have since then not kept this thread or this blog for that matter updated. I would strongly suggest following the guides at elitist jerks which is kept updated more often.
http://elitistjerks.com/f79/t88300-enhancement_bis_gear_set_up_discussion_3_3_onward/
Regards,
Jose R. Lopez