Awesome spec, coupled with the beatiful artifact it becomes just amazing. My only concern with shaman in general, is the removal of the glyph for Wolf Form that gave a 100% speed increase out of combat, de facto being an instant cast epic ground mount (well, -10% speed) and the loss of Tremor Totem. Aside from that, it's just a lot of fun.Been playing my enhance shaman (all of ilvl 650) to do the Draenor Pathfinder stuff. They are a ton of fun now! If it wasn't on a totally dead server I'd be tempted to play it for Legion. Might have to server transfer him eventually...
One thing to note about the glyph of travel it is my understanding there is some order hall body guard or ability that gives back the 100% speed in ghost wolf form again.Awesome spec, coupled with the beatiful artifact it becomes just amazing. My only concern with shaman in general, is the removal of the glyph for Wolf Form that gave a 100% speed increase out of combat, de facto being an instant cast epic ground mount (well, -10% speed) and the loss of Tremor Totem. Aside from that, it's just a lot of fun.
Talents are okay, but could be a lot better: for once, I don't see myself ever speccing out of Boulderfist. A few talents are also quite mismatched against their competitors in the tier, Rainfall for example is 99,99% useless, Lighning Shield is disappointing, Sundering having a knockback makes it annoying for PvE and Hot Hand is quite bad. I wish Feral Lunge was a 15s or maybe even 20s cooldown, 30 is a bit too long for a movement spell that requires a target.
The spec as a whole is very smooth to play if you pick Boulderfist and borderline spammy if you stick to Rockbiter, I simply love it anyway. The fact you can spend 20 maelstrom for instant healing feels very good for open world questing and vignette mobs / mini events.
One more note is that while I usually play with Tempest talented, Overcharge makes Lightning Bolt be more than a ranged pulling/tagging tool, it feels good.
Small warning, if you talent for Hailstorm, you'll have to mantain 2 buffs, Flametongue and Frostbrand, I prefer to take the 10% haste and mantain only one, but I don't know if Hailstorm will be the best pick for dps down the road, during raids etc.
Icy Veins - WoW/Hearthstone/D3/Heroes News and GuidesI think this is the current hotness for elite raider guide type stuff.Can anyone recommend a decent higher end theorycraft site for prot warriors? I guess Elitist jerks doesn't exist anymore.
That's very good to know. Thanks.One thing to note about the glyph of travel it is my understanding there is some order hall body guard or ability that gives back the 100% speed in ghost wolf form again.
I thought about a passive skill for levelling, because I don't want to micromanage for hours or when I don't need to really squeeze out that last 5%-10% dps, such as in the open world. I prefer to quest with skills that help my survivability or offer passive or better healing, the same is true in beta now (I just recently got an invite), where I like Healing Surge relics, because I hate downtime and I love self healing, especially if instant at the end of the battles. Passive for passive, the 10% haste seemed nicer, I'll try the Shield one and see.One other note is late in beta they buffed the lightning shield talent a good bit. It is not an exciting talent but its damage is actually pretty decent. It can proc both on damage it takes and damage you do so it basically is adding a lightning damage proc chance on your auto attack to go along with the fire/cold ones you already likely have running. I think it is one of those things once your attack speed really starts cranking up it may become better yet.
Doh forgot the cold melee damage proc hailstorm is in same line as lightning shield now. Between the two hailstorm is currently probably better although lightning shield solo leveling where you are getting the boost for incoming and outgoing damage may be a viable pick.
I just macro'd them into a single key.The lightning shield is basically a passive it is a click button but it lasts an hour so its fire and forget. That said hailstorm is not bad either it it has a reasonable duration I never had any real problems must throwing it next to flame tounge and when its time to refresh one do both.
I've been doing it all morning on every PVP set and weapon, plus all the Justice gear in org (you can buy all that with gold then sell it back at no loss). Also a ton of gear in Dalaran you can buy and sell back.What are you using that method on? I didn't realize there were that many items available for currency (or are we just talking about pvp items?).