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cries in enhance shaman
waits patiently for tank to build threat
14 Windfury procs
dies
I never played a shaman really in vanilla.
I get that rockbiter is sometimes more DPS depending on the rank or whatever, but is earth shock more mana efficient than flame shock? Almost all the enh shamans I see use earth shock and it’s pretty annoying to tank through.
Stormstrike increases nature damage taken iirc! That's enhancement's level 40 talent for those who didn't know.
That’s probably it. Thanks
It interrupts I think? At least it does for the ele sham I play with
Nah from what I’ve seen they’ve been doing it for damage.
I notice it too, every time any shaman earth shocks, they take aggro from that mob. Kinda aggravating, it is worse if it's not even very mana efficient :(
Tell your sham to use rank 1 earth shock for interrupts.
They’ve been using it for damage not interrupts AFAIK. Probably due to storm strike
Yeah, that's fair enough but not very mana efficient. I have a lot of trouble keeping mana up while also using 3 totems (windfury, strength, mana spring) and find that my DPS is great even without stormstrike / earthshock combo. Granted, I'm level 44 and have very little intel and spirit so maybe that's my problem.
I try to pull back into totems when I can. I know that stuff kills your mana, sorry shaman friends but I appreciate the windfury
I'd love you as a tank lol. Even in SM where its relatively normal to "pull back" mobs, I still end up needing to plop str/wf almost every fight heh.
But I see it as my main utility in a group. That and interrupts. Its mah jerb
It's a combination of WF procs, crits, and earthshock. Earthshock is our interrupt so it's too important to not have in on a spammable key, and it's hard to break that habit. Even without ES though, even just autoattacking, I'll pull aggro a lot.
Yeah it’s usually just used for damage, rarely interrupts in my group experience.
Rock bitter does more consistent DPS but doing slightly more dmg isn't worth pulling aggro. Earth shock is not mana efficient at all because it's primarily an interrupt. Neither should be used in a dungeon unless it's to actually interrupt
There are some where the class can hold that single mob. Rogues I can pretty much let them strip aggro and they can semi-tank a mob enough that I don't need to worry about it.
It's more the retail AoE happy mages that start shooting when I just have body aggro on an NPC.