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Post by
Fnitrox
Hi all,
My main is an elemental shaman, and though i feel we've been pretty boosted with the latest patch, my dps lately has somewhat lowered. This is actually strange because i got some gear upgrade lately and so i guess why my dps is the same as before or (in most case) lower. Also i've tried to get hit capped and now i'm capped.
Is it really worth it to be hit capped while sacrifising some spell power and crit?
May the latency cause the problem? (I had some pretty bad latency lately and when i contacted my isp the said that they had an "internal issue" that was being addressed and solved, but I still got my latency not lower than 500ms with spikes going over to 1 sec sometimes in raid, with an average of 800ms)
armory link
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Runetotem&n=Tirhany
I've seen some elemental shaman with worst gear and using the same rotation (Fs always up LvB when not in cd and LB CL fillers) pulling way more dps than me and an undergeared mage (whom i know for sure hit his keyboard with his head) from my guild with more than 3k dps on heroics 5man while i barely hit 2.6.
edit: glyph in use are lightning bolt, flame shock, and water mastery (going to change it with glyph of lava).
Post by
bsvictor
About hit, there's some good threads about it in the first pages, look 'em up. IMO it's worth sacrificing some other stats to reach the hit cap, especially for casters.
Your gear seems good enough, but i don't know how good elemental really is now after 3.0.8, i went enhance before that and i dont intend to go back anytime soon. I really don't know if 2.6k is too bad for your gear.. wait for other replies.
What i want to say is, high latency is one of the reasons i switched from elemental to enhancement. I play from Brazil, so my latency is usually around 600~800ms. Trying to fit that into the tight 8sec rotation involving Lava Burst, depending on how high my latency was my dps varied a lot. That used to &*!@ me off, so i switched to enhance and my dps went way up even with worse gear. So yeah, that may be a part of the problem.
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107569
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Post by
windstrum
You have similar gear to mine, although yours is a bit better. (
me
)
My dps sits around 2.4k, so I'd say yours is about right. Like you, I have very high hit rating. As the previous poster has said, you only really need 262 hit provided you raid with boomkins and shadow priests. I unfortunately don't have that luxury, so my hit is high to compensate.
I've noticed though that you haven't used all your talent points (you have 5 left over!). Um, why not? You're missing 2 points in
Shamanism
and 3 in
Storm, Earth and Fire
. Put those in and see if you're DPS increases.
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107569
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Post by
Fnitrox
Actually i'm pretty sure i've got full shamanism and storm, earth and fire but somehow the talent calculator on the armory is not showing them properly...
this is my actual spec
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hEu0qbdItGxst0xxco
At the moment my guild is only raiding 10men content (barley started actually) and we don't have any boomkin or shadow priest in the group, but in a week we should have them and also start raiding 25 men content, so I may reduce my hit and get some more usefull stat.
Yesterday in nax i pulled about 2.7-2.9k on patchwerk and i must say i'm pretty satisfied, i was on top 3 for the aracnid wing bosses. Also my latency was kinda lower than average but still pretty high. I'm going to get a new isp soon too so it's going to be better in the near future :D
thanks for the advice :)
Post by
windstrum
this is my actual spec
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hEu0qbdItGxst0xxco
If you want to increase your dps, I'd even consider removing the point from Elemental Warding and moving it to Eye of the Storm. Naxx brings some AoE damage, and that tiny bit of knockback may be affecting your overall output (albeit very subtley).
Overall though you're fine. To be honest you've given me a little hope of better things to come. I'm not far behind you and was starting to wonder where I was going to get my next influx of dps from. But you seem to be doing just fine, with an almost identical balance of stats.
Yesterday in nax i pulled about 2.7-2.9k on patchwerk and i must say i'm pretty satisfied
Hell yeah, I would be too :P
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230839
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Post by
windstrum
this is my actual spec
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hEu0qbdItGxst0xxco
If you want to increase your dps, I'd even consider removing the point from Elemental Warding and moving it to Eye of the Storm. Naxx brings some AoE damage, and that tiny bit of knockback may be affecting your overall output (albeit very subtley).
Hey,
I'm just wondering why you'd need Improved Fire nova totems ... & Elemental warding indeed.
Place those 3 points in Eye of the storm talent and you'd manage to get yourself the Elemental PVE Spec.
Good Luck.
A lot of people's play-style involves using Fire Nova Totem for trash mobs. Increasing the damage done by it might raise the dps for these players. It just depends on whether you use the totem or not.
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