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Commento di 9531

Unfortunately, all elemental weapons cannot be used in conjunction with sharpening stones, weightstones, or magic weapon oils.

Commento di 9531

Unfortunately, all elemental weapons cannot be used in conjunction with sharpening stones, weightstones, or magic weapon oils.

Commento di 4722

Anybody know if +Nature damage has any effects on this (and +Fire effects Flametongue, etc)?

Commento di Marvili

Appears as if as of 2.0.10, this ability simply does not work. If you currently have say, flametongue enchant on your weapon and you attempt to overwrite it with rockbiter, you will see the initial rockbiter animation and it will take mana but it will not go onto your weapon, either in effect, animation, or on the weapon's tooltip.

Commento di Hakunamatata

Unfortunately, all weapon enchancements cannot be used in conjunction with sharpening stones, weightstones, or magic weapon oils.

Commento di 195614

It's a shame that we're forced to throw this imbue away once we get windfury. I mean sure I never used it after I got windfury (unless I was tanking) but it was nice to have it there as an option. Blizzard could have made this the tanking imbue (again?).

Commento di Urbanmech

I do miss this enchant though. I loved the high white hits haha

Commento di 309858

Sigh, I remember this enchant back in the old days. Its old high threat component allowed me to tank UBRS back in vanilla wow.

As an oldschool shaman, I have to say RBW shall be missed. :(

Now how about making frostbrand useful?

Commento di 316511

Exactly what is this useful for? Does it have any use at all?

Most enha shamans use windfury. Maybe some mobs are immune to windfury damage and we should use this instead?

Edit: I don't understand why this question got rated down yet I got no reply ;//quote]

in reply: because a shaman wouldn't have windfury yet they would also use frost weapon or flame rockbiter is only usefull 1-10 after that most enha shammys reject this with good reason the dps bonus doesent match the dps you would get from frost or flame enchants

why it was downrated: idk why this was downrated its a perfectly sensible question maybye people missclicked

Commento di 222832

The legendary ability that allowed you to show off infront of other classet with your extra uber damage!

You wont be forgotten, Rockbiter!

Commento di 34578

I still remember early TBC when you could dual-wield rockbiter weapons for something like 1400 attack power extra.

R.I.P. Rockbiter.

Commento di 235552

you can,t aplly this buff to Mining Pick and Blacksmith Hammer.

Commento di Aerolite08

The removal of the higher ranks of this spell (and it's conversion from +AP to simply +DPS) is a bit odd, I'll give you that, but I'll at least hazard a guess. I'll mention that I was out for most of the BC expansion, and I really only started with Shaman in 3.0 (Level as Enhance to 75, then go Elemental and dual spec Resto, etc).

If I had to guess it would have something to do with the fact that Enhancement Shams (the primary users of this buff), as of patch 3.0.2, now gain AP at a 1:1 ratio from Agi and, with Mental Dexterity, from Int as well. This was part of the itemization and general stat structure changes in patches 3.0+ (Hit/Crit unification, spirit regen equalization across classes, spirit becoming a component of DPS with some classes) so that many classes could share gear of similar benefit, a big implication to loot tables from quests (across zones), dungeons, raids, etc. To Enhance Shams this meant both they and Hunters could make good use of Stam/Agi/Int gear.

Paladins, I think, are a great example relating to the new type of itemization. In BC many Pallies had some level of Int or SP across the entirety of their gear, whereas modern Pallies rarely use plate with either unless they're Holy. The reason being that now Pallies have a number of talents and abilities to assist with mana regen, meaning less reason to worry about mana pool size, and have talents that allow DPS'ers to gain SP equal to a percentage of their AP and tanks as a percentage of their Stam. This generally means that they can wear DPS or tanking gear and have adequate SP to assist them as well as having decent enough mana regen to use abilities despite often operating of near-base mana.

Anyway, back to my point, or guess. My guess is that with Shamans the designers felt they would already gain excellent bonuses of AP from using the same kind of gear they share with hunters, the kind that all begins with Stam/Agi/Int as a base. With that aside Shams were then given some changes to either existing weapon buffs that were used for some kind of effect, rather than just pure AP. Windfury was tweeked a few times, I think it has no cooldown now or something (don't really keep up to date on it) but it still gives nice raw AP when it goes off, at least to those extra hits.

Flametongue was given a SP component (while healers gained Earthliving) and given synergy with Lava Lash. Also given something of a boost was Frostbrand, gaining bonus damage as SP rises (similar to Flametongue, not sure if that was new with either though) and more utility (PvP, at least) with the addition of the Frozen Power talent. Right now it's handy until you have Flametongue but at a certain point, rather early on, Flametongue usually becomes a better choice, as its damage goes right through armor and its SP enhances you spell damage.

So yeah, if I had to guess about what was done with Rockbiter it was that designers wanted base AP to be okay without help from weapon buffs and to give the remaining weapon buffs some additional powers and synergies with other abilities. Also, I guess, by removing the endgame earth-type weapon buff they freed up room to add a healing-type one without doubling up on any one element.

Edit: Oh, and the 3.0.2 patch notes, around the same time all these changes occurred, also seem to state that Windfury was intended to succeed Rockbiter at 30+.

Commento di 476166

Use this against Hogger whenever possible, as it may be the best Shammy enchant in the universe during that fight. This also removes stealth from Tauren Rogues.

Commento di Thottbot

its ok, good when fightting a mob. that is higher than you, because it has a elemental attack and a regualar attack

Commento di Thottbot

Not as good now as it used to be. But actually very useful if you're running a low-level through an instance, or if your armor happens to be good enough to tank.

Commento di Thottbot

Im really sad that they changed rockbiter from a large boost in attack power to dealing extra dmg every attack. This seriously makes flametounge pointless in allsituations execpt not wanting to be the tank in a group since

-rock deals more dmg

-rock cannot be resisted since its not elemental dmg

-rock also increases agro to u leting u tank

....they should really change rockbiter back to +attack power having 2 +dmg on swings enchants are pointless

Commento di Thottbot

What if you are dual weilding through the talents as a shamman? can you put the temporarry wepon enchants on both wepons of just the main one?

Commento di Thottbot

If you dual wield you can enchant both weapons, MH and Offhand

Commento di Thottbot

If you're dual wielding something that was a fast attack speed (if your dual wielding) i advise Rockbiter. For something that attacks slow (again dual wielding) i adivse Windufury (which you get at lvl 30.

Blizzard always seems to be changing Rockbiter..

Commento di Thottbot

they do

Commento di Thottbot

On my 45 Shammy, I'm dual wielding with WF on my MH and Frostbrand on my OH. I tried to put Rockbiter on any of them...no dice. I got rid of my WF and FB and I could only get Rockbiter on my MH. Is there something i'm missing?

Commento di Thottbot

im thinking enhancement for damage but not dual weilding. i think i willl use a 2h axe or mace.

What should i use?

Commento di Thottbot

If your going enchantment shaman, for melee dps, what you really want is like attack power, crit chance, and spell damage, and of course stamina and intellect.

How you get that is up to you, however it turns out that a lot of hunters have

+ mana or intellect
+ attack power
+ agility
+ stamina

so, if your an enchantment shaman, you may want to steal some hunter gear lol

Crit chance = more dps, more chance to crit, more chance to do better damage.

Attack power = more base damage, and should be augmented with spell damage, always.

Stamina = more health, if your doing damage, your going to attract aggro, and your goign ot need to be able to live :P

Intellect = more spell damage, frost shock, earth shock, good stuff like that, and being able to heal yourself

Now, it's about combining that. But that's obvious- stamina and intellect is always good, crit chance is good, and of course without attack power what's the use of using weapons?

The real question in hand is duel wielding or not.

Well, let's say you use an axe that does 80 dps. From a regular stand point, two would do 160 dps. But since you have weaker off-hand, you would only do about 120 dps.

A two-handed axe would do about the same, if it was equal.

But that's warrior talk.

Your a shaman. What you want to do is to imbue your weapon with power.

All in all, duel wielding is better.

Let's look at this, imagine adding rock biter to your weapon. You would add 62 dps. A two-handed axe would do 182 dps.

Pretty good, but now look at a duel wielding axe. You add 93 dps, your first weapon 62, and your second 31.

So duel wielding is better at that point. Now, this is what makes duel wielding AMAZING.

Imagine getting two REALLY slow weapons, say a 2.6 axe and another. Now, you have 208 on one axe, and 100 on another. However, considering the axe, you problably have about 300 on one and 150 on another. That's 450 damage. Now let's say you have an axe at 3.6 speed and 120 dps, thats 432 damage, or about 480 a swing, but the dps is about the same.

Now imagine this, add windfury to this. The axe will proc and do about 1200 damage. Pretty good.

But now TWO axes proc. You do 900 damage plus TWO 270's extra, meanign that you do 1440 damage. If you add spell damage, it will DOUBLE and produce twice as much spell damage. With duel wielding you can optimize the extra 270+ damage you get, and you can put two buffs on a weapon that is designed to be good for a good weapon, making you get an AMAZING buff on two.

Oh well... if you want to know more, ask me, or go into a shaman thread lol

Commento di Allakhazam

I've heard that the effects of Rockbiter still work in Ghost wolf form, does anyone know if this is true?

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Rockbiter Weapon

Rockbiter Weapon
8% della base mana
Istantaneo

Imbue the Shaman's weapon, increasing its damage per second by 2. Lasts 30 minutes.

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Durata

n/d

Scuola

Natura

Meccanica

n/d

Tipo di Dissipare

n/d

Categoria GCD

Normale

Costo

8% della base mana

Portata

0 metri (Self)

Tempo di lancio

Istantaneo

Recupero

n/d

GCD

1.5 secondi

Effetto #1

Dummy
Valore: 2
Raggio:1 metri
[PVP Multiplier: ]1
Script Lato Server

Effetto #2

Enchant Item - Temporary
Valore: 3
[PVP Multiplier: ]1

Variabili

[Held Item Only]
Non Può Essere Utilizzato Mentre Trasformare
[Do Not Sheath]
[No Skill Increase]
[No AutoCast (AI)]
[Allow Low Level Buff]

Rockbiter Weapon

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