Whats better Elemental or EnhacementFollow

I'm a level 62 elemental shaman and i would like to know which spec is better for DPS and sruvial Elemental or Enhancement.

gotta love sunsoarer... always beating me to my answers... :P

and giving great shammy related advice =)

/bows

Edited, Oct 11th 2007 9:00pm by Draeneipally

I think elemental has the edge v. enhance as most PvP elem tend to have the 20 pts resto for the +5% crit on lightning, also larger pool so surviving is easier. Not for nothing are enhance shammies known as 'suicide shammy'. SuiSham is an excellent shock troop, allies always freak when one arrives in their midst, have healer supporting him and watch the blood flow.

Never been to Outlands I presume? +spell dmg mail is all over the place there. Just ask any Hunter.

Having been Enhancement to lvl 58 and Elemental for the last 2 levels, I'd say both are good, but Elemental is more fun IMO. Enhancement is a lot of auto attack and praying for a nice bit Windfury Crit. Elemental is more interactive but has more downtime as you have pretty much zero chance of surviving an encounter if you're OOM.

Edited, Oct 31st 2007 9:08am by Rasen

You make no sense dude. Spelldamage mail is all over the place and instead of throwing down a grace of air totem you would put a wrath of air. I dont really understand what arguments youre trying to make.

First, I have a level 70 hunter, there is PLENTY of mail out there with plus spell damage in outlands.

Second, Zaishen, at least use SOME grammar when you type in here; don't give me excuses. If you are going to debate a topic, spell the words out like you have a lick of intelligence.

Third, and most important, spec and gear will only take you so far. Skill>Spec>Gear.

Skill is the cake towards the way you play. If you don't have the skill of what to and not to do (what totems and spells to use and not to use), you won't bode well as that Spec.

Speccing towards what your main focus is will spice your skills with some new clickies and some goodies.

Gear is your icing, it gives what you do best some more power, survival and mainstay.

Elemental shamans i would say are far from burst dps compared to an enhancement 2 handed shaman that depends on triple crit windury procs. As far as who can beat who, it all depends on my 3rd statement.

Zaishen, Use grammar/correct spelling!
spellcheck your posts.

You have shown post after post that you cant take the effort to spell and you're not saying anything useful or true either.
So until i can see some sort of improvement i´ll rate each of these terrible mind numbingly bad spelled posts down.






Note: no one expects perfect english but at least try to not make a million errors per sentence.

edit± note...

Edited, Nov 1st 2007 7:11am by Aethien

Please remember zaishen playing wow is not always about better or best, many ppl play for fun as well, I recently watched a video of a moonkin tank kara and gruuls, was it better, probably not, but could it have been more fun, I think so.

From what I have seen is that starting off Elemental is thew way to go.

Any of my higher level freinds say that a Geared out Enhancement shaman is a VERY scary thing.

The difference is, elemental does not require as much gear as Enhancement. Elemental can dish out good damage from the start, enhancement requires you to get some good tier items before you can really own.

Oh my. I was bouncing around the shammy forums looking for some information/opinions/advice and came across this - the Scholar's beating on Zai! Personally, I'm a stickler for proper grammar, and it tends to irk me in real-life if someone spells as if they're on a mobile phone (the inappropriate use of commas with conjunctions in a complex sentence also irks me).

But, come on guys, let up. I know a load of people playing this game to whom English is a second language. There's a number of folk I chat to and help out in the game who are 12 years old or younger. With on line communication being abbreviated in order to save typing time, as well as the potential intricasies of typing in a second language, typing with a vocabulary of the young, or typing in haste to get your point across, there's a lot of factors to take into account.

So, I'm with you Zai! I read your message and the concept was immediately understood! Keep on abbreviating and paraphrasing and using anacronyms and gutteral sounds as you like! As you said, this ain't English class! Its a game! I hold degrees in science and have written research and am workin on a postgrad doc degree atm as well as a masters and I hate typing to the full while having fun as I have to do enough of that in realife Meet me in Stormwind, I'll buy ya a pint!
Type as you want!

Unless, of course, you become president, in which case I'd appreciate your adopting proper grammar, as I'd hate to see the simple order reading 'lunch' typed out as 'launch'.

Viva la Zai,
Oz


Edited, Nov 13th 2007 9:45pm by OzoneSSX

No, just no. TBH I am disgusted to see someone who claims to be educated cultivating and supporting the degradation of the English language.

Zai's posts in this thread are abysmal, there is absolutely no effort made to spell correctly, punctuate, use proper grammar or sentence structure or even to make his questions/statements/arguments understandable.

He has at least two posts in this thread that actually don't make sense at all, it really is that bad, yet he expects us to consider his opinions valid and his arguments sound...

I won't accept the "foreign defense". Two reasons, first of all the nature of his errors, misspellings like "wud", "ur", "neway". These are not the errors of a non-english speaker struggling with the language, they are the errors of a lazy git who can't be asked.

Second of all in my experience non-english speakers commonly make far more of an effort to post clearly and correctly than most english speakers. They are aware of the fact it is not their native tongue and will really try to make themselves clearly understood. The errors will tend towards incorrect tenses and the like.

Anyway, the point stands, if you want to be understood show some effort. If you want to be treated with respect show some.

Edit: Spelling, ain't that a kicker.

Edited, Nov 14th 2007 2:01am by SunSoarer

My god if there are any more warm-fuzzy touchy-feely getting-to-know-ya "Just call me Christopher, my door is always open" platitudes Im going to puke.

Seriously.

~sins