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I know its a bit passe but could you critique my build please;

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Ta.

Please don't tell people to take Elemental Devastation, due to gearing it is a waste of talent points.
Guardian Totems is more of a PvP talent, Imp Weapon Totems is a better option if you plan on grouping at all, and put the extra point in Imp Ghost Wolf.
That leaves one point, I'd probably sink it in Earth's Grasp for the extra health on Stoneclaw just because there is nowhere else a single point would do more for you. 16/45/00

Honestly though Enh/Resto is the better option for a solo/small group PvE build. 00/45/16



First of all fill out Imp Weapon Totems, in a raid build this is compulsory as you should virtually always have WF totem down.
Lose the points in Elemental, shocks generate way too much threat and in a raid situation you should be downranking them and using them purely for their effects (interrupts etc).
Fill out Totemic Focus. 00/45/16



The days of the WF one shot are well and truly over, much bigger HP pools and resilience have changed everything. Enhancement is virtually useless in Arena and suffers even in larger scale PvP. Resto is definitely the way to go for Arena viability and Elemental is incredible in BG's (sneak up on a cluster and let the CL rip). If you do go Enhancement for PvP I recommend Enh/Resto, Natures Swiftness is a huge survivability boost to a class that really struggles with survivability. 00/40/21

Suicide builds can work as well but IMO it's not a good pay off, especially if you want to Arena, we just need to maximise on what survivability there is. 23/38/00

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 5:15am by SunSoarer

Sun pretty much summed it up. I'm a "Tad" partial to Guardian tot's myself. To me, the decreased CD on Grounding tot is "nice" in PvP, I won't say its a make or break thing...but it can have its use. Messing up a Pyro mage's or a lock's fear game (or at least the starter) is always a "good thing". Granted the other "bonuses" that the talent are "minimal" at best, but to me, the CD reduction on grounding was cool.

Imp. Weapon tot's...to me thats debatable. From a raider's perspective it "might" be needed...course this is the part I debate. Frankly my guild doesn't have dps war's and rarely have I raided with rogues for dps, so in my situation there really isn't a need for WF tot. Typically we have casters for dps and/or hunters (aside myself of course), which WF isn't going to do jack for anyone. Even if ONE rogue did happen to make the dps team for a given raid (first of all it would be "rare" for me), I'm not going to "spec" for something that hasn't happened for me much :p For me, if the raid group is caster heavy and I'm in the caster party, everyone's getting a ToW obviously (or sometimes TT). If I'm in the tank/Physical dps party, everyone's getting a GoA. To me its a simple matter of math and ratio...drop the totem that benefits the most amount of ppl, not that complicated. But, obviously that means Imp weap doesn't really help me/other out much, even in a raid setting.

Obviously not everyone's raid setup is cookie cutter, so I can't its worthless. But, then again I don't throw it in the catagory that EVERY shaman NEEDS to spec it either. It does boil down to what benefits the raid setup, so you have to make the call on what "typically" happens for your group.

I'm in debate on which is "better" for enh pvp now. I pretty much SWORE by NS (21 in resto) for a LONG TIME, frankly there wasn't really anything else that gave "something" in PvP subspec other than NS. Granted in 2.3 SR's -30% dmg and the fact its CD is a whole min less than NS, gives NS a pretty good run for its money. Enh as a whole isn't great for certain PvP types and situations, but I'd argue to say the PvP combo's now look something like ?/41/20+ or 0/40/21...guess its a matter of preferance.

Yep, that's why I take it in my PvP build. I personally like to specialize in my builds so I respec if I'm going to be PvPing, I understand not everyone wants to do this.

Edited, Nov 21st 2007 7:47am by SunSoarer

in pvp often you will run into ppl with 250 resil, which means unless you have a lot of spell crit for you suicide build, you can not crit, even without making you totally able to crit, ppl still have too much resil to make this worth it in pvp, but hey do what you want =P

O.o elemental devastation? thats like the uber l33t talent ability. beef up and enhancement shaman with =spell crit for all the extra melee damage

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