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Uh... ok? There's also the issue that Elemental Shaman have zero pushback res, so it's not like it's just as simple as continuing to spam LB when the mob's in your face. You'd be surprised in how many cases it's just as fast or almost as fast to Shock, melee, and let Searing Totem fire (which I forgot to mention) as it is to just keep spamming LB. Especially when you've got more than one mob beating on you.
In any case, there's no rotation that's just going to work perfectly for you 100% of the time. You're going to have to figure this out at your own discretion.
Regardless of whether you decide to melee or LB, you're
going to Shock and have Searing (or TOW) down.
Basically unless you're fighting a DW or Cat mob (rare), multiple mobs (rare unless you ***** up), or a mob that's down to less than ~5% hp (where LB = overkill, which is wasted mana), you shouldn't melee.
Mobs get to that ~5% threshold with low-moderate frequency, so it's not unheard of to melee as Elemental, but it's a big step down in DPS.
EDIT - Some additional pushback comments: Just using two hits from killing mobs on my lunch break I realized just how silly it is to melee unless you're in that ~5% range. Assuming a 1.0 attack rate (which is
fast for a mob), that's about two 0.2 sec pushbacks per LB cast:
My melee hit for 191 damage every 1.4sec. 136dps. (45+148 from flametongue)
My LB hit for 1390 every 2 sec. 695dps.
With Pushback: 2 hits: 1390 every 2.4 sec. 579dps.
3 hits: 1390 every 2.6 sec is 535dps...
10 hits: 1390 every 4 sec is 348dps...
(notice how it's still almost
twice the DPS of the melee attack?)
So there's a
huge DPS difference between meleeing and LBing, and while leveling you
really shouldn't melee unless you're avoiding overkill. Even during my lunch break there was one mob hit to 4% life which I finished off with my mace.
Edited, Mar 26th 2008 1:14pm by Axehilt