Windfury Totem vs Windfury for PVE soloFollow

Windfury totem doesn't stack with any weapon enchant - Frostbrand, Rockbiter, Windfury Weaopn, nothing. If you're soloing, drop Grace of Air.

Yep, you don't want to be using any air totems while soloing until you get Grace of Air--and even then, you'll find that most situations don't require a full set of totems.

Windfury totem really is best in group situations with melee dps (it helps tanks a bit too, though it really depends on the dps makeup of the group, since iirc GoA is better for hunters and also helps the tank and melee a bit). Somehow, every time I use it, the party chat devolves into a discussion of how awesome WF is--I think I've had three different pallies tell me that windfury totem is "teh sex". (They need to get out more often, but that's a whole different issue...)

Edit to add: I forgot about Grounding Totem--I think that's level 30? Anyway, you will be wanting to use that, if you're fighting a caster mob. Very handy, though obviously the use is limited. So what I should have said, was that most of the time you don't want to be using any air totems while soloing...

Edited, Apr 29th 2008 1:47pm by isyris

WF is best for a Warrior until you reach 70, hands-down. Post-70 in heroics and Karazhan, it depends on the fight and the Warrior's gear. If survival isn't an issue and your DPS can push his threat at will, WF is better since it will help the Warrior generate more threat, and more threat translantes into more DPS and faster fights. GoA will give him a couple more % to dodge and a tiny bit of extra armor though, as well as a couple % to crit which will also give you more threat (though not near as much as WF), so on a lot of fights were survival is more of an issue, GoA is just as good for Warriors as it is for Druids.

Prot Pallies are better off with WoA. They'd get an extra Seal proc off the extra swing from WF, but all of their abilites benefit from WoA: Consecration, Judgement, Holy Shield, etc.

Retribution Paladins should be getting WF. They're almost laughable without it.

Edited, Apr 29th 2008 3:15pm by Gaudion

You dont know how often I've wished, as a Warlock raider, that Totem of Wrath would give a Windfury-like effect to spells.

I am so tired of seeing the rogues consistently outperform me without even trying when Windfury is available in their group :(

The WF imbue takes precedence over the totem. If you put WF on your weapon and drop a WF totem, your personal WF, the more powerful of the two, will take precedence. This is also true for other classes like Rogues who can't get the benefit of the WF totem if they have a poison on their main-hand weapon.

Tested now many many times- Windfury totem will not automatically overwrite any temporary weapon enchant/enhancement. This includes poisons for Rogues, Sharpening stones or the other blacksmithing stones, oils such as Brilliant Wizard Oil, or stones created by Warlocks.

Correct if i am using the combination wrongly...


windfury totem + Flametoungue weapon
OR
Grace of AIR + windfury weapon


I am confused..flametoungue ,windfury or even rockbiter...which is better in solo ?

I am kinda new to this game...

Edited, May 8th 2008 6:05am by acidfreako

Gaudian,
Thanx for the answers.

If i throw in windfury totem for the party/solo what weapon imbued should i use? like ...none? because they dont stack ?

ya our weapon buffs are better then our group weapon buffs so just cause your dropping a totem doesnt mean you don't have to buff your weapon.

WF for example gives more attack power and 2 additional swings when it procs, the totem WF gives about half (or less) the attack power and only gives one extra swing.