jmfmb wrote:
... but I think once geared enough where mana is not a problem anymore elemental is better because it is ranged and can 2 shot enemies pretty often with enough crit.
That won't happen 'til the very end of the game though, with end-game gear. At which point, if you're a DPS spec... it honestly does not matter. You should be tearing through anything you want to like a hot knife through butter. So yes. But this board has become so biased in favor of Elemental that even when a leveling thread comes up, we'll have plenty of people in there saying it's awesome to go Elemental right out of the box and stay that way the whole times. Which is just plain crappy advice. And they'll go on to make it seem like, as I said earlier, that Elemental is so much better at Enhancement at every aspect of the DPS game that there's just no reason to spec Enhancement unless you happen to like it. Which is, again, just crappy advice as pretty much the exact opposite is true.
Like I said. I am not saying anything bad about Elemental. It's a perfectly good spec, acceptable for raiding, acceptable for solo grinding, questing, leveling, etc... once you reach the early 60's. But it is just not what everyone on this board talks it up to be
all the time. I mean, I don't even play a DPS Shaman, much less an Enhancement Shaman, but the misrepresentation is so out of control that I just have a hard time watching it. I don't want to see people incorrectly steered one way or the other. If anyone wants to talk Elemental up, that's fine... but try to keep it objective and keep the rabid fanboy perspective out of it. (And I'm not saying you're guilty of that jmfmb, but there are plenty of others that are.)
That's all I'm saying. Keep it objective.
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... but then again I think most agree elemental has an edge in pvp.
Eh... You'd think so, but it seems like every time I see or hear about a DPS Shaman making it over 2k they're almost always Enhancement. The Elementals seem to be rarer higher up than the Enhancements outside of 5v5, but I think it's probably a little harder to see why if you don't play a healer (or at least with a good one). Elemental Shaman are
so much easier to live through in small-scale PvP, and the Enhancements can stretch their mana a lot further, which really helps as the higher up you get, the more fights have a tendancy to turn into knock-down, drag-out endurance matches if there's at least one healer involved on either side.
Overall, with all manner of PvP being considered (BG's, duels, 2v2-5v5), I'd say the specs are really about even in performance though excelling in different areas. The bigger it gets, the better Elemental gets while the opposite is true of Enhancement.