Lava Lash...NEW INSTANT CAST WEAPON ABILITY!!!!!Follow

Is anyone else extremely excited about this ability as I am?

Personaly.. I would dual yield windfury still.

Get to keep the insane amounts of damage that WF generates BUT get a half a stormstrike (kinda) thrown in. sooo Stormstrike WF proc, within the 3 sec internal cooldown for WF, cast Lava Lash and watch the numbers fly out of control!


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i figured as much, does make sense, unless you cast a rank 1 flametongue right before use, and then refresh it with windfury after the use of lava lash

but what if swaping flametongue onto the off-hand during the 3 sec cooldown of windfury.... meaning keeping both up till it procs, then switching it out use the ability, and then cast it back on....

im sure macros will be created to do this.... but with a beta key im uncapable of doing so

though im sure over time this would be so inefficient mana wise.... that it would cause more damage at first.... but once the pool dries up it goes down hill form there....

unless you use rank 1 flametongue...

what they should have done is tied it to flameshock.... sorta like the way lava burst does.... but instead if lava lash was used during the last 3-5 sec of flameshock duration... would add 25% more damage.... or more than that....

though testing will be done, it is beta, nothing is in stone yet... though will be soon as nov 13 draws closer... cant wait put keep me posted ont the testing if anyone does any....

I agree with Guadion. It looks like it will be a big drain on the mana pool if you plan on trying to do this between the 3 sec WF cooldown. Throw in the normal 1.5 sec gcd that occur between casting flametongue on your weapon, using the instant attack, then the 1.5 sec gcd after casting WF again seem cumbersome, excessive, and may throw off your wf attack so that it doesn't happen every 3 seconds. I'm sure a macro could help, but I would still be concerned that it would lower overall dps. I'm sure I will try both, using WF/WF and WF/FT to see which is better. But I'm guessing WF/WF will still come out ahead.
I think it is great to add another instant attack though! Waiting for SS to become available can be a pain in the a**.

Actually I don't think it will proc wf, blizzard made it so wf totem stopped working with our teammates extra attacks I think, and left our stormstrike be so that it continued procing wf. My guess is they will make it so that it can not proc WF which sucks hopefuly they make these adjustments to the actual ability and not wf because it may also end up affecting storm strike which would suck.

It seems blizzard really wants us to consider ft on our OH, looking at the new enhancement shaman and how it will work and the nature of how all classes work now, enhancement shaman will rely heavily on our spells and our ability with spells come the expansion. With almost no reason to go into restoration and talents like Mental Dexterity, Metal Quickness, Lava Lash, Improved Stormstrike, Static Shock, and Mealstrom Weapon it seems like Blizzard really wants to push more elemental combvat on to enhancement and with changes to raw critical and hit bonuses affecting both melee and elemental attacks then it is much easier for a Enhancement shaman to pull off this form of combat.

Also if you take a look at earlier tree of elemental you will notice a big change here, Elemental Fury has been bumped up top a third Teir talent now and for 5 talent points now even a Enhancement shaman can make use of a 20/40/60/80/100% bonus to his Fire, Frost, and Nature spells critical damage by 100% (unless changed). Going 17 points deep into elemental as an enhancement shaman looks pretty reliable at this point:

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=hVhhq

Of all of our weapon imbues Flame tongue is the only other competitive option at 70 behind WF. The extra spell damage and the way it scales it can make a great way to improve DPS, as well as increase the damage we will perform with our other spells (flame shock, earth shock, and at 80 static shock and lava burst).

Now at 70 WF/WF will probably still be preferred but Lava Lash and the tacked on spell damage definitely make FT a more and more attractive option I would not be too surprised if at 80 WF/FT out dps WF/WF.