xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I guess two LBs and a shock isn't me killing mobs fast enough as resto then. I'll re-evaluate my rotation, and double check with being elemental as well.
At 80 in Naxx-ready dungeon, quest, and rep rares, I go through two Flame Shock/Lava Burst rotations with a Lightning Bolt or two and sometimes some additional melee swings to finish off the average 80-ish mob. And that's with Searing Totem down and Flametongue on my weapon. If you are killing mobs with LB > LB > Shock then you have got some kind of amazing gear on or you know something else I don't. If that's not the case, then I am just going to have to call shenanigans on you.
Elemental's spells are going to be hitting and critting just that much harder than Resto with faster casts and less pushback when getting hit (Resto will almost always hit the pushback immunity before it gets a spell off), and AoE much, much better.
Enhancement is just a leveling monster.
thrashering wrote:
Though I think some of you overestimate how fast you can kill things as enhance/ele. Are you assuming crits? You guys rolling in epics? It's been a while since I've been elemental, but I've never been able to kill something before it gets to me unless I crit.
I think you and some others are seriously
underestimating how fast you can kill things as Enhancement compared to Resto because you haven't tried it or didn't really give it a serious shake.
Everything is dead by the time the debuff from the Stormstrike you opened up with wears off. You don't even have to spend the 1.5 seconds it would take to top yourself off with a LHW half the time because of MW procs. And that's all with completely average gear; I was questing in a set Frankensteined together from out-dated Northrend quest/dungeon blues and quest greens with a couple leftover epics from Kara. You don't have to stop to heal, you never run out of mana between Water Shield and Shamervate, and you have Feral Spirits for when things get hairy or you have an extra-tough mob to take down.
No one's saying Resto
can't quest... but please. For the people who don't know better, don't suggest that it's going to be as fast as Elemental or Enhancement. It's just... not.
Edited, Dec 16th 2008 3:34pm by Gaudion