Enhancement - Static ShockFollow

Do you guys use this? I tend to burn through mana extremely fast dropping all my totems + doing my normal rotation of lightning when I have 5 maelstrom weapon on the guy, then SS, then ES, then LL. So I usually have my water shield up for mana regeneration.

I'm still undecided about this...
From what I understand, it contributes about 6% of your dps or so on boss fights...
Not sure it's even worth the 3 points for so little damage...
Aren't there other points that can be put elswhere that give better returns for your investment?
The build I'm most likely to go with once I get 80 (and not raiding as resto):
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html?tal=053030150000000000000000005052331050013533113120105100000000000000000000000000

Maybe somebody else can convince me it is worth the points, and what points to move around to take it...

edited cuz I can't spell this morning!

Edited, Jan 9th 2009 11:53am by Maulurom

Edited, Jan 9th 2009 11:54am by Maulurom

The reason you're running out of mana so fast is that static shock is a 25m raid talent. You have ret pallies giving back mana along with spriests so the water shield isn't needed and you gain the extra 6% dps (its more like 8% when you're geared in t7, with talents in shields and glyph of lightning shield).

When you're running heroics or 10m raids you're better off using a 17/54/0 build since you'll want the 10% ap buff (something that a blood dk will give in a 25m raid which is why you don't spec into it when you're only running 25m, as well as your enhancing totems, horn of winter takes care of that as well so spend your points somewhere else for dps boost).

Lightning shield will hit for 1300 on average with crits at 2000ish.

You conveniently forgot to include the second half of that quote on Static Shock:



So basically, it's back to what tbblizzard said. Static Shock is great as long as the rest of your party can support it. If your guild consistently raids with the same group of people in the same set-up as such that you can gaurantee stacked mana regen buffs on yourself, then yeah, Static Shock. If not (and we're not even getting into five-mans or soloing here), it's three wasted points. Points spent in Elemental for additional DPS may not have as high of a yield as Static Shock, but they will always present their benefit.

Based on the criteria above, I wouldn't consider Static Shock a good talent for baseline implementation into a cookiecutter Enhancement build. It's definitely a highly specialized talent that I think every Enhancement Shaman would have to make a personal judgement call on.

Yes, I admit, I did conveniently forget to include it, mainly because its wrong, and I was trying to prove a point.

I have never once needed anyone to "support" my lightning shield self buff, whether soloing or doing 5 mans, or raiding. With imp. shields I don't have to recast it often enough for it to make almost any difference in my rotation. And with Shamanistic rage, there is absolutely no mana issues with or without it.

But I will try in the future to include the whole quote and then try to explain why I am quoting faulty information, for completeness.

Cheers

Edited, Jan 22nd 2009 9:29am by voydangel