CestinShaman wrote:
Aurelius, this is what interested me.
Notes wrote:
Glyph of Fire Nova Totem: Renamed Glyph of Fire Nova. This glyph now reduces the cooldown of Fire Nova by 3 seconds.
Notes wrote:
Improved Fire Nova Totem: Renamed Improved Fire Nova. This talent now provides an additional 10/20% damage to the spell and reduces the cooldown by 2/4 seconds.
4 + 3 = 7. If these are correct, you could get Fire Nova down to a 3 second cooldown.
I'll miss the stun, but this new Fire Nova looks very nice.
It'll be great for elemental shaman...not so much for enhancement. As enhance, I simply don't have the mana pool to be spitting out 1k mana nova bombs every 3/7/10 seconds. As it currently stands, mana in 25-mans is a non-issue with a full rotation including a fresh Magma Totem every 20 seconds. If I start to get a little low, Shamanistic Rage usually tops me up in a matter of seconds. The current trend with top-end enhancement shaman is to spec out of Imp. Stormstrike (and take 2 points out of Imp. Shields) and put those 4 extra points into Reverberation (? cooldown reduction on shocks/wind shear). That build is intended to maximize the 4pc T9 set bonus, and makes heavy use of Shamanistic Rage to keep from going OOM. Add in an extra 6k mana/minute for a no-glyph, untalented Fire Nova and you're looking at a mana dry enhancement shaman in no time.
I can see reasonable benefit for trash, but in terms of practical applications in PvE boss encounters, it's not really all that exciting to me as enhancement. My personal belief is that enhancement shaman could use some help in the AoE damage department, and this is sort of questionable. I could almost see myself dual speccing two different enhancement builds...one for trash and one for bosses...with glyphs and slight talent tweaks to support it. My personal preference would be to have a moderate AoE damage option (as opposed to simply poor) that fist with a current raid spec for an enhancement shaman, but I won't pooh-pooh the buffs until I've had a chance to test them (and also because that wouldn't be very nice of me considering elemental shaman are shaman, too ;D)