Totem Talk: Patch 3.1 Shaman Gear Part 4

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Filed under: Shaman , Patches , Items , Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Instances , Raiding , (Shaman) Totem Talk One of the interesting things about new content is the transitional period as you clear the new bosses and start gearing up. Pictured alongside today’s column is an illustration of that process, as Tier 7 blends into Tier 8 and Calamity’s Grasp is paired with Vulmir . Myself, I’ve mostly been screaming “Why won’t you drop” again, as I so often do (I have terrible loot luck) at various healing rings, trinkets, necks, and shields. Having recently healed my first 25 man since I switched from resto to elemental in SSC, I’ve also found that I hate spirit with a passion. Why there has been no effort to make spirit more useful for shamans as casters or healers, I can’t tell you, because it’s on every freaking thing. Yes, it helps on mana regeneration out of combat and if you can take five seconds in combat, but otherwise it’s totally useless for shamans. Doesn’t increase spell power or crit or do anything, really, just sits there like a less effective version of MP5. (And at least at my current gear and comfort level for healing, I don’t spend a lot of time standing around not casting healing spells unless I’m forced to by the dreaded OOM.) Every time I see a healing weapon with spirit on it I want to go back in time and stab myself. I don’t know what that would accomplish, exactly, but that’s how much I hate spirit. I’d really like to see a talent in either mid-level elemental or restoration (resto would be better, and if it was fairly low in the tier elemental could pick it up too) that made spirit actually useful for shamans, but I’m not holding my breath.This is why I almost always wait for a shield instead of picking up a spell offhand. And now, on to our show, looking at the items that as of now we know about in Ulduar. Continue reading Totem Talk: Patch 3.1 Shaman Gear Part 4 Totem Talk: Patch 3.1 Shaman Gear Part 4 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 07 May 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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