Totem Talk: The Fury of the Elements

Posted by Gold Boy on 07 19th, 2009

Categories: Featured Articles | no responses

Ultimate Guide Guarantee: "...within seconds of accepting a quest you will
know WHERE to go, HOW to complete it, and WHEN to do it." Click Here For Proof!

Totem Talk is where Shaman enthusiast (imagine Robert De Niro from The Untouchables saying that word) Matthew Rossi comes to discuss all things Shaman. This week, we feature another horde shaman sent in by a reader named Steve. Steve, I lost your email if you want to claim your screenshot in the comments or via another email. I apologize for my brain being cracked. I spent the last week doing three things in game. One was getting my Death Knight up to 80 and getting him defense capped for tanking, but I’m sure none of you care about that. The second thing was running Ulduar 25 on my warrior and Ulduar 10 on my shaman. My shaman eschewed his usual “DPS as Enhancement or heal as Restoration” mindset this week due to the lack of our usual Elemental Shaman, who is quite frankly a far, far better caster Shaman than I am or will ever be. But babies wanted their Elemental Oath so I bit the bullet and respecced . (Admittedly, in a 10 man run with 1 rogue, 1 feral druid tank, one paladin tank, two priest healers, and three warlocks and a mage, my Elemental Oath was pretty useful. Holy casters, Batman.) My experience with Elemental was that, even with way too much cloth caster gear and a pair of resto boots, it can do tolerable (low, but tolerable) damage. Were I geared properly I’d have done much better, I’m sure, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with the spec. It just means that I’m not a very good Elemental Shaman. However, even as a poor caster, I do feel that the arguments of the actual Elemental Shamans i’ve seen have some merit, and we’ve discussed them to some degree in the past weeks. Continue reading Totem Talk: The Fury of the Elements Filed under: Shaman , Patches , Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , (Shaman) Totem Talk Totem Talk: The Fury of the Elements originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink