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sneek wrote:Apparently WotLK has changes for the melee stat aspect for Enhancement.

1 Strength = 1 attackpower.
1 Agility = 1 attackpower.
1 Intellect (with 3/3 talent points invested in enhancement) = 1 attackpower.

This essentially implies you should stack agility, instead of strength.
Agility still gives critical strike and dodge, I presume (unconfirmed).

Also with Intellect adding a point of attackpower, we're basically forced into the Hunter gear niche (mail).
Unless you're comfortable skimping on your mana capacity - which is doubtful since I see Maelstrom Weapon to be a gas guzzler.

There'll likely be typical DK/Din/War jewelry as well different Rog/Hun/Sha jewelry.
but rogues are leather and huner/shaman is mail :P
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There'll likely be typical DK/Din/War jewelry as well different Rog/Hun/Sha jewelry.
Look closely! ;)
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So it'll be...
... the "Delicate (Cardinal Ruby-RED)" cut worth +20 agility,
... and the "Wicked (Flawless Ametrine-ORANGE)" cut worth +20 attackpower and +10 critical strike.
... or the "Precise (Cardinal Ruby-RED)" cut worth +20 expertise.

The red cut has a preference over the orange one for PvE (think BoKings).
I'm not sure how bright it is to stack expertise gems when you haven't gotten around 30% critical strike rating.

Although there are Armor Penetration cuts for RED gems, the "Maelstrom Weapon" talent for Enhancement puts more emphasis on spelldamage dealt by a melee Shaman.
Agility gems definately boost spelldamage both in raw damage as well as in critical strike chance, whereas Armor Penetration does not.

All in all though, looking to be a very interesting puzzle again!
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Yaur wrote:
There'll likely be typical DK/Din/War jewelry as well different Rog/Hun/Sha jewelry.
Look closely! ;)
oops :P
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Post by Mortleg »

how exactly does agi boost spell crit? Only crit rating on gear boosts both spells and melee, or am I missing something?
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Assumption on my part, good point.
One that'll make things very interesting!
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i think agi replaces str and crit remains as sueful?
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Mortleg wrote:how exactly does agi boost spell crit? Only crit rating on gear boosts both spells and melee, or am I missing something?
This one's correct, based on the discussion over there on EJ.com
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so something like this will probably be a popular PvE spec in wotlk?
or will people try and get down to elemental fury?
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Well the Spirit Wolf/Feral Spirit bottom talent in enhancement's pushed as a DPS, CC and debuff tool for enhancement, so it'll be nice to grab apparently.

Personally I'd love to grab 200% criticals for spells but haven't found a good way to do that without gutting the enhancement tree :)
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ok, so i guess i could change from static shock to spectral transformation 2/2 and 1/1 feral spirit =)
and, yeah, it'll be hard to reach elemental fury without fucking up your enhancement tree =/
it'd be fun though to try at least =P

edit: like this http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=hVhhZhxxIoxdIekgzio
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Post by Phil »

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=hVbhoZhbgIoxdItkguio best choice imo

one could argue that you don't need imp. GW, but I guess it won't hurt. You surely wouldn't want to miss out on the wolves, or on 11pt Elemental Focus :)

all in all, this tree/spec looks very promising to me in WotLK, would like to play it :o
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yeah but how usefull would elemental focus be with the spell crit rate you have on an enhancement shaman?
( ive never played above lv60 so i dont know ;P )
and if spirit wolves are worth their ponts i'd rather take the build i have posted above yours :)
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err i reckon a lot since all crit you get on gear also affects spell crit now?
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