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July 12, 2011 by haetzn   comments (0)

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Dwyer's Caber is your DPS trinket option here. It's very difficult to say no to all that strength for sure. Plus, you get to impress the ladies and/or fellas by tossing wow gold. How can you not pick this one up? Consider the critical strike rating proc icing on the cake.

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Totem Talk for elemental, enhancement, and restoration shaman. Josh Myers once tackled the hard questions about enhancement, but has recently expanded his sphere of responsibility to all DPS specs for shaman. And no, two-handed enhancement is still never coming back.

 

Sarah Nichol, our most recent elemental columnist, has been kidnapped by patriarchal Daleks loyal to Lord Voldemort after losing the Game of Thrones. Due to this, I, Josh Myers, enhancement shaman extraordinaire, have agreed to take on the Defense Against the Dark Arts-esque position of elemental columnist. Please welcome me as your benign, bovine overlord.

 

Now for why you're really reading: Patch 4.2 hit approximately two weeks ago, and the game has changed for elemental shaman everywhere. Bringing us the Glyph of Unleashed Lightning, useful tier bonuses, and a legendary stat stick that would make Gandalf jealous, 4.2 is looking to be the best patch of the expansion for elemental. Not that that's hard, considering the competition.

On the plus side, it actually is a really good change if mobs live long enough to make it worthwhile. On a fight like heroic Maloriak, where the dark phase lasts for up to a minute and a half, you'll have five Flame Shocks rolling around for over a minute while you spam Fire Nova and Chain Lightning to your heart's content. Terrible for burst, but our sustained AOE was very much improved. Now, if only Blizzard could release a wow po  where sustained AOE mattered and burst AOE didn't, we'd be golden.
PVP: Slightly less painful
The last thing Blizzard did this patch was provide some solid PVP buffs to elemental shaman. While I'm no elemental PVP expert (I hit 1,790 as ele in Wrath of the Lich King but haven't played it since), I'd be blind not to see how nice Glyph of Unleashed Lighting is for elemental PVP. On top of that is the change for Lava Flows, which now gives elemental shaman a 90% haste buff if their Flame Shock is dispelled, up from 30%. Thunderstorm now also has a 40% snare on everyone it hits for 5 seconds, allowing a small defense against melee with their gap closers on cooldown. And Lightning Shield can no longer be dispelled, and the new four-piece GW gold for the Gladiator's Thunderfist set causes your Lightning Shield to generate charges when struck, not lose them. More Lightning Shield procs means more Fulmination casts, which means more dead Alliance.