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by Matthew Rossi 
Dec 23rd 2008 at 1:30PM
Since these changes haven't gone live yet, your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not they'll all combine to meet or even exceed GC's predictions. My shaman's elemental gear is solidly in that category of gear he states 'won't see quite such a lift' so as soon as I manage to get on the PTR and test it, I still won't be in the gear needed to really verify this.
Now all we need is to either fix mail itemization for elemental or let our friendly caster shaman get leather items drama free, and elemental will be in a good place.
Filed under: Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Talents, Buffs
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Shamkar Jan 20th 2009 3:57AM
@Shaman22: Sorry but if you can only pull 2k dps atm as ele shaman, you're doing something wrong already. I am still in half ele / half resto gear because i rerolled from resto, and pulling 3+k dps on bosses is not an exception. 20%+ buff would put me on 3.6k, i say thank you blizzard.
curtis Jan 27th 2009 3:42PM
I play an elemental shammy main, and this patch is a welcome buff. Pre-patch in nearly full epics from naxx/maly/OS i was able to do a consistent 2-2.4k dps, whereas a hunter in blues could almost keep up with me. Post patch i'm hitting more like 2.8-3k, and find i can stay in the top 5 of the raid usually. Anyone who complains about elemental shammy having improved dps needs to understand that if i spec as a DPS class, (which elemental is), then i need to be able to do that dps, buffs to raid are great, but if all an elemental shammy does is be a totem battery as most huntards wish, then no one would play that class. The totems are nice, but Elemental is DPS, and deserves equal, or close to equal treatment, this patch makes a nice step toward that end.