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Switched from Enhance to Ele...need Gem advice
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Post by
totemmunkey
Its been a while since I've played Elemental Combat, but I believe it's something like this:
(assuming you want socket bonuses + hit-capped)
Red Socket --
Reckless Ametrine
Yellow Socket --
Quick King's Amber
Blue Socket --
Glowing Dreadstone
However, if you're good on haste from gear/enchants alone, you can drop Reckless Ametrine into your Yellow Sockets and put
Runed Cardinal Ruby
in your Red Sockets.
As I understand it, you want enough haste to get 4 Lightning Bolts off while Lava Burst is on cooldown. After that, it's not worth gemming any more haste. Hope this helps, and I hope I didn't give you out-of-date info.
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falrinth
Your spec is correct except I'd move the 3 in reverb into eye of the storm as a raiding ele rotation will not require a shock other than flame shock and that will either be every 18 or 27 seconds, far above it's talented 4 sec cooldown. On the other hand, occasional pushback can lower your dps but you'll negate such effects with eye of the storm and concentration aura. Then again, you may as well wait until 3.3 and determine if you want improved fire nova (I know I do), but even then I'd draw points from Convection as we don't typically have mana problems.
Moving on, your hit is too high. Being a draenei and having elemental precision maxed out you only need 342 hit to ensure that you always hit a raid boss (lvl 83). If you can guarantee that you'll always be raiding with a moonkin or shadow priest, that number drops to 263. More info here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_hit
In general gem for SP, it's by far our best stat. Haste is very good as well but the math on it is more complex as it interacts with how many LBs/CLs go in between LvBs. Everything else (assuming you're hit capped) is of much lower value, but crit is probably third. Your gems look good, but make sure you have your three JC gems and these should be 39SP. Your trinkets and totem are very good as well, don't let trinkets ilvl fool you. Look for SP/Haste/Crit items to replace your cloak/bracers/belt/ring and you'll be good to go. And as you don't have T8P2 consider replacing your glyph of lava with a glyph of flame shock.
Hope this helps.
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totemmunkey
Listen to Falrinth. His advice is better. =)
Post by
tomgc
Then again, you may as well wait until 3.3 and determine if you want improved fire nova (I know I do)
Of what use is Fire Nova to a raiding Elemental Shaman? Purely trash, I suppose?
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falrinth
Of what use is Fire Nova to a raiding Elemental Shaman? Purely trash, I suppose?
Yes (for which it will be extremely useful), and better than 2 points in convection at any rate. For a single target boss you'd never use it, but there could be applications if a boss had adds tanked nearby. To be fair, fire nova suffers from the same problem as magma totem in that you have to run to place it, during which time you can only profitably cast flame shock. But in the case of fire nova, you can place a 5min totem like wrath and then you have (if the boss doesn't move) another instant in addition to flame shock to use if you need to run somewhere.
Post by
Sihmm
As I understand it, you want enough haste to get 4 Lightning Bolts off while Lava Burst is on cooldown. After that, it's not worth gemming any more haste. Hope this helps, and I hope I didn't give you out-of-date info.
Not so much out of date as citing an astonishingly common lingering misconception!
There really is
no
haste target. Haste is for all practical purposes always a DPS increase. Just cast as many Lightning Bolts between Lava Burst cooldowns as you can fit, don't aim for a specific haste value or a specific rotation sequence!
Gem-wise, always gem for spellpower above haste - only use Reckless gems in yellow sockets with spellpower bonuses. If you need hit rating (which from your armory you
really don't
:D), fill yellow sockets with hit or spellpower/hit gems. Your all-stats gem is also suboptimal, it would be better to use a
Glowing Dreadstone
to help activate the meta.
Your spec is okay, but points in Reverberation are totally wasted and would be better spent in Eye of the Storm, which is a huge DPS increase on fights involving pushback: it affects us more than most casters due to our fast-cast spells. You should also swap your Glyph of Lava to a Glyph of Flame Shock, unless you're planning on getting the 2t8 set bonus very soon.
Your gear is pretty great except for the vast excess of hit, which probably can't be helped given what gear you've had to choose from. Just remember to always choose stats in the priority Spellpower -> Haste -> Crit.
You can find a lot more Elemental information and guides on my blog.
Edit: also, what falrinth said.
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