{"id":981,"date":"2010-08-08T04:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=981"},"modified":"2010-08-08T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T15:49:28","slug":"totem-talk-enhancement-cataclysm-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/totem-talk-enhancement-cataclysm-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Totem Talk: Enhancement Cataclysm update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury, and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy<\/a> lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance, and leads the guild Big Crits<\/a> (Week 9<\/a> now out!) as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby.<\/span> <\/p>\n

With such a lame title, you’d never guess we have so much to talk about this week! Mastery bonus is all<\/em> elemental damage, not just nature! Smarter Searing Totems! Four Ghostcrawler replies (11 paragraphs!) about Shamans, with four paragraphs solely about Enhancement! Longer Hex! New crit-increasing talents! Increased totem ranges! Well, okay, maybe that last one isn’t as exciting as the first few. But there’s so much news out there for us enhancers, I don’t even know where to begin. <\/p>\n

The logical place to start is with the biggest news: Enhancement Mastery bonus “increases all elemental damage done by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating.” This is a change from the first Cataclysm<\/em> build that included mastery; previously our bonus was only increasing our nature damage. The nature-only mastery was great for our core spell, Lightning Bolt<\/a> (LB), but with Maelstrom Weapon (MW) now including Lava Burst (LvB) we would not benefit from our Mastery bonus with LvB. This was a problem for two reasons: first LvB does more damage than LB, and second, LvB could be used to keep Elemental Devastation up. Lava Burst will automatically crit when Flame Shock<\/a> (FS) is on a target, making it a smart choice to used to keep Elemental Devastation active. <\/p>\n

That choice changed. Mastery now affects all elemental damage, which includes Lava Burst. Hence, Lava Burst plus Flame Shock plus mastery equals happy enhancer. This is a great buff for us. Because LvB has an 8 second cooldown and LB has none, we’ll still keep LB handy for when LvB is on cooldown.<\/p>\n

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Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury, and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance, and leads the guild Big Crits (Week 9 now out!) as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby. With such a lame title, you’d never guess we have so much to talk about this week! Mastery bonus is … Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69,927,439,438,197],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-of-warcraft","tag-cataclysm","tag-enhancement","tag-talk","tag-totem","tag-update","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t