Enhancement shaman looking for in-depth tips

[Rake 0]

Hello citizens of icy-veins,

 

I'm wondering if I could improve my dps or utility somehow. I usually do competitive dps in my raidgroup, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I'm looking for anything to improve, big or small.

 

Armory: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Harenk%C3%A2/advanced

Logs from last reset: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/9oqt94lhw6jhj3l4/

WarcraftLogs: http://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/Gb1kh4txVJPKCHzW

 

My opener is the following:

Spirit Walk at 5 on pulltimer

Wolves + pre-pot at 2

Fire ele + EM at 1

Blood Fury, Engineering thing and UE on pull

Stormstrike as soon as possible, and then I pop ascendance and use Stormblast

Depending on MW stacks I either FS or LB, usually I have 5 stacks at this point so LB

FS

LL

 

From this point on I just try to cast based on the priority in the enhancement guide. I use Bloodfury and glove enchant on cooldown, I sync EM and FE, and always use Ascendance right after a SS to reset the cooldown.

 

I'm looking for small things that I could do better.

 

I'm considering recording my PoV from our raid later tonight, let me know if that would be helpful.

 

Thanks in advance,

Rake

Edited June 25, 2014 by Rake

[Hybrys 199]

Try logging to WarcraftLogs as I can't get super in depth with WoL.

[Rake 0]

Try logging to WarcraftLogs as I can't get super in depth with WoL.

http://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/Gb1kh4txVJPKCHzW

There you go!

[Hybrys 199]

It's a pretty solid log.  Your Thok could've seen higher Flame Shock uptime and Searing Totem uptime, and you should be a little more aggressive with your Lightning Bolt.

 

That's definitely a pattern in you not using your Lightning Bolt / Maelstrom stacks until they hit 5.  If you have space where you're waiting on a cooldown for longer than your GCD, and if you have 3+ Mael stacks, you should be hardcasting LB then.

 

This is a Malk parse I'm looking at, zoomed to before you died:

 

Mael: http://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/Gb1kh4txVJPKCHzW#type=auras&source=1&fight=41&start=11053176&end=11186851&ability=53817

 

Searing:

http://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/Gb1kh4txVJPKCHzW#type=auras&source=1&fight=41&start=11053176&end=11186851&ability=77661

 

I would also be using Lava Lash more aggressively.  From a Malkorok parse, I see 11 casts for 133 seconds.  That's 23 seconds of wasted Lava Lash uptime.  Comparatively, Stormstrike was a little better, with 15 casts (14 + 2 Stormblasts - 1 for the Asc reset), with only 13 seconds of wasted CD, which is more realistically 11 seconds of wasted CD w/ the Asc reset.

[Rake 0]

Thanks for the input, I'll try to incorporate these into my play. Are there any solid addons for tracking MW stacks? I'm having a hard time telling how many MW stacks I have other than when they hit 5.

[Hybrys 199]

Thanks for the input, I'll try to incorporate these into my play. Are there any solid addons for tracking MW stacks? I'm having a hard time telling how many MW stacks I have other than when they hit 5.

A WeakAura or TellMeWhen string is really the best bet for this.

 

If you're currently using the default spell alert, you should check out this WeakAura I made to mimic that for 3-4-5 stacks!

 

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/5560-shaman-weakauras/#forum-anchor-waenh

[Rake 0]

Thanks for the WA string, I found it really helpful. I tried to be more aggressive with spending my MW stacks in our last raid, but I think I overcompensated a bit. Time to hit the training dummies for a bit I guess.

[Hybrys 199]

Yeah, when I started doing it I overcompensated as well.  I ended up just waiting for 3 on the Spell Alert WA before ever hitting it.