Shaman discussion

[Cyll]

Hi Rihmz!

Im just curious what kind of UI ur using. So can you link screenshot please.

-Cyll

[Ziva]

i see you got the Black Bruise and i was wondering is it really good?
i have read loads of forums and they say its not that good i was wonderring if its worth getting instead of my ''Abomination Knuckles'' ,they say the buff dont stack with 2 t10 Shamanistic Rage, maybe its fixed i dont know. It its better or worse then why?

greetings by ziva :>

[Jatimatic]

Hey Ziva,

Black Bruise proc does 2-2,5% of my total dps (depends on luck :p) atleast in single target fights. I haven't really investigated does 2pt10 setbonus boost that damage but according the tooltip it should :)

Ilev264 Abomination Knuckles should be little better than ilev264 Black Bruise. Tried to calculate how much better with enhsim values and seems like AK is about 130dps better than Black Bruise. I made calculations with my characters stats so the dps difference will be different on your own character.

I'm kinda unlucky with weapon drops so that's why I'm still wearing Black Bruise.

[Ziva]

ok thanks, do you think i shoud keep my Abomination Knuckles ilv251 instead of getting a black bruise? :>

[Jatimatic]

Yeah Black Bruise definitely.

[Ziva]

ok, thanks :>

[taurendomrot]

Hi. Got a question for you. When i see my profile via Rawr and reades on most forums, it says that you need around 380 hit rating to be capped. But when i watch the profile of rihmz on armory, it says he got 504 included that hes been gemming. is there a reason for that? or just slacky re-gemming?

[Jatimatic]

There is a thing called critcap, according to ej it goes something like this:
There is a 27% miss chance on lev83 bosses, 4,8% reduced crit chance, 24% chance for getting glancing attack (and ofc you know that glancing attacks can't crit) and 6,5% chance to get dodge when you attack bosses from behind.
I get 15,37% hit from gear on my character + 6% from talents so that's 21,37%, expertise on cap so bosses can't dodge when I hit them from behind, so my critcap is: 100%-(27-21,37)-0-24-4,8 = 65,57%
My character gets 51,42% crit from gear, about 11% more from raidbuffs and debuffs on boss and then 9% from elemental devastation (which has about 90% uptime according to enhsim). So my total crit is about 71,42 in raids and thats way over critcap still. Cause of critcap I got weird values for hit from enhsim so tried to even it out by gemming some :p

[Thunderthize]

Tell Kavha he's missing a blacksmith socket in his bracers. Having that faster CH probably could have saved you a couple attempts on LK! =D

Grats though on the kill! Well deserved!

[Varrao]

so, Rihmz got replaced for a frost DK like the rest of the enh shamans?

Seriously, just want to know what your thoughts are of 3.3.3 and if enh shamans are still worth a melee spot.