Totem Talk

Gear tends to be important for Restoration Shaman, especially after the removal of reforging as we no longer really have the ability to skew our stats into a more favorable setup.

Elemental shaman, at least in my experience, have been treated to a feast or famine approach in terms of our DPS output.

Is Enhancement just not broken enough to be fixed? Does it need to be fixed? And what would a fix even look like?

The only real update we're getting to our glyph layout is a new minor glyph, and while I really like Glyph of Ascendance it doesn't dramatically alter our major layout. So assuming you have Glyph of Totemic Encirclement, which is absolutely vital, let's take a look at the major Enhancement glyphs you can slot in while you're hacking away.

Some changes to Enhancement have diminished our flavor a little. Others have just made the spec way less annoying to play.

We take a look at the Shaman talent Echo of the Elements and the double Spirit Link Totem you can get as a result.

When I first played World of Warcraft, I barely cared about Lightning Shield. Now, I barely care about Lightning Shield. Those are the end points; the parts in the middle get interesting.

To say that my return to Elemental has been marked by a large learning curve may be a bit of an understatement. I have always loved throwing lightning as a shaman, but I just haven’t really had the opportunity to do it in a raid environment in a long time. I mean, since Wrath of the Lich King long time.

Sometimes, you open up a set of patch notes and you see that there are a whole lot of changes that just beg for your attention. Other times, it's patch 6.2 and you don't play a Rogue or a Monk, you play a Shaman.

Healer and damage dealer, ranged and melee, elements and hitting things with pointy sticks. As a result of trying to be so many things at once, balancing the class became quite a bit of a hard point.