Shaman PTR 3.2.2 Patch Notes

Shaman
• Flame Shock: The duration of all ranks has been increased by 6 seconds.
• Lava Burst: This ability no longer ever consumes a Flame Shock debuff off of the target.
Enhancement
• Earthen Power: No longer causes Earthbind to pulse a persistent snare immunity aura. It does still remove snares from allies as an instant pulse, but there is no lingering immunity. Earthen Power now also brings Earth Shock’s melee attack speed reduction up to -15%/-20% (with 1 or 2 points in it, respectively).

Glyphs
• Glyph of Flame Shock: Redesigned. This glyph now makes Flame Shock periodic damage able to be critical strikes.

Items
• Totem of Quaking Earth: Attack power value increased to 400.

Bug Fixes

Shaman
• Grounding Totem will now properly protect against the Death Grip spell.
• Lava Burst can no longer deal critical damage to targets who are immune to critical strikes (due to, e.g. Roar of Sacrifice, Blessed Resilience).
• Lightning Shield: This spell will no longer set off some trinkets when it is cast.
• Stoneclaw Totem's pulses will no longer break stealth on nearby hostile units.
• Thunderstorm and Shamanistic Rage can no longer be used while Frozen, Cycloned, Sapped, or Incapacitated.

Elitist Jerks, part 1

Q: Which of the following terms best be defined as: “Foolish, rude, or contemptible persons who believe they deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority”?

A) Arrogant pricks.
B) Pompous asses.
C) Elitist jerks.

A: The terms are synonymous so as long as you picked one, you are a winner. Extra credit to those who picked C as the above definition is a fustion of the dictionary.com entries for ‘elitist’ and ‘jerk’.



Freshly eighty, looking to raid, and inexpert with my class, I discovered the Theorycrafting Think Tank at Elitist Jerks. It was gospel. I carried a papercopy with me from home to work and back everyday. When I had a new idea or discovery about my class, I would make an annotation in the margin. Frequently I found myself reprinting and transcribing my notes when they had overtaken the page. As my expertise grew, I found that there was less I could reconcile between what I found to be most effective and what the TTT declared correct. As the mechanics and formulae of the game changed and the TTT wasn’t keep current or lagged significantly behind, my bible was tucked in a drawer to gather dust.

Arena Season 7 Gear Released

For those of you pro enough, here is what you'll look like with the Season 7 Shaman Gear.

Here are the stats for Elemental's Mail, Enhancement's Linked, and Restoration's Ringmail pieces.

Thank you MMO-Champion.com. You're fast becoming my goto.

Banned from Elitist Jerks

I was banned from Elitist Jerks for my post in the [Elemental] Optimal Gear & Item Discussion for posting a far better BiS list than was available there. To this end, I'm going to post the whole process I went through here over the next week. I'm going to post EPs with that gear and EPs derived from the totality of the gear with procs/on use abilities taken into account. I'm also going to provide the comparison of the hit and no-hit pieces for each slot to defend my choices as well as evaluate hit:iLvl ratio on a number of pieces of gear.

It will have to wait a few days as I'm in accounting and it's the end of the month.