Question on ENH openner

[Laundry]

Hey there. I recently switched to enh shaman from fury warrior because my guild didnt have any shaman at all. I'm experimenting currently, and I use the following openner:

Totems, UE, FS, SS, LL Lightning bolt when able and earth shocking when flamshock is still up.

My reasoning for using LL a little bit later than usual is to get at least 2-3 stacks up, doing this ends up critting ~27k or so.

The question I have is whether or not this is correct. I'm usually doing anywhere between 11-13k DPS in heroics, depending on a standstill fight or movement. Does anyone else use this?

[BlueRising]

What I tend to do is..
1. UE
-It has a longer range than anything
2.
-FS if I'm still not near the boss
3. Totems
-If near the boss then do this before FS
4. Lava Lash

Then around this time you should be situation for the standard priority queue.

[PaintOnASign]

Nothing wrong with what you're doing really. The way I handle it is the way BlueRising does, although I'll usually drop a FT totem before I run in, to get the 6% SP buff for my UE and FS, then I'll drop all totems if I'm close to the boss. Then I'll start the priority. I don't personally push LL to wait for ticks to gather. By the time LL is back up, there will be a fully applied amount of ticks.

Also, keep in mind that MW_5 should not be #1 priority. It's high up there, but its not #1.

[Laundry]

From what I read it's second priorty, first being LL. Well as long as what I'm doing is fine then I'll continue what I'm doing. Thanks to both of you.

[mmaluso]

Ive actually been getting pretty good numbers by flame shocking as I run in, then UE stormstrike earthshock and then my LL, same reason as the op, to build a few stacks before letting my lava lash off, also my reason for flameshocking first and not using my UE first is so i can use the flametounge unleash on lava lash as opposed to it being consumed by using flame shock which i assume (i havent actually crunched the numbers) would be a dps loss

[tanksin the enhance shamy]

prty sure ivv read somewhere on these forums that unleash elements does not effect lava lash because its not considered a spell rather then a melee ability

[mmaluso]

hmm that might be true...... i know it consumes the buff though..... so i dunno



did the forum research and yeah seems i was wrong..... that sucks

[Deleted]

hmm that might be true...... i know it consumes the buff though..... so i dunno



did the forum research and yeah seems i was wrong..... that sucks

The only spells that can use the 20% bonus from UE are Flame Shock, Lava Burst and Fire Nova.

I have set up a macro to use a spirit-walkers grace when I am far away from the boss before engaging. In this case I flame shock -> Unleash -> Spirit Walk(as its off GCD) -> Lava Burst

When we start in the boss's range I just use Unleash -> Flame Shock first and then hit the normal priority.

[styks]

prty sure ivv read somewhere on these forums that unleash elements does not effect lava lash because its not considered a spell rather then a melee ability

mm
LL isnt affected by UE because it isnt a spell yet i get partial resists when using it in pvp, lame huh

[Wraith]

never thought about dropping flame tongue for the run in and then dropping my normal dps set after that. That extra dmg on the 1st UE and FS is a good idea.

[Laundry]

I never though about it either. Then again, I'm the one that rerolled, so my knowledge of the class is somewhat poor. I'd say it's a good idea as well, but how much of an increase in DPS are you seeing?