Oh, oh, oh! You forgot, the vast majority of mail items that are actually itemized well for elemental shamans end up being the best in slot for a paladin healer and the paladin healer always whines till they get the item, and in the end, who are most guilds going to cave to for gear, the paladin or the elemental shaman that does subpar dps and brings no really useful unique buffs (assuming you a have a restoration/enhancement shaman and demonology warlock in the raid)?Originally Posted by snootay
This is an overall failure at Blizzard. They very rarely make decent items that don't go in the tier slot. It would be nice if they would just drop tier to 4 pieces and just not make any real gear for those slots that wasn't tier.It's been going on since TBC was released and Shamans were expanded into having viable roles outside of healing. For some reason someone at Blizzard just can't make mail caster belt or boots that doesn't waste half it's item budget with MP5. I almost had a heart attack when I saw the crafted LW pants from Icecrown had sp and haste and no MP5 on them. But once again, most Shamans will be wearing tier pieces there.