There certainly is a lot of activity on WoW after the
latest patch. Everyone has new talents, abilities, and mechanics. After a bit of a
rough start, especially for the Executus server with intermittent problems over a day after the patch, I managed to log on long enough to pick up my newest mount, the
Big Blizzard Bear. Other than doing that, I was completely lost. No addons, no talents, missing spells, what was I to do?
As enhancement, before 3.0, I pretty much knew what to do. I had all of my addons perfectly setup to make me the most efficient ass kicking machine ever. All of that is now in the past. One of the first things I needed to do after patching to do was set up
Dominos, a replacement for my previous favorite action bar addon, Bongos. Then I went through to figure out where to put talents.
My spec could probably use a little work after playing for a little bit.
Next, I had to figure out what to actually do in order to kick ass post 3.0.2. I have a few new spells and talents that I needed to prioritize.
Stormstrike for me is still the best instant available, since it does a bunch of damage and can proc a bunch of other things, including
Windfury,
Maelstrom Weapon,
Flurry, among the other crazy
trinkets and
procs that I have.
Lava Lash seems to make
Flametongue a viable offhand imbue, but according to my uncontrolled test environment (I really should spend some more time at the
training dummies in Ironforge, near the Military Ward), I still prefer dual WF.
Now that hit and spell hit are a single stat, I am extremely close to the spell hit cap, and I can pretty much use
Earth Shock without fear of a resist and it gets crit chance from some of my gear. In order of priority, Stormstrike, Earth Shock, and Lava Lash are my bread and butter instant casts. If Maelstrom Weapon is stacked to 5, I'll use it for Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, or a Healing Wave (I can't wait to setup Clique to optimize off-healing). So, I pretty much set up a macro to optimize my DPS.
Improved Stormstrike has an 8 second cooldown. Earth Shock untalented has a 6 second cooldown, Lava Lash also has a 6 second cooldown, and the max global cooldown is 1.5 seconds. So, the macro goes like this:
/castsequence reset=8 Stormstrike, Earth Shock, Lava Lash
Hammering this macro between other spells will make me miss an Earth Shock cooldown every once in a while, but makes things super simple while I am still trying to figure out Maelstrom Weapon along with my new favorite friends,
Feral Spirit. I'll talk about them later, because they are so much fun.
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