Currently we see Maelstrom weapon added with no Mental quickness equivalent which means enhancement will be shoe horned into something called spellhance weaving.
For those who don’t know this is because maelstrom weapon as was datamined is currently a carbon copy of WOTLK MW, it does not reset swing timer when cast and the spells benefit from full spellpower.
What does this mean for you? Shamans will be rolling on and wearing almost full spellpower gear and weaving casts between swings with the reduction in cast time.
Couldn’t they just add AP->SP scaling? This is the least ideal solution but yes, however due to shamanistic rage and current scaling we will be running double rockbiter for another phase.
My suggestion is adding Str/Agi → Spellpower conversion somewhere, this makes it so we can use Windfury and aren’t forced into spellhance weaving (although weaving is never not optimal with Maelstrom weapon the increase will be much smaller) and shaman won’t be running around in caster gear!
Not really. Your spellpower coefficients on your spells suck without investing any points into the ele tree, so the return on investment won’t be ideal.
While leveling Rockbiter is BiS regardless, but the only reason you should be using double rockbiter on Shaman in Ph2 group content is if you’re tanking or if you’re ele/resto running sham rage and aren’t attacking in melee anyways.
This isn’t for enhance shamans, it’s for ele shamans. Take the 1.2/1.3 daggers from bfd and go nuts with extremely fast low damage hits to proc the effect and spell cast even better.
Yeah I’m not seeing Ele-Maelstrom being a thing in PvE, but I’ve already touched upon briefly in other threads the likelihood of hybrid ele-enh talent builds becoming a much more common thing in later builds, so they’d be the ones who’d probably benefit most from this setup.