Coming from a paladin, I’ve been having a bit of trouble finding something on shaman that solos anywhere close to prot. What is your preferred solo spec on shaman? I’m mostly looking to make multi-adds and elite fights easier.
My main spec is Resto, good alternative to ele, but lacks a lot of tools, makes up for it with heals. Can heal through elites but the fight takes a long time.
Elemental does good dmg, and often times I can kill a mob before it gets to me. Has trouble with muli-pulls and elites if earth elemental is on CD. Also casting when things are beating on you can get iffy.
Enhance is pretty similar to elemental in that I have trouble with multi pulls and elites. It kills things fast with procs, but I also don’t like how as a melee your heals are tied to your main resource pool.
Thoughts on this?
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I think if I am doing 1 Mob at a time or Elite Mobs, I prefer Elemental. I can take my Primal Elementalist, and be at range to control things a little better if they go wrong.
If I am doing farming for leather or grinding mobs I like Enhancement far more. Easy, instant, and strong healing with maelstrom on top of some nice instant AoE makes it really easy for me to farm 5+ mobs without worrying and can just hop right into the next big pull knowing my Maelstrom Healing Surges will top me easily.
Enhance is your best bet. Are you war mode on or off? If you’re war mode on, taking the talents “shamanism” and “swelling waves” gives you the ability to do what you want. Mini bloodlust every minute, and your heals are essentially 50% more effective. I never had issues doing big pulls in open world. And you’ll need cds for elites if you’re undergeared, but that’s practically any class.
I generally play with WM off, the chance of PVP happening will impact the time spent doing open world activities. I like this as an option, but I feel that a class shouldn’t be dependent on having WM on to solo PVE.
I played BfA as Elem and now as Enhancement and both are good, you wont have any problems, but I think elemental is a better if you are WM on, which is highly recommended.
I just solo as resto, I like never being afraid of death and being able to solo nearly everything without needing CDs.
Definitely Enhance, I was originally going to play Resto in M+ and off-spec Elemental. Picked up Enhance just to try it on Torghast and it ended up being a lot easier to solo with. Had a blast and now I’m just going to main Enhance.
Ar first I wasn’t as bursty as Elemental, especially in AoE, but I got my Doom Winds today + a new main hand weapon and it seriously boosts the damage, especially with the third windfury potency conduit. You can Crash Lighting a pack of enemies with Doom Winds and proc 2-3 Windfury attacks on every mob you hit, which then also gives you a ton of Maestrom Weapon. But there’s nothing more satisfying for me right now than popping Doom Winds and cleaving dozens of times in a single click.
You get instant, 100% increased heals and Enhance retains Earth Elemental these days. With Ascendence and Frost Shock, you can even kite and kill from 30 yards away, which can be helpful in Torghast.
Elemental for Thunderstorm WPVP
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Sad truth is some strong abilities are locked behind pvp talents. One of our strongest abilities as well as a great stun, lightning lasso is one. As well as the additional heal you get from another talent.