Patch 4.0.6: Enhancement Shaman Windfury Changes

The upcoming Patch 4.0.6 brings changes to Windfury and Flametongue Weapon mechanics for Enhancement Shamans. Let us take a look if this will turn out as buff or nerf.

As many of you know Patch 4.0.6 has some changes for shamans incoming. Blizzard hopes to get us away from using caster weapons in main hand for good. They will reduce the damage from Flame Tongue by 20% and add an additional swing to Windfury, basically increasing its damage by 50%.
While I do not like that they again increase the RNG in our dps by reducing the reliable steady damage from Flame Tongue, it looks like this is a slight buff for us. Let us look at some fights.

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Enhancement Shaman vs Skadi the Ruthless

Mount collectors and WotlK Players are still familiar with Skadi the Ruthless, the third Boss in Howling Fjord’s Utgarde Pinnacle. He has a low chance of dropping „Reins of the Blue Proto Drake“ and that make him an attractive solo target these days.

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Enhancement Shaman vs Al’ar

Phew Aa’ar … did not really expect this to be soloable. The fight has a few components that make it a bit tricky 😀 For one Al’ar is completely immune to fire … flame shock, searing totem, flame tongue weapon, lava lash … that is a big chunk of lost dps. But it is still doable as solo enhancement shaman. Here is how I did it!

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Enhancement Shaman vs The Lurker Below

It has been a good 4 years and 15 Levels since „The Lurker Below“ was a common 25 man raid Boss. He is located in Serpent Shrine Cavern, Zangar Marsh, Outlands.
On my quest to maximize „looted gold“ I was looking for a new challenge. While The Lurker Below is not a complete walkthrough it looked fairly doable.

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Borked Progress: Twin Dragons Valiona and Theralion heroic

A steep learning curve that felt like a 10 km mountain on our heads, mostly caused by what felt like 1000 disconnects and 20-23 player progression we finally got the fabulous 25 for some decent tries together. Fortunately I happened to fraps the show for you!

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Soloing Molten Core, reduce Fall Damage

With current health pools soloing Molten core for  Gold/Recipes/Reputation/Legendaries is not a problem anymore. The biggest threat seems to be fall damage. Now that a heal no longer fills up all our health it makes Baron Geddon and Ragnaros more difficult than before 😀 While they aren’t really a challenge you can still minimize the incoming damage.

A couple of times players mention the fall damage in these encounters but there is an easy way to avoid it all. I have some screenshots with positioning.

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Enhancement Shaman vs Magtherion

Last week I posted about soloable Bosses for Enhancement Shamans and I spend the last week Frapsing a bit and making a nice Intro for the Videos. Not quite 100% happy with that, yet – but it is getting there.

Anyway you can find all my videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/myrddinde

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Enhancement Shaman Soloable Bosses

Now that everyone had a good start into the cataclysm I found it interesting to check which Level 70 raid bosses can be soloed for fame and fortune.

Now that everyone had a good start into the cataclysm, reputations have been farmed, some gear has been acquired and people look at other ways to spend their time I found it interesting to check which Level 70 raid bosses can be solo’d for fame and fortune.

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