Originally, I posted this in a thread on the official damage dealing forums. It’s garnered quite a few replies- none of which I can reply to atm because the login servers are down for maintenance. I really need to stop procrastinating my homework any way, so it’s probably for the best. I’ll reply to most posts there once. Go check it out, post your own opinions, whatever!
“As someone who has written quite a few Shaman forum posts and a blog or two about the need to have Fire Elemental more available during raiding, I have to say that I was pretty stupid ecstatic to see the cooldowns cut in half.
(For those of you who don’t know: Enhance shaman drop magma totem, which an average ToC-geared shaman will have contribute about 800 dps. Every 20 minutes currently, we can drop Fire Elemental, who contributes about 1300dps- a difference of 500 more dps over 2 minutes. The problem with FE is that we have to be incredibly selective about the when/where/why we drop FE, and on Progression raid attempts with hard dps modes, such as I choose you Steelbreaker ({not calling the progression, just pointing it out because it was a dps race in p3}, we’re often left without one of our main dps cooldowns for the next attempt.)
As someone who has advocated this change for a long time, I can’t really say anything but thank you!
I am interested, however, in the fate of glyph of fire elemental. It currently reduces the fire elemental cooldown by 10 minutes, which would mean fire elemental would no longer have a CD. Personally, I think this is an awesome idea, as it’s a sustained dps boost. (I’d hesitate to say it’s needed, because I think it’s pretty hilarious how every class seems to disillusion itself that they’re the worst dps in the game.) However, the unholy AoTD talent for Death Knights was changed, so I am wondering- what is in store for Fire Elemental totem?”
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Hunters are the worst dps in the game.
If the change goes through and the 10 minute cooldown reduction on FE totem glyph remains, that means that glyph will now be essential to raiding shamans as it will be the single largest DPS increase of any glyph.
It will also probably result in a move back to ES only as FS is only marginally better without the glyph.
I suspect the glyph will be changed to an increase in either damage or duration — or perhaps an increase in damage at the cost of duration, to make FE feel like more of a burst DPS cooldown. I very seriously doubt Blizzard would give us a permanent Sparky … but then again, Frost get a perma Squirtle, so who knows? ^.^
He means in terms of damage dealing Lupius.