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I am kind of hard to reach at times and sometimes I am busy, unable to reply to ingame questions or mails. Often it is the same questions over and over, so I thought it would be best to provide a central place where they could be asked and answered. Also this would be a better solution that to look through recent search queries and answer questions a few days after the visitor left the site.
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How much Hit Rating does an Enhancement Shaman need?
Enhancement Shaman need 17% Spell Hit to reach the cap:
- 17% Spell Hit equals 1742 Spell Hit Rating
- Draenei need only 16% Spell Hit, which equals 1640 Spell Hit Rating
Note:
If you have Elemental Precision (Increases your Fire, Frost and Nature damage by 3% and grants you spell hit rating equal to 100% of any Spirit gained from items or effects), you can subtract the Spirit from your +stats to chest enchant.
For example: a Draenei Enhancement Shaman with +20 stats to chest needs only 1620 spell hit rating.
What is the Expertise Cap for Enhancement Shaman?
Enhancement Shamans, like other melees need 26 Expertise to no longer get parries when attacking from behind. Uleashed Rage gives 8 Expertise, meaning you need 18 Expertise from Items/Reforging/Enchants.
- 18 expertise equals 541 Expertise Rating
- as Dwarf/Orc you need 15 Expertise since you get 3 Expertise from either mace or axe/fist specialization to each the cap, or 451 Expertise Rating
How do you gear up for Spell Hit? I see Hit on items, but not Spell Hit. I know they are different, but until I find out how, I am gearing for Hit since I see my Spell Hit go up (altho at a lesser rate) when regular hit increases. I heard somewhere that Heroic dungeons have gear drops with Spell Hit….
thanks,
kinophile
@kinophile
+Hit Rating Conversion for Melee and Spell Hit is different. An Item with 100 Hit Rating will give 0.9761 % spell hit chance and 0.7809 % physical hit chance. By “gearing for spell hit rating” my intention is to make sure you check under the Spell-Tab instead of the Melee-Tab. There are no special +SpellHit Items. The only exception is the conversion from Spirit to SpellHit if you have Elemental Precision.
So the end result is that I need to continue searching for Hit until I get the Spell Hit to 18%, right?
@kinophile
Just look 2 questions above, 17% Spell hit is what you need … 1742 Spell hit rating or 1640 as Draenei.
ok maye its jsut me but i think i misunderstand expertise concept..obvioulsy im enhance shammy..im spell hit cap and my expertise is at 18/18 and of course im spec in unleashed rage..so expertise needed is 26.minus the 8% from my spec it gives 18..but looking at my wow tooltip it says i have 2.64% chance to get parried..is it me that is totally wrong or i should be expertise cap with my 18/18…for more details im draenei shaman..thx for your answer
@snuff
The Character Sheet needs to show 26 Expertise, or 541 Expertise Rating (451 as Orc/Dwarf with proper Weapon).
Dear Myrddin,
i’m a troll enhancement shaman, and gearing up goes quite well.
Unfortunately I havent been that lucky when it comes to weapons.
I was wondering if you knew any good/easily obtainable epic offhands I could farm for?
I’m currently using Twinblade of the Hakkari – which is a dagger and way too fast.
Any feedback on this would be great, thanks in advance.
Yeckei – Vek’nilash
@Yeckei – Vek’nilash
Yeah, Blizzard made it ratehr difficult for us to obtain proepr weapons. From my experience, even the windslicer for 900 justice points should give you much better dps than any dagger. Other than that Maimgor’s Bite shoudl become fairly cheap on the Auction House, but if you cannpt afford that I see only ZG/ZA or the PvP Offhand you can buy for 900 Honor (need to have 7000 earned the whole season)
Hello, i was wondering what your stand is regarding Eye of Purification being our Bis Main hand according to Simcraft. i personally hopes it gets nerfed before i roll against Healers. what are you thoughts on the issue? will it be a repeat of 4.1 and Twilights hammer? or is it better not to deviate from agi weapons.
Thanks in advance
We’d hardly be enhancement that way. Sure we’d sue enhancement talents, etc … but in reality it is mroe about casting spells than hitting mobs with wepons. Certainly I do hope it will get adjusted and just hope that the value of mastery won’t be cut down. But honestly I have no clue how they are going to solve it.
Hey Shammy bro=] i heard you are good so i decided to contact ya;p I have a favor to you if you can try to contact with me
coz i have got many qestions as a ESHA by my mail or other way . Posting every single qestion would be hard.
Regards Radain
@Radain
The main reason for this site is to have questions and answers, tipps and tricks online so people can have an easy access to these things. All the requests for individual char consulting I get via form, mail & whispers are sometimes a bit much. The information on this site should get you started well enough. If there are questions beyond that you can ask them here.
Not just a great shaman but a great guy! helped me to understand an enhancement shaman alot better.
Thanks alot Myrddin!
Hello there Myrddin,
Can you show me the best spec + glyphs for soloing as shaman
Checked your armory.. Second spec doesnt have glyph of lightning shield, but seems like the soloing spec =)
Hope to hear from you
And maybe make a solo guide regarding spec + talents +spells
@Shazarth
Thanks for the comment! A soloing guide is probably difficult to write, since a lot of things matter and some stuff my be nice for 1 encounter and suck for another. for example using Glyph of Stoneclaw or even Earthliving has its purpose as times – especially since you can unleash, place totems when silences (Void Reaver), but in general I am only using the first – PvE – spec … it fits most cicumstances. The second spec is only for PvP 1v1 you become pretty strong with Frostbrand on mainhand and Earthliving on offhand. You get insane heals this way + unleash + shocks + spec = +80% healing = 40k heals with instant casts + damage reduction + resilience + wolves. I find it pretty strong.
The fights I have done will have a little help usually to the video on what to look out for on that fight, it is probably more helpful than a general guide if you list abilities, etc once more for the guys that haven’t done the encounter at all or a long time ago. You can always use the “Search at the Sidebar” to see if I have already tried to kill the boss solo or ask here a bit more specific