When only one weapon has WF, each hit outside of the cooldown has a 20% chance to proc. This means that WF will proc less than the 20% promised on its tooltip. No 1H weapon in the entire game can proc WF twice in a row. ![]() WF totem scales with melee gear, so it's a fantastic buff for rogues, paladins, and warriors.Īfter WF procs it cannot proc again on either hand for 3 seconds. The WF attack itself is white damage and generates rage. WF totem only procs on autoattacks and "on next melee" attacks like heroic strike. The two offhand attacks are affected by the standard offhand 50% damage reduction. They do not consume flurry charges, and don't glance. The two extra attacks can proc flurry, unleashed rage, and shamanistic rage. The best enchant for enhancement shamans on both hands. Benefits from weapon mastery for 10% more damage. Has a 5% special attack type melee miss chance. Mitigated by armor and block, avoided by dodge, parry, and miss. I also think swords don't fit the shaman theme as I don't think of swords when I think of primitive tribal stuff (which to me is one of the essence of shaman).- Scales with weapon DPS, attack power, melee haste, melee crit, melee tohit. This is their lore reason, though how you argue that for Kul Tirans now is your own guess. ![]() Using a sword requires a bit more training and finesse, where as a mace and an axe are just smash and swing. Smacking big 'ol crits with big 'ol weapons windfury pwnage.Previously Blizzard left it up to the tribal nature of shamanism as to why they didn't have swords. It's not gameplay we miss but the fantasy. You would never go near a raid as a 2h shaman unless you had Nightfall. Historically, 2h shaman was always a pvp build, something you would go out in the world to 1 shot newbs. If 2h is ever going to make a come back, making more weapon types available is a good starter. I thinks it's absolutely ridiculous that shamans can't use swords. Is there any lore reasons that specifically ban shamans from using swords, that I'm not aware of? This reminded me that shamans still can't use swords. Furthermore, all weapons are standardized in retail so that a 2H AGI STAFF and a 2H STR Axe and a 2H STR Sword and a 2H AGI Polearm are all doing the same dmg with the same weapon swing speed and the same amount of primary stats. We are talking about retail and moving into Dragonflight, where.if they were for whatever reason to implement what I've suggested, there has been a 2h AGI staff in every Shadowlands raid tier (something a 2h Shaman can use). After that point, you'd likely never find an enhancement shaman wielding a staff in endgame content.īut in vanilla when shamans were a horde exclusive class, practically all enhancement shamans were orcs primarily because of racials.Įspecially axe mastery meant that enhancement would largely wield axes back then, and they were mostly brought for totem twisting or to supply weapon proc effects like annihilator and later Nightfall.Įnhancement really wasn't brought for the damage they could deal themselves so much as the damage increases they brought to others.We aren't talking about vanilla so I'm not sure why this is in your argument. ![]() There was 1 staff used as a cheaper alternative to an Arcanite Reaper as pre-BiS in vanilla. The covenants that have 2h Swords for the DK/Paladin/Warriors already have a 2h AGI stave for Druids/Monks. With personal loot, this doesn't impact anyone else - so there's really no reason not to make this chance, as it already happens for shields and most gear.Īs an example, take Castle Nathria's weapon tokens - by allowing Str/Sta axes to convert to Agi/Sta for Enh, no new weapons are needed to cover Enhancement's 2h. Even though DK, Paladin, and Warrior all use 2h Swords, they generally still get a 2h Axe or 2h Mace each tier. With this, you can now have a Staves (used by druids, monks, shaman), 2h Maces (used by Druids, DK, Paladin, Warrior, Shaman), 2h Axes (used by DK, Paladin, Warrior, Shaman). We already have shields that go from Str/Stam to Str/Int ( as well as gear that swaps stats based on spec) - It's feasible enough that they can take 2h Axes/Maces and have them go from Str/Sta to Agi/Sta when used by an Enhance shaman. The weapon selection is simply too slim for Blizzard to realistically bother filling loot tables with suitable weapons for 2h enhancement.I thought about this, and with personal loot and gear that already swaps stats, I don't think this is much of an issue any longer. Meanwhile shamans are expecting to wield 2h axes and maces, but axes would only be shared with survival hunters and maces would only be shared with feral and guardian druids. Other 2h agility classes tend to use staves and polearms, so they're practically the only 2h agility weapons still being created. The issue with 2h enhancement lies as much with the niche of the weapon types.
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