Enhancement shaman: crit, agility or haste?

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Hi all,

Since 6.1 I'm enjoying a lot my enh, it has cool damage (600 crit lavalash which is not bad if you consider enh's dps (I swear is high)) and it has lots of utility due to kicks, purges and offheals.

Also, now they have a passive that decrease gcd and cd of their main habilities, lavalash and shocks and now pvp give us haste. So I was wondering on which set should I go?

-Full haste. If any hunter has wasp as a pet I would go this 100% sure.

-Full agility, since gear scaling fked up secondary stats, I would consider this.

-Full crit, or crit+agi, not much to say, it provides damage and pressure, maybe it´s the best way to go, idk.

Thanks for the replays,
xoxo
 
Crit+agil

Edit: To go into more detail, you will almost never have 100% uptime, so haste stacking isn't really viable. Agility scales well which adds attack power. Approximately 40% of your damage will come from auto attacks if you have substantial tot. Crit means you hit harder, although since WoD it's only 1.5x instead of 2x, but the secondary benefit of crit is proccing flurry. Due to these mechanics, enh can receive exponential benefits from certain p2p enchants. Personally if I ever upgrade I'm going to put executioner on OH and mongoose on MH
 
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Windsong is godly with hots and dots. it can, and often does, proc both haste and crit at the same time.
idk if it procs off your searing totem, but if it does, it's the best of both worlds, as you get +15 of both stats.
 
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Crit+agil

Edit: To go into more detail, you will almost never have 100% uptime, so haste stacking isn't really viable. Agility scales well which adds attack power. Approximately 40% of your damage will come from auto attacks if you have substantial tot. Crit means you hit harder, although since WoD it's only 1.5x instead of 2x, but the secondary benefit of crit is proccing flurry. Due to these mechanics, enh can receive exponential benefits from certain p2p enchants. Personally if I ever upgrade I'm going to put executioner on OH and mongoose on MH

Please don't, they both got absolutely horrible procrates. Dual windsong could work though.
 
if i resub again i would go crit + agility and enchant multistrike and haste and both weapons ele force
 
Agi>>>Haste>crit

Haste is hands down the best secondary stats. with glyph of ghostwolf and frost shock you should have a very high uptime. Haste also increases many enchant proc rates. I am currently running with landslide x2 and ele force x2 and still undecided which combination is better but 100% certain they are the best weapon enchants.

Haste also increases heal cast time which allows for a faster heal into ghost wolf to catch up to targets or to continue dpsing.

In the end of the day crit over haste (crit>multistrike as mentioned above regarding flurry) is still a good option. It will deal more damage in certain scenarios (e.g BG's where other team has few / no healers) as targets will likely in one rotation. However in my experience there is enough uptime and kill time to benefit more from haste.
 
Please don't, they both got absolutely horrible procrates. Dual windsong could work though.

I'll take that into consideration but proc rates shouldn't be an issue on enh shaman. Uber fast hits with slow weps and dots constantly ticking and spreading would hopefully keep at least one of them up constantly. My only concern is what the miss chance for OH is now. If I upgrade (haven't been able to connect to b.net for a while) I'll do some testing.


Agi>>>Haste>crit

Haste is hands down the best secondary stats. with glyph of ghostwolf and frost shock you should have a very high uptime. Haste also increases many enchant proc rates. I am currently running with landslide x2 and ele force x2 and still undecided which combination is better but 100% certain they are the best weapon enchants.

Haste also increases heal cast time which allows for a faster heal into ghost wolf to catch up to targets or to continue dpsing.

In the end of the day crit over haste (crit>multistrike as mentioned above regarding flurry) is still a good option. It will deal more damage in certain scenarios (e.g BG's where other team has few / no healers) as targets will likely in one rotation. However in my experience there is enough uptime and kill time to benefit more from haste.


This is regarding f2p vet accounts, so no frost shock, EB totem, or glyphs. ToT is crap unless you're targeting a healer or hardcaster without spammable slows.


On a side note how hard does LB and flame shock hit as enh atm?
 
Well, enh's dmg is good right now, bad burst but really high dps and utility.

Flame shock can crit up to 75 more or less and Lava can crit up to 800 (I got it on bg due to the stat scale).

On topic, so I think haste is only good to go as a caster, because I tried it out as MM hunter with wasp (14% haste in bg, 17% outside) and my aimed was only lowered half a second or so xD

I'll keep going agi+crit, thank you all !
 
Do it for the haste!
 

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