Elemental Shaman is Doing Well in Wow Patch 43

Beyond heightened AoE DPS, the Chain Lightning cooldown change will also change single-target priority systems, especially at lower gear levels. Current simulation finds that due to the higher base damage and shorter cast time on Chain Lightning, using a non-glyphed Chain Lightning as a filler spell in place of Lightning Bolt can be a DPS increase.

The next big change to look out for is the large nerf we're getting in our two-piece Tier-12, which was pretty well known as the only reason we were competitive in Firelands. Gone are the days of a permanent Fire Elemental Totem. The new bonus reduces the cooldown on your Fire Elemental totem by a whole 4 seconds, and is only a 30% chance to proc off of Lightning Bolt. As I've said in the past, this nerf was needed to prevent us from using the two-piece until 5.0 hit. Since Fire Elemental scaled so well with the rest of our gear, the lower ilevels of heroic tier 12 would not have been enough to dissuade us from wearing it through all of Dragon Soul in order to retain our permanent pet. As a result, feel free to ditch your tier 12 as soon as you start grabbing higher-ilevel Dragon Soul pieces.

The Flametongue Weapon change amounts to a small damage nerf, but it is outweighed by the buff to spell coefficients through Shamanism, which results in a net damage buff. The developers also mentioned a minor buff to FET's damage, but that change hasn't actually sown up in the patch notes. That doesn't mean it isn't implemented on the PTR, though.

As a whole, elemental is doing well in 4.3. While I disagree with the damage we lose from the nerf to our tier gear, I do realize Blizzard took some steps to counter that loss in numbers buffs. After all, a sweeping change to Fire Elemental in the middle of an expansion is not the sort of change Blizzard implements in content patches. Our numbers are looking fine, with current Simulationcraft parses putting us just below 50,000 DPS in Patchwerk-style encounters in 4.3.
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