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Of course they don't. But looking at the emblem vendors... ugh! Practically every piece is itemized for resto. The only pieces I can find worth buying are the tier pieces. Everything else is chaulked full of Mp5. Even the accessories have either mp5 or spirit. No love for the dps caster :(
Ugh, I know...been trying to finish out my ele offset, and having a hell of a time getting/staying hitcapped. Still have to have my blue trinket, badge offhand, and all my gems for hit in order to be capped...it's rather frustrating.
You're finding out what all the other Elemental Shaman before you found out. At the end of the day, Blizzard may not hate us, but we're itemized extremely poorly. There is not a single piece of mail spell gear with hit on it, and even most off the off-slot pieces are itemized for spirit-using casters or healers.
Enhancement doesn't have it that much better. We're classed as physical dps and share a lot of itemization with hunters, but we still have to deal with the spell hit cap. I'm actually using a caster trinket on my shaman right now because it gives 55 hit rating, and it's kind of surprising how much of a difference it makes. I logged out tonight with 203 hit rating and I need 420 to reach the spell hit cap. Counting only hit rating on raid set gear, I'm looking at 112-116 hit rating up to 10-man T8 and since 25-man raids are pretty much toast on my realm for Alliance guilds, 10-man gear is where I need to focus my attention. That leaves rings, trinkets, necklaces, feet, belt, and wrists + gems and enchants to come up with over 300 hit rating to hit the spell hit cap. Something tells me the only gems in my gear that aren't yellow will be the prismatic/green ones I use to activate my meta gem >.<
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
Sigh, I know how u guys feel. I had such a hard time gearing up my Shaman main. And by the time I was 'gear capped' due to the level of content I could reach with my guild, my DPS is still way below a 'similarly' geared Lock/Mage. (Dont even talk about rogue/DK/Warr)
I hope it gets better with 3.2 stuff. Haven't seen the loot table for ToC and Tier9 yet...
(I had such so much easier gearing path with my DK alt, sigh..)
I hope it gets better with 3.2 stuff. Haven't seen the loot table for ToC and Tier9 yet...
(I had such so much easier gearing path with my DK alt, sigh..)
AureliusSir the Irrelevant wrote:
Enhancement doesn't have it that much better. We're classed as physical dps and share a lot of itemization with hunters, but we still have to deal with the spell hit cap. I'm actually using a caster trinket on my shaman right now because it gives 55 hit rating, and it's kind of surprising how much of a difference it makes. I logged out tonight with 203 hit rating and I need 420 to reach the spell hit cap. Counting only hit rating on raid set gear, I'm looking at 112-116 hit rating up to 10-man T8 and since 25-man raids are pretty much toast on my realm for Alliance guilds, 10-man gear is where I need to focus my attention. That leaves rings, trinkets, necklaces, feet, belt, and wrists + gems and enchants to come up with over 300 hit rating to hit the spell hit cap. Something tells me the only gems in my gear that aren't yellow will be the prismatic/green ones I use to activate my meta gem >.<
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
I think I know which trinket you mean--I think I'm still using it too. >.< This one, right?
Once I got past a certain point with my gear though, basically to where I could do Heroics, I found that getting hit capped was actually not too difficult--and now I probably have more expertise than I need, too, so I should probably start swapping out for Agi or AP gems. Titanium weapon chains on both weapons, hit rating trinket from H Nexus, belt from H UP... bracers, helm, and chest are from Naxx, but other than that I have pretty crappy gear and it feels like hit cap was pretty attainable.
Of course now I need to start breaking 2k DPS on the dummies.
Lady isyris wrote:
AureliusSir the Irrelevant wrote:
Enhancement doesn't have it that much better. We're classed as physical dps and share a lot of itemization with hunters, but we still have to deal with the spell hit cap. I'm actually using a caster trinket on my shaman right now because it gives 55 hit rating, and it's kind of surprising how much of a difference it makes. I logged out tonight with 203 hit rating and I need 420 to reach the spell hit cap. Counting only hit rating on raid set gear, I'm looking at 112-116 hit rating up to 10-man T8 and since 25-man raids are pretty much toast on my realm for Alliance guilds, 10-man gear is where I need to focus my attention. That leaves rings, trinkets, necklaces, feet, belt, and wrists + gems and enchants to come up with over 300 hit rating to hit the spell hit cap. Something tells me the only gems in my gear that aren't yellow will be the prismatic/green ones I use to activate my meta gem >.<
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
I've always found shaman in general to suffer a bit in the itemization area. Shaman and druids, actually...the ******* children of the itemization scene. That's not to say it's impossible to gear them well, just that we have it a bit harder than some other classes.
I think I know which trinket you mean--I think I'm still using it too. >.< This one, right?
Yup, that's the one :D
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Once I got past a certain point with my gear though, basically to where I could do Heroics, I found that getting hit capped was actually not too difficult--and now I probably have more expertise than I need, too, so I should probably start swapping out for Agi or AP gems. Titanium weapon chains on both weapons, hit rating trinket from H Nexus, belt from H UP... bracers, helm, and chest are from Naxx, but other than that I have pretty crappy gear and it feels like hit cap was pretty attainable.
I'm up to 253 hit rating now which has made another noticeable difference. I'll probably throw a couple of weapon chains on my whacker sticks for a little added boost and there are a few pieces I'm looking at that will help as well. It's not a horrible process, but I don't find stacking hit to be more than a little dull. I run a consistent 2.2-2.4k dps (excluding totems/wolves) in heroics these days and most of my gear is still epic crafted stuff. I'm farming badges as best I can until I can get into Naxx/Ulduar, but it's coming together ^^
do you think if i switched to enhancement living flame and Elemental Focus stone would be ok to use?
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