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01-14-2010, 03:25 PM
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Totem Talk (http://www.wow.com/category/totem-talk/) is the column for shamans. This week, Matthew Rossi talks about Fire Nova, his absolute favorite new ability in quite some time. Boom!
The hastily cobbled together screenshot above really only gives you a small taste of the awesome that is Fire Nova (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61657). The old Fire Nova totem was okay... you'd drop it on big AoE packs if you could do so, but for a lot of shamans, sacrificing their active fire totem to so so was a lot to ask. The genius of Fire Nova, the new ability, is of course that it works with any fire totem you have. You're a restoration shaman with a Frost Resist totem down up close to the melee on Sapphiron (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15989)? Well, our first question could be "Why are you still running Sapphiron?" but we'll assume it's a weekly raid thing. Anyway, even that Frost Resistance totem can now provide some damage! I'm not saying waste your mana on DPS if it's a tight thing, mind you, I'm just saying that if you found yourself healing a fight you way overgeared you can pop a couple of FN's in there to liven things up.
Yeah, okay, this happened to me. It was boring!
Where Fire Nova has really shined for me, though, is running a modified Enhancement set-up (http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=7&tal=05303005200000000000000000050503310500133303113123105100000000000000000000000000). Now, granted, some of the DPS I'm seeing from this has also come from getting a few upgrades to my gear set, but in tight AoE situations I'm seeing Fire Nova as a solid 2nd on the DPS chart, just behind melee attacks.Continue reading Totem Talk: Fire Nova (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/totem-talk-fire-nova/)
Filed under: Shaman (http://www.wow.com/category/shaman/), Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), (Shaman) Totem Talk (http://www.wow.com/category/totem-talk/), Wrath of the Lich King (http://www.wow.com/category/wrath-of-the-lich-king/)
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Totem Talk (http://www.wow.com/category/totem-talk/) is the column for shamans. This week, Matthew Rossi talks about Fire Nova, his absolute favorite new ability in quite some time. Boom!
The hastily cobbled together screenshot above really only gives you a small taste of the awesome that is Fire Nova (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61657). The old Fire Nova totem was okay... you'd drop it on big AoE packs if you could do so, but for a lot of shamans, sacrificing their active fire totem to so so was a lot to ask. The genius of Fire Nova, the new ability, is of course that it works with any fire totem you have. You're a restoration shaman with a Frost Resist totem down up close to the melee on Sapphiron (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15989)? Well, our first question could be "Why are you still running Sapphiron?" but we'll assume it's a weekly raid thing. Anyway, even that Frost Resistance totem can now provide some damage! I'm not saying waste your mana on DPS if it's a tight thing, mind you, I'm just saying that if you found yourself healing a fight you way overgeared you can pop a couple of FN's in there to liven things up.
Yeah, okay, this happened to me. It was boring!
Where Fire Nova has really shined for me, though, is running a modified Enhancement set-up (http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=7&tal=05303005200000000000000000050503310500133303113123105100000000000000000000000000). Now, granted, some of the DPS I'm seeing from this has also come from getting a few upgrades to my gear set, but in tight AoE situations I'm seeing Fire Nova as a solid 2nd on the DPS chart, just behind melee attacks.Continue reading Totem Talk: Fire Nova (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/totem-talk-fire-nova/)
Filed under: Shaman (http://www.wow.com/category/shaman/), Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), (Shaman) Totem Talk (http://www.wow.com/category/totem-talk/), Wrath of the Lich King (http://www.wow.com/category/wrath-of-the-lich-king/)
Totem Talk: Fire Nova (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/totem-talk-fire-nova/) originally appeared on WoW (http://www.wow.com) on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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