Capt. Kirk is a Shaman

William Shatner. Great fun.  

  http://www.youtube.com/v/p5AF1lPRWG8&rel=1

I actually met Mr. Shatner in Jacksonville, FL back in 1999 and he was a great showman.  Loved the crowd and loved to talk personally with people.  He looked healthy and active and gave me a tip on horse racing.

Star Trek meets World of Warcraft

(A musing of the Enterprise Holodeck program entitled… “to Azeroth and Beyond!”  the program starts up, danger level settings are “kill or be killed” and Warsong Gulch ensues…)

Horde:

• Captain James T. Kirk - Tauren Shaman “You’re no doubt wondering: Hey, Shatner. How do I hurl bolts of lighting?”
• Dr. Spock – Undead Warlock
• Khan – Dr. Spock’s Imp Pet 
• Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott- Tauren Warrior & Gnomish Engineer
• Leonard “Bones” McCoy – Undead Priest
• Lt. Worf – Orc Warrior Thrall
• Lt. Sulu – Undead Rogue

Alliance:

• Captain Picard – Murloc Druid … “there are FOUR lights! mrllmlllgrmrgllba!”
• Lt. Commander Will Riker – Ret Paladin
• Wesley Crusher – Gnome Mage & Sqwishy
• Data – “Human” Rogue & Repair Bot 300
• Geordie LaForge – Gnome Mage & Goblin Engineer
• Checkov – Dwarf Hunter
• “Q” – Leeroy Jenkins & Changes from Ninja to Noggenfogger Skeleton constantly & jumps up and down constantly & types in party chat “afk“, “wrong button, srry“, “I need water. Hello Mages!!??“, “DI me! DI me !“, “This bores me. Who wants to pug Heroic Black Morass?” & whenever loot drops he types “L2P Humans!” & uses the Goblin transporter at every chance & throws snowballs at melee classes when trying to run out of Blood Furnace end boss Keldan the Breaker ”come closer, closer and BURN!“ & rides a reindeer in Azeroth & rides a chariot with 2 Phoenix Flying Mounts leading it in Outlands.  This flying mount can move at Warp 200 or 920% speed with the label inscription “Enterprise” on it  This is a very fast mount.

That is all.

These hands

 

I usually carry around Deep Thunder w/Savagery enchant for 2-handed mace beating.  4k and 8k single stroke damage swings are soooooo tasty.

I currently equip Dragonmaw with Mongoose & Bogspine Knuckles with Potency +20 Strength enchants.  When I get to Dragonstrike I will go Mongoose and Executioner for off-hand enchant.

Usual totems drops are Windfury, Strength of Earth, Mana Spring and sometime Searing Totem.

 

Zul’Aman snippets & General Gear Selection

1st try in Zul’Aman with my guild.  I came late to the party, but they had 1-shotted the birdy boss, bear boss gave troubles but ended up with a dirt nap.  Lynx boss downed too.  Walked to the next event area with the raid only to find heaps of trouble and late night fatigue setting in.

Raiders:

• Prot Warrior
• Feral Druid  / then subbed in Prot Warrior
• Holy Priest
• Holy Paladin
• Holy Paladin
• Mage
• Rogue / then subbed in Shaman (me!)
• Hunter
• Hunter
• Warlock

My 5 player party: Hunter, Hunter, Warrior, Warlock & myself (blue players above are in my group).  So, my buffs were mostly for the hunters.  GoA, Strength totem and Mana Spring totem for the warlock in my party.  No rogues to kick, so I Earth Shocked the Troll mages when their castbars started to fill.

Earth Elemental - I did pop Earth Elemental totem at one point and it did a fine job of holding a loose Troll.  I never saw if the healers were healing my Earth Elemental, but that could have helped too.  I was surprised how well little Rocky did considering the Trolls of Zul’Aman.   

Lots of places to Ghost Wolf around and mount up for.  Sometimes, we’ll just all mount up and charge into a group so we can stun lock/slow the scouts and therefore stop them from calling for backup.  Troll adds are almost as bad as Murlocs.

 

Troll Scouts - The troll scouts run better than murlocs with an iritable bladder!  Don’t let them run to bang on the drums.  The drums summon more trolls to beat you down with.  Ouch wipe fest!  Frawst-Shawk works pretty well on the troll scouts, but beware of any adds the scout summons because any dps on the scout will bring the adds to you!  Better to have a warrior charge/hammy the scout as well as hunter concussion shot the scout too.  Mages trying to slow the scout will end up with heaps of unwanted aggro when adds come in.

Spell Steal - One nifty trick our mage Druex found out is that the troll fire-mages throw up a buff on themselves for instant casting.  Yes, you guessed it.  Druex the mage stole that buff and made it his own.  Instant casting mage spells are sooooo nifty.

 

Overall, ZA is about Crowd Control and swift execution.

Drops tonight were:

Pauldrons of Primal Fury

Spaulders of the Advocate

I’d love to post some stats and wws data, but I will get more next time.

To Brageth (fellow enhancement shaman) who wanted to know what to start out with gear wise pre-raiding: 

Gear Selection for Enhancement Shamans:

Try http://www.lootzor.com/index.php?c=7&l=70&b=0&s=-1&r=7&g=3&i=10&z=5&p=beu2hbfu1.8hecu2hedu1.4heeu1

Lootzor lets you compile lists of gear based on certain stat requirements the above link is from the Elitest Jerks thread and use stats from that assuming you will have Blessing of Kings (so 10 Str is better than 20 Attack Power).

Same as above but changes to ‘Low Raid’ gear, no idea what your gear is like but if the first link isn’t for you this one might be of more help:  http://www.lootzor.com/index.php?c=7&l=70&b=0&s=-1&r=7&g=3&i=10&z=3&p=beu2hbfu1.8hecu2hedu1.4heeu1  (Oh and ignore the weapons and armor, they’re only based on Stats and not dps)

You can of course refine the search for your own needs.  It’s linked under useful links at
http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t13297-enhance_shaman_collected_works_theorycraft_vol_i/

Credits: http://leaht.wordpress.com/, http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t13297-enhance_shaman_collected_works_theorycraft_vol_i/, http://www.lootzor.com