Hi guys,
I am looking at preparing my professions for TBC. What would be good for a shaman? Is it the same for all three specs?
And what would be good money makers?
Posted Feb 21, 2021, 12:56 PM UTC
Moneymakers are tailoring alchemy and herbalism tailoring would be good for healing pieces too. Leatherworking for enhancement and drums.
If you're a healer, alchemy/herbalism is great because you don't really need crafted gear beyond that alch trinket (which is crazy good early, then the sunwell alch trinket is an absolute must have). Only issue with alchemy is that the trinket falls off for T6 but then you suddenly want the healer trinket again in T6.5 so it's kind of awkward. If you want to min max, LW/Alch as a healer is the way to go, bis chest piece and bis trinket. Technically JC/Alch or LW/JC also is fine but it seems like LW/Alch gets the most bang for your buck. Enchanting/Alch isn't really worth the cost, but if you already have a character ready for herbalism/skinning or herb/mining then go for it.
Enhance wants BS/LW and doesn't like alchemy trinkets until maybe Sunwell trinnkets. Its expensive but the other professions dont do enough to justify them over BS and LW.
Ele wants LW or tailoring for crafted gear, supported by alchemy or enchanting. I don't know if the alchemy trinket is mandatory for ele shammys like it is for resto shammys, but it's not bad and the sunwell version is still quite good. Enchanting is just generally good as a support profession, so I'd actually say Ele shammys would rather be enchanting/LW or enchanting/Tailoring depending on your preference and how they change drums.
Moneymakers are still herbalism, mining, skinning, alchemy, tailoring, enchanting and jewelcrafting.
Will need some jewel crafters no?
Enhancement is LW + Blacksmithing - LW gives you a BoP armor set and BS gives weapons, no real debate for this spec.
Elemental is LW + Enchanting - LW gives you a BoP armor set, enchanting gives you ring enchants and some income from disenchanting dungeon loot. Alternatively you might take Tailoring for the spell strike set bonus and passive income from cloth CDs or Jewelcrafting for BoP gems and crafting fees.
Resto is Tailoring + LW - Mooncloth Tailoring gives you a BoP armor set, LW gives drums and an offspec armor set. Alchemy would also be pretty good for the trinket and Enchanting would be fine for ring enchants.
Note: We don't know what the drums change will be yet, if it's 1 drummer per group then Shamans should all have it since LW is better for them than other classes (although coordinate with your rail leader).
Sadly the elemental lw set is ass. You definitely want to be tailoring as the spell strike set is so strong. For resto in the sunwell patch id drop tailoring and pick up alch as the new alch trinket is OP for healers. A bunch of +healing and +40% to mana pots.
Depending on the drums changes it might devalue LW a bit and you might be able to not pick it up till later content comes out. For instance in sunwell there is a LW chest recipe that is BiS for the rest of the game. Plus drums will very likely help out in that tougher content.
As for money makers harder to tell long term but in the first few months tailoring will make bank due to the cloth cooldowns similar to alch and making the primal might transmutes.
The elemental set is ass? From everything I've seen its very good.
So I got the lw sets confused ebon netherscale (enhancement) isn't very good. Netherstrike is comparable to T4 items but the tailoring sets still blow the leatherworking sets out of the water.
I was comparing the two the other night. You don't need all the hit from the tailoring set so the LW pieces become competitive because of it with their stats.
Netherscale is also pretty good. EP-wise its about 2% worse than the Primalstrike.
Now granted, that 2% is enough reason to just go with Primalstrike, but Ebonscale isn't bad or anything, its just not peak dps increase. Primarily since you're paying for mp5 and intellect with your stat budget.
Is spellstrike generic +spell damage at TBC launch, or is it +damage for specific spell schools?
I know some TBC crafted gear was modified from +school damage to +spell damage at some point.
Spell strike is +spell damage, +spell crit, +spell hit. There are also 3 sets of +arcane/fire +frost/shadow
Spell strike is just straight up spell damage no school. Set bonus is a proc for more spell power. It easily lasts until T5.