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First of all, I want to apologize for the grammatical errors you may find, because english isn't my mother tongue. I decided to write this thread because I'm tired of the situation of enhancement shaman and as well as other few specs, that are completely unplayable at least in PvP(demonology, windwalker, to name a few). With this thread I want to illustrate the enhancement bugs on detail, hoping the staff will fix them as soon as possible, because is a pity such a beautiful and fun spec should be as broken as it is at the moment. So, here are the bugs: 1) http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=8232/windfury-weapon: this ability is the signature spell of the enha spec since vanilla and here is completely broken: despite what's is written on the 10th and 11th changelog, it's still bugged. The bonus attack power is not added to the extra 3 attacks (the last ones are equal to white damage), resulting in an important dps loss vs cloth and leather classes. Plus, if you cast Windfury over a two handed weapon, it won't proc at all. PS: I noticed that if you imbue your off-hand with Windfury instead of your main-hand, the damage seems better, but it's still lower than it should be. 2)http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77657: this passive ability is even more crucial for enha than windfury. The problem with this ability is that the stacks are generated upon searing totem bolts hits, but the damage of Lava lash is not increased. For every stack of searing flames, the damage should be increased by 20%, for a total of 100% increased damage. In my opinion this ability should be on high priority, because almost all the damage outside burst for enha comes from Lava lash, and right now, it hits like a wet noodle. PS: The stacks are generated for resto and ele specs too, isn't that important, but it's still a bug. 3)http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=51530 : this is far more important to be addressed for than every other bugged ability, because on this one lies the survivability of the entire spec. The problem with it is that the proc chance is lower than it should be. In a duel or so, in like 1 minute fights you will hardly get all the 5 stacks you need to heal yourself, or to deal damage with elemental blast. The stacks are hard to get even if you reforge full haste. I didn't find any reliable source to what the proc rate should be, although on Wowwiki, it's shown that should be around 25 ppm while dual-wielding http://www.wowwiki.com/Maelstrom_Weapon 4)http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=114049: enha most reliable thing to carry in PvP in Mysts of Pandaria is broken, yes. I don't know for sure what's the matter, but the thing for sure is that http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=115356/stormblast#modifies damage and auto-attacks damage (http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=114089/wind-lash#triggered-by and http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=114093/wind-lash-off-hand) are lower than it should be. To test out these claims, you can compare enha's Ascendance auto-attacks damage to the damage of rogue's Shadow blades ones. In fact the damage seems equal here, but it shouldn't be like that, for two reasons: 1) shamans equip 2 slow weapons of 2.6 speed, while rogues have 1.8 speed daggers, this means shamans auto-attacks should do more damage per swing than rogue's (attention: we are talking about auto-attacks while in Shadow blades http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=121471/shadow-blades and Ascendance, so armor is ignored!) 2) shamans have mastery that increases all the frost, fire and nature damage dealt, http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=77223, and, seeing that auto-attacks in Ascendance deal pure nature damage, they should benefit from mastery! As seen above therefore, enha's auto-attacks in Ascendance shouldn't be doing less or equal damage to rogue's ones in Shadow blades. (on equal gear, obviously; plus if the rogue is sublety, http://www.db.pandawow.me?spell=79147/sanguinary-vein isn't enough to overcome the two factors I depicted above. (Enhancement mastery scales extremely well, in Tyrannical gear you will have about 48%-50% mastery)) Then, Stormblast damage too isn't as it should be: on my enha with 510 item level, with Grievous weapons, it hits for 40-45k (over players) and I have 52% mastery. If you do the maths, you will have a Stormblast damage of about 30k without any mastery and this isn't possible, because this last number is the damage dealt by Stormstrike that doesn't ignore any armor! So obviously mastery isn't working as intended! According to all I wrote above, mastery doesn't affect Stormblast and Auto-attacks when in Ascendance, leaving enha without the only thing it had to be proud of in PvP, above all other classes: the burst. I hope this will not be ignored by the staff, for questions or clarifications you can contact me and I will be pleased to answer. To all the enha lovers outa here: VOTE THIS UP!!! so maybe we can have our beloved spec fixed in a few weeks! PS: all these bugs were found on the FUN server to the date 17/07/2014 JohnnyPoozang