Enhance Yourself : "Relic Slot" Totems

Enhance Yourself : "Relic Slot" Totems

Hey guys I'm back and I have a fresh "Enhance Yourself" post for you all today and the focus is on the "Relic Slot", an item slot we share with Druids (Idols), Paladins (Librams), and Death Knights (Sigils) alike. As a shaman I've always liked the idea that we hybrids have had that extra slot in which to receive that extra boost, whether it be to Dps or Healing, it has always been something to call our own.

In this post I'm going to review the two new DPS totems released with patch 3.3.

 

Lets start out with Totem of the Avalanche, as you can see in the image above if you were to compare the two, most would think to grab it without a second guess. By looking at it the bonus to attack power (146 x 3 = 438) is nice from doing nothing more then Stormstrike, I consider this totem a nice upgrade for those doing heroics to entry level ICC raiding, but if end game is your game consider option two.

And here we have "Bizuri's Totem of Shattered Ice" Blizzards elemental shaman totem if you will, well most would think that at first glance and again are right to do so. But in recent months haste has started to become a key if not the key stat for enhancement shamans in end game raiding because of the benefits it can bring to the table such as faster weapon swings, which equal more white damage, faster maelstrom proc times, shorting GCD time, and much more, but thats for another post /smile for now lets continue with the totem at hand. As you can see the totem grants the player 44 haste per tick stacked to 5 for 30secs (44 x 5 = 220) and the nice thing about it is the proc doesn't occur from "Flame Shocks" initial damage but from its "Periodic Damage" meaning this totem is very low maintenance in an already high maintenance priority line or rotation if you will. With "Flame Shock" by the numbers providing higher dps to enhancement this totem seems to fit the Enhancement bill nicely, and is my choice for end game totem.