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Hpala next

Why no elemental precision? Isn't additional hit good so you can itemize your gems and gear better?

It’s wild you didn’t mention trolls. Beserking scales with gear. Blood fury does not. And you’ll benefit from voodoo shuffle more often than hardiness

Do not ele shamans need crit over mp5 and all that stuff?

I don't understand wanting to go for ~85 spell penetration. I can see logic behind not going for 130 even if I don't agree with it – there are other sources of 130 resistance than paladin's auras like Nature Resistance Totem or (significantly rarer) Aspect of the Wild (not to mention reduced LvB damage in case of fire resistance). But I can't understand 85. From what I understand you get 40 resistance from untalented Mage Armor, 54 resistance from untalented Mark of the Wild, 60 from talented Mage Armor, 75 from talented Mark of the Wild, 80 from Magic Absorption (mage talent), 120 from untalented Mage Armor with Magic Absorption, 130 from paladin's auras, shaman's totem, hunter's aspect or priest buff, 140 from talented Mage Armor with Magic Absorption and 150 from three stacks of Acclimation. Unless you are counting for some highly unusual resistance gear, 85 spell penetration is really weird amount.

I also find 15% haste rating as a strange amount – why exactly 15% and not 14% or 16%? Does this exact amount of haste mean something? Not to mention that it is quite insane amount of haste to get for elemental in PvP gear in s5 (we don't have haste pvp belt/bracers). To achieve 15% haste we need 492 haste rating. From bis gear in video we can get 360 – we need 132 haste from gems. S5 gems give 16haste and this gear have 10 non-meta sockets, but we need to use 2.5 for spell penetration (to achieve 85 with 35 spell penetration enchant on the cloak) and need at least half red gem to activate meta. It leaves us with 7 haste gems = 112 haste or in other words: not enough.. On the other hand, 15% haste is listed as way more important than anything else (other than a hit). So with this gear set it is possible to achieve 15% haste, but with cost of everything else. So I would like to know why 15% is so important to try reaching it no matter what. Oh, now that I look at it if mp5 > 85 spell penetration (according to the video) it is impossible to get any amount of spell penetration (as I would also change spell penetration cloak enchant for haste one, as 15% haste > all (other than hit), as spell penetration can be only gained from gemming and I would gem mp5 as more important than spell penetration. And it is all for BiS gear where someone can just copy gems and enchants from video – what about lower gears?

P.S. I know that it is possible to achieve this with JC exclusive gems and BS sockets, but it is kind of a stretch to expect people to take at least one of these to just reach "minimum" values.

Now give Rsham some love! No one plays this except Stergey and me and its not that bad really. Just everyone is on the hype train for Hpal 😀

What about stacking additional hit rating/spell pen to counter things like blood elf racial, divine purpose, and mage armor?

isnt the totem for flat lavaburst dmg a very good option aswell ?

Why ringmail chest & legs? Surely it's better to get ringmail hands/shoulders instead?

Making a guiide and not even mentioning Trolls for elemental. I guess 20% haste for your burst or self healing is a bad thing. Stopped watching after 2 mins.
EDIT: And to you ppl who will reply with the common: "Trolls only for pve" I won't even bother answering that nonsense. You play your Orc or Tauren and continue live in your dream world where these "pro" youtubers who mostly get their info from others, to sell their meta slave juice drink. Time to play the game yourself and get some ingame experience.
Then come back and use these guides, YT, forums and what not. Too many live on these places insted of accually playing the game, test things out and learn there's more to it.