About a year ago I made a post saying how MP5 was a wasted stat on PvP/PvE armor for an enhancement shaman. I got the typical "lawl enhancement, respec resto" responses and even a few telling me I needed to learn to play because MP5 was the best stat I could get.....
Even before the changes to Water Shield and the the new Focus talent, I was able to control mana useage with the use of consmeables in long fights with just Shamanistic Rage. Granted I would sometimes go OOM, but I would just sit there and regen mana while I dropped agro and auto attacked with WF. Back then I thought it was a waste of stat points.
Skip to today when people now understand that an enhancement shaman in end game raiding when specced, geared, socketed, enchanted and PLAYED correctly can compete with any pure DPS class for a top 5 spot on DPS meters in 25 man raids, and top 2 in a 10 man. On top of that they are THE biggest boost to a melee DPS group. Also, thanks to the addition of/changes to focus and water shield, mana is no longer an issue.
Now there is a
50 page thread with almost 1k posts of people who now realize how much of a wasted stat it is, and that it needs to be removed; (
WoW Forums -> Mana per 5 on Enhance gear) However, besides being unlocked by a CM, this post has not recieved a reply giving us a heads up on if it is even being looked at or talked about.
MP5 needs to be removed from ALL Tier/PvP sets and replaced with Str/Agi/Crit/Hit/AP (not all of those, pick one....any one) and on higher tier sets even ArPen/Haste. ANY melee based stat.
Right now for example, the S3 Vengeful Gladiator's Set has 17 MP5. That is 42 stat points (1 MP5 is 2.5 stat points). If this were converted to Str that would be 84 attack power, 92 with Kings. No matter what you convert it to as far as melee stats go, it would be a much appreciated and needed change. The T6 Enhancement set also has more MP5 than the T6 Elemental set. That makes no sense at all. Ultimately, this is so we can stop taking leather from Rog's/Druids.
Some preemptive strikes though:
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Lawl Enhancement.
You are right, I should just respec resto.
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