In this christmas will you choose to sleep all day? Hope not, World of Warcraft is so funny! In today’s “Totem Talk” we have the tips for Utgarde Pinnacle and Heroic Utgarde Keep. Let’s come to the details:
You may fight King Ymiron's wife Angerboda, when you originally ran through Howling Fjord, and you probably killed her. As you might expect, he's not thrilled about it. As a result, you have to go kill him too, and as a result you can collect various knick knacks from his servants and lieutenants.On normal, there's not a terrible plethora of mail here. Leather that might interest enhancement shamans includes the Ceremonian Pyre Mantle and the Drake Rider's Tunic. Neither really knocks me out, but both are serviceable if you're not wearing better and no one else wants them.
If you're a DPSing shaman of any spec looking for some haste, look no further than the Vestige of Haldor. It combines a sizeable static haste boost with an interesting DPS proc. Tor's Crest is a caster shield, nominally more suited to elemental than resto due to its total lack of MP5. The Signet of Ranulf is a spell power ring with some haste, making it usable by either elemental or resto.
In heroic drops, there are actually quite a few worth mentioning. The Staff of Wayward Principles is less good for shamans than other casters due to the spirit (why, in all the recent back and forth about elemental shaman DPS, has no one tried to make spirit not suck for us? If you're going to normalize gear, you kind of should make it so not so much of that gear is meh at best for a class) but it's still got pretty hefty haste and spell power. And if you like haste and spell power, the Ring of the Frenzied Wolvar may appeal to you.
The Netherbreath Spellblade has spirit as well, but the crit, spell power and the fact that it's a dagger means elemental shamans are going to give it a look. The Meteorite Whetstone will most likely be sought after by your average enhancement shaman.
Heroic Utgarde Keep: On heroic, both elemental and resto may well rejoice at an honest to Murgatroyd piece of caster mail, the Scaled Armor of Drakos. As is usually the case for mail with crit and no MP5 I'd say elemental would prefer it to resto. The Pendulum of Telluric Currents is a caster DPS trinket. The Band of Enchanted Growth is tailor made for resto shamans. The Ancient Dragon Spirit Cape is pretty friendly to either elemental or resto.
Casters will be looking at Annhylde's Band off of Ingvar. Enhancement feeling a desperate need for expertise may give the Sharp-Barbed Leather Belt and the Bindings of the Tunneler a look even though they're plate. If you do get it, enjoy it while it lasts. If you were starting to think there was no mail in this instance there's a restoration friendly chestplate and a fairly solid enhancement helm with a meta socket. Come to learn more!
