New Enhancement Shaman changes:

#0 - March 6, 2009, 8:38 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Enhancement

* Frostbrand Weapon damage has been increased. (From 442 to 530 damage for Rank 9, from 386 to 463 for Rank 8, etc ...)
* Frozen Power now Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Lash and Shock spells by 5/10% on targets afflicted by your Frostbrand Attack effect
* Flurry now Increases your attack speed by 5/10/15/20/25% for your next 3 swings after dealing a critical strike. (Down from 10/15/20/25/30%)

It's neat that someone is finally paying attention to Frostbrand, and this will likely make it a better offhand imbue, but the 5% nerf to flurry kinda hurts.

Isn't that effectively a 5% DPS nerf?

Ghostcrawler

#11 - March 6, 2009, 9:04 p.m.

Our intent is still WF/FT in PvE. You can opt to use FB in PvP, especially with these changes. Shamans benefit a lot from being fully raid buffed since both melee and spellpower buffs and debuffs can help them. In PvP where you likely won't have so many buffs, you might not miss the damage as much and could use FB for its extra benefits.

The Flurry nerf was to lower Enhancement PvE damage, which was once again too high.