Patch Day!

"All shaman talent points have been refunded. Please visit your trainer to learn spells and abilities."

That's right: visit the trainer, NOT http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html, which as of this writing still does not have the new talent tree. Bah!

Here's what I'm thinking will be Kuanchichi's new build.

I think considering cast times, all the haste on shaman gear, and just what actually consists of 12% of intellect every 5 seconds - what, maybe 80 or 90 mp5? - that Convection is more valuable than Unrelenting Storm (gee, Wowhead isn't updated either), for all the former still takes 5 pts and the latter now only 3. However kudos to Blizzard for changes that actually make thinking about it a worthwhile endeavor.

I only had 1 point in Unrelenting Storm initially, and I've run out of mana on two boss fights since hitting 80: once on Patchwerk before Kuan got any lvl 80 epics at all, and once on Rasuvious when he ended up casting Chain Heal more than any damage spells, becuase the priest on the raid couldn't see the DOT debuff.

Anyways, now I expect raids Kuan is in to kill things even faster, so he's even less likely to run out of mana. But, we'll see and I'll respec points into it if that's a problem.

Thwardted Destiny is going to try 10-man Sarth with a drake up tomorrow. Let's see how the build works then.