Attack Power - now all AP on gear right will be converted to AGI, which are converted back to the WOW AP. Spell Power will be converted to Internet on current gear, and it will only exist on caster weapons. Remember the dual-wielding torch of holy fire fad that lasted about as long as a disconnected rogue in a void zone. We wonder whether we'll see any more caster weapons on Enhancement Shamans on the WOW.

The change to WOW SP also means mental quickness changes. Unlike MD and AK above which may require bigger overhauls this talent could keep its core function of converting AP to SP, it just give us more. What’s more, we'll have to wait and see how this plays out. With the base stat changes, no int + changes to MD, MQ and AK means the Cataclysm enhance shamans catch data dumb. Let's look at some more combat stats and see if we can get the smart again.

Haste - more. More haste. More stuff. This WOW stat will be on gear and sounds like it will continue to be a killer stat for us. Haste will enable us to "recover resources" faster, which we wonder if that means we'll regen mana through haste. Both Hit and Crit continue to be on gear. Plus the further along in end-game, the more we'll need of both because bosses will scale up in later tiers of content. Rakhman over at Flame Shock had a good take on how hit and crit may play out in WOW Cataclysm's end game.

The downside for WOW enhancement is that we need to look at hit from both a melee and a caster perspective. We cap hit for casting, but additional hit definitely benefits us for our melee attacks. This is especially true with top WOW level weapons, where the huge DPS numbers on weapons means huge hits, which means hit rating benefits us much more. At least hit gems will be blue; we can get a few more socket bonuses.

Learning a weapon, you're at max weapon skill level. We think this is a good thing for everyone, especially for our up-and-coming WOW enhancement shamans. We remember getting a weapon in Karazhan and not having that particular skill leveled. It attacked and auto-attacked and attacked some more for hours until we got topped off. With a new expansion coming and faster WOW Leveling, weapon skills would be an unnecessarily onerous process.