One of the interesting things about new content is the transitional period as you clear the new bosses and start gearing up. Pictured alongside today's column is an illustration of that process, as Tier 7 blends into Tier 8 and Calamity's Grasp is paired with Vulmir.

Why there has been no effort to make spirit more useful for shamans as casters or healers, because it's on every freaking thing. Yes, it helps on mana regeneration out of combat and if you can take five seconds in combat, but otherwise it's totally useless for shamans.

Doesn't increase spell power or crit or do anything, really, just sits there like a less effective version of MP5. (And at least at my current gear and comfort level for healing, People don't spend a lot of time standing around not casting healing spells unless they are forced to by the dreaded OOM.) Every time they see a healing weapon with spirit on it they want to go back in time and stab their selves. They don't know what that would accomplish, exactly, but that's how much they hate spirit. they really like to see a talent in either mid-level elemental or restoration (resto would be better, and if it was fairly low in the tier elemental could pick it up too) that made spirit actually useful for shamans, but they are not holding their breath. This is why they almost always wait for a shield instead of picking up a spell offhand.

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