Windfury Weapon

Windfury Weapon
Windfury Weapon (8 ranks) Shaman ability 7% of base mana Instant Imbue the Shaman's weapon with wind. Each hit has a 20% chance of dealing additional damage equal to two extra attacks with X extra attack power. Lasts 30 minutes.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Requirements	Melee Weapon
Related buff
Weapon Windfury Weapon Windfury Weapon Duration: 30 minutes

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Or Winfury, as I like to call it

Windfury Weapon is a Shaman ability.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Attack power	Cost
1	30	46	70
2	40	119	1 20
3	50	249	2 40
4	60	333	3 40
5	68	445	7 10
6	71	835	18
7	76	1090	18
8	80	1250	18

Improvements

• [Elemental Weapons] increases its effect by 40%.
•  [Glyph of Windfury Weapon] Increases the chance to proc by 2%

Tips

Windfury is the main enhancement shaman buff. It offers up to 40% damage increase to a shaman's base melee DPS (if wielding a single three second or slower weapon), not counting the attack power bonus granted on 2/7ths of all swings. As of 2.01, Windfury procs can trigger weapon-based procs and enchants -- meaning one could potentially have a Crusader proc three times (the normal swing and the 2 Windfury occurrences) or 6 times if one is Dual-Wield Stormstrike spec'd. Windfury procs that crit will also trigger Flurry, but Windfury procs themselves do not consume Flurry. This means that after getting a high crit chance, one could have a never-ending Flurry buff, as unlikely as these situations are.

Slow weapons are recommended for Stormstriking shaman and for PvP in general, especially due to Stormstrike. This is because the damage added by Stormstrike and Windfury are not normalized, so the full amount of damage is dealt instead of being modified by weapon speed. Also, Windfury exists on a three second internal cooldown that would be wasted with faster weapons.

In PvE, Windfury should always be used for the main hand, for the benefit of spell power and improved [Lava Lash] damage from Flametongue is viable for the off-hand. As for PvP, one could easily mix-in Frostbrand Weapon to help keep the opponent in melee range, especially due to the [Frozen Power] talent. Dual Windfury Weapon will rapidly increase one's damage, of course, as the buff is that powerful. A common question in regards to PvP is whether to use a two-handed weapon or dual wielding. Either way, one should definitely be using Windfury. Two-handed weapons will provide the shaman with a large amount of burst damage, but due to resilience, as well as the potential "drought" of Windfury procs, it may be better to dual wield in favor of more consistent damage.

Patch changes

• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Mixing two different ranks of "Windfury Weapon" while dual-wielding will no longer increase the number of "Windfury Weapon" procs.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): The following mana costs have been reduced ... Windfury.

  Reduced to 30-50% of old costs
  

• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Attack power bonus of Windfury Weapon reduced by 50%
  

See Also

• [Rockbiter Weapon]
• [Frostbrand Weapon]
• [Flametongue Weapon]
• [Earthliving Weapon]

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB