Gavel vs. Spellblade and question about enchant...

[Xar]

I'm 5k honor away from my Merciless Gladiator's Gavel or Spellblade...I don't see any difference between the actual stats on both weapons so I'm assuming it's to allow for different classes to be able to have access to a weapon with the same stats and shaman are able to learn both mace and dagger. So this choice is going to be for appearance in my shaman's case?

Enchants...was definitely going to go 5x +40 spell damage but since this will be my first honor upgrade (vs. the rep pvp blues) I still have a lot of honor and arenas ahead of me to get geared up. I've been considering using the new Deathfrost enchant x 5 instead, has anyone done this on their teams? How often does it proc and would you say it's better for pvp than the straight +40 spell damage?

On a side note, was having a tough time swallowing each and every EotS bg I went into, as a new set of 70's my +damage was just under 400 on each and under 100 resilience as I have only 3 of the rep blues. Out of the first 18 marks I got only 2 were winning games and 12 were losses. It really pissed me off because it was usually voiced in /bg as my fault for the loss and yet there would always be 2-4 Alliance following me around and sitting there on their mount (right next to me) while a rather large gang of horde killed my group. Then last night...a friend I made while levelling asked me to queue up with his pvp guild, a long established pvp guild on Moonrunner, and we proceeded to win the next 3 out of 3 EotS's in a row, no one following me around, everyone fighting and it was fun!

[Sanctume]

Deathfrost enchant is somewhere between Fiery and Mongoose.

It procs off melee and spell casting, but not range attack at the rate of 1 proc every 21 to 28 seconds.

Each proc does upto 150 Frost damage and subject to 1.5x crit damage from spell crit.
It does 15% melee and spell casting speed debuff for a few seconds.

It sounds ideal for Elemental shamans since they nuke a lot. But I have put on 40 spell damage before the enchant was available.
I might consider it if I get the enchant learned on my pally.

p.s. I took the Gavel simple because it kinda prevents my Resto Shaman from sticking out of the pack. All 3 shamans have a mace and one of them is a healing mace.

[Anozireth]

I just bought the maces for all of my guys (minus the druid, who got the war staff). It was purely an aesthetic choice for me. I just like the look of the maces better. As for enchants, I opted for 40 spell damage all around.

[Kicksome]

Don't worry - when you get more spelldamage you'll clean up in eots even when bad teammates. Our BG is known to lose EOTS on alliance and I end up winning 90% of the games I'm in. I used to lose them all and get yelled at. Now, with 950 spell damage each - it's always gg. Just hang in there and don't let the naysayer get you down. They are always looking to blame someone.

By the way - +40 spell damage is 25% better than deathfrost enchant. Some guy did the math for elemental shaman on elitists jerks.

[Xar]

Thanks guys, appreciate it!

I got my gavels early this morning...looking forward to BG's tonight.

[Oatboat]

conga rats man!

[Lyonheart]

I got the spellblades without thinking about the fact that one of my shaman will need the gavel later.. oh well! now that I think about it..who cares.. She will always be ele in BGs/PvP !

[opt]

I got gavels with +40 spell damage on them all.
Then i went into kara a few weeks later, and now i have 3 of 4 mindblades all with +40 spell damage
Nothings better than +upto 200 spell damage of enchants on all your characters.

[dizz]

i've read that the gavel has higher durability than the spellblade. just a small thought.

[Skuggomann]

HAHA i got liek 36k honor but 4 EOTS marks XD cba to grind that shit without a S3 healer, hoping some 1 comes onlien to night XD