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Post by
fenom
Yeah I gotta say that this is the main reason that my shammy is still sitting at 62 i leved him with the RAF and as an ele/resto hybrid (leveled with a tank) at 60 I went all ele but just found dps on him boring.. just spamming LB and a shock here or there... was going to try enhance but it seems almost the same (and at lower levels was way worse, autoattack ftw lol)
Ill eventualy level my shamman again but just found that it wasnt that much fun compared to other classes.
That being said i did enjoy healing as a shaman and I do enjoy the class in general i just thought the dps mechanics were to simple
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Post by
Punkenjoy
Well, i think you must group with poor dps. I'm currently wearing same level of gear than my guildies but i'm not able to reach pure dps class in dps meter. Even our s.priest is overdpsing me. And it's not because i have a bad rotation. Like you said, it's very easy
But my guildies know their class and are able to put realy high DPS.
I can beat rogue on movement fight, but if they can stand and do their rotation, they acheive DPS that i still dream to obtain.
and you know on a fight, you want to acheive higher dps but what you do? you smash your button harder? LOL i tried this and it doesn't seem to work very well :)
but yeah, if i pug VOA on sunday afternoon with no guildies, i can be #1 dps (happen realy often) but i don't think it's OP to beat noob ....
Real DPS class like mage, lock, rogue if well played put more DPS than a Ele shaman with a perfect build/rotation/glyph etc...
Post by
Skategodindy
Shaman is definitely not a flavor of the month class. Do you know why? Well, it's because, every time I pug VoA, I get every single piece of Shaman gear, because I'm the only Shaman usually. In most pug raids, I end up being the only Shaman, especially 10-man. I see more Shamans in heroics, but it's not anywhere near the population of Death Knights, Warriors, and Paladins (plate ftw?).
I play Enhancement, mostly due to the boring nature (in my opinion of course) of being: A. Ranged DPS, B. Simple ass rotation, and C. terrible itemization. I will say this though, Elemental was a blast leveling 75 to 80 with. Things dropped in one LB/LvB combo and PVPing was amazing due to the amount of burst you could pull out on the non-resilience geared people. I found it a lot more boring when it came time to do group PvE.
One last comment. I seriously do love Elemental Shamans. They bring awesome buffs to the table, all in one class. They also always are a reliable class to bring for DPS, because I've never seen a fail 80 Elemental Shaman. I highly recommend any Shaman play to at least give them a shot.
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63926
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Post by
windstrum
To the OP, you need to reserve judgement until you're a little more geared. Your DPS will not scale like these other classes. On standard tank-n-spank boss fights without fight-specific damage modifiers (like XT, Loatheb, etc), I'm yet to see an Ele shaman break 4.5k. But many,
many
pure DPS classes break that ceiling with ease.
So yes, the rotation is a simple one. But it comes at a price.
For the record, my shaman has taken a seat on the shelf while I have some fun with my feral druid. Dinged 5 days ago and wearing crafted items I've already caught my shaman's DPS, who's wearing Ulduar10/Naxx25 gear.
Post by
Haxzor
To the OP, you need to reserve judgement until you're a little more geared. Your DPS will not scale like these other classes. On standard tank-n-spank boss fights without fight-specific damage modifiers (like XT, Loatheb, etc), I'm yet to see an Ele shaman break 4.5k. But many,
many
pure DPS classes break that ceiling with ease.
So yes, the rotation is a simple one. But it comes at a price.
For the record, my shaman has taken a seat on the shelf while I have some fun with my feral druid. Dinged 5 days ago and wearing crafted items I've already caught my shaman's DPS, who's wearing Ulduar10/Naxx25 gear.
My DPS really starts to shine on the Keepers, where it's not that simple of a fight
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