Drop the Shaman for the last slot and fill it up with a DK?

I did the simulation with my Enhancement Shaman with 10k tests, and removed items that I definitely would not be using such as flasks and food, and some of the debuffs it provides as that isn't in my group as well as no Hero/Bloodlust because it's not usable in arenas and I don't pop it on training dummies.. I came out with 50,072 DPS. Which is right around what I am pulling in the first place. My DK's using the same simulations pull 60,009 DPS on my best geared character but a bulk of the damage is coming from Soul Reaper in the execute range. Dropping Soul Reaper I get 57,090 DPS. these overall seem quite on par with what I am seeing in game which makes me feel a lot better about my rotation and that they are boxed to 90+% capacity of playing single boxed.

At this point I would say it's just a gear issue and need to get better enchants/buffs and reforge, but I do feel a lot better being able to simulationcraft :)

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Originally Posted by Ellay

I did the simulation with my Enhancement Shaman with 10k tests, and removed items that I definitely would not be using such as flasks and food, and some of the debuffs it provides as that isn't in my group as well as no Hero/Bloodlust because it's not usable in arenas and I don't pop it on training dummies.. I came out with 50,072 DPS. Which is right around what I am pulling in the first place. My DK's using the same simulations pull 60,009 DPS on my best geared character but a bulk of the damage is coming from Soul Reaper in the execute range. Dropping Soul Reaper I get 57,090 DPS. these overall seem quite on par with what I am seeing in game which makes me feel a lot better about my rotation and that they are boxed to 90+% capacity of playing single boxed.

At this point I would say it's just a gear issue and need to get better enchants/buffs and reforge, but I do feel a lot better being able to simulationcraft :)

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Great! Simcraft is a good tool for analysing where/what the problem is (so are combatlogs). It would somewhat be a shame if you would just swap it out for a dk and have to go through all the trouble of gearing that one up when you didn't really had confirmation that either your rotation was spot on or without knowing what the real issue was. It's a different thing obviously if you swap it out for genuine reasons. Too often I see claims on forums (not really boxing related) where people use their own anecdotal evidence as fact, often conflicting with math and available data, and after using proper tools to analyse where the problem is, they tend to be surprised. A good week ago a realID friend who raids on his ele shaman whispers me: his damage was far behind of what his raid was doing and he was sure that his rotation was perfect. While ele is lagging behind, the gap is not that big, so there must be something else. After spending a good hour or 2 walking him through simcraft to teach him reforging plots, learning him how he should analyse logs, and setting up weakauras to track stuff better, ... it was pretty clear that his stats and rotation weren't as perfect as he was thinking. Next day he whispers me to say that his dmg on the same boss went up with 13%. And that's an example that you can find on pretty much every dps forum on a daily basis, for every spec in the game. Wow is a sick stats and math game, and they can't be ignored, which happens too often by a lot of people.

But now go do some awesome stuff in the game and make us a new vid we can enjoy!

Way back in late Burning Crusade, my Warlock moved from a decent guild that raided to one of the top raiding guilds on the server.
I had always been in the top 2-3 for damage in the previous guild.
But, even taking into consideration the relative lack of gearing, I wasn't doing that great for DPS with the new guys.

A couple of them looked at logs, I believe it was WWS or something similar then, not worldoflogs.

It turned out, I was using Lifetap preemptively when low on mana, to prevent myself from running out of mana... instead of burning entirely through the mana reserve, and then only tapping the minimum amount to cast the next spell.

It could be something small, that can make a fairly big deal in the long run.

Thanks for the link Zenga, that looks like a very valuable resource I plan to make use of. Nice gear btw.

Been looking for a 5s team and BG smashing team... Not sure if i want to follow what you are doing here, 1 druid, 3 dk, 1 shaman, go 1 druid 4 shamans, or 1 druid 4 dks