Quote Originally Posted by kate View Post
... and one is for AoEing trash down (takes flame-shock out of the equation, doesn't do lava burst, just throws down searing totem and spams chain lightning and trash dies fast).
There is no reason to waste a gcd on searing totem for aoe, the extra chain lighning will do more damage on trash than searing totem will do, obviously depending on the length of the fight. Reason is that elemental shamans now provide the 10% spellpower buff by default, it's no longer connected to your fire totems.


Quote Originally Posted by kate View Post
But here's my problem: At 85, and honestly not very well geared (mostly in the 377 PVP craftables reforged where possible, 1 or 2 pieces of JP or VP gear, and my weapons are the new 346 inscription staves, a couple of cheap enchants), each shaman is doing about 10-13k DPS during dungeon runs. I have no idea if that's about right given the gear, but it feels a bit low, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to boost the performance, or if there's any reason the set-up I'm using would reduce my dps (like some kind of weird mechanic I'm not aware of).
First off be aware that 10-13k has a 30% range (same as you would say 30 to 40k). If you have shit gear & weapons, all of them non optimized then that sounds about right.