What are shaman groups seeing for DPS in heroics?

[Hachoo]

I'm a little concerned about my DPS. Running an Unholy DK + 4 elemental shaman team, with recount. I have ~1600 spellpower on my shamans with flametongue weapon (but not including totem of wrath). Typically through an instance I see recount showing my 4 Shamans roughly even at ~1500-1600 DPS, and my DK at around 900 DPS.

How does this compare to others here? It seems like it should be higher, since I hear about moonkins and mages doing 3500+ dps, etc, unless those are "theoretical" dps numbers and not actual recount numbers. The only thing that slows my DPS down is that since I'm running 4 elemental shamans they have to heal occasionally too.

Just want something to compare against to see if I'm doing something wrong or what.

Most instance fights I open up with my DK, then do 4x flameshock 4x LvB, then spam the following macro:

/castrandom [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt,Chain Lightning,Lava Burst,Purge

Input?

[pinotnoir]

That is about right for elemental shaman with your gear. I am pretty sure we have the lowest dps of all dps spec classes in the game. My 70 mage was doing 1300dps and my shaman lvl 80 in vault raids gets maybe 1700. And thats busting my ass to keep a constant rotation up.

[Multibocks]

the 3500 you hear getting tossed around is in raid settings. I pulled 2400 dps on heroic vault today (soloing on one shaman) and thats with tossing chain heals off when the AE damage got bad. I was 3rd on the charts too! PUGs make me realize how good I have it.

[Ruodhaid]

My paladin is doing about 1500dps, but the shamans just about 1200 eatch, its kinda funnt that my tank out dpsed my dps�rs

but i think that will change soon, as my paladin have been 80 for a long time, and my shamans just hit 80 saturday. but well gear will change and shamans will be buffed

[Meeo]

My 2 Ele Shamans do around 1700 to 1800, in heroics, 2100 to 2200 generally on the lower side, in 10/25 man naxx.

My boomkin, 1 button spam castrandom, does around 2300 to 2700 dps on heroic bosses and for his pretty weak gear hes does near 3K in 10/25 naxx

[mmcookies]

what addon do you guys use to measure DPS? is there a standard?

[Meeo]

Most people use Recount, i use recount and do my own WWS Reports.

[Hachoo]

Ok I don't feel quite as bad then. Can't wait until 3.0.8 (ugh I hope its tomorrow) to see how much my DPS goes up - between the LB/LvB change I should gain a lot - 63% of my damage is generally from lightning bolt (usually use LB and LvB only on bosses to conserve mana).

[pinotnoir]

Dont expect a huge increase from the patch. We will still suck for dps. And you have to love the devs idea of aoe. Here shaman use magma totem to aoe and dont drop your totem of wrath. Pretty stupid to do aoe you need to ignore one of the talented totems elementals get that boost group/raid damage. If you were in a raid I am sure the raid would do more damage with your wrath totem than you dropping a shitty magma.

[Multibocks]

be nice if they had a Totem of the Tsunami that did water splash damage or Totem of the Storm that did wind nature damage... etc.