Hm, wasting drinking water might help me shave some time off.

For the resto shaman thing, I don't think that would actually make anything go faster for me - for bosses I hardly have to heal (in fact earlier I did Gundrak and killed Eck without using a single heal on my tank and my tank ended the fight with 20k hp LOL). My elemental shamans do ~2000 dps on trash each after 3.0.8 even while healing my tank/themselves if needed, so it seems like to make it go faster with a resto shaman my other 3 shamans would actually have to do 2666 dps each without healing which I don't think is possible (that is to say, I think my shaman will do more dps as 4 ele than 3 ele + 1 resto).

Plus, I just like having 4 ele for all the times I don't need healing (which is quite often these days since my tank is fairly overgeared for heroics at this point I think). Thanks for some of the tips though, always curious to see how other people do it Can't wait to get 4 drakes! Since I ran CoS this morning I've actually gotten 2 new epic pieces for each of my shamans and the t7 chest for my DK plus +40 stam to bracers so between all that I think it will give me that little extra edge i might need...one of my shamans has 2000 spellpower now self buffed with just flametongue weapon, so ~2300 with totem of wrath.