Quote Originally Posted by 'Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=170774#post1 70774
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.
I know some of the bronze drake riders from in here are running with no resto, but I have no trouble doing it with my team (paladin + restoshaman + 2 ele shaman + balance druid). I do drop totems before fights, but I drop them as I run towards the mobs. I don't drink or loot, except for the pause after the first boss (the next wave wont spawn until a few minutes after he's dead anyway), although after the guy dropping the reins is dead, I come back to loot the second (fleshcrafter) and third (dragon-guy) boss. One thing to note though, is if lack of dps puts you real close to the timer running out, you'll be dependent on luck (ie how close the waves spawn to eachother). One time I had waves constantly spawning in the opposite spots in the zone and I just barely made it. Was fun though :-)