Quote Originally Posted by 'Bigfish',index.php?page=Thread&postID=183234#post 183234
And that's fine. The thing is, not everyone, myself included there, run DPS Meters under those same circumstances, which leads to someone like me keeping their DPS Meter running the whole time to someone like you running it on boss fights where you don't have to heal. Neither method is "correct", but it leads to key differences in drawing comparisons to either, where I see you as chery picking your numbers and you see me as a scrub with piss poor DPS. (Not that you said that or I'm trying to put words in your mouth, you and me are unrelated 3rd party pronouns I'm using for the exampe.)
I agree - this is why results will never be 100% accurate which is why they shouldn't be treated as such. I do leave my DPS meters running the entire instance, I just reset them before bosses generally. I tend to average about 2200 dps per shaman on trash - this is with a standard castrandom macro, and of course I have to heal more on trash than bosses so that leaches my DPS down quite a bit, but that still makes my "average non-boss full-party DPS" to be around 10k (1200 for DK, 2200 per shaman) which is still pretty awesome, and could be higher if I was less lazy

The only point I'm trying to make from the entire thread is that, while it is theoretically possible to have a higher overall dps with a mixed group than with a group of say 4 shamans or 4 druids, the chances of that happening are pretty slim IMO, and many of the other benefits that a mixed group provides (like blessings, power word fort, arcane int, imp, etc) are ok when you're undergeared but aren't really that big of a deal after you get some practice running heroics. Of course they're a bigger deal in raids but honestly how many multiboxers on this site even get a chance to multibox while they raid? Very few.

Just want to reiterate my original post though - play what you have the most fun with, but my opinion is that if you want to min/max then 4 shamans is the way to go.