Dinged 80 yesterday, accounts closed today

[Steph]

I had the same issue intially even with my raid geared pally tank. The shamans in leveling gear and leftover S4 stuff didn't cut it.

I dual-specced one of the shamans to resto and replaced Flame Shock with Earth Shield and Chain Lightning with Riptide on the resto shaman's action bar.

The resto shammy doeesn't do that much damage, but the two HoTS together with 1x resto power healing totem and 3x normal healing totems are enough most of the time. If I should ever need more healing, I pop 4x lesser healing wave and that's it. =]

[David]

All I can say now is that a resto shaman is great. I will never go back to 4x elemental for instancing. I cleared Gundrak, DTK, COT stratholme, The Nexus and Utgarde keep since I respecced to resto 24hours ago.

I also killed the first 2 bosses in UP but had to leave for shopping after a few whipes there. Quite a hard event.

[Multibocks]

Yeah, GL on Skadi. He's a bitch. So is Ionar or anyone else that threatens your shaman with massive AE damage.

[elsegundo]

on your offdays... take your tank or resto shammy into naxx and pug with a group. this will make it easier on your boxing group the next time around if you do get better gear.

make sure you read the meters when you're in a pug tho, sometimes all it takes is low dps and you'll never get past the first boss. and last thing to note, dont take charities. if a good healing item drops that can be used for others as well, but instead goes to you... there may be a hidden agenda behind that, especially if its a mostly-guild run.

but if you'd rather not pug (which is know is one of the reason some guys here multi-box in the first place) then ignore my post. thanks. have a great time!!
if you need a pally tank rotation or tactic, i've posted about this a while ago so do a search if you have to. good luck!

[SoulSeekerUSA]

Been there dude, I actually canceled all of my account for a month then went back and gave it another try but I wasn't wiping on heroics I was wiping on normal instances and it really really sucked so I canceled everything. But when I went back I took it a bit slower and got some decent gear in pvp and rep and got my enchants and whatever else I could get a hold of and now I can do any instance and I am working on heroics. I have cleared UTG and Nexus many times but I am waiting now for 3.2 because of the emblem change it don't make much sense running for heroism emblems now.

My tank is a Druid.

[David]

but I am waiting now for 3.2 because of the emblem change it don't make much sense running for heroism emblems now.

Everybody is waiting for 3.2. It can take months (4-5) before it arives. We allready had a big content patch recently.

I play for fun, I want the gear but it`s not like I`m not playing because in a few months I get better badges.