swapping in a shaman

[thinus]

Nah, fuck the shaman. I am transferring the team as is. The shaman adds a great deal to the party. I started with this team and i will see them through to the end. It's gonna be a tough ride though.

But if things get too difficult...

Drommon

Rofl. I am leveling my mixed team now with no Shaman but I have a 5x Shaman team at 80 already which will give me options. I am just genuinely curious about the impact of a Shaman as I saw a lot of LFG spam, while leveling my Shaman team, asking for elemental Shaman for heroics basically for Bloodlust. I know elemental shaman are not top of the DPSers but with their totem utility and Bloodlust how much of a DPS boost is the Shaman to the group?

I would actually love to see some comparisons of damage reports on bosses of the team without a shaman and then with the shaman.

[Drommon]

Rofl. I am leveling my mixed team now with no Shaman but I have a 5x Shaman team at 80 already which will give me options. I am just genuinely curious about the impact of a Shaman as I saw a lot of LFG spam, while leveling my Shaman team, asking for elemental Shaman for heroics basically for Bloodlust. I know elemental shaman are not top of the DPSers but with their totem utility and Bloodlust how much of a DPS boost is the Shaman to the group?

I would actually love to see some comparisons of damage reports on bosses of the team without a shaman and then with the shaman.

Me too. In fact it is hard to draw conclusions without doing some serious number crunching on a spread sheet.

But yeah, I agree with you.

It is my belief that the pally+shammy combo with any mix of other 3 toons can dominate better than a mixed team without either a pally or a shaman (or both).

Drommon

[daviddoran]

My mage is my worst geared toon in my heroic team, in my sig, and she does the most dps most of the time... Not sure why yours isnt pwning as much... I make sure to pop Icy Veins, along with all my other cooldowns every time they are up, and that alone is a huge dps boost. I really should get to putting my toons in my avatar with the nifty new feature, but i have those weird accents on the letters so its not that easy.

I used to run 2 locks and a mage for dps, but swapped out a lock for a shaman, and the totems and heroism add so much dps to my mage and lock, I dont know how id do without em. I'd get rid of the boomkin myself. Much easier to manage shaman dps than boomkin eclipse procs.

[Smoooth]

I have one group without a shaman and it's so nice not having to drop totems every time you move. I think having one is important for 10+ man raiding when a buff benefits a lot more but not for 5 mans.