Ranged DPS composition

[Blubber]

I'm currently running a team with a Prot pally, a resto shaman, a arcane mage and 2 elemental shaman. The elemental shaman are lacking in DPS, besides I'd really like to have a more diverse group. So I'm thinking of taking 2 RAF accounts, and use them to boost 4 new characters.

The plan is to have 2 of my current accounts recruit 2 new accounts, that way I can use one of my other existing accounts to boost 4 RAF'ed accounts, then when I'm finished I move the characters from the RAF accounts to two of my other existing accounts.

At present I'm thinking of boosting 4 additional mages, just so I can have a team of 5 mages (I like to do old raids with some of my friends, and most of the time we don't need a tank and/or healer). But my question is, what ranged DPS classes would be good replacements for my two elemental shaman for PVE?

[Chivalrous]

My survival hunter is amazing. Super easy to manage and great DPS. I highly recommend Hunter!

[luxlunae]

Shad priest + warlock would probably be my choice. I like the synergy of an all caster team.

[Blubber]

My survival hunter is amazing. Super easy to manage and great DPS. I highly recommend Hunter!

I was thinking of a hunter. Easy to manage is definitely something I like :].

Shad priest + warlock would probably be my choice. I like the synergy of an all caster team.

Are shadow priests manageable? I got the impression that shadow is kind of hard to optimize.

[Chivalrous]

On my Hunter I set up a few macros in a two step with isboxer that hits several buttons at once.

starts with /castsequence reset=target Serpent Sting, null


then, it fires off black arrow, explosive shot, and another macro with blink strike, glaive toss, and dire beast. Then I do..

/castsequence reset=combat/2 Arcane shot, Arcane shot, null. (Cuz you don't want to dump all your focus, just make sure it isn't full.)

and I have cobra shot last, meaning if it can't do anything else it'll fire that to build focus. At the end and start I have kill shot, it should fire that if available. My hunter has 484 ilvl and does around 80k ST DPS in 5 mans with my group. It helps ALOT.

[zenga]

Elemental shamans are one of the best specs at the moment for dungeons. Incredible ascendance cooldown that is up for pretty much every boss, chain lightning that is incredibly powerful vs trash, and stormlash totem as a raid wide dps increase. On top of that the off healing with ancestral guidance is really good.

In raids ele shaman is currently one of (actually the) weakest spec when you take all available parses into account, but dungeons are almost tailor made for ele, even with bad gear).

Not sure what level you currently are, but at max level you really shouldn't have issues with your eles unless you are doing something wrong.

[Blubber]

Currently level 86. In dungeons my Arcane mage does about 15k to 20k DPS, the elemental shaman cap out at about 10k to 12k dps (without popping CDs). I tried tuning the shaman DPS output, but I can't really get it any higher.

[zenga]

Currently level 86. In dungeons my Arcane mage does about 15k to 20k DPS, the elemental shaman cap out at about 10k to 12k dps (without popping CDs). I tried tuning the shaman DPS output, but I can't really get it any higher.

At 87 you get ascendance ... 15 seconds of lava burst spam. One of the best spells in the game! Do me a favor and level to 87, then decide if you still like your shamans or not.

[Blubber]

At 87 you get ascendance ... 15 seconds of lava burst spam. One of the best spells in the game! Do me a favor and level to 87, then decide if you still like your shamans or not.

The plan was to get this team to 90, it's more of a long-term issue :].

[zenga]

The plan was to get this team to 90, it's more of a long-term issue :].

That doesn't make sense. You judge a specs dps at lvl 86 and draw conclusions, when you have not learned your hardest hitting spell/cooldown yet. Not to mention that the scaling value at lvl 86 is totally different than at lvl 90. It makes as much sense as if a warrior would complain at lvl 19 that he can't AOE tank and thus rerolls, while at lvl 20 he learns thunderclap. By all means level what you want and reroll as many times as you want, but don't draw conclusions based on bogus data, it helps nobody.