Update 5/19/08

We finally broke through the 1600 barrier successfully a couple weeks ago. Shamans each had about 700 spelldamage (main slightly higher) and we started to feel like we were doing better. We are still struggling with teams who come in and heavily AoE the team (mages are a pain!), but both me and my partner were happy to end a week with the higher points generated with a 1600 rating.

Last week was awful, as we fought the same team 5 times in a row and lost them all. They are only rated 1650 or so, but the team makeup was:

Holy Priest
Resto Druid
Resto Shaman
MS Warrior
Warlock

Basically three healers and 2 DPS. I couldn't burst down anyone. If I selected the Warrior or Warlock, they got enough heals that killing them was damn near impossible. If I attacked a healer, they bolted for the hills as soon as the first volley landed. We did kill the Warrior once, but the resto shammy rezzed him from behind the Ruins of Lorderon tomb (I got AoE feared for just long enough to prevent me from going over to stop him). They basically outlasted our mana. I have no idea what we'd do differently to beat them.

Anyway, dropped back down to 1550 rating as a result.

All of the team is now at 360+ enchanting, so average spell damage went up. I think the team is now at 750,735,735,755. We're hoping for better draws this week to regain our rating and start pushing towards 1700.