Thanks for the community and DPS rotation?

[Vyndree]

Reading (and searching) these forums a lot has been invaluable yet I have a couple of questions some one might be able to help with.

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My shammys in PVE (Dungeons) when I DPS are oom so fast, I use a CL,LB,LB,LB,CL rotation.
Is there a better rotation? I have a lock who finishes the fight on ¾ mana full and my shammys were oom or nearly oom after trash pulls?

FYI:- Tankadin, Shammys x 3, Lock x 1 lvl 40. (took a lock because I wasn’t sure I wanted to raid end game with my guild with a shammy)
Am I missing so much by having the Lock? Is it worth power levelling a 4th shammy to fit the mix? As I will PVP with them as well as Heroics?

For an elemental shammy PvE dps, chain lightning is never effective. Just spam lightning bolt unless you are doing an AoE pull (in which case you lay AoE totems and chain lightning when available).

Make sure water shield is always up, mana spring totem, high lightning bolt crit rate (shoot for 30% after talents to start with).

Don't compare the shammy to a lock -- shammies are more like a mage without mana gems/evocate. You will need to bring mana pots if you're undergeared for your instance (I typically use the combat mana pots with the BG tokens that I have extra of. You can carry a stack of combat mana pots per BG token type). If your resto shammy is the healer, use mana tides early enough in the fight so that you could potentially use two of them in long fights.

The lock should do fine, but remember that locks are dot classes and shammies are burst classes. They don't exactly have the same role. So either one or the other will likely suffer a bit in dps since lots like to dot up all targets and shammies typically focus fire them down one at a time.

Just an FYI -- take a look at some of my pally + 4 shammy videos around level 40. You'll notice most of them I'm going OOM. This is common. Shammies at low levels just don't have any good way to regen mana. Things change with water shield -- they change TREMENDOUSLY. Just hang in there, you're at the rough spot (pre-60) for ele shammies.