Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=127753#po st127753
Quote Originally Posted by 'Niley',index.php?page=Thread&postID=127165#post12 7165
Its not needed at all, i have done every heroic out there, without a resto shaman.
In fact, I believe that loss of elemental would make them harder, I'm geared to the point now that I can usually kill a boss with zero to maybe 1 heals on me(of course not all bosses, but some).
My girls had been same spec for months now
/sigh

Your tank is in heavy raid gear. You are severely outgearing Heroics. Your group formula is not going to work for most people here. Please don't misslead other was these kinds of posts.
Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=128061#po st128061
Quote Originally Posted by 'Niley',index.php?page=Thread&postID=128003#post12 8003
Except i dinged 70 on 3 shamans and pally 4 weeks ago, and started doing heroic with pally having 11.7k hp and 487 defense, shamans had less then 400 spl damage. Started with sp/bot/mana tombs/ub, and did them just fine, i also opted in for every kara my guild did, and some pug gruul/mag, getting badges and gearing them up.
I was getting on average 12 badges a day, while my pally is raid geared right now, in my guild to run alt bt/hyjal you need gear, without at least all badge gear You wont be accepted into the run.
Being able to do them and "I can usually kill a boss with zero to maybe 1 heals on me(of course not all bosses, but some)" are two completely different things. Your initial post was misleading and not relevant to the subject and I am raising the bullshit flag.
I raise a prick flag. So Fur 4 shaman and 1 paladin isn't a good group formula?

I would also like to say that you "can usually kill bosses with zero heals" with 5 elemental shamen. Not every boss is going to be like this. When I am having problems with bosses I generally think well how can I raise my dps not cut it by 1/5th by having a toon heal.