Do some damage: DPS is not a dirty word, even for those who have had some issues with the pewpew lust. Many raid encounters are DPS races and when a 10-man raid is rolling with three healers you are sacrificing a DPS for the safety of healing. Some times it will be need, if not required, for you as a healer to push out some damage when you can to beat that enrage timer. As a resto shaman here are the following recommendations for adding what DPS you can to your raid.
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Lighting Bolt Spam – Just like your elemental brothers, start going all emperor and toss out some bolts Shatner style.
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Flame shock/Lava Burts – The DoT of Flame Shock and the slow cool down of lava burst allow you to do some damage while still having times to keep an eye on health bars.
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Fire Totems – Searing totem for single target DPS and Fire Nova and Magma totems for AoE DPS.
Now, you are not going to be going all out and topping the DPS charts, but if healing is hand and your mana is manageable make sure to help out when you can.
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December 15, 2008 at 10:21 pm
drug
This man speaks the truth. Especially dropping a fire totem doesn’t hurt your healing at all. And HUGE buff to magma totem is incoming.
December 15, 2008 at 10:29 pm
jagerbombz
Granted loosing flametongue isn’t cool, but having a 10 man raid group that has 3 to 4 shamans keeps me from really being that worried about it.
So far the times I have really had to pump out any DPS is Noth the Plagur Bringer before he summoned the third set of adds and the boss in Wintergraps. That enrage timer is like a pressure cooker.
December 15, 2008 at 10:45 pm
drug
Actually I did only 2-3 bosses in 10 man Naxx. But in 25 man raiding I can’t remember the last time there was no elemental shaman around. So I don’t have to worry at all about flametounge as totem of wrath is always up. So I drop magma totem nearly all the time. Especially with the way trash is handled in Naxx with nearly no CC you’ll pump out quite a bit of damage over the evening.
Tonight on malgyos I tried to drop searing totem as much as possible. Thats 200k damage over a raid night. Not much. But quite ok for one global cooldown once in a while.