wow all of a sudden you are on my side now? just reading through the thread generally makes me assume you are a type of person that just loves to spam threads with meaningless gibberish and what not.
and yeah i compared my dps for this weeks brut, 1980DPS, 20 more to break 2k. but kinda different since now i have 4 LW's in party instead of 3 from last week. not really sure how much DPS that contributes though.
since all of you (especially quazsmlj) is so suddenly interested in melee shaman mechanics i'll try to explain the best i can:
i know what can be improved for my dps, its the timings for shocks, totem twisting, stormstrike cooldown and as well as wf cooldown.
thing is, for optimum dps u shouldnt be stormstriking whenever the cd is up, that just adds 2 extra yellow hits. trick is to wait for the wf cd to finish and then SS. sounds simple? yea it is. Now, add in shocks. fine, this is simple enough, just shock whenever you can. Now, add totem twisting. Now this is an important variable to consider, as GoA is a significant boost to my own dps (about 4ish % crit) and as AP/crit for rest of the party members, but under the condition that wf buff must be constantly refreshed (ideally every 10 secs).
Now this is where it gets harder, imagine u open with flame shock (6 seconds cd) then SS, followed by totem planting. Usually for me, latency is affecting my dps here, as by the time i finish totem planting, my shock cd was already few seconds off. so thats no optimum dps. SS cd is incoming, but in the last 2 secs, wf procs, so i hold on SS, i twist GoA/WF in the meantime, by then, again, i missed my WF cd by a few seconds, more dps wasted.
well, you get the picture. im on constant gcd because i have several cd's to manage all in the span of 6-12 secs.
i had to hold off shocking or stormstriking just so i can press my drums. so this is a question i would want to ask the asian latency shamans, how do u get more dps, and at the same time buff your group in the optimum way possible? This is not something i can ask the players playing from the states etc, they simply dont have this problem. how else would they be able to do 2.2k on brut?
Granted, this is not all about latency though. all i wanted from this thread was to know more shamans (not many in my server, and usually, dont have a clue) so i thought, what the hell, why not start a discussion here and have some heart to heart serious discussion on the mechanics of the class and how could it be improved. Theres a lot of progressed asian guild members hanging around here so might be a good place to start.
but then again, this thread is kinda meaningless to me already, too much spam to derive anything good from it anyways. i thank you people who tried to get this post back on track, but i guess (as someone said already), this is LYN forums. i'll go back to researching EJ threads.
o btw, JoW on bosses give me more than enough mana to twist continuously. If the pally is too busy healing, i pop a mana pot, and blow my sham rage cd, which fills back my mana bar from 0-100% in less than 10 secs. (1k mana ticks ftw). Usually on brut i pop SR twice, plus JoW, mana spring and water shield. Longest period of time where i just sit back and auto attack? 3secs.
ps: whats TS? someone care to enlighten me?
pss: authority if thats you, i hope u get killed more in AoC. that said, come back to WoW please =/