You were talking about Kael plate house. I never talked about it lol.
Blast of Poison is only useful if you want a nuke against ice immune mobs. In Kael your DoTs will tick longer because the mobs have more HP. I have done plenty of platehouse on my Shaman hehe.
Again, you are assuming the group is pulling mobs non-stop. That is not going to be the case in a higher level area. A Shaman will have time in-between encounters to recover mana lol. You are not going to be killing 70 mobs in an hour in Sebilis with a group, unless you are running from camp to camp and the zone is completely empty.
Your idea of resistances doesn't make sense. If the group is fighting a bunch of mobs with heavy resistances, then your Enchanters may not have any mobs to charm lol. What zone/camp are you thinking of where the Enchanters are able to charm good pets, while the other casters are unable to land any damage spells consistently, while they are killing mobs every 20 seconds?
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Your DPS number is NOT accurate lol. You need to learn how to do basic DPS calculations.
If you are killing a mob in 24 seconds, you would use 2x Ice Strikes. That is 1350 / 24 = 56.25 DPS for 500 mana. 14 second cast time.
If you are killing a mob in 40 seconds, you would use Bane + E-Bolt. That is 5 ticks from Bane and 4 ticks from E-Bolt for a total of 150 + 110 + 1070 + 584 = 1914 /40 = 48 DPS for 750 mana. 12 second cast time.
The Shaman Pet is doing around 10-15 DPS. A Shaman is easily putting out 60-70 DPS against single targets, and has better mana sustainability than a Mage.
Remember, a Mage is putting out 80 DPS assuming perfect conditions (using nothing but nukes). The real DPS number is closer to the 70s.
If you want to include clickies, a mage is increasing their DPS by 18 if they get Boots of the Bladecaller. A Shaman can easily output that much DPS with JBB/Epic if necessary. There really is only about a 30 DPS gap between Shamans and Mages at best, and at worst it's around 10.