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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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Your DPS in that video is absolutely terrible. You're pulling, slowing, tanking and healing while casting the occasional nuke.
This is literally what everyone has been telling you for the past 400+ pages: Shamans are great at doing the things you did in that video, and you do a commendable job playing efficiently. But they are not a group DPS class. Thank you for providing evidence toward that fact.
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Thanks for the compliment!
You need to realize I was playing with two players who weren't as experienced, and not even level 60. I am not complaining either, they did great! It was a really fun group.
For context, I was keeping an Enchanter alive when they didn't use Rune at all, or have Bedlam. Of course my DPS is going to be lower. This is what I was saying by group conditions changing things. The Enchanter and Necromancer were doing lower DPS as well, due to being lower level. They had a bunch of charm breaks. That doesn't mean Charm DPS is bad.
And you keep misunderstanding my arguments. I didn't say Shamans were a group DPS class. I said they do decent enough DPS in an efficient group, and can increase DPS with root/rotting if the group is just XPing. The utility a Shaman brings to the group is non-trivial, as I demonstrated in the video. Simply bringing more DPS is not always the answer to an efficient group.
As for why I chose to use Ice Strike, it is because I wanted to prove the point that my previous DPS video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XwiGKTuu2E was valid. It used Ice Strike as the example. This rebuts the claim that solo videos cannot be used to show how DPS works in a grouping scenario. This shows that the people who were trolling for 100s of pages did so for no reason.