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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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Thanks for the compliment!
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. Simply bringing more DPS is not always the answer to an efficient group.
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For a large portion of this thread you were claiming that a Shaman could out-DPS a Mage in a 4 man, all-caster/priest group (as per the title of the thread).
But as your very own video clearly shows, a Shaman cannot come close to putting out Mage DPS because he is too busy doing all the other things a Shaman
has to do in order to be efficient and bring value to the group: slow, Torpor, canni, spot heal, malo, and in this case, tank and pull.
Again, no one is saying that Shamans are not a powerful class, and that they do not add value and utility to certain group compositions (as you did in this trio). But these are simple facts:
1) Shamans are not a group DPS class, and will never out-DPS a Mage on group content
2) Shamans, while a powerful class in their own right, do not fit into every group composition, and become largely redundant in the presence of an Enchanter/Cleric duo that does not benefit from the Shaman's unique strength of combining slows, heals, and slow/steady DPS in one package