Updated: You elitist so-in-so can shove it...
February 16th, 2010
Category: General
Update: Enhancement Shamans were given low health by Blizzard... thanks a lot
...you can play for fun, you know....
In heroic Forge of Souls. Glaive was the healer. Guess what, no one died, more specifically, I didn't die, though I had to heal myself once in a while. Which makes me wonder if my HP is really that low or if these healers just can't keep up.
He complained after we beat the final boss. I just feel like I'm another body to whack things. I'll drop my wolves and they're another party member. How can you complain about that? So we're not killing the guys in 10 seconds, so what.
By 'go ele' he means Elemental which is just another dps or something spec. But with enhancement, I get duel wield and Feral Spirit, which is my ghost wolves. So suck it. At least I enjoy playing (yea yea, despite what I said about loosing interest, I'm still playing nearly every day, but it's winter, what else am I going to do?)
I like the spec I play, I know what I'm doing, yeah my weapons are still greens, but I can't seem to find any one-hand maces that have better damage. Why is that? Even purple maces have crap damage rating.
But at least he spelled my name correctly and, for the most part, didn't use any shorthand, so at least it's not some 12 year-old snot-nosed butthole. "Helpful with a side of snark" as my friend put it.
I'll admit, when it comes to armor and I see something purple with a better armor rating than what I have and I'll need roll for it. I don't know about stats, other than mana regeneration.
I probably fall into the "fail 80" category, but I really don't care. I don't care about gear, I only started running heroics because my boyfriend convinced me to. And since it's apparently the only way to get any better gear....
Which begs the question, how do I get more HP or more DPS? Is better gear the only thing to boost it? I checked my HP last night, it's about 17,100 something. I guess that's fairly low... but what am I supposed to do?
/sigh. I try not to let it get to me and at the same time it got to me. Maybe everyone in all the other heroics I've ran just don't say anything. Who knows. He's the only one that's said anything to me.
Greedy Goblin can do it in blues, so piss off.
-Marree
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In all fairness, that is pretty low. And he wasn't being a total jerk about it. When I am running heroics, I am usually doing 30-50% of total party dps, and am usually doing 4500+. Since most heroics are tuned to party dps of 4500-5000, that means I don't need any other dps. And despite greedy goblin's suggestion that I check out, I just want the run over ASAP. But it's still nice for you to show up for work. I'm randoms for badges, and since I'm rich, and geared, I'd rather see someone get a piece of gear than shard it. However, 400 dps pallys or 800 dps dk's are not doing their jobs. There is a minimal amount of dps that an ungeared 80 should do. I don't know what that is for shammy's, but for a pally or dk, it's 1500-2000 dps. If they are doing less, they either don't know their class/spec, or they aren't pushing buttons.
I don't really know what enhancement is for, I know our ele shaman are some top dps in the guild, and resto is for healing, of course. It may be worth it to read up on Elitist Jerks and make sure your spec is optimized, you're using the right rotation, etc.
When we did this with Luna, it improved her enjoyment of play quite a lot, and even though she doesn't like running instances much, her dps is quite respectable and no one gives her crap about it.