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[ysobel]

Switched to ele, ran a heroic. Unpracticed (I kept forgetting about Elemental Mastery and Earthquake and stuff) I had 5411 -- not perfect, but way better than I'd done as enh. And it was above the tank. Who did yell at me to dps harder, but he also yelled at the healer because of an abrupt stop of heals (because he went out of the healer's los and the healer got swarmed by adds) so whatever.

And I was in my heal gear! I haven't even gotten proper ele gear. So. Yeah.

I think I want to tweak the spec a bit, if for no other reason than to grab Fulmination -- when I'm soloing my lightning shield charges go down faster than they go up, but in groups I kept ending up with 9 charges, no way to manually discharge them, and a need to switch to water shield for mana -- but this will work fine.

Comments

[niqaeli]

It seems like 5.5-6k IS enough for a heroic if everyone does their job and doesn't fuck up a lot. I mean, more is always good, but not dying or causing the healer a lot of PITA is more important than doing more on the DPS meters, I think. My guild run of heroic Stonecore was going fine on the trash pulls (well, once we wiped twice on the first pull and figured out what we needed to be doing on them) -- we just wiped on the first boss a few times and the tank wasn't having a good day so wasn't up to sticking with it. And my guild is NOT super-powered awesome high-level gear, you know? As I recall, I was topping the charts at... not more than 7k, honestly.

Also, I think it'd help if people generally took a chill pill. The freaking out and sniping actually just makes it all worse, you know?

[ysobel]

/nod/ Part of the reason I'm okay with that level of dps is that I wasn't just solidly dpsing -- I was interrupting the fuck out of everything (like, say, channeled life drain spells on the tank) and throwing in occasional healings to help the healer.

And totally agree on the chill pill thing. It's why I like running with guildies. Even if we wipe fifty times (hi, still scarred from heroic TotT) we don't get mad at each other or whatever. You can get a cool pug, but you can also get uptight must-be-zomg-perfect asses (and also complete idiots who don't know how to follow instructions)

[helens78]

Yay interrupting spells! And +1 to both of you on people needing to chill out.

[asciident]

Here's the basic ele spec

sounds like you did pretty well :)

[helens78]

Oo, that's what I've got for elemental, only I have Reverberation instead of Convection. It always makes me feel better when my gut instinct puts me relatively close to the same page as common wisdom. *g*