DPS Shammy

[catholicism198]

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Good luck with that.
Best you could hope for is fluffier numbers.

Actually you can achieve decent (not great, just decent) spikes by applying Debuffs first, although this does make the rotation longer than other classes. However, with the lack of Strikethough tactics you will find such spikes being Disrupted too much.

Yes, adding Strikethough will only pad DOT damage, but some of that is necessary for lifetapping which is clearly dead now due to Disrupts and DOT changes.

I find the DPS Shaman to be in weakest state since the very beginning of WAR itself (but the healing Shammy is in a good place). Couple this with the extraordinary buffs to WLs (its nemesis) and you have an untenable situation. Hence I am playing my AM now .

So you only do 'decent' damage by wasting several GCDs?
At best you'll do decent support damage, but nothing serious. It would work for more of a support role if they buffed Gork's Barbs by reducing it's CD and making it so that it damages the person getting healed instead of the healer...weakest healing debuff in game so far- especially for a 10 point mastery.

It's smart to roll an Arch Mage if you want to go DPS. I have a White Lion and I can face roll everyone in t1 so far.

Is there any good non SC dps weapon for Shaman? Subj? Gunbad? Gutslime?

There are the Quest ones, but not as good as SC. The Subj ones I have gotten were for Heals.

I never understand why... Tanks get Sub- two-hand weapons for their off-specs but not healers?

[Acidic]

Is it even a thing now, was hard before the disrupt change but now i don’t even belive enough to take my shammy out of his hole.

[Unstoppable1776]

A dps shammy has a place in ICONICs 6 man, we are looking for a range dps.