I, too, have read the EJ post that recommends clipping Flame Shock to Lava Burst ASAP.

DPS is very competitive. Which is good when you think you have room to improve. Fortunately I can recognise all the little mistakes in my performance when they happen – so I’m always eager to try again (after a wipe) in the hopes that I’ll make less mistakes.

Somehow even with my rotation perfect and on a fight with little movement I’m still below everyone else in the guild, I always feel like I’m at my limit of what I can pull in my gear, but then I see other ele shammies in similar or lower gearscore (yea i know it’s poor indication of actual gear level) pulling similar or better.

As a healer on the other hand, I almost never feel inferior, even against healers that far outgear me, especially when compared with other resto shamans. Sometimes I get the feeling that there’s a lot more that I can personally do to push my healing above an average player’s: I can set up better raid frames, click-casting, hots/debuff monitor as well as knowing my spells and utilising more than just my Chain Heal. While as ele there’s really not much I can do to significantly push my dps.

Btw as for clipping FS, from what I’ve read, it’s better to clip it early than to be late with a LvB. Can’t be bothered to dig it back up but I saw it either on EJ or MMO-Champs.

Blizzard promised me I would be the king of AoE, so I am damn well going to use it.

Don’t worry… the one with the mark on it’s head will be in there somewhere… while the other 9 run straight at me.

Only pause between casts if you are coming back from the fridge with a new beer.

Spell Queuing tip:
Pre-press the key you know you are going to press to unleash havoc.

A Pressed (and held) key does not set of the spell… releasing the key does.
It is much faster to lift your finger off the key like you just got burnt than to find it and press it.

Chain lightning should be used at every possible opportunity, even when Resto… it’s looks pretty (bloody awesome)!
.-= Gnomeaggedon’s last blog … I don’t have time right now… =-.

When I DPS it’s often about figuring out how to do the most DPS possibly, then perfecting it. It stops being as challenging and interesting when I’m past the figuring out part.

Playing a healer feels a lot less static. I’m constantly making decisions on the fly and no fight is the same. Even though a fight goes smoothly it doesn’t feel the same as it did the last time I did it. As a DPS it feels almost identical when you’ve figured out the most efficent way of doing the fight. There’s a lot less improvisation involved.

That said, I love doing both and I’m not trying to slag anyone. DPS just tends eventually grow old, while I’m constantly being challenged as a healer. For someone else, things might be the other way around.

Sacrificing ToW for fire ele is ok if there isnt 5 mages/warlocks who are going to qq
I usually run with a demo lock so keep searing down great dps boost hehe

Since shadow priests are pretty hard to dps as though, so I’m not surprised that Lath had trouble, since there’s soo many dots and cooldowns to monitor. On the other hand, Hunters and Ret Paladins are easy peasy to play, since they are just a priority system, thus you just hit each ability once it’s off cooldown

Lath is one of those. Yes, poor Lath.