I think I was the reason a WC run went south last night. My shaman dumps so much threat on target that the tank couldn’t keep stuff off me.
Problem is I’m unhappy with how low my DPS is. I want more DPS. Bigger numbers.
I’m currently using a 2h axe. I’m thinking I’m going to have to gimp myself with a mace and shield next time to try and lower my DPS so the tank can tank.
That seems really counter-intuitive though. Is this how things will be going forward? I’ll have my 2h axes for solo and have to pull out a board for dungeons?
Biggest thing would be to make sure you are hitting the tank’s main target. Ask him to skull his main target if he is not doing so already.
If you are already doing that, at least wait for a few sunders to be on the target before going all out.
Yeah that definitely sounds like you were not hitting the tank’s main target if you pulled with just an auto swing or two.
Either that or you had a really bad tank.
Make sure you aren’t using rockbiter or earthshock, don’t put down any of the fire totems that you can’t control which thing they hit. Turn off your dps meter and worry more about attacking just the tank’s target and let him get a couple sunders on it, don’t use a whirlwind axe.
problem is that enh shaman dps is LOW LOW LOW BUUUUUUUURRRSSST once you get whirlwind totem it will help the warrior tanks keep threat off you.
“Imbue the Shaman’s weapon, increasing melee attack power by 50 and allowing melee attacks to cause additional threat when using that weapon. Lasts for 5 minutes.”
" to cause additional threat when using that weapon. "
You front load a lot of damage, at that level a Warrior has jack crap to do until they have Rage. Wait. That’s all.
It gets better with levels as Warriors and Druids get more tools and better modifiers, but early on Rage is a massive pain in the butt and all you have to worry about are CDs and Mana.
Shamans were able to tank in vanilla 5 mans because rock biter weapon imbue and earth shock both have insanely high threat modifiers. You should never use these as a dps (unless you’re earth shocking to interrupt).
You can still use flametongue weapon enhancement as a dps and when you get windfury you can use that.
As a side note, rockbiter imbue actually works like warrior defensive stance. It increases all threat you do while you have it, not just the threat from your autoattacks if I understand it correctly.
There are other enchants you can use that do not add extra threat. Flametongue, frostbrand, windfury. stuff like that do not add extra threat like rockbiter does.