[Shaman] DPS nerfed to the ground

[gotharg]

Hi, it was the purpose? to take dps shamans from game?
Dps now is very low, got 820 intelligence + 102 from Get'n Smarter + 25% dmg tactic / 23% crit and in SC my dps is about 1/4 of top single target dps while im debuffing and doting all i can and focusing squish targets. No dps = no heal.
Survivability is very low too. Got 2 detaunts + 3th from tactic all useless after recent change breaking by any dot.
Armor/Tough/Wound talis dont help much.
Another nerf: QE + RUN AWAY dont stack.
Disrupt...
On live shaman dps was harmful for tanks, now its literally LOL.
Again, how its good idea to force dps healer to grind SC for gear? How its good for others in sc?
Tank can solo kill 2-3 dps now and its ok bc its not 1vs1 balance so convenient slogan to nerf or make OP any class.

[Foomy44]

Yeah Shamans aren't in a great spot compared to most other DPS atm. Disrupt/dot changes hurt them harder than most classes IMO, the disrupt rates are crazy and detaunt obviously lost a lot of it's usefulness. Broken mechanic definitely doesn't help. I'm finding focusing on stacking disrupt strikethru gear and int (for more strikethru) from set bonuses is a lot more important than your crit rate (who cares how hard you hit if you can't ever hit your target). I've also basically had to give up on getting a good amount of Deft Defender or Futile strikes until I'm very high RR since I need to use my renown points to boost my intelligence even higher (literally the only class I feel forced to blow renown on stat points over DD and FS). I'm still doing ok in SC's atm but I have to work my ass off, run from everything, beg people for guard, and still take insults all day long about how every loss is my fault for not healing and for playing a gimp spec (regardless of how I perform that match, that's what happens). If a geared WH or a WL even looks at me I'm already dead without help, and I've been solo'd down by an embarrassing amount of tanks. Comparing this experience to my White Lion is like night and day, I can stumble around drunk on Catnap spamming about 3 buttons, picking targets at random cuz I can 1v1 anything and no class gives me huge evasion issues, not caring if I get surrounded by enemies because I'm a tanky dps with great regen and an aoe detaunt that isn't rendered useless if I was attacking the enemy 2 seconds ago and dominate 90% of my small scale encounters, it's a pretty insane difference.

If you wanna see your damage go up best advice I can give is up INT as high as you can (all tali slots, most renown points, double 2 piece gear set bonus), and ignore all tanks and healers (real fun for a dps class to be useless against that many classes). Also try to keep your enemies ele debuffed at all times, I use both our ele debuff mastery abilities, it helps a ton.

[Kurama]

I wouldn't bother farming scs emblems as dps. Just go heals, it's way faster.

For orvr id recommend duoing with another dps shammy, it's tons of fun and you can kill lots.

[oioigitface]

Summon peterpan aka jono

[Telen]

Its the second avoidance check on dots. Puts dots even further behind dd classes. Do your sanity a favour and just reroll a dd class.

[Reesh]

Without capping int to 1050 don't even bother, with 800ish int your dots and insta dmg skills are getting disrupted left and right.

[Stinkyweed]

It's easy to do just follow these steps
One - cut a hole in a box
Two - put your gobbo in that box
Three - make Order open the box
And that's the way you do it

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One - drop some offense for some healing, more balanced build
Two - find a gobbo herder, duo, and assist
Three - make Order open the box

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Both doing damage, enough heals for correcting minor mistakes with positioning and pre-kiting, and allows you both to take a little more risk. You probably prefer to play the solo game, but assisting is the key for downing targets. I play glass cannon and usually solo, and it tough against any form or organization...we can't all be WLs or VolgoNerd / MkNerd duo'ers.

[Ugle]

U need domi + merc + duelist int bonus

[gotharg]

Why duo? best atm is to find 23 ppl so you can semi afk follow them sometimes full afk and brainless spam 2-3 skills FTW

[Stinkyweed]

Do you then...