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Originally Posted by Valen
Silly raiding without enhancement shamans in my opinion.
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Not really.
Enchancment shamans provide additional dps to the following classess:
Rogues, DPS warriors, DPS druids, themselves.
Elemental shamans add dps to the following classess:
Mages, Warlocks, Shadow priests, Moonkin Druids, Themselves.
In terms of their raid buffing potential it is a case of comparing:
10% AP to your rogues and tanking warriors.
3% hit, 3% crit to ALL your magic DPS.
Further, Bloodrage also helps magic DPS more than melee DPS more, because it only affects the white DPS of rogues, while mages, locks, moonkin, and shaman use less instants. So I would say that the elemental shaman comes out ahead unless his personal DPS was WAY behind the enhancements DPS.
Also, the Resto shaman can still drop windfury and SoE totems, but not totem of wrath. So an enhancement shaman is more readily replaceable in that sense.