Originally Posted by Rhaegal
Again, another anecdotal suggestion: a long time ago I got annoyed with the group composition I was seeing, so I did a lot of research on group/raid synergies between all classes, and made it known that I was a good guild resource for information like that. The raid leaders started putting me in charge of organizing groups, switching people around for bloodlusts, etc. If it really bothers you, and you wouldn't mind taking on a little extra work, talk to your raid leader about it and see if you can become a little more involved. It's definitely constant extra work, though; in addition to being familiar with just about every class's buffs/etc., you have to know what spec everyone in the raid is, down to which DPS warrior has 5/5 commanding presence, which (for whatever reason) only put a couple points in it, which shaman has better totem uptime, etc. It's pretty rewarding, though, when you can put together a perfect melee or caster group and see how much the raid improves as a result.
Also, as a shaman, call people out if you know they're doing it wrong. Our job isn't to show up, hit stuff until it's dead, and go home. It's to enhance the abilities of everyone in our groups to the best of our ability, to the betterment of the raid as a whole. We can't do that if they're lazy and uninformed. On the other hand, if the warrior wanted to DPS without Windfury, all hope is probably lost for him already...
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