Originally Posted by Mindrila
Well I have a question concerning Archimonde. Right now I am quite new to the fight and I am the only enhancement shaman raiding. As survival seems to be the biggest problem for the raid I was put into the tankgroup for setting up grace of air and tremortotem.
Is this a wise choice of my RL or should I be put into the melee DPS group instead?
I'm not shure for myself but it didn't seem to be the problem that the tank dies but someone running into a doomfire or not having the parachute (hehe), so I would put me in the DPS group.
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Assuming the raid group is fairly balanced composition-wise(i.e. contains the usual caster dps group, melee dps group, healer group, etc), and only contains one enhancement shaman, I don't think it is ever a good idea to put that shaman in the tank group. I've put myself in the tank group for Gurtogg before, but I doubt it's even optimal for that encounter. Actually, the tank group is just plain the last group that should ever get a shaman. The only time I will give our tanks one is when we have five shaman in the raid.
Archimonde specifically is a melee friendly encounter. Enhancement shaman #1 should definitely be in the melee dps group. Melee dps shoulders most of the responsibility on that fight as far as actually doing damage to Archimonde. When we were learning the encounter we actually told all of our non-melee dps players that we didn't care if they did 0 dps as long as they didn't die. Tremor Totem and GoA for the MT on that encounter are both unnecessary. Even if they were necessary, a restoration shaman can provide both of them just as well. Why would the MT need Tremor Totem anyway, unless you're not using a warrior and have less than four priests in the raid? If you're using something silly like a Feral druid, I would probably put him in the following group(assuming you're twisting GoA/WF):
Rogue
Rogue
DPS Warrior
Feral Druid(MT)
Enhancement Shaman