Ok all this 5man stuff is your problem. You are not going to shine in a 5man without all the support from the other classes you get in a raid. Just push it out of your head that you need to be the shining star of a 5man. Am I sometimes top DPS in one? Sure. But not always. The real question you should be asking is why are you having to pug heroics and not getting guild support for gear you need.

Well, getting a better OH will help considerably. Aim for the Boggspine Knuckles or save up for another gladiator's axe. Your stats are pretty good considering your gear. In 5 mans, im pretty much #1 or very close to the #1 person in dps depending on the situation. Plus, you don't really need CC. There are some heroics with casters or healers that you can burn down fast by yourself and require minimal healing. Knowing what you can 'off-tank' is something you'll have to figure out.

If you're barely pulling agro from a tank auto-attacking, wait a few seconds before you start. If that doesn't help, then your tank is considerably undergeared or doesn't know how to tank (like sunder spamming).

Hey, for the record, I spent a LONG time farming mats for the Fel Edged Battleaxe, only to find out a week later that this piece of crap does more damage. I'm not happy about it, but what can you do?

In my experience you are limited in Heroics as many have said here. Your ideal situation is going to be with a Paladin for Salvation, and then a Tankadin or Feral tank. They have higher mutli target threat gen, so typically speaking they will give you more room to open up after the first mob is down. Your threat generation is your biggest issue.

To modify that keep in mind you can decrease some of your casts which have no talented threat modifier and you can avoid using SR at threat sensitive times. Also trade your threat out to other mobs if you have 2+ targets alive. Switch targets for 2-4 seconds once a tank has established agro to drop a couple of hits on another target before switching back to the main kill target. It will allow you to drop additional dps without running your threat cap at all times. It's the same concept as Locks dropping dot's on other mobs in the fight.

Sadly, I am an Ex-Enhancement Shaman who respec'd to Elemental. My totem was poor, and I had a poor trinket as well. But everything else was damn good recently. Got my T5 helm, DW'ing Decapitator and Netherbane, etc... But I found 2 problems I did not know what to do about. I was threat capped on any mob that was a "trash" mob. I could only truly open up on bosses. And also, without the tools that Rogues have available, I had serious survivability issues. But even with doing everything I found on average I could not consistently ever stay in the top 5 dps in raids. Which is reflected in 5 man heroics as well where you don't get as much support or buffs from your raid members.

But I can tell you this as an upside. I typically in a raid was grouped with 3 rogues. Breaking down the % of their damage that was WF alone and nothing else, that total damage added into my total *always* put me in the top 3 dps on every raid. Enhancement is aptly name, because a lot of your role is involved with enhancing your party.

If you want to have the high numbers for *just you* then go Elemental. If you wanna really help the raid with the Rogues, then Enhancement is 100% solid. But you'll have to live with your threat cap and deal with it. As far as Resto...if you're Enhancement I imagine you want to be dps...so I'll leave that be.

If you can't live with your personal numbers being lower and being a support dps role, then you may need to readdress your class and/or spec. As Enhancement, 5 man runs will never be your strong point. Soloing and Raids are where you shine, and you shine as a support dps role.