Infraction for Leachim: Grammar

Greybone · 07/10/07, 9:31 AM

Post: Enhance Shaman: The Collected Works of Theorycraft, Vol I
User: Leachim
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

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Id strongly advise against killing yourself on any encounter just to get a threat wipe. Suiciding by means of taking agro from the MT is the worst way to do this, as it brings many unforseen risks (turning the boss towards the raid, making it vulnerable for cleave-like attacks; transferring agro to ranged dps; nerfing the rage-building capacities of the mantank). But just dying on itself should never be the preferable solution.
First of all youre not rly increasing youre dps at all by dying. Being dead youre doing zero dps for starters, and in many encounters you cant 'just ankh' once dead, you have to wait for the right time so that you wont be insta killed again by some random boss-ability. So you have to wait for the right moment and contribute absolutely nothing dps-wise till that moment. Once ressed up youll have no buffs, have very little mana (and it would be very inefficient to calculate this into a SR-rotation), and low health. So you want to place the burden on paladins, druids, priests, mages, warriors to get you fully buffed again? Those buffs add considerably to your dps, its very doubtfull theyll be replaced fast when you suicided yourself.
But not only are you nerfing your own dps, more important even is that youre nerfing the dps of your melee group. With your suicide they lose their strength and windfury - the SINGLE reason youre in the raid in the first place: BEING DPS-SUPPORT. So what if youre hitting the agro-cap once a while, its irrelevant, the main goal of an enhancement shaman is to SUPPORT the MAIN-dps - not to be nr 1 in dmg themselves.
Finaly, the reason no shaman should ever waste an ankh just to clear his agro-table, is that ankhs serve primarily as a way to resurrect the raid should, by some mistake, the raid wipe and needs resurrection-recovery. Ankhs are a saveguard, a backup should something unforseen go wrong. Ankhs should be saved for emergencies, and there will allways be emergencies in encounters that matter. Using ankhs as agro-wipe can afterall only be needed in encounters where there are issues with getting high enough dps. Those encounters are generaly the hard ones, the ones youre still training on, the ones where youll want to save your ankh as EMERGENCY-BACKUP - becouse in those encounters there WILL be emergencies.

So imo there are way too many disadvantages to make a suicide-agro wipe attractive in any encounter. Id be interested if anyone can show me an encounter where this method would lead to significant increase in (overall) dps so that it would outweigh its many disadvantages