A mage in a fast paced high dps will put out 100-120 dps. With a good mana pool and some downtime between spawns you can keep it at the higher threshold by nuking more. And in spending that extra mana it gives you the time to med back to full each cycle it is fully sustainable.
DSM posted some videos of him soloing isolated mobs. He estimates 55dps which seems accurate for the single fights he did and what a shaman could do but did not actually ever join a fast moving high dps group to prove he could pull it off when competing with the rest of the group sustainably. How much would be time lost with canni and torpor not nuking? How much would that actually lower shaman dps? We don’t know because he has thus far refused to do it. If his mana pool is deep enough he didn’t have to canni and heal back up then sure its sustainable. But if it IS thusly sustainable … it just widens the gap. If you didn’t need to tap into shaman mana recovery you’re just playing a class that nukes for less with longer cast times and less mana efficiency.
You are effectively a washed out crappier than the mage paired with a terribly low dps pet compared to the buzz saw that is the mage pet.
No matter how you slice it … it is just a failure.
Shamans are not a group DPS class.
The group doesn’t need your utility.
This is not rocket surgery.
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