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Noob Shaman: instancing as Ele
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Post by
esplode
I never did dungeons at lower levels on my shaman, but you're playing elemental fine so your problems should just go away as you level up. That's probably just due to weirdness with how some of the numbers scale at lower levels.
And having a resto dual spec is definitely nice if you enjoy healing in dungeons since it shares gear with elemental, but it's by no means necessary.
Post by
shipwreck
Flame Shock may pull aggro depending on the tank. Earth shock will almost definitely pull aggro unless a capable tank is focused on that target.
I would guess that your tanks were focusing only on one enemy at a time and might have only hit other enemies with one AoE attack if at all.
Searing totem may pull threat on a non-focus target, which isn't a big deal.
Is the healer getting attacked by enemies? The tank's first priority should be to use an ability that hits all the enemies (or tab-targeting through each enemy) to prevent the healer from getting aggro. After that, he should quickly choose a focus target for the DPS to whale on. Of course, it helps to do this before the pull, but for low-level content, it's very uncommon to be organized or methodical.
Many times, the tank can simply use AoE abilities on cooldown while tabbing through targets to hit any that he/she might have missed, and DPS can use their AoE rotations (which includes applying DoTs like Flame Shock to each target).
If they don't, there should be at least one target on which you can apply Flame Shock, though it might not be worth it if it dies too quickly. With the default UI, it should show your threat percentage over an enemy's health bar beside the target portrait. If there is no number there, then you have no threat against that target or it's at less than 1% enemy's current target. However, early during a pull, you can easily go from zero to 200% depending on the actions of other players.
As esplode said, it will probably work itself out as you level.
Post by
Sephrain
A big thing to note with really low level dungeons (15- mid 20s) is that most tanks don't have an AoE yet. Paladins don't have hammer of the righteous (iirc), warriors dont have thunder clap. Tanking at that level is very difficult because you have very few attacks and most are on a CD. Once you hit 22-25; they get a LOT easier.
edit: i never played a druid tank so i can't speak to that end
Post by
marklartank
searing totem pulls threat? lol, that's not your fault.
just focus damage on the tank's target for now until they get some more abilities. it will get better.
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Post by
GreatePier
At lower levels, tactics hardly apply at all. If you have a group of people who all wear Heirloom gear, most if not all Vanilla content gets vaporized before anything even vaguely resembling a rotation comes up. For BC content it seems to take a little longer to kill trashpacks and bosses, but for Wrath content things can turn for the worse again. A few days ago I had the "pleasure" of tanking Azjol Nerub with a L80 Shammy healer. He was decked out with twinking gear from Pandaria (ilvl409 and the like). He just zerged bosses and trash down before anyone could even run in to attack. Only the Hunter could get a decent amount of damage in.
In general, I'd say instances aren't really too well balanced anymore. The tank only really seems to be an issue when you don't have heirlooms, but as long as everyone keeps attacking and healing, it doesn't really seem to matter who has agro, you'll survive ... if your healer is awake that is.
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