I'm a boxer for starters and I play my toons are as follows:
War main - raid geared
Cleric (Necro on cleric account) - group and raid geared (Necro is really outdated)
Shammy - group geared (TBS mostly but some SoD group rots) 1100 aa's about to ding 85
When I box I prefer to have war/shammy/necro for 90% of what I do, which isn't all that much since my play time is limited to primarily and almost exclussively raiding.
I absolutely do NOT utilize my shammy well at ALL. I want to change that. My war doesn't require a lot of healing for what I do so I need to make my shammy more useful to my dps and this is why I came here for assistance.
I currently just slow, HoT, Lassitude (yes its outdated), Champion, Cougar and mix in Sting dd (yes outdated) on my shammy. I also click epic 2.0 when ever its ready. THAT IS IT!! My dps comes primarily from my craptastic necro and war. I don't use pet, swarm pets or any other aa's at this point. Don't ask me why because I really don't have a good answer for you. I get online and jump into my thing (atm progression for my trio or just war in FoS for now). I really don't spend anytime researching in game on what works best so I just do what I've been doing, which really isn't effective.
Is there some easy fixes or "holy crap I can't believe you dont use X" ideas out there that would benefit me?
Pets! I don't use pets because they drive me nuts when on my war since they tend to push (war does also) mobs out of range and then kill the pets. I know this isn't exactly smart but I'm just being honest here. I know they add a couple hundred dps if I'm lucky I think (still using SoF pet when I use but haven't in a year).
Spell lineup is:
Champ
Sting
Cougar
Slow (in case I have a lot of mobs that need slowed quickly)
HoT
Heal
Lassitude
Haste
Inv
Cani
I know its not ideal but its what I am accustomed to. Any idea's are appreciated!