Well, it is hard to figure out how much help you're doing even with parses because you have to break it down quite a bit. The general rule of thumb is: shaman help melee DPS. But how much? Well, that depends on the melee you are helping. If they suck and dont use their discs to line up with epic click and 3rd spire, you are losing quite a bit of DPS. Now, with a good melee DPS, the attributable DPS increase to whatever the shaman is doing spikes when they line things up right. And THAT is my biggest complaint. Our DPS is VERY VERY VERY situational. If we are not in a good situation, the DPS we can do is almost negligible. I dont know about the rest of you, but I RARELY found myself in the best of all situations where my DPS contribution would be at it's most useful. I do the best I can in the situations I find myself in. And in a less than ideal situation of a mostly caster group our DPS contributions are horrid. That is why I want some sort of DPS for US that we can use in ALL situations that would be worth doing.
And for the record, yes, ego does come into play for some people on this topic. For me, it is not so much ego as wanting to feel useful in all situations. That is why I gave the fixes I did. I dont think many of them are OMG powerful that will boost our DPS by a huge amount. Just something to make me feel useful is all. That is all I really want
"Sometimes you have to face your demons, sometimes the demon is you." - Yesak Demunstorm