FIrst official 3.1 preview

[Swiss Mercenary]

He did the equivalent of 40k damage in 8 seconds Artega, he was bubbled when he did that. Think about that again. This is not 19k damage at full damage, this is 19k damage at half damage, ie 38k damage. This is no buffs outside his own and he pulled off the equivalent 5k raid DPS (which normally takes full raid buffs). This is why people are screaming about Ret Pallies and Arcane Mages.

Crits happen. Resilience makes the above extremely unlikely. I can't say I've ever experienced a 8-second 38K damage burst from a ret paladin. Then again, 800 resil (And the fact that the paladin would have to be wearing paper to hit that hard) may have something to do with that.

I can drop 14-17k Holy Light crits that fill up someone's HP from almost nothing to almost full, and I can do it in under one second if I've got Light's Grace and Infusion of Light running on top of base Haste and Judgements of the Pure.

Wouldn't it be nice if shamans had competitive healing throughput... But I suppose that'd be too much to ask for.