Elemental Shammie DPS Optimization and Recount

I use recount as a diagnostic tool and avoid the DPS games that are
all too common in raids these days (e.g. camping the boss, unnecessary
AOEing mobs instead of DPS the boss).

I have had the sense that my DPS was lower than it show relative to
comparably equipped people. Today, ran the weekly (Naxx,
Plaguebringer) with two other shammies. We knocked the boss down
before he had a chance to teleport.

The recount results were puzzling.

Me: GS over 2900
Sham2: GS: 2478

Recount reports:
Me: DPS 6795, Damage 560K
Sham2: DPS: 7764, Damage 613K
(Opposite of how it reported the totals for the fight--completely
different values)

So I am wondering what I am doing wrong. So I copied all the recount
data for the fight to a spreadsheet. When I add up all the damage I
get:

Me: 509K
Sham2: 479K

Adding the damage from each spell comes to a different sum than what
Recount reports for the entire battle.

** Why might Recount be reporting the figures differently? **

Even if these figures are correct, it seems there ought to be a much
greater disparity in damage.

These are the base stats:

Sham2 Me
SP 2434 2710
HIT 212 342
Crit 15.04 19.32
Haste 556 686

Both are identically spec 57/14/0
I have Glyphs of Lava, Flameshock and Lightning Bolt
He has Glyphs totem of wrath, flametongue weapon and lighning bolt

Oddities that stood out:

Counts of spells in the battle:

Lightning 45 42
CL 34 32
LaveB 6 7
ThunderS 5 0
Fire Nova 6 0
FS 3 5
I did not use Thunderstorm and Fire Nova because I was away from the
pack.

That said, I was casting as fast as I could and had no delay getting
into the fight. However, the other Shammie has gotten of 13 more
spells. 9 of those are instant cast---but they still take time.

** How could there be such a disparity in the number of casts? **

My LavaB Crit rate was 100%, his was 16.7%
My My Lightning crit rate was 40.5% his was 35.6%
However my CL crit rate was 28.1% and his was 50%

Obviously he was not keeping his FS up. However, if you look at just
chain lightning and lightning bolt, he was criting 41% of the time. I
was criting 35% of the time, in spite of my having a 28% higher crit
rating.

**What would account for this inversion of crit rates between LBolt
and CL? **

The flight lasted less than 110 secs (Noth was dead before getting to
Phase 2).

Recount lists him throwing off 5 thunderstorms in a 2 minute fight.
There's a 45 sec. CD on thunderstorm. It should take a minimum of 180
seconds to get that many off.



My rotation in a multi-target fight like this is:
Keep Flame Shock Up.
Use Chain Lightning whenever available
Use Lava Burst whenever available.
Use Lightning bolt to fill in the gaps.



So, are there any elemental shammie experts who might explain this
all?
(Can supply more data if necessary.)
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Relevant Pages

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