5 box 1CPU just got to 70 and starting to BG - advice please!

[Lazzadorabcd]

Hey guys

So I just recently got the team to 70. I have started to do BGs and I am getting my butt kicked. I have a team of shamans. Its just so hard to move them all fast when a rouge or warrior comes up to us.

Any advice for dealing with this? Or does it just take some practice???

I am using a G15 keyboard so I put the 2nd movement for each slave on those keybinding so i can move people individually - but its still pretty challenging.

Any advice that may help would be great!! Thanks!!

My gear is poop also which may be most of the problem - just takes too long to kill people sometimes.

[Hachoo]

after 3.0.2 thunderstorm really helps for rogues that want to stick to your butt. Or if you want to just kille veryone around you once every 3 minutes, make a macro to use elemental mastery + thunderstorm on all 5 shamans at the same time ;) Was in QD earlier and had a rogue, warrior, and mage up close attacking me plus 3 demons, used that macro and killed everyone in 1 shot LOL.

[Lazzadorabcd]

LOL thats pretty funny

I may try that one!

[valkry]

Don't get too downtrodden about dying a lot. I was at the start of my grind too but it start becoming easier and easier as you get more stam/resilience :P

[Sam DeathWalker]

Any plan that requires you to move 5 differnt guys to differnt places with differnt keys at the same time is doomed.

Boxers are not mobil and you have to just accept that as a down side to boxing. In EQ I was able to get gear to see invisible and 'invisible invisble". Here I think I would umm ... have a 3rd person view and jamba or some add on to wishper an attack to your main, so you can very quickly determine wehre the attacker is then back up your main and spam your CL or whatever.

Again this is the skill part of the game. If your main is at 12 oclock and followers at 6oclock and attacker shows at 7oclock (compared to the followers) you have to back up your main through eightoclock (or 7 or 9 might be faster I have to trigometry it out sometime) as you have no time to turn around, as you back though 8 with main the followers turn towards attacker untill you can finally cast on him.

[shaeman]

One technique I used whilst levelling my group and a mob got in amongst the pack so that they were behind my main and some of my guys couldn't cast on them was to rotate my main through 180 degrees to face towards the mob and the pack, then press my back arrow key.

(I use this to break follow but the net effect is that my lead character and my pack move backwards away from each other. Leaving the mob castable by all.

It probably wont work to well in battlegrounds, but then again if a warrior or rogue has locked one down the others should move back quicker and everyone able to hit the enemy.

[Ualaa]

For Thunderstorm, I use this macro:

#showtooltip Thunderstorm
/cast [mod] Elemental Mastery
/stopcasting
/cast [mod] Thunderstorm
/castsequence [nomod] reset=45 ,,,,Thunderstorm

Actually this is the macro on my 5th Shaman, just change the castsequence order for each of the other shammies.
Pressing the macro will round-robin your Thunderstorm, if you're using it for control.
Any mod (shift/alt/control) with the macro and they will all Elemental Mastery - Thunderstorm (assuming its not on cooldown).

So the macro gives you the option of control/defense and damage/burst.