Prelude to Level 85 PVP Enhancement Shaman Team

[pinotnoir]

My 5 shamans were in stasis on Magtheridon. I decided to level them up to get some enhancement gear. At level 81 I finally equiped nearly all slots with enhancement gear. Today I worked out some basic macros and keymap setups for them. This team may be really fun at 85. I love my death knight team. This reminds me of them without the death grip.



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[MiRai]

Nice, man.

With all those Ghost Wolves you could have a sled team for the Iditarod.

Edit: Nevermind... you need 12 - 16 dogs for a sled team.

[Ualaa]

It's nice to see different team compositions, rather than everyone running nearly the same teams.

I'm a little unfamiliar with Enhance Shammies.
How many of your moves are AoE/Cleave?

Are 5 minute Fire Elementals worthwhile for non-casters?

You'll have 5x Hex, usable on anyone.
A full complement of totems.
I really like 5x Tremor Totem on round-robin, as it acts as an extra five (raid-wide) trinkets vs Fear/Charm/Sleep effects.

Ghost Wolves is going to be huge burst.

Everyone can rez.
Everyone can ankh.
5x Healing Stream should be fairly significant healing.. is that raid wide or party wide?

[katsurahama]

I hated shaman until i switched one to enhancement. Once I got all enh gear it did way more damage than when it was elemental. Their totems help the other melee and they can recover you from a wipe.

[pinotnoir]

The macro I have right now puts down a magma and cast nova. It's timed so I should always get a magma down before it expires. I was thinking of making a macro in isboxer like my mind freeze for wind shear round robin. It will lower dps but would be casting interrupts rotating through 5 shamans. That would be nice in pvp. I have the tremor round robin setup and tested that out in AB yesterday. My lvl 81 guys with 40k health were ripping through lvl 84's with 85k health like a hot knife through butter. The stoneclaw totem gives me a shield so I can drop that with all of them before a fight to give myself the shield. At this point I figure my healing would use my mw x 5 or x whatever number is up. If I have click healing I could have them all chain heal. Or I can macro in a chain heal every 10 seconds or something. These guys have lots of options. I love how fast they kill stuff verses standing there waiting for cast to launch. Melee is a blast!

[Ualaa]

The Tremor vs Fear/Sleep/Charm is great, and it is raid-wide so you don't care if your team is in three different groups in an IoC or AV.

How much healing do you get from 5x Healing Stream Totem?
I would probably have one shammy glyph that for the resistance to Fire/Frost/Nature.
Is Healing Stream for the raid, or just the group?
I seem to recall Mana Spring did not stack with itself.

The Wind Shear would be exactly like the Mind Freeze.
Or alternatively you could have it target arena frames, if you'll do arena.
Or possibly target your focus.
Or maybe a macro for each, and switch them in as you need one or the other.

I really like 5 minute Fire Elementals.
Do they hit for so much, or does it scale off of spell power?

[Nikita]

This looks like great fun, keep us updated!

[EaTCarbS]

I've got 4 enhance 1 holy pally at 85, and its getting pretty fun :)

[entertheshaman]

i have 3 enhancement at 80.

i just set them up with the pseudo priority system i saw on mogs Dks with the wind shear like mind freeze.

the only thing i cant work out is what to do with maelstrom procs. you mentioned macroing them to cast a chain heal every 10 seconds. That might work? how would you do that? anyone come up an answer? for pvp i tried simply having chain heal on my psuedo priority button mash and because they move all the time they just cast it when it is up. but sometimes a player will just stand there and they wont run through and try to cast chain heal wihtout procs so its annoying.

[Mokoi]

can you just make your chain heal button

/cast Chain Heal (Rank X)
/stopcasting

that should make it so you don't cast if its not instant, right?

[ebony]

what macros are you useing in this setup?

[pinotnoir]

/stopmacro [channeling]
/click MultiBarRightButton10
/castsequence reset=combat Unleash Elements, Flame Shock, Earth Shock, Earth Shock
/cast feral spirit
/startattack
/petattack
/use 13
/use 14

/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence reset=combat Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Purge
/cast Shamanistic Rage

[ebony]

/stopmacro [channeling]
/click MultiBarRightButton10
/castsequence reset=combat Unleash Elements, Flame Shock, Earth Shock, Earth Shock
/cast feral spirit
/startattack
/petattack
/use 13
/use 14

/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence reset=combat Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Purge
/cast Shamanistic Rage

col thanks ill have a look into it my i had a play and tryed the dk spam bar way

[Ughmahedhurtz]

can you just make your chain heal button

/cast Chain Heal (Rank X)
/stopcasting

that should make it so you don't cast if its not instant, right?

Maybe. That mechanic tends to not work properly when you need it to. (see same macro for Exorcism on pallies...lol)

[entertheshaman]

i have set up my enhancement shamans who are at 82 now with mogs priority system rather than a castsequence macro. i found this worked better than macros.

for pvp i use one castsequence macro. I have two of the shamans hit a button in their priority sequence that does:
/frost shock, earth shock

and the other shaman's macro does
/earth shock, frost shock

i'm lazy and didn't want to manage manually a round robin frost shock that may or may not be up when i need it and i didn't want to just spam frost shock as its lower dps.

With this i find there is usually always a frost shock on the target and it rotates well. There is probably a better way to do it but this hasn't let me down so far.

The only other castsequence macro i have is a spam button that pulls out everything - wolves, fire elementals, earth elementals and Heroism.

Wind shear built into the rotation liek the mind freeze works really well and tremores on a manual round robin are absolute gold.

The only thing you really miss is death grip.

[Ualaa]

Pretty sure from the name 'Pinotblanc', the 5x enhance from arena today was your team.
You're going to be pretty sick, once you gear up.

Needed the Hungering Cold, or my Pally wouldn't have kept up with your DPS.
Even still, you dropped a few in both matches.

But the Howling Blast is AoE, which is my edge.
Do shammies get any kind of a melee cleave?

[pinotnoir]

No they have no aoe stuff other than fire nova. The first time I faced you the pally died on my end and I switched targets then somehow he was alive. It's happen before in arena. I have video of our second match. I couldn't do anything with the bubble and aoe damage.

[Ualaa]

How many weeks of arena gear does the team have?
Are they in full honor gear?
How is the composition doing against non-boxers?

This is my first week of running 5's.
I took last week off, so that is full honor gear plus six weeks of 1,343 Conquest Points.
They were sitting at 3,613 res, as a point of reference.

[pinotnoir]

How many weeks of arena gear does the team have?
Are they in full honor gear?
How is the composition doing against non-boxers?

This is my first week of running 5's.
I took last week off, so that is full honor gear plus six weeks of 1,343 Conquest Points.
They were sitting at 3,613 res, as a point of reference.


They were in full honor plus off hand epic weapon.