Help! I suck at PvP!

[BrothelMeister]

1: Use Thunderstorm to knock the melee back, and then shock him. I have 3 of my 4 shamans using flameshock, with my main one using frost shock. You should also always have 1 shaman (main toon or slave 1) dropping earthbind, which will slow their approach. Even in end game arena, If I couldn't knock the melee away, I saved targeting them for last. If a melee is swarming you well enough that you can't get him, don't. Target a nearby caster (healer preferred). If the melee is equal gear/level, and his healer is dead, you should be bale to heal through/ just cast instant hit abilities on him, until he wears down. (shock, Tstorm, Fire nova[can also use magma or searing totem if you wish, some like it, I do not])

2: without a trinket, and without being high enough for tremor totem, yes fear will mes you up, and yes you do have to chase your team down to re-group. This becomes a non-issue when you get trinkets and tremor totem.

3: Use 4x healing stream totem if you like, it will help some. Your main healing spells should be healing surge and chain-heal. Healing surge should be able to save your toon once you see he's getting hit, and if it doesn't, then yes, it's a gear problem, or you were just outmatched. Chain heal is good for when you want to heal, but aren't under heavy single target damage.

For the rest of your points on glyph/totem selection Boylston has a badass stickied thread here:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33257

Stick with it, we all at one point were where you are now. It took about 6 months from the start of boxing to get my 1 team pretty damn good at PvP.

[Nate101pvp]

1: Use Thunderstorm to knock the melee back, and then shock him. I have 3 of my 4 shamans using flameshock, with my main one using frost shock. You should also always have 1 shaman (main toon or slave 1) dropping earthbind, which will slow their approach. Even in end game arena, If I couldn't knock the melee away, I saved targeting them for last. If a melee is swarming you well enough that you can't get him, don't. Target a nearby caster (healer preferred). If the melee is equal gear/level, and his healer is dead, you should be bale to heal through/ just cast instant hit abilities on him, until he wears down. (shock, Tstorm, Fire nova[can also use magma or searing totem if you wish, some like it, I do not])

2: without a trinket, and without being high enough for tremor totem, yes fear will mes you up, and yes you do have to chase your team down to re-group. This becomes a non-issue when you get trinkets and tremor totem.

3: Use 4x healing stream totem if you like, it will help some. Your main healing spells should be healing surge and chain-heal. Healing surge should be able to save your toon once you see he's getting hit, and if it doesn't, then yes, it's a gear problem, or you were just outmatched. Chain heal is good for when you want to heal, but aren't under heavy single target damage.

For the rest of your points on glyph/totem selection Boylston has a badass stickied thread here:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33257

Stick with it, we all at one point were where you are now. It took about 6 months from the start of boxing to get my 1 team pretty damn good at PvP.

Thanks man. I found Boylston's guide last week, I really enjoyed it. I forget the name of it.. (sorry I sound so noob)... but the new spell I got that puts 4 totems down at once per shaman, but only 1 of each type. This doesn't sound like what anyone is using, is it? Everyone just drops individual totems it sounds like.

Also, right now I'm just using my IS Boxer premade 1-10 and "-" and "=" buttons. Obviously I need to be using WAY more hotkeys than that, and find myself turning repeater on to mouse-click an icon on all shamans (like mount, shield, etc) because my hot-keyed or keymapped buttons are taken up with mostly damage and healing spells. I need to learn how to do this especially with the G11 keyboard I have. That's a next project for me.

Do you think I should keep PvPing in each bracket? It's pretty discouraging...maybe I should just level up and PvP later when the battlefield is a little more level?

[Lpwned]

Do you think I should keep PvPing in each bracket? It's pretty discouraging...maybe I should just level up and PvP later when the battlefield is a little more level?

I would. Low level PvP is NO fun. You will began to hate the game after enough of it.