x5 Shaman PvP

[Ñightsham]

I've just started PvP boxing with 5 elemental shamans (lvl 85's with entry level bloodthirsty gear) and am seeking some advice on how some of you have your most essential macros/click bars setup.

I use ISBoxer and only have a few click bars setup so far. (Thunderstorm, Cleanse Spirit & Purge which is basically a round robin type of setup)
I'm not sure how to implement Hex or chain heal using the different toons or whether or not I should use "mouseover" to target.
I have a hot bar setup to include the elemental totems drops as well as staggering the tremor totems. I'm only playing AV right now until I get a little more proficient.

Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Sam DeathWalker]

This is CC macro:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=44359

Chain heal is maybe round robin or just have one guy as restro and let him do all the healing.

You can round robin or set up groups as 4 (like all shaman cept "A" and all shaman cept "B") then write your macros like

Step One

All shaman cept "A" lightning bolt
shaman "A" Chain Heal

Step two

All shaman cept "B" lightning bolt
shaman "B" Chain heal



etc.

[Noids]

I love click healing. Regardless of my class setup I use grid with repeater regions in isboxer to allow click healing. On the shams I have left mouse button as healing surge and right button as chain heal. Only drawback to that is that I stop dps to heal.

If you want to heal whilst dpsing you can setup a rotation as Sam mentions. So that you have flexibility with this I would make your healing target focus and have the healing macro as:
/cast [@focus,exists] healing spell

Use one of your mouse buttons or a mouseover keyboard macro to set your focus quickly and have another macro to clear. If your focus exists, you will be healing it, if not you will be dpsing only.

With regards to totems I just tend to move to a location then drop a bunch. The only totem I build into my dps sequence is searing on a 50 second delay on Isboxer (select delay before moving to next step and type in 50s). This is mainly useful for dpsing bosses.

Don't worry about staggering tremor any more as it has changed functionality. Think of tremor more as a group anti fear trinket now. I have it on a click bar on round robin with a 1 second delay so I can semi spam it without firing off multiples. If you have the root talent for earthbind totem, it is worth having this setup in a similar way so you can root melee that are on you (and tstorm is on cooldown).

The other set of totems it is worth having on a click bar is grounding. For PvP this is handy if yours get eaten, you can drop a new set without having to drop the whole group.

Anyway, have fun with it all, looks like ele are on the developers list of classes to improve so hopefully they are a bit more fun for a while.

[death]

im like noids except i use grid with Clique

[Alemi]

I run 4 ele/1 resto and use a combination of click healing + macros.

Essentially, click healing is for when there's focused burst that my resto can't keep up with... resto will change focus to that target along with using NS+GHW (NS if available) and the ele's will Healing Surge.

Normal rotation: For any DPS spell from the eles (LB, CL, LVB, etc) the resto has a click macro in that spot.

/click BTButton54
/click BTButton55

BTButton54:

/castsequence reset=6 [target=targettarget, exists, noharm] Riptide, Unleash Elements, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Surge, Chain Heal, Riptide, Water Shield, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Wave, Chain Heal

BTButton55:

/castsequence reset-6 [target=focus, exists, nodead] Riptide, Unleash Elements, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Surge, Chain Heal, Riptide, Water Shield, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Wave, Chain Heal

Basically, the macro runs the first button and if the target of your target is friendly (the no harm) it will cast heals on that target. So, target a dps, and you will heal the target they are trying to kill. If you target someone who has an enemy targeted (a healer) the first macro will fail because the target is non-friendly and proceed to run the 2nd macro, healing your resto's focus target.

Works, really well and effectively.

[Toned]

That's pretty legit ><

[Alemi]

Essentially, click healing is for when there's focused burst that my resto can't keep up with... resto will change focus to that target along with using NS+GHW (NS if available) and the ele's will Healing Surge.

Forgot to put this macro in there.

/target mouseover
/focus
/t <insert main's name> Focus switched - %t
/cleartarget
/use 13 (sp trinket)
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Healing Wave

[Ñightsham]

When I was doing dungeons in WotLK I simply had 3 of the shamans doing dps with a pally as the tank and the druid as healer..
I was going to run with the same as Alemi, 4 ele, + 1 resto, but with just doing AV atm, I figured 5 dps may work if nothing more than just to get some better gear thru HP's

Thanks for the replies...... I'll work on some of these first chance I get.