Keep at it MD, it all comes with gear and practice. You can use the excuse that you need gear, because it is very true. it wont be until you are in near full S2 that you will start to turn things around.

Start looking into the Orange gems for your gear, the ones you are using are not ideal (imo)

Potent Nobel Topaz (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=24059) is a great gem and will only set you back around 50g a piece. If you have plenty of cash feel free to step up to the epic gems. Personally i dont think its worth the extra gold for an extra 1 spell and 1 crit. On my server the difference is 250g between the blue and epic gem. If i start getting a good rating then yes i might reconsider it.

These are my armoury links. All the characters are the same.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...r&n=Tilc%C3%AB
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...r&n=Tilc%C3%A8
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...r&n=Tilc%C3%A9
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...r&n=Tilc%C3%AA

I managed to get over 1575 last night and got myself new bracers. Its only been since last week that i have changed things around and started moving in a positive direction myself.

I think this is mostly because i have started to keep my cool, stay inside my totem farm and make my NS / EM / CL macro count.

I've started to view all games as 5v4 now and i have a positive attiude, which is more dangerous than anything your shaman are capable of.

I come from a FPS background, if you think for one minute the other people are better than you, you are dead meat. So start your arena games with a positive approach, just dont get cocky