up until last night in the high 1800's I've always been able to take out a mage with my kill shot if he's dancing around ice lancing and gets a wee bit too close. I'll purge everyone on their team that's in range, and I'll use shocks, and if the mage is in nuke range after i've taken down a little bit of health, you bet your bottom dollar he's doing down. I've never smacked an ice block during pre-engage fire, only last night in the thick of things did I fail. Basically I was throwing out a couple volleys on one of their guys (it doesn't matter who i was trying to kill, they were healing him WAY to well) and then I'd switch my target to the mage as the last volley was going off (giving a second for my alts to catch up on who the target was) then BAM nuke followed by shocks. I was stunned to see that the mage already knew what was going to happen and ice blocked. I fought the same team again and I thought, "okay, i'm gonna try to nuke their shaman instead of the mage this time" . Same deal. I was putting pressure on another target, then when i switched up to nuke the shaman, pain supression was on him and my nuke barely took off half his health. I was like, "omg, how in the hell are they reacting so fast".

They were a good team. Watching my targets and puttign enough pressure on my guys that I HAD to take out one of their targets or die myself. When I tried to heal through the dmg I just died anyway. Warrior/priest fear rotations can knock out my healing long enough for them to waste a shaman.

And all my guys have over 400 res and over 11k health. They aren't slouches.

I am having a bit of trouble settlign on trinkets again. I managed to get

Battle Master's Audacity
Icon of the Silver Crest
Medallion of the Horde (+45 res)

I was using the Medallion and Icon last night and I still felt good about nuking a target that was already softened up, but I couldn't straight nuke one without softening.