Quote Originally Posted by Latency
The main problem with Shams is your 'main' is usually the one getting fucked up in PvP. Either that or your have your main getting FF and a rogue and warrior screwing with your clones.

In a 5 man team, you tend to be doing one thing or the other. You are either healing OR dpsing. And whatever your doing, you are *not* moving.

While this was acceptable on the PTR, its not so acceptable on Live, what with more hps, people that know how to use LoS and play their class well.

I have switched to Dranei Priest as main (now getting a holy dmg spell/2 sec stun!) and 4x Human Warlocks, mainly because my main is human and the armour looks fantastic on them and it is the class I am most comfortable with, both instances, raiding and PvP.

The good thing is I also have access to an epicced out Protection Pally, so when I want to do an instance I can simple tank on the pally, heal on the priest and DPS/CC on 3 locks, rotating in my main if he needs something from the instance etc.

I think the best class makeup for PvP is Priest Healer, 4x Mage or Lock. Level up a tank solo for use later on in heroics. (Just do it on rested XP.)

While my guys are really low atm, I am much happier with how they operate even at these lower levels than I was with Shamans. Once you've used Fire Nova Totem and your Shocks are on cooldown, if you have melee in your face your pretty stuffed on Shamans - and once your OOM its game over.

The insta-gib potential is MASSIVE though and they look far more awesome in PvP videos.
Totally agree about shams going OOM too fast, although with two handers becoming trainable, having a nice fat two handed mace with Windfury on it seems like a good backup. Dranei racials do suck though. At least with horde you can either get extra HP and an AOE stun (chain warstomps = win), or extra stun resist and an AP/Spell Dam buff.

However, for versatility, the Priest and Locks combo are hard to beat. An off tank thats good for everthing but heroics, omni directional spells, no dead zone, AOE heals, rezzes, wipe prevention, and the list goes on...

I think in Arena PVP though, any decent 5 man team will stomp you. While multiboxers have unparallelled FF, we only have limited ability to handle multiple targets simultaneously.