I have not gave up yet for boxing. However, solo elemental shaman are free kills. At least boxing I can kill a few as while they insta kill 1 of the 5. I have 3 hateful non set epics so far. Once they release the gear from wintersgrasp marks I will have the helm and boots. Next week I should have either the chest or legs savage gear. I cant decide what to buy. I am thinking legs. So far I have no luck in vault. I have run that around 30+ times and saw elemental shaman gear 2 times. That goes for heroic and normal runs. I purchased the res+stam gem and the spell+res gem. I plan on using those in all sockets.

I urge you guys to take one of your shamans to the bgs and see how it works. Mages (Most are arcane) - sheep or just open up big pom attack, drop a grounding they icelance to remove it, then you are counterspelled and they finish you off. Rogues - Stun + Die. If you trinket out of stun they blind and can vanish if they want. Pallies - hammer + die, or hammer + other stun + die. If more people are around you its Bubble + hammer + die. Thats just 3 classes. If you fight any of these three 1v1 you cannot even put up a fight. All you can do is wait to die. Everything you can do is countered. I understand some classes have a rock paper relationship but when you cannot flee, heal, or damage them at all, there is a problem.

My goal is at least get my team a mix of blue and epic lvl 80 pvp gear. Once I gear all the spots and dont see any improvement..... I quit the game or shelf the shamans and play my other flavor of the month classes. That will be a sad day for me. This is the second time I am going through this. The first was my 70 feral druid. Feral druids in bc pvp were worthless. I loved my druid but seeing how gimp he was just made me very sad. I eventually stopped playing him because there was no point. Now its happening again with shamans.