Somewhat finalized Thunderstorm rotation, elemental tips

[magwo]

It seems as if I'm not getting my point across at all here. :\

[magwo]

Why not have all your grounding totems on one button. Press it and blame 5 grounding totems.

Because they will get wanded down, then you will get bursted down. It's IMO better to have a more steady stream of groundings.. and when you put them in this rotation you won't forget them in your most dire moment.

[Ualaa]

Everyone will have their own system; there are merits to dropping them together and in having them as part of the TS sequence.
For maximum effect, as in having them out whenever possible, they can be added to the TS sequence fairly easily.
It's not like we have another more useful Air totem, which will be overwritten at an inopportune time.

I personally have Groundings in my initial totem stomping macro.
I also have a key for all shammies to drop their grounding immediately, assuming its not on cooldown.
Since there isn't another useful Air Totem, adding Groundings to my TS macro is a great idea -- additional chances for a Grounding to be placed.

[pinotnoir]

I have a cast sequence that drops all my totems before the fight. Fire totems I do manually but the sequence lays down all the good ones. Right now I have two TS options.. tsx5 and ts round robin. I also have nova x 5. With the amount of health people are sporting my novas + ts doesnt kill them. Especially true in wintersgrasp cause alliance always has tenacity. Sometimes I am fighting people with 70k health. I think the round robin nova ts idea is pretty sweet. Now I have to figure the best way to do it. Dropping totems as the fight happens seems bad. If you get feared or sheeped before you get temor or grounding down will screw you up. I think throwing the totems down prefight is best. I am thinking about just putting nova totem on a key and have keyclone round robin it. Seems like the easiest way. When the toon is cc'ed you will not ts but shit happens.

[Multibocks]

I think Magwo is playing a higher rating of arena. TSx5 is great in the low brackets(hey it won me a game today!) but once you start hitting the high brackets where healers actually heal and casters/melee know to wand/stab your grounding totems... throwing everything out at once is bad and leaves you open to their dps cooldowns.

[Ellay]

I'm not sure of my stance on this tactic. Personally I don't find the value in doing it, but if someone is able to produce this to very effective results, more power to you

[blast3r]

Sorry guys but I am failing to see this.

Why not have all your grounding totems on one button. Press it and blame 5 grounding totems.

Why not have all your TS on a single button as well. Press it and watch everyone die and fly.

Use shift to modify or just another button for round robin.

I guess I don't see the use of single TS vs TSx5. I get the whole knock back thing but if you use TSx5 then they go FLYING and you can just chain heal up and roll whomever comes in next.

yea, why waste your TS if you don't need it? i have TS on it's own button and round robin it. i just use ts when i need it not when i drop my main totems. going to add an earthbind to it, though.

[magwo]

Well, to clarify:
1. I tend to forget refreshing groundings when there are 4 dps plowing me into the ground. Putting them in buttons I am certain to press with regular intervals is a neat way to help me not forget them.
2. My reasoning for never using TS x4, is that.. well.. if the team has such low hitpoints that you are able to AOE them down with the weak damage of your Nova+TS, then you shouldn't have a problem killing them with TS rotation and single target nukes. TS x4 can be a fun and gimmicky maneuver, but for arena it's a BIG reduction in survivability for the next 40 seconds.

Edit: Often in 5v5 I find myself losing 5 vs 3, after killing 2 of them. Usually there tends to be DK + Pala + Healer left, and they can just mow me down if I don't have cooldowns and mana up.

[Owltoid]

Use a software solution instead of WoW macros. For typhoons (druid spells that cause AoE damage and knock back anyone in its path 5 yards with a 20 second cooldown) I have all my druids with the keybind number "1". Using HKN, I toggle through my WoW windows. The first time I push "1" it is only sent to WoW1 (Owltoid). The second time I push "1" it is only sent to WoW2 (Weirdowl). The third time I push "1" it is only sent to WoW3 (Owlive). Then it resets and the next time I push "1" it will be sent by Owltoid and the cycle continues. What this allows me to do is choose where I want massive AoE damage all at once by spamming "1" or if I want to have a staggered knockback by pushing 1, waiting a couple seconds, pushing 1, waiting a couple seconds, and then pushing 1 again.

IMO it's a better way then castsequences.

[Owltoid]

yea, why waste your TS if you don't need it? i have TS on it's own button and round robin it. i just use ts when i need it not when i drop my main totems. going to add an earthbind to it, though.

Sorry, I guess I just repeated this solution. Oops.