That's great to see that it's totally possible.

Currently, I've been struggling since WOTLK to barely maintain a 1500 rating, however I haven't taken arenas that serious as I either do them with all 5 of my shammys or sub in a real life friend / resto druid. I'm finally capped with all the welfare pvp gear and now need some ratings in order to upgrade gear, so I want to start playing a little more serious.

I'd like to hear more about your choice of using a paladin over the other healing classes and some strategies that you are using. In addition, what glyphs are you using?

The biggest issue that I have is my starting location on the various maps. It seems like ring of valor is the only map that I have a chance to get all my totems put down before I'm being zerged. I have a hard enough time just getting to a location that doesn't pin me down and usually by the time I drop my first set of totems, I already have the opposition on top of me. Blades edge, I typically try to get on the start of the bridge, but if they are all mounted and charging in, I'm lucky if I can get my first set of totems out before they are on top of me. Should i not worry about my starting location and just set up my totem farm in the default starting positions?

The worse teams I've faced have multiple mages or multiple hunters where they pillar hump by continually shoot off instant casts and then move back out of LoS so that I can rarely ever get off a CL, LB or LvB. I'm curious how you over come this, as these matches are by far the most frustrating ones.

Thanks!