Any warrior who doesn't ride the short bus has /cancelaura bladestorm in his shield reflect macro, you can reflect out of a bladestorm very easily. Anyone with a non-fail reaction time is going to see your burst coming, weather EM is up or not because there is a .5 sec delay after you flame shock before you can get it out. The overall skill of people in pvp in general has deffinately rose a lot since BC. It's amazing how many people can make that .5 sec reaction before I hit them with EM-LvB and counter me nowadays. And if EM isn't up? forget about it, most caster's camp at a pillar and run behind it right after they get flame shocked, while melee have gotten exceedingly good at turning figure 8's around my shamans so they break my casting quiet often. The trick is, waiting until one of them makes a mistake, or just finding the weakest link on the team ( you know, the idiot mage who comes out and blizzards you, the disc priest that mass dispells 1 to many times in a row, the resto druid who thinks he can sit in tree form 15 yards away from any LoS and spam heals ... those guys ) and exploiting it.



Just a little tip as well, run some 3v3's with your shamans before you do 5's ( with no healer ) to warm up, this will make you *SO* much better, learning to play without a healer teach's y ou how to use your defensive ability's properly, how to heal quickly, and how to make sure every ounce of dps you put out counts ( because you dont have that much mana hehe ). Anyone wanting to get over 1800 should aim to have a 1500+ 3v3' team solo before you give your healers a headache and waste their time getting mopped up by any team with a brain.