Dealing with chain cc, shaman getting split up, etc.

[heyaz]

I'm not high-end arena, but here is some theorycrafting for you to consider:


If you had them on castsequences, and different keybinds that could work.
You'd have to be able to press both keys easily at the same time.
Something like:

/castsequence Earthbind Totem,,,
/castsequence ,,Thunderstorm,

And then move the spells along (or move the comma's) for each shammy.
You could also put them into the same sequence so one shammy does each on a keypress.
I personally prefer separate keybinds, as you may want to chain one without the other at times.

As far as the fear bomb, the "Click to Move" and "Interact With Target" keybinds are amazing for world pvp.
I'd imagine you'd have good results in arena too.
Your team has been fear-bombed. Tremor will tick in 1-3 seconds.
As soon as it does, click interact - which will have each team member turn to the target and then run towards them.
Now click your forward/backwards movement keybind to end the movement.
And click your Flame Shock + Elemental Mastery + Lava Burst macro.
There is a 0.5 second macro in the pvp section, forget the posters exact name, but he's amongst the top in 5's in his battlegroup.
You could even have your team all run at one toon, via Inteact/Click to Move, as a method of having them all run at once towards the same destination for a regroup.

I've just set up the interact with target and bound it to a mouse key, wondering how to handle refollowing so they don't keep running towards the target (but then again that doesn't matter with instants). I've heard there's still no way to macro interact with target so two key presses are still necessary, but maybe if they were close together I could just hit both.

I've got a nuke macro for the combo, but I'm frequently running into the issue of not all the shaman facing the target. Without all four, most geared players can survive 3, definitely 2 of the shaman.

I'll try more with this interact keybinding and see what I can come up with. I wonder if it could be at the point of being spammable so you could follow melee around

[asonimie]

ranged aoe stun every 45 second is probably the second biggest gimmick ever in wow (behind fan of knives)

Every 20 seconds. And yes its the biggest crock of shit I've seen in a long time. Aside from FOK interrupt spec, that is.

[Kruschpakx4]

ranged aoe stun every 45 second is probably the second biggest gimmick ever in wow (behind fan of knives)

Every 20 seconds. And yes its the biggest crock of shit I've seen in a long time. Aside from FOK interrupt spec, that is.

the biggest shit is spellreflect^^

[Multibocks]

/clarification "Spell reflect working on Thunderstorm." WTF, indeed.

[Kruschpakx4]

/clarification "Spell reflect working on Thunderstorm." WTF, indeed.

spell reflect reflects aoe root X.X

[Multibocks]

holy shit I didnt know that. That's seriously messed up!!

[heyaz]

Tried a TS + Fire Nova Totem macro that seemed to have decent results. Gives me three fire nova stuns as they are running back from the thunderstorm.

I'm considering turning spell effects back down to minimum as well, some games, especially on ring of valor or dalaran, I can't even see my shaman there is so much crap flying around on the screen.

Last night was a rough one, ran into several teams that could wipe us all in under 15 seconds. Pretty much the same thing over and over - hungering cold -> warrior fear -> priest fear or something else, then it's pretty much gg. During this they do such insane damage we're all dead, or at least 1-2 shaman are dead after the cc chain making it not really possible to nuke anyone. I'm kind of out of ideas as to how we counter that.... do I need new healers or what?

[Ualaa]

The higher you go, the harder it is.

With four shammies, if you can land a Flame Shock, Lava Burst combo, you should insta-kill one opponent.

Setting one opponent as your focus, and having a burst macro targeting the focus can really help.
That way, you can have say the Priest as your focus target, but be dpsing the Paladin hard.
The priest runs out for a Dispel Magic or something.

Your macro targets the focus.
The macro is to the effect of:

/cast Elemental Mastery
/stopcasting
/castsequence [target=focus] Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Chain Lightning

As long as you have facing to the Priest, you nuke him down, without even targeting him.

I know easier said then done.
Still when its suddenly 5v4, they can be intimidated by your firepower.

[Kruschpakx4]

With four shammies, if you can land a Flame Shock, Lava Burst combo, you should insta-kill one opponent.

you won't kill a geared warlock with that combo :/

to nuke a warlock you need very much skill..... and very much crit luck

[heyaz]

With four shammies, if you can land a Flame Shock, Lava Burst combo, you should insta-kill one opponent.

you won't kill a geared warlock with that combo :/

to nuke a warlock you need very much skill..... and very much crit luck

Won't kill a geared anything with that combo unless they're purged naked, and then they'll still probably bubble or get a heal when you're casting CL + frost shock to finish them off.

Difficulty is having the time or presence of mind to be able to pressure anything into blowing cooldowns and bubbles, then being able to nuke another target. We're chain cc'd and being torn in half in about the first 10 sec of the battle, I'm lucking to even get purges off on ring of valor.