Shaman PvP Gear, Enchants, and gemming

[heyaz]

Assuming this is for pvp:

1. What do you gem all that crit for? Your hardest hitting spell is a guaranteed crit, you have +5% crit from about the moment you hit combat, and elemental mastery gives you what is it now, 20 or 30% extra crit for 15 sec?

2. You need some hit. Aim for 6% with talents, 7% is even better, Too many blood elves and paladins will just barely cheat death because of their resistance,.

3. Haste is pointless in PVP, especially that little of a rating (144)

4. With only +35 spell penetration you are going to get some very weak hits against anyone with resistance at all (just about everyone in pvp). A 9k lava burst could become 4k. You want 95+ spell resistance these days.

All my gemming is going more towards spell power and spell penetration. I'm phasing out the stam gems once I passed 21k hp. With no crt gems at all (except the mta) you easily hit 22-23% once you hve furious and relentless stuff.

Also don't glyph lightning bolt in pvp, lightning bolt is not your kill shot and the 3 (or 4%??) boost isn't going to make any difference.