Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
But if you can Flame Shock one toon, and then 3 seconds later Flame Shock another.
That's a lot better then 6 seconds between Flame Shocks.
But if we only look at Reverbration then it is 3s vs 4s. Which talents do you miss out on because you push 5 points into Reverbration? Improved Fire Nova Totem? Do you use Fire Nova Totems? And the other 2 points out of Lightning Overload? Totem of Wrath? I think most solo box PvP specs I've seen are 55/16/0 builds with the following:

5/5 Reverbration
2/2 Improved Fire Nova (or 0/2 in spec 2)
0/3 Lightning Overload (or 2/3 in spec 2)
0/3 Elemental Precision
0/1 Totem of Wrath

For multi-boxing specs I've seen another point dropped out of the floating 2 on one shaman to pick up a totem of wrath. If you need the +hit from talents then that is another 3 points to scrounge somewhere. Dropping the 5 points in Reverbration can solve a lot of problems for the cost of 1s on FS CD.

You'll also have a macro like this one...
/castsequence [target=Focus] Elemental Mastery, Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Chain Lightning

So you can Flame Shock and then virtually instantly follow up with a Lava Burst.
If you had just Flame Shocked one target, it would be nice to be able to follow up with this kill macro in 3 seconds, then need to wait for 6 seconds.
I understand the fakeout, pop the FSs on one target see if they blow their CDs and then do the real combo 3s later when their abilities are still on CD. I played my first 10 arena games last week with 5 shaman and it is going to be a very long time and a lot of gear before a 1s difference on FS cooldown is going to make a difference to me, perhaps when I start pushing for the 1500, 1800, 2000 brackets.

Just starting out I think those 5 points can be spent much better elsewhere.