Quote Originally Posted by Suribusi
I'm no expert on shaman, nor on WoW. I'm not even sure if I understood you correctly here, but Lightning Overload and Wrath totems is what gives the multi-shaman crew its power, yes?. The amount of focus fire a shaman can do with these abilities can trump 4 mages.
http://www.sk-gaming.com/arena/5/us/shaman/all/all/
Popular builds for high ranked teams (over 2200 rating)
40/0/21 = 45.1%
41/0/20 = 5.6% (+5.6%)
Popular builds for all teams (over 2000 rating)
40/0/21 = 40.5% (-3.7%)
41/0/20 = <2.9% (i.e. not represented)
(Above taken from all 5v5 shaman)

So the answer is no. No serious PvP shaman specs Totem of Wrath over nature's swiftness.

Anyway, the rewards from PvE content just wasn't there for a box crew pre-expansion, compared to PvP... Where as before, in my opinion, it was BGs only.
Correct: http://www.wowhead.com/?items=4.3&fi...rs=1:1;crv=0:0

Well, I think a big tipping point as far as survivability and effectiveness is that a shaman group has 5 healers, mages have 1. Therefore people quickly realize that they have to take down 1 character to cripple that group, which is very easy to kill a priest before cheap shot wears off. In a shaman group you can easily obfuscate that, or at least have extra healing (albiet not as great as a holy priest individually) and wear mail.
I've already posted re: mail armor, but I do agree on the confusion on whether or not the shaman is resto or elemental. However, resto shaman are relatively underrepresented in PvP compared to the other healing classes, but I will give you that it at least puts some confusion/doubt in the players' mind.

Although now that shouldn't be much of a problem. Suvega is telling me that the Proximo mod now tells you people's spec.