Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree
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.
Forgive me here. Are you telling me if you went to the arenas you would not take wrath totem, or not recommend it to another multi shaman crew? Like I said, I'm not shaman expert, but that doesn't sound like a good move to me. 13%+ spell crit is huge. We're talking about a multiboxing team, not 1 shaman with a mix of other classes (possibly with a melee or two). So I would easily see where a normal pvp shaman would not go with Wrath totem.

Touching on other notes, it makes perfect sense why shaman are now "flavor of the month". From my perspective; I hit level 70 with my first crew in, like, late feb or early march. The majority of the player base followed through the next month or two. Arenas just came out (Season 1) around that time as well. So while people figure out the arenas during season 1, and the rest of the player base starts learning level 70 gear/classes/specs and such, people start to see different things for different classes. So around season 2 (june/july) people have a lot of things figured out. People start trying these new classes because of these changes. Low and behold, new multiboxing combos. (when did they add heroics , badge gear and shit too? My memory is horrible)

Who knows, I might just be reserving room in my mouth for my foot later on :wink: . 5 moonkin druids might be the "Easy Button" that nobody knows yet, and the fad would turn to it. Post vids so I can see if they work then roll them! haha.

-S