Viability of Shamans stacking haste for PvP?

[Kruschpakx4]

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main hand weapon - 51 (ilvl 264, requires 1800 rating)
WG shoulders - 63 (ilvl 251)*
cloak - 60 (ilvl 264)
neck - 60 (ilvl 264)
trinket - 128 (ilvl 245)
WG wrist - 42 (ilvl 226)

*there are WG legs as well (ilvl 232), but taking both shoulders & legs means you will lose your 4 piece bonus from normal PvP set - cooldown on Ground totem reduced by 1.5 secs & 88SP.

Assuming you want to keep socket bonuses, you'll most likely end up with 3 yellow sockets, which equates to 30 haste using www.wowhead.com/?item=Reckless Ametrine.

So that brings it up to a total of 434.

Also if you're running heroics, you'll probably have this: www.wowhead.com/?item=Bizuri's Totem of Shattered Ice, which can give up to 220 haste, which brings the total up to 654.

This equates to about 20% haste (19.94% to be exact). This will:
- Lower GCD 1.25 secs
- Lower LB & LvB cast time to 1.66 secs
- Lower CL cast time to 1.25 secs

Might be worth giving it a try for BG's / WG...

Cheers,
S.

eh hit rating?

if you're going on haste rating with pvp gear and stacking haste gems you will end up with 0% hit ... so you will need some pve gear with haste + hit but you shouldn't go into arenas with pve gear as a shaman boxer

[mrmcgee21]

Stacking haste is just a bad idea, if you actually invest the time in doing this you will be very disappointed. You need to maximize the potential dmg of each spell so that ( ideally ) each volley can possibly get a kill. You wont be able to squeeze out a whole extra cast very often in arenas( which is the only way haste becomes beneficial ).