Hello everyone! I hope that some of the pros out there may take the time to read my post.

I recently leveled x4 shamans (I already had a shaman as a main) and my intent is to do PvE and PvP.

Once I hit 80, I rocked the heroics and have cleared everything so far.

However, I'm hitting a wall when it comes to BGs and arenas so I'm seeking advice.

My arena team is here: http://www.wowarmory.com/team-info.x...+Paths+of+Pain


The gear on the main is decent, the 4 alts I'm just starting to gear up via badges and honor farming.
Without further ado, I have several question that I'm hoping someone could answer (Yes, I have looked around quite a bit already).

1. Is there a guide to x5 elemental PvP? Anyone resources would be appreciated


2. So far, I'm getting rolfstomped in BGs and arenas. It is probably due to my lack of resilience, but just want to make sure. I'm not doing something wrong. Typically, when the opponents spot my team in a BG, a ret paladin will come by and divine my group to death. Usually, they are mounted and rush into the middle of my group. They dance around me in circles and I can't do much and I usually end of dead. How can I counter this? I usually thunderstorm x5 (seems to knock them back x5 the distance) and I use my earth bind roots, and I purge them like hell, but I still fail.

3. Click-Cast Sequence

In PvE, I'm using the click-castsequence tragey as outlined in one of the many threads. It works very well. Should I also use this for PvP at all? I have all the important abilities key bound (tremor, grounding, earth bind, fire ele). But the main dps rotation (flame shock, lava burst, chain lightning, lightning bolt) I just use the click cast sequence.

4. Movement

During BGs, I typically get AoE focused. I usually try to strafe out of these, but usually I get slowed or stopped as well. I try to find the person or person(s) doing the AoE to interrupt them, but by that time I'm already low on health. Perhaps once I get more resilience this won't be an issue.

5. Round-Robin

Currently I have, earth bind, wind shear, and tremor (to get 1 second fear breaks) on round robin. Are there any other spells you recommend I round-robin as well?
Perhaps thunderstorm?

6. Opponents Dancing Around You

Say you are faced by 2-3 opponents who close the distance very quickly via a mount. How do you kill them if they keep running around in circles? Mainly, ret pallys and blade storming warriors are major headaches.

7. Magma or Searing Totem

In BGs or Arena, should I drop one of the other? Situational?

8. Hex

Is hex worth casting at all? I suppose I could put it on round robin and keep CC up on someone for a while.

I suppose in arena, if I could set the focus to a separate opponent on each shaman, I could randomly hex that toons focus whenever I wanted. Thoughts?

9. Gearing

Right now, I'm running BGs and arenas for points (I try to win and have won a couple, but usually roflstomped lose).
In warsong gulch, my team makes up 1/2 the raid. Sometimes if the opposing team is bad, its ok. However, I've been yelled at and told to stopping queuing. Should I just stick to heroics and winter grasp until I have 5/5 PvP gear on all toons at least?

10. Knock Backs, Fear, etc

It seems like in arena, that I spend more time trying to maintain order than dpsing. I use FTL system, but with the fears, knocks backs, slows, etc. My toons end up facing all sorts of directions.

11. Insta-gib

So I've been hitting opponents with x5 lava burst and they aren't dieing. Perhaps my gear is just that bad and they outgeared me by that much? Though, I doubt few could survive x5 flame shocks and x5 lava bursts hitting all at once.


Sorry if my post is long. Any input is appreciated, even if its GTFO noob! Read this tutorial over here...