Elemental x5 Arena and BGs - Need Advice

[daanji]

So I got some decent gear now. I have all the non-set Wrathful pieces and accesories, the relentless hands, and 1-2 furious pieces.

The resilience on my main is 1100+ and the alts are 900 or so.


So I've been running 5s. First, I tried it with just me x5 eles and I won a couple games, but most I've lost.

So I dropped one of the alts and found someone to heal for me. A very well geared resto shaman. Still, I can't see to win so perhaps I'm going about it entirely wrong.


I have tremor staggered, with x5 grounding totems. If melee get on my group, I drop magma and fire nova them.

At the start, I do a chain lightning on some target then quickly switch targets and try to nuke someone else down.
However, this rarely succeeds. I think the healer is getting off an immunity right before my Lava Bursts hit.

Although I have magma and fire nova going, it doesn't seem to even phase the melee standing in it as they proceed to pummel me into the ground.

So am I better off just ghost wolf and running away? Should I constantly be moving and LoS and only dps with Flame Shock + Lava Burst is up?

In some games, I've focused on trying to nuke down an opponent, but just can't seem to out dps the healer (a lot of teams I've faced seem to have 1K+ resil).

If you look at the link to my team, you'll see my gear is pretty good now. However, a few pieces are terrible. So perhaps they are holding me back.


For my setup, I don't use the FTL system. Instead, I use the basic idea and the macro sets the leader as the focus. and I /follow focus. I found it much easier to setup and manage.
From reading the forums, I probably should use the FTL system for arenas? That would free up my focus and I could have all the alts target random members I don't intend to nuke.

I've toyed around making dps macros for each of the opponents. That way I could switch targets on the fly and never actually have to target or set a focus.

For example, on each toon I would create macros like this
/castsequence [target=arena1] Flame Shock, Lava Burst

and

/cast [target=arena1] Chain Lightning

By doing this, I could switch targets on the fly by just pressing that button for that arena opponents.

Also, I should make a IWT macro? To interact with the target? So if I do this, the shamans will turn to always face the guy I'm targeting and walk towards him?

Does anyone has good videos of x4 eles doing arenas? I need to learn how to play better.

Thanks!