I'm the primary healer for a 4 ele shaman team and something we've given a lot of thought and discussion to is the best way to use Hex in a 5v5 arena. I've been doing some reading in this forum and some of the top rated players don't appear to use it much at all. Based on some posts from others though, it sounds indispensible!

What we're trying now is to have it set up so that every shaman will try to hex a different arena target upon key-press. What we've noticed though is that it doesn't seem to really help all that much. I.e., let's say shaman #3 has a hard-coded macro to always attempt to hex arena target #3. If Arena Target #3 is the other team's priest or main healer and you click on your hex macro, shaman #3 might be silenced at that point in time or have curse of tongues, etc.. It seems like that happens a lot more often than not, making me wonder if there's really any point in trying to rely on it as a game changer.

The other thing I was thinking about was whether it would make sense to have every shaman have 5 new hex macros that are all identical from shaman to shaman. Across all characters, macro #1 would try to make every shaman hex the same Arena target #1. Macro 2 would do the same for arena target #2 and so on. Then, even if half your team was silenced or interrupted, you'd get it off. Still though, I'm not sure how useful that would be given the casting time.

What are everyone else's thoughts about hex? Is it a game changer for you? If so, how do you have it set up with your macros?