Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
I have played quite some bg's since the patch (solo) and I have maybe cast 10 earth shocks in total. I usually ended up having a 6+ stack by accident. Any decent priest will dispel you and you lose your stacks. Not to mention those resto shamans who cast earth shield on you by accident. On top of that you want fs to go off before you cast LvB, casting an ES will only delay your LvB.
One could build up 9 stacks vs a dummy and then cast an ES upon joining a BG, but thats a pita as well to do.

I'm considering to just drop my talent point in fumination for my pvp spec as I consider it utterly useless in pvp. Lava burst with every single point of mastery you can get is for me the only way to go.
Who says you need flameshock before lava burst?

Lava ->Chain Lightning -> (Any shock) Is quite often enough to kill a single target anyway.

You can try to think outside the box, if you always pre-cast flameshock, your opponents always know that they are about to get hit hard, and are either going to notify their healer, or LoS you. The most successful way I've found to catch hard targets is to not pre-cast 4 stacks of flameshock on them, but instead to just start the attack with a nuke.