5x Ele Shaman and Mastery

[Noids]

As nice as an ES and fulmination crit is, the cool thing about mastery is that LvB with an overload proc can be just as likely, easier to get off more frequently and only do slightly less damage all said.

At this stage if 5 of my guys get a 6 stack fulmination and ES off thats 75k damage non-crit anyway, minus resil, add the 35 crit I still have, that person is going to die regardless of the extra mastery I have managed to pick up.

[BrothelMeister]

As nice as an ES and fulmination crit is, the cool thing about mastery is that LvB with an overload proc can be just as likely, easier to get off more frequently and only do slightly less damage all said.

At this stage if 5 of my guys get a 6 stack fulmination and ES off thats 75k damage non-crit anyway, minus resil, add the 35 crit I still have, that person is going to die regardless of the extra mastery I have managed to pick up.

This is the exact point that drives home what I say about playstyle. Anythign executed correctly will be enough overkill to finish someone regardless, so just go with whatever spec/ stats you prefer.

[zenga]

Something I've noticed: In AB/WsG/EotS/SoTA my stacks are getting dispelled all the time. Whereas in Wintergrasp, IoC & AV it seems to be less the case, and fulmination comes in handy. Can only assume that it has to do with the nature of the BG/map: in the first ones enemy players are all over the place, whereas in the latter ones it's often more here vs there.

[Greythan]

Makes sense Z. The three larger BG's you mentioned give you much more opportunity to set up in a quasi-sniper position, start dishing out damage, and not be receiving any defensive response. The smaller BG's make it much more likely you'll be targeted and subsequently dispelled.

While I'm still purely in the theoretical stage (still getting set-up and haven't played post patch), I have really mixed feelings on the Fulmination mechanic and usage.

[BrothelMeister]

I really dont know what this dispell is that you speak of. In all honesty, if youre putting pressure on the enemy target with 4 shaman, theyre going to be struggling to stay alive, and not very capable of dispelling the shield. Do you have the glyph of lightning shield? If not my guess is that its not being dispelled, its simply being used up.

[Kruschpakx4]

just reforged crit to haste, now I have 35% crit and 16% haste, 4,30 hit and 8% mastery, as long as mastery does not effect healing spells I prefer haste because at the moment I can outheal ~5 dps with healing surge spam