Boylston's Quad-box Shaman Rated Battleground Compendium

[Boylston]

I'm currently trying out a totem rotation which uses glyph of stoneskin+stoneskin totem to proc the damage shield on 3/4ths of my team. At the end of the rotation, I stagger tremors.

I'm not sure if it's worth it. The shield doesn't last terribly long (you CAN re-cast the sequence every 20sec, though) and it sucks up some GCDs. I think I'd rather have one GCD that plops down all totems and then follow that with some other staggered tremors. Part of the problem is that I don't see how much damage it's absorbing (due to its nature).

I keep wondering if I might do better with the EM glyph (20% damage reduction every 3min). It's probably a better arena glyph, but I'm trying to stay focused on BGs.

Krusch/others-- any thoughts on this Glyph and its usage now that we're 85?

[Negativ1337]

Hey guys,

I wanted to share my keybindings:
1: Lightning Bolt
2: Chain Lightning
3: Earth Shock
4: Wind Shear
{#showtooltip
/cast [target=arena1] Wind Shear
/cast Wind Shear}
5: Frost Shock
6: Flame Shock
7: Totems
{4x Grounding Totem, 4x Searing Totem, 2x Healing Stream, 1x Mana Spring, 1x 30% reduced casting time interrupt}
8: Grounding Totem
9: Cleanse Spirit
0: Water drinks
-: 1x Earthbind Totem, 3x Tremor Totem
{For my totem farm i drop fire, water and air totems at once, then i use my earthbind and tremor totems (round-robin)}
F/=: Follow macro
{/follow Focus}

Shift+1: Healing Surge
{/cast [target=focus] Healing Surge}
Shift+2: Healing Surge
{/assist focus
/cast Healing Surge}
Shift+3: Chain Heal
Shift+4/X: Stoneclaw Totem
Shift+5: Magma Totem
Shift+6: Fire Nova
Shift+7: Healing Rain
Shift+8/C: Spiritwalker’s Grace

Ctrl+1: Lightning Shield
Ctrl+2: Water Shield
Ctrl+3: Totemic Recall
Ctrl+4: Thunderstorm {round robin}

T: Lava Burst
{#showtooltip
/assist focus
/cast Elemental Mastery
/use 13
/use 10
/assist focus
/cast Lava Burst
/cast Rocket Barrage(racial)}
G: Rocket Belt Jump (racial)
Ctrl+F1: Ground Mount
Ctrl+F2: Flying Mount
V: PvP Trinket
Ctrl+V: Earth Elemental Totem
Shift+V: Fire Elemental Totem
Alt+V: Toggle enemy nameplates
Shift+F: Purge
Ctrl+T: Hex
{#showtooltip
/cast [target=arena1] Hex
/cast Hex}
Shift+T: Bind Elemental
Ctrl+G: Ghost Wolf

Notice:
I play as a lefty, some keybindings may be annoying/not playable as a righty
I use TAB to target enemies. I also have enabled Target Nearest Enemy in the Keybinding Options to prevent tab-targetting totems/pets/mirror images.

[Negativ1337]

Spec that i use with glyphs:

3 of my shamans are talented with:
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#hGGGGRfkbZbhMZb

1 of my shamans is talented with:
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#hGGGGRfkkZbhMZb

For glyphs i use:
Prime

• Glyph of Lava Burst
• Glyph of Shocking
• Glyph of Lightning Bolt

Major

• Glyph of Thunder
• Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem
• Glyph of Elemental Mastery

Minor

• Glyph of Renewed Life
• Glyph of Water Breathing
• Glyph of Water Walking

I have swapped on the shaman that has Totemic Wrath in his talents, Glyph of Thunder for Glyph of Healing Stream Totem. This totem provides +195 resistance to Fire, Nature and Frost spells.

Tip:
If you drop a Stoneclaw Totem 2 seconds before the arena gates open, you will keep the absorbing shield for its full duration, even if you drop any other earth totem afterwards. So you have a shield + tremor totems for example up. The cooldown on Stoneclaw Totem is around 12 seconds. Please correct me if the cooldown is longer, im not sure anymore.