performanace of Ele shaman in 4.2?

[Nikita]

I just hit a losing streak! Soooo fuckin annoying! Im down 70 rating, and now Im @ 1505 again.....

[remanz]

I just hit a losing streak! Soooo fuckin annoying! Im down 70 rating, and now Im @ 1505 again.....

Well. don't get discouraged. have to know when to stop. Some nights you have it. Some nights you don't. Its like gambling lol. and admit some teams just have your number.


and like I said, better let the pros pass you. Knowing that you are practicing and possibly feeding the pros, you should not be too demoralized at those losses.

EDIT:
the hardest part at this for me is that I cannot find a partner (healer) that wishes to lose with me, learn the fight. Its all nice and easy when I win. After losing 4-5 in a roll, they just quit.
So I ended up mostly 5 boxing.

[Mercbeast]

Well BGing at 83 with 4 enhance shamans is one of the most frustrating things when compared to DK's.

There is no comparison at this point, the reverse mobility grip gives you just makes the team. I'll go with elemental on the shamans now, no chance of running enhance I don't think. Two ele + 2 DK + paladin or outside healer could be interesting.

The Ele's at the very least will be providing a constant source of solid ranged dps.

[Nikita]

Well. don't get discouraged. have to know when to stop. Some nights you have it. Some nights you don't. Its like gambling lol. and admit some teams just have your number.


and like I said, better let the pros pass you. Knowing that you are practicing and possibly feeding the pros, you should not be too demoralized at those losses.

EDIT:
the hardest part at this for me is that I cannot find a partner (healer) that wishes to lose with me, learn the fight. Its all nice and easy when I win. After losing 4-5 in a roll, they just quit.
So I ended up mostly 5 boxing.

Yeah, my healer knows the limitations, and also the potential of this combo. And losing 5-7 fights in a row (havent happened yet) is frustrating for both. But for every fight we lose, we stop queing and discuss what went wrong, and we learn from it! We've beaten tough combos like warrior, DK, 2 x rogues and holy pala. Its all in the learning process and its fun!

[Toned]

Don't queue on Tuesdays, if you lose 2 or 3 in a row stop queueing for a bit.

[Kruschpakx4]

The only way to master an opponent is to get practise, losing 10 games in a row is still more useful than not queueing except you are already high rated. 4 of my 7 loss this season were against a boomkin/rogue/mage/disc/rshaman comp, theres not much to do against smokebomb+ solar beam, but I still managed to pull out 2 wins at the end by just zerging the mage, four ele shamans dpsing a mage creates incredible much pressure, save grounding totems for solar beam and at least 2 thunder storms for smokebomb if he got shadowstep ready. The most annoying thing is solar beam+smokebomb together because my pally cant heal without using bubble, if hes running in hes getting silienced and I cant run out due to kidney/df/70% slow poison and usually die in this situation when I got no trinket ready, solar beam has only one minute cooldown and rogues also place two smokebomb within a minute when using combat readiness.
So the only way I could defeat them was by zerging the mage and every shaman focus shocking the druid, costs a lot of mana but once the mage uses iceblock I can oneshot him afterwards with instant lava burst/earth shock easily. A well timed hammer on the rogue while bursting is also a good idea.

... so basic strat survive until all shamans have 9 orbs of lightning shield, pruge your focus target and flame shock him wait about 2 sec perhaps dropp grounding totems between or fake cast something, if they dont dispel flame shocks then unleash elements- instant lava burst - earth shock, thats usually a guaranteed kill, my pally is also using aura mastery shortly before I start to burst to prevent soft counter/silience effects like strangulate/garrote .. (if he got aura mastery ready wich is not always possible if our opponents focus all counters on him)
and its always better to not cast anything a few sec before you use your cooldowns except you know that none of your toons was interrupted on that cast, dont forget you get also lightning orbs by recieving damage (recommending to use interface addons like xperl to track how many lightning shield orbs each shaman has), at the beginning of each match I'm starting with fs lava burst to eat melee kicks into fire school so I can cast lightnings and stack the shield up faster (most people still think 4 lava bursts are going to oneshot someone )

oh and yeah against resto druid teams switch a lot, it doesnt make sense to dps someone who got 3 stacks of lifebloom and other trash hots

[Nikita]

Well. don't get discouraged. have to know when to stop. Some nights you have it. Some nights you don't. Its like gambling lol. and admit some teams just have your number.


and like I said, better let the pros pass you. Knowing that you are practicing and possibly feeding the pros, you should not be too demoralized at those losses.

EDIT:
the hardest part at this for me is that I cannot find a partner (healer) that wishes to lose with me, learn the fight. Its all nice and easy when I win. After losing 4-5 in a roll, they just quit.
So I ended up mostly 5 boxing.

I hit a really big losing streak, and went from 1578 to 1412 in 2 days. Now Im up @ 1615, MMR closing in on 1700. The last match I did today was against DK/Warr/Rogue/Retadin/H-pala. Their team MMR was 2,150 k! Got their warr down to 30 k hp, but had to heal my priest up. Next time ill be more greedy on handing out TS to opponents, and stack on top of a pillar against 4 melee + 1 healer teams. We also went 3-1 against a 3 healer 2 dps team. After 1 loss we knew what to do, survive the first burst wave and go really defensive, stack up 9 lightning shield orbs on all shamans, quick hex then burst rotation!

[death]

my shamans have reached 1115 in 3v3 now

[Nikita]

my shamans have reached 1115 in 3v3 now

Whats your win ratio like? As long as your having fun, and get points for it

[death]

my win ratio is something like 70-100 for the season, but going up slowly, and yeah having fun