Shamans 4.3?

[smalltanker]

Tried a few games today and had no joy on about 6 attempts for wins. On one I got matched up with an 1800 rated team that destroyed me and another was a 1600+ ranked team where as I am around 878... so getting boned by having few teams in the queue this morning and afternoon. In the after noon I tried to run one of the shammies as resto.

Double healer teams are an issue as are the typical rogue/melee issues. Does me no good to blow up a HPally to have the druid survive and be down 1 DPS shammy with a 2nd dying shortly. So I will try again later this week.

I am thinking I should probably change up how I engage... Right now I drop totems, and hit my DPS macro that lights up my trinket + troll zerking + flame shock + Lavaburst with lightning being the filler.
So I think I may want to do a few LBs at initial target switch and then go ape with the shammy powa... Still a work in progress as I am slowly climbing up the ladder for the Ruin battle group... I know I need to get more chants and my head and shoulder PVP chants. Working on those.

[pwnstarz]

All I can say is that Earthquake is king for me, if I can get it down 2 - 3 times while melee are on me I generally win. It buys me so much time to nuke the ranged while melee are taking a heap of damage and stunned nearly the whole time it is down.

[smalltanker]

pwnstarz: Alright I am looking at your spec vs mine as well some of your gearing choices and such. So I think I need to modify what I am doing a bit to tackle some of my issues. Previously I spec'd outo earthquake and was stacking more into resil, stam and such for survivability. So what that lead to is me having 4599 (44% damage reduction) resilience to your 4060 (40% damage reduction) at the cost of 1K spell power due you to stacking +40 int gems to me using +int or +stam and resil hybrid gems (green, orange, purples). So your spell power is rocking 8616 to my 7576. Add that to some of the other capabilities of spec's and my issue with melee cleaves I see that I need to probably make a "next click" key broadcast for earthquake to nerf those guys on me and up my spell power.

I think doing those changes will push me over my current wall and up the Ruin battle group ratings.

One question is are you playing the paladin healer on the team as well or is someone else heal botting you for arenas? I have tried doing straight elementals and think I am doing well but if I don't get an instant kill followed up by capping a healer after that I almost guarantee it is a loss. Suggestions?

[Nikita]

Go for 4 ele shamans, stack int on em and get a decent holy pala or disc priest to heal you. Resilience wont help you much once you are above 4200-4500. Go for 5 % hit (4 % if you are a spacegoat), either neck or back with spell pen on, and your set.

Ive specced into EQ, its golden against melees swarming you. BUT, our tacs have changed this season. Instead of deploying your totems and wait for them to come, you should play very aggressive and attack straight away. I recommend to target DKs, warriors, boomkins, ferals, ele/enhancement shamans first. Make sure you purge your target first, flame shock him, and switch to a healer to pressure him. Then switch back fast and kill your target! I use a combo of trinkets, EM, lava burst + Earth shock.

[zenga]

Go for 5 % hit (4 % if you are a spacegoat),

you mean 4% and 3% for dranei i guess

[smalltanker]

My cloaks are the spell pen ones. I am working on getting new gems currently on my server +40 Int sells for almost 300 each... uggh... I have hitcap and am actively recruiting a healer. I am enchanting and regemming gear. While doing that I discovered one of my girls somehow or another managed to buy a PVP tank shield... WTH. Fixed that today. I respec'd earlier after looking at your spec and now have EQ and it is on "broadcast next mouseclick" works great but have still lost 7 matches straight this week and tanked my rating 30-50 points.

My bane has been teams with two heals. Today I got stomped by a 5 x arcane/fire mage team. Not boxed but haveing 15 images and that amoint of burst = doom for me. They nuked me straight out of invis. But I will get a few wins tonight or tomorrow. Trying to get my points and a new piece of gear this week.

[Nikita]

Smalltanker, could you post a link to your team? Woud love to follow your progress. Most teams run with 2 healers, so get used to it. The worst teams I meet is teams with rogue, DK and feral in em. Death grip into a smokebomb while feral doing insta clones on healer = loss. In order to win I gotta kill the DK + a healer within 10-15 sec into the fight.

Zenga: Isnt the PvP hit cap for casters 5 %? Ive checked my character sheet aswell. Unless Im above 4% hit it says that I have a chance to miss an attack