Shamans 4.3?

[smalltanker]

Ualaa ... Yeah we saw your Druids in AV the other day. Shamanone-ten blew you up I think. But that was one of those BGs where we have 20-22 "The Zerg" toons in from 3-4 boxers (one 10 shaman, one five DK and me running 5 elemental or resto shaman). I generally queue up for AV and IOC if 5 boxing. For conquest cap after getting my arenas I will take in 3 elementals and do random BGs. I haven't done many randoms this weekend due to Stands of the Suck popping up so many times. All of my toons names are different (Blutbad, Ziekvolk, Mellifer, etc...) so I never get called out instantly as boxing.. .and now I have two transmorgified so the visual throws people off too.

@Nikita: Yeah melee is the suck. Luckily I have discovered that if the team as 2-3 stealthers I am sometimes better off due to them being de-synced ... so I will rush in drop totems and smoke generally the poor warrior, DK or holy/ret while the mage/rogue/druid is hiding watching his first team mate take 5 x flame shock + lavabust with elemental mastery + gladiator trinkets popped... so all of those are fired off at 10K spell power x 10. At that point if I am not decisive it is a loss. If I can switch and kill another or put out enough pressure their healer will cruble. I have killed holy pallys before they can bubble and druids before they can tree up. My grounding totems generally help me weather the first volley.

I did bump into a mirror comp from another 5 boxer this week. We traded wins accidentally because whoever hit the grinder first died. I think my set up was better as he wasn't dropping heal stream totems and didn't cast healing rain so I could nuke him down better if we strayed too close. VS another shaman team I have started to push forward drop totems and then back up. Amazingly enough alot of players out distance their grounding totems and searing totems so by backing up I eat 5 spell and put more damage out with searing.

Just some tips. I did pick up an under geared resto druid to assist me but at 1.9K resil I ain't expecting much from him. I am hunting a healer on my server (Magtheridon) but haven't gotten a good one yet. I think with a healer I would probably win twice as much due to having an obvious train target and being able to focus on nuking vice surviving.

I need to buy the fraps subscription so I can do some movies... nothing much to see mostly me turretting and dropping nukes on unlucky people. It isn't a finesse team unless I get 2-3 down and have 1-2 dead on my team. At that point it is lightning bilts and shocks on the move with me dropping healing rains and totems while hunting.