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.

[sethlan]

smalltanker : do you stack mastery or haste for the shamans? when it comes to reforging gear.

[Nikita]

Ive only played with 2200-2500 rating exp healers this season. And I gotta say, ele shamans are weak compared to regular comps. With some luck you should be able to break 2000 rating, but that is only if the stars aligne I reforge everything to haste. Close to 1900 haste if im not mistaken.

[sethlan]

I'm looking and checking few armory from other people, some elemental guy with over 2k rating is running tons of mastery and almost no haste. So im very confused atm.

[Nikita]

Is he a multiboxer? It kinda depends on your taste! Haste and mastery are close to equal for elemental shamans. I pref haste for PvP, since I want my dmg quick out there + If my team needs a heal, chances are for a interrupt is smaller.

[Ualaa]

Had a couple of run-ins with "The Zerg" today, in AV.
The horde took both of those games.

A 10-box shaman, some Elemental and some Resto.
And a 5-box death knight team, don't think they had a healer.

My team had mostly full Conquest (from patch 4.1) which would have been Honor gear in 4.2.
Not optimally geared, but definitely fairly geared to begin with.
Not sure how geared or not geared your teams were.

It was definitely fun going against another boxer.
The first match, I ran into the Shaman team a couple of times while they were killing others; the element of surprise helped a lot there.
The shaman team got me at Frostwolf Graveyard too, while I was "distracted" with other horde.

Pretty sure the DK team and I were 1W and 1L each.

Fun times.

[smalltanker]

@Ualaa: I am working now so no boxing for me until Friday night. Oathbreaker runs 2 resto and 8 elementals (hardware boxer). His restos have target-of-target set up to heal incoming damage nicely. Tinystomper runs 5 DKs (one blood four frost). When I roll with them I will sometimes do the 5 resto. I generally don't do a resto on my team as I am an ISBoxer and have my #8 key do the nextclick mouse broadcast for healingrain. my #7key is chain heal. If it gets bad I re-drop totems (wink wink grounding and healstreams again), #8 then #7 ... and then back to my two step spam key to blow shit up while healing a bundle.

So when the three of us roll together we have great synergy and having 20 level 6 frost wolf emblems = half the raid group summonng back to our starting point for back capping and messing up peeps in teh Horde base. If we get to Vanns room and have 2 towers down I can heal the blood tank while the 30 elementals and 5 x army does its thing. "The Zerg" showing up and popping CDs is awe inspiring to say the least... now if I can turn that into something past 1600 in arena I would be happy.

[Nikita]

1600 should be easy to achieve. I did 1800 the first week of the season, with 2000 MMR. But after 1-2 weeks ppl started getting PvE weapons and trinkets. And after that it went downhill.

[sethlan]

offtopic: anyone ever tried to box 5x mages in 5v5 ?

[MiRai]

offtopic: anyone ever tried to box 5x mages in 5v5 ?

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