5x ele shamans vs 4 ele shamans+1 druid tank

[Apatheist]

Problem is shamans are very susceptible to being swarmed, LoS'd, interrupted, etc. due to their immobility. Mages can just global one character or a hundred with instants.

I was skeptical when people started advocating mages on the forum because I've always had a preference for "tankier" classes. I saw the Xzin videos ages ago but I figured his success was just the result of people being bad at the game in vanilla. I decided to give them a try because of all the forum hype and it didn't take long to convince me. Since there's no resilience in classic, survivability is more about killing your enemies before they can do a lot of damage to you and no other composition does close to the same damage to any number targets as mages.

I also actually prefer mages for countering fear over tremor totem. Tremor totems take up globals to place and can be killed. Mages have 2 ice blocks, trinket plus WoTF or fear ward. You'll DR fear before you run out of cooldowns.