Boylston, tnx a lot for posting this, I think a lot of your experiences are very similar to mine.

I also need to work of rebuffing Bloodlust/Heroism.

Fight 1 definately needed patience.... even if they come close, just purge, if they are gonna run off without dying, hardly worth more than one volley, just wastes mana. And in similar situations, but with hunter, not lock sniping at you, make sure to rebuff mana shield... this way he'll waste more mana than you from multishot.

Fights 2 3 and 4 show how you've learned, gj.

Fight 5, imo, you made the decision to move way too late... Either move early once you know it's a caster team, or dont move at all... If you move early, they'll rarely have the guts to rush you, giving you time to plant the totem farm... Also contrary to Ellay, my PvP totem sequence means I lay 3xGrounding, 1xTremor, rather than 4x Grounding on my 1st drop... Dunno, maybe this would have helped in the 5th fight.

What I still have problems with atm is the coordinated rogue/druid attack to the rear. I can't help it distracting me... Turning to try to take out the rogue, which then leaves me exposed from the front... Particularly in Nagrand...

I've found in my last 20 or so games that if it comes down to a patience game, as perfectly demonstrated by Ellay, we win 90% of the time, even vs better geared teams. purging is really ftw... and they tend to spend more mana sniping than we do softening them up.

Warriors also go down quick after a quick purge these days.... Will post more after our 10+ on Saturday.... Keep up the good work my fellow shammies

Cheers
Ky