The GoA is more about the Dodge and crit for the tank than anything else. The armor is helpful, though.

I seem to remember having problems with "[mod:" as opposed to "[modifier:". It gave me some weird behavior in the past that I disliked which is why I spelled it out. Perhaps it was patch related (this was back in 2.2 days). I'll give the mod a shot again.

As far as E being CL, I like E to be my CC or reactionary abilities. Since Shaman lack CC in any way, I use it as an interrupt (Rank 1 ES). I plan on castsequencing it to have 5 possible interrupts and lock a caster out of several schools. That being said, I think I'll put CL on Shift+Q.

I also like your suggested 1-5 healing set-up. The only problem is that I don't fully comprehend what all your revised macro is supposed to accomplish.

For example, the first line:

Code:
 /target <maintoonname>target
Let's say the main toon will be a Gnome Warrior named Midget. Would that line then read:

Code:
/target Midgettarget
or would there be a space between the two? As far as I know, there is no option to target this way and the macro as written this way will search for a target NAMED Midgettarget, not assist Midget.

I also fail to see what your alt conditional says in the macro. it seems to me that it's just a secondary heal option to heal the main toon again. The first nomod condition handles this. Am I missing something?

I do, however, like the flexibility granted by the targettarget set. However, shouldn't the case be reversed like this?

Code:
/cast [nomod, target=toon1, nodead, help][mod:alt, target=targettarget, nodead, help][mod:alt, target=target, nodead, help] Lesser Healing Wave ; [mod:shift, target=toon1, nodead, help] Chain Heal\
What this would let me do is target a Shaman at lower health using my main and have the Shamans heal that toon. Failing that conditional, it would then proceed to heal their target which would be my main toon due to the first line.

I'll post my responses to your totem stomper sets on that thread instead of here in order to avoid confusion.

Thanks for the suggestions and clarifications.