Originally Posted by nubb3y
I've been surprised by the lack of decent sources of information for Elemental Shaman PVP. Beyond Kollektiv's videos, it's tough to find good resources on high-level Elemental shaman play. Let's get a thread going about strategies employed by successful elemental shaman!
A few things to start off the discussion:
1 What do your keybindings look like?
2 What's the best variant of 40/0/21 for 5v5?
3 How do you prefer to gem your gear? What enchants do you use? What trinkets?
4 What spells do you downrank?
5 When is the best time to heal, and when is the best time to DPS at all costs?
6 If focused, what do you do to continue being productive?
7 What mods do you find helpful?
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1. Playing either heal or melee pre arena (resto until mid of s1), i never really binded lb and cl, so i had to rebind nearly everything.
Just bind everything around your movement stuff, and move stuff like sit, put out weapon, talk back on tells, look at char screen somewhere else to get enough buttons. Also bind stuff together that you use together.
Example:
T = battlemaster trinket
ctrl + t = healthstone
g = pvp trinket
2. Depends on your setup, as 4dps you want lo, as 2345 you want to to have the manareg and improved shock cd.
I am still trying to find out my new spec for s3.
3. As of season 3 in a 2345, 90% stam/resil. I also have the gladiators shield wall bound to switch to it.
I am the target for constant pressure of the other team because i get rather useless when under pressure.
Trinkets i use battlemaster(spelldamage) + pvp trinket. I used to use the badge spelldmg trinket and also tried out stacking spellhaste(meta gem, totem slot, quaqmirrans eye), which is what i would use for 4dps i think.
4. I only have rank1 lb bound for harrsing, killing totems and keeping people in combat other than that no downranking.
5. When your healers get cced or the team is starting to burst. I use ns + heal quite alot. You need either a good feeling for when heal (playing nearly only resto pre tbc helped alot), or having good communication with your team mates. When your paladin gets CS'ed and your priest is under focus it is good to heal.
Healing is need sometimes but i should not be normal for you to throw arround heals every game, that i would reconsider tactics to either cc more or put presure on the enemy to have them play defense.
Dps at all costs is rarely good, our longlivity isnt that great, so carefull planed burst is way to got. Purge and shock, drop totems if you cant find a good target/opperturnity to dps/burst.
Remember a rank 1 shock cost nearly nothing, but could stop heals in the range of 5k-7k from hitting a target.
Also know when to purge, getting the BoP of not only means the warriror can dps, but also can keep up ms, what will ensure that you keep the momentum.
6. Most important: Break LoS to the enemy. Then heal if possible/necessary.
Besides that keep watershield up = alot mana.
Shock either cc heals or damage, depending of what your team is trying to do.
When your team is fighting to get control of the fight shock cyclones, sheeps that go to your warriror helps alot.
Shock the damage dealer when you are cant get fast enough into cover or heal your self(rogues, warriror on you).
Shock heal if your team wants to burst. Example, shock long heal from healer, get BoP to start bursting yourself.
7.
Witchhunt to see, manaburns and cooldowns from the other team.
Proximo for target swaping.
Shamanfriend is just godlike for alot of things.
Quartz for extra big focus casting bar, to see long casts (rez, big heals).