Things to work on in PVP

One thing that is pretty important to me is improving my performance in the battlegrounds. While I know that many PVE'rs hit the bgs just to get "welfare epics" (why they just don't do badge runs and get THOSE welfare epics, I dunno) and thus don't care about winning, losing, or contributing to the team, I do. And if you're not constantly working on ways to better your skills, then you're just deadweight.

With that in mind, I've been PVPing the past few days with an eye on areas where I need work.

I've been practicing kiting on Ideale a lot, because last time I did this, that was the thing I most needed to work on. While I still need the practice, my kiting has improved to the point where I can continue to improve simply by doing it, and no longer need to focus on it. I've also improved in protecting our healer, which has netted me much healing in return. <3 healers.

Where I most need work now is: 1. Using my spec tools. I tend to forget about intimidation when I'm in PVP, but it still has a stun effect, so I should be using it every time the CD is up. I also need to rethink how I use Bestial Wrath/The Beast Within — I use it when unneeded a good 25 percent of the time, and probably don't use it when I should. 2. Prioritizing targets. I tend to simply shoot at whoever is in front of me, when I should be focusing on taking out healers. I need to start keeping an eye on enemy healers and taking care of them.

On Ahami, I've been pretty pleased with my PVP performance. I think I've mentioned before that I do better as a healer than a hunter (ironic, I think, because I still prefer huntering). I've topped the healing charts in a good percentage of the bgs, and come within the top five in almost all of the rest — even when I've come into a used bg. However, I tend to die a lot when I'm not in 1v1 or enormous groups.

I need to work on moving away from AOE and self-healing when needed — I get so focused on healing everyone else that I forget myself. I also need to work on doing damage when needed — if we have three healers and one DPS at the mine, I should be DPSing. Last, I really need to work on dropping totems in battle. I'm getting good at remembering to drop them at the start, but I should be refreshing them throughout — and dropping Stoneclaw when rogues go on totem sprees, because I saw another shaman do this last night in EOTS (on Ide) and the rogue stunned himself and we killed him before he shook it off.

I need 20k honor and 37 EOTS marks* for Ide's bow. I think I can have it by the end of the month. Ahami needs to fly to Org for her trinket, then I get to focus on hording marks for gear with her. I know that S2 will be useless once Wrath hits in six weeks, but I'd still like to collect the full set for Ide and the weapon and two pieces for Ahami, just to have done it.

*Apparently this needs AV marks, which I have plenty of. Which means I can trade in my EOTS marks for honor. Which means less than 13K honor to go.