@Icelandic
Bear form is ONLY better than eating mana burns when you're going to eat more than 2 burns. If you can travelform out of range or LoS without eating more then 2 mana burns, don't shift. Since WotLK bear form costs 1.1k mana and you just gimp yourself while in bear like you've already said. It really depends on the arena but in general you shouldn't eat mana burns in 3s. Either your team is doing so less pressure or they aren't helping you controlling the priest. You should always keep priests slowed anyway (if possible) so you've got free time to cc him and change positions etc because you would get into a bad position if you need to run away from the priest the whole game. Just keep the priest slowed/or focus/switch on him when he starts burning and cyclone him when he gets near and switch sides after it. You could also tell me what LineUp you're playing..that would help me alot and I could give you some specific tips
@[LT]
- Poisons -
It really depends on the situation and your partners. When we play against Rogue teams (usually RLS (Rogue Lock Shaman), Heroic RLS (Rogue Shadowpriest Shaman)) they go for my DK. My DK can easily kite a rogue when I've cycloned him and he runs away and chains him..Then I've got enough time to save my swiftmend..against RMP's for example which go for our Lock or me, I'll usually cc the mage anyway so I just try to cleanse wound with abolish -> cure poison -> swiftmend or, if mage cyclone is on dr, I'll cyclone the rogue to get some breathing room.
- Damage -
I'll support our switches with moonfire+ingi rocket all the time and if I got the time, I'll spam some wraths..but that's really rare. You should focus yourself on cc'ing and bearform -> bash when you're doing switches. Your 2k wrath will never bring you a kill when your partners are feared for example. You better should prevent cc's on your partners with your cc or stun the nuke target