Playing a Shaman

I'm not a definitive shaman expert so if anyone has any other suggestions I'm open to commentary and changes.

I previously had a problem with totems, so many totems, so many buttons! What to drop when to drop it and why waste the mana? Well totems are a big part of a shaman's repertoire. Your totems are part of your class even if you don't sink talent points into them. The first thing you need to do is pick your most used totems. For me it is Stoneskin, Mana Spring and Searing in that order. Remember, alternately you can assign these all button clicks if you're a number pusher instead of a clicker.

One thing to keep in mind if you're playing an enhancement/resto shaman (request from a reader) is that you are a tank and you are going to be taking damage and trying to hold aggro. Use Frost Shock as much as possible because it causes high threat and keeps mobs slowed (if they can be). You may want to use healing totems instead of mana totems depending on your preference. Use your totems in every fight where you think you will be tanking against a hard mob or multiple mobs. Also remember that if your searing totem is too close to some mobs it will attack regardless if they are in combat or not. Also, remember that lesser healing wave has a shorter casting time and Stoneclaw (I think that's what it is) can pull mobs off of you if you don't have too much aggro this will give you a chance to pop a big heal on yourself.

Name: Totems
Purpose: One click totem dropper!
Description: Drop your favorite totems with one button
Script:
/castsequence reset=24 Stoneskin Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Searing Totem

Name: Weapons
Purpose: One click weapon buffing.
Description: Cast your weapon-based spell depending on which way you click.
Script:
/cast [button:2] Frostbrand Weapon; [modifier:shift] Flametongue Weapon; Rockbiter Weapon

Name: Shocks
Purpose: Cast all your shocks off of one button.
Description: Instead of hunting for buttons you can just click or button press with a series of keys.
Script:
/cast [button:2] Earth Shock; [modifier:shift] Flame Shock; Frost Shock

MACRO!

http://borkweb.com/story/world-of-warcraft-20-macros

This is definitely a good site for Macros if anyone is looking for a more definitive list.

More Macro Goodness.

Got a request, no problem.

How to say, yell, party chat in a macro.

Name: Healing
Purpose: Announce who you're healing.
Description: Perfect for your average or above average healer to announce who is being healed. You can add more things such as class, sex, race, etc but this is just a basic macro.
Script:
/cast [help] Greater Heal
/stopmacro [nohelp]
/p Healing %t

Explanations: [help] casts the spell if the person is a friendly target, the second line stops the macro and does not broad cast if [nohelp] the target is not friendly. This prevents spam in party/raid chat. The third line announces that you're casting a healing spell and on who which is what the %t stands for, it announces your target by name.

Of course this can be tailored to different types of spells such as shaman or paladin spells and buffs. Also, as far as I know it has to be keyed into the macro in this particular order. I'm used to throwing lines of code up and having to position them in a certain way though.

Name: Multifunction Healing
Purpose: Heal yourself or another.
Description: This puts an easier way to heal yourself on the board. Instead of worrying about changing your targets hit one key and you cast on yourself. You can also add another modifier in there to target the main tank. You can also use it for different spells as well.
Script:
/cast [modifier:alt,target=player] Flash Heal; [modifier:shift,target=joemaintank] Greater Heal; [help] Flash Heal
/p Healing %t

Macros

Now that I have hit 70 and find myself with a bit more time I am focusing on my alts and something I've not used very heavily in the past: Macros. Now at first glance I was impressed but now I am beside-myself-enthusiastic and wondering why I didn't start using them earlier!

Some Examples: (I am writing these off the top of my head so if I make a mistake, sorry!)
-your button clicks such as [button:2] which means the second button on your mouse have to come first. I found that out this morning as I was tweaking scripts.
-Be precise in spelling or your macro won't work, when in doubt just mouseover your old buttons.
-You can use just about any key (save those that are already assigned) as modifiers when casting. Most times I would stick to the ones that don't do anything such as shift, alt, ctrl, etc.
-I don't know if other mouse buttons work but I am going to try that later.
-The left click option for your buttons has to come at the end of the macro. All modifiers to between the right mouse click and the left mouse click.

Name: AE
Purpose: AoE Farming
Description: This wonderful little macro allows me to cast my low level Arcane Explosion with a right click on the button for pulling mobs as I go and then cast my powerful AE when I am ready to kick some ass.
Script:
/cast [button:2] Arcane Explosion (Rank 1); Arcane Explosion

Name: Drink/Eat
Purpose: One click yummies!
Description: Saves me four buttons, instead of having to click two different buttons to summon food and another two to eat/drink I have one button for all of it!
Script:
/use [nomodifier] Conjured Mountain Spring Water
/use [nomodifier] Conjured Cinnamon Roll
/cast [modifier:shift] Conjure Cinnamon Roll; [modifier:ctrl] Conjure Mountain Spring Water

A little clarification on this one: Your left click causes you to both eat and drink at the same time. The first stack you summon will show as the total on the button. If you're like me you always have two even stacks of both food and water so it pans out just fine. Alternately if you would want to do ether/or you could always make one a left click and the other a right click by separating them as such: (At least I think you can do it this way)

/use [button:2] Conjured Cinnamon Roll; Conjured Mountain Spring Water
/cast [modifier:shift] Conjure Cinnamon Roll; [modifier:ctrl] Conjure Mountain Spring Water

Name: Teleport
Purpose: One click for any destination!
Description: Instead of having buttons for each city on my bar I can have one button with a few mods that can take me to any city I please! (Insert Portal: instead of Teleport: to portal people around and you have another five buttons cleared.)
Script:
/cast [button:2] Teleport: Ironforge; [modifier:alt] Teleport: Darnassus; [modifier:shift] Teleport: Stormwind; [modifier:ctrl] Teleport: Exodar; Teleport: Shattrath

I made a few others and I will post them when I get time.