The totems are your biggest problem here. When you hear him set one down, turn off your auto-attack, kill the totem and focus back on the shaman. Don’t let him keep totems out, period. Disarm, Pummel when you need red war gold to, and Mortal Strike and Execute to finish them off.

Shamans are one of the few classes that make me think you should really use a macro to help defeat.

It is that much easier to kill a shaman if you don’t have to worry about the totems and if you create a macro to target and hit it, that’s only one button you have to push instead of several, and much less thinking to do there as well.

You want to be focusing on your enemy, rather than his toys all over the area, so anything you can do to help that will increase your chances of succeeding.

If you know that you’re going to be fighting a priest, aim for high stamina equipment. Your goal here is to outlast not the hit points of your opponent, but the mana pool.

A priest without mana is completely at your mercy. If you can outlast them long enough for them to be drained, you will be able to win easily.