How to win in CTF

[Nefera]

There's no stealth feature.  You're imagining things.  Druids can stealth in cat form (but not while carrying the flag), but not shaman.  The only bonus shamans get is that they move faster in their travel form than normal running.  It's a nice thing if they get out in the open, and shamans make decent flag carriers because of that.  However, if you're comparing shamans to druid flag carriers, shamans can't morph through all the snares the way druids can and they can't take the punishment the way druids can by switching to bear form when they get caught and slowed down by opponents.
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In my experience Shamans are better flag carriers than anyone else. The tactic I've seen used to great effect is running in, dropping a frost restance totem, grabbing the flag, dropping an earthbind totem, shifting to the ghost wolf form, and leaving everyone in their dust. Thinking back it may have been druids that have broken out of snares, and shamans can't shift out of polymorph, but with the distance they can put between you and them is amazing.

While it is not true stealth inthe way the disappear completely, the translucent swift ghost wolf form is rather hard to see in the flowing battlefield, so it is almost as good as stealth at even a little distance.

I'm going to try and get my Paladin into some more matches, but I'm not looking forward to it, maybe just standing in th flag room, making the horde think that they should have brought one more buddy will suffice.