Is it me or do elemental shamans barely exist anymore? I have yet to witness one while doing countless Heroic Dungeons or in Battlegrounds/Ashran.
They play like shit, they are mechanically busted, and do shit damage. Anyone who sticks with it is either a retard, or a complete low tier hero. I think I'm retarded for gearing one, but they are just assssssssssssssss. I make them look good, and do some high damage for how weak they are. In MC or big trash packs with lust I hit 80-100k. However only if the trash/boss is standing still. The tank can't see my earthquake (thanks blizz). Their burst is gone (boomkin has better burst than ele. Ya. Hilarious). Off healing sucks ass. Multiple tiers of talents are worthless. Our level one hundred talents have no choice. Fusion is boring. The wind elemental totem is bad. LMT is good, but it feels weak.
Mastery is so poorly designed that its game breaking in pvp. They are unplayable in pvp because their tools are just shit.
Our aoe has ramp up, and it does average damage. A warlock can drop a cataclysm and ROF, and do 4x our damage. 2 GCD's. We have to drop a searing totem, chain lightning for improved chain lightning, drop an earth quake at 5 stacks. A 2.3 cast time for me (higher if you dont have haste). Liquid magma totem, and rinse and repeat. That's the most fucking clunky shit ever. So many wasted GCD's for very little return. All our casts are above 1.7 in this gear level. It feels bad, and it does bad damage. That's all there's to say about it. The only thing shamans are good for are cm's. Even though their damage is lacking, they have utility for every thing a cm will throw at you.
Let's look at feral vs enhancement, and damage break downs. The fact that enhance has to push a billion buttons at the speed of light, and are not rewarded for ANY of it is absurd. This comparison alone is completely insane. Just look at it. Feral has insane down time and enhance almost none. Once they get GCD capped with haste they won't even be able to hit all their buttons. Won't matter because feral will do less and still out damage them.
The whole shaman class just needs a redesign. Surgical work needs to be done to fix this class. Even though hunters have three specs that play exactly a like, they still function, and are mechanically sound. Shamans have none of that shit. Resto shamans still function (could be so much better if they weren't ball and chained to the clunkyness of the class), but enhance (despite the lack of slowdown) and ele are busted with a bunch of band aids over severed limbs. It's a travesty that in 2014 that's how those two specs play.
