can't tell if my shaman sux (major nerf-dom) or just bad lag

Tried my first arena since the patch and Hyjal was in serious lag mode, so was the arena system.
we had major problems getting into the arena, several of the fights were 4x4, 4x5, 5x4 and even 3x5 instead of 5x5 because not everyone was able to get in ( both sides were having problems )
at times my instant cast times were anywhere from 2-5 seconds

I got my ass kicked like I havent' been kicked since my very first Arena.

warriors and pallys are incredible now.

hopefully they get a handle on the lag issues

Mainly because of the server, the lag was retarded.. My server didn't have any BG's or Arena for 3 days, so at least be thankful for that :P

Yeah Paladins and warriors are dealing a ridiculous amounts of damage.. I didn't even bother entering the arena because I knew with my current gear it would just be a slaughter fest.

Hopefully in the future expansion this massive amounts of damage will be mitigated and we won't be having so much problems.

hopefully its the lag and server issues, my server has had its instances up and down for the last few days.

It's just the insane amount of lag, last night doing my 10 games for arena on alliance side was probably the most frustrating experience in my entire wow duration. Lag is multiple by 3 when multiboxing since it requires your followers to /assist the main who's target does not show up until 5 seconds after, they finally cast, your looking at 10 seconds per instant. Literally impossible to win a game in such circumstances.

Hopefully they fix it soon as it's an unplayable product, when blizzard is known for producing quality.

I read a blue post that stated the lag was a result of so many ppl logging in to see the new talents and the vast amount of data being updated for the achievements. They said they have taken measures to optomize the data transfers, but it should get better within a few days.

It's slowly starting to get better, but it is just rediculus. Being locked out of my toons for hours on end (even trying logging in different chars doesnt work) after getting stuck in a BG loading screen is ftl :(

I love it when you enter a BG and wait 10mins for a loading screen only to get kicked to the character selection screen and then come back with the deserter buff. Love it =(

*cry* at least I'm not the only person feeling the lag burn in the arena. 5v5 lost 200 points to 5 dps teams good bye s3 shoulders, I couldn't even see them come at me! I'd use that new AOE and suddenly I'd be dead. Then I'd see them go flying and two of them die...

I sware it made me wanna just give up the game... then I went to Eots and faced 13 ret pallies at 2 warriors... Lucky they were all awful and killing them was therapeutic.

Ugh, there's lag everywhere... last night while trying to do an instance I got kicked mid-instance (last boss), then completely kicked from the server, then received a message that the instance servers were down, then finally (after literally 20 mins of waiting), got into my instance where everything had respawned. I just /sighed and hearthed. Lol. I hope they fix the issues soon.

LAG....

Luckily by the time I got to my 5 shaman the arena crowds had died down and I did not get a single Transfer Aborted error when zoning in to an arena like I did earlier in the evening when arenaing on my lock and priest with family.

It was sadly still laggy, especially the Lorderon arena and there was this one match where everything would freeze every few seconds. I was chasing the last priest around the center crypt forever, lol.

Getting raped by Paladins and Lag. Worst nightmare ever.