Quote Originally Posted by Lpwned View Post
My questions are as follows, and are extremely focused:
  • Are elemental Shamans viable in a 5s yet? 4 Ele + 1 healer
  • Have the classes be roughly balanced yet? (God dam mages)
  • Has blizzard started making logical patches yet? (When I left they were changing things about classes just for shits and giggles)

Anything changed?
I believe Elemental gets some major buffage in 4.2, which is not here yet.
They will be able to cast Lightning Bolt while moving.
And if Flame Shock is dispelled, they'll have 90% haste which is a lot of pew-pew or healing.
Don't think they're that good now, but totems do stack and all, so probably not the worst combo either.

I don't think you'll ever see balance, they have to weigh PvE and PvP large and small scale.
My DK's are very dominant, more so than my Elementals were in late BC or early WotLK.
So they're a bit over powered in relation to other classes or compositions I've tried.
Mages aren't horribly annoying for these, as I have four death grips on round-robin which refresh often, plus strangulate and mind freeze.
Rogues are the class the DK's despise, because of Sap on one team member after the other; since Rogues can now move at 100% speed while stealthed, I recently experienced an arena game where my five killed four of theirs and then I resorted to watching a movie since the lone surviving rogue was playing chicken shit and wouldn't engage.

Mages have not been nerfed, they're pretty much the same.

Druids have power shifting with any shape shift if they're Resto spec, or with Boomkin form only if they're Balance.
Feral doesn't have power shifting to break roots, but the 83 roar ability is raid-wide and makes affected targets immune for the duration... so almost a minute every 3 minutes of root immunity; nothing against the fear break/immunity that was lost.