Unfortunately, I think some of you may be brushing Niley's statements aside too easily. If you go to the WotLK beta forums, her post are a dime a dozen all the way from level 70 to 80. Some are even suggesting that weaving flame shock and lava burst in to your dps rotation does worse than just lightning bolts and chain lightning alone.

I generally stay out of these conversations because 1) I assume/hope Blizz will eventually get it right and 2) I'm not much of an "elitist jerk" for lack of a better term (meaning I don't get into the number crunching much) but this complaint seems to be becomnig very prevalent on the beta forums and the class designer seems to be a bit of an asshat in that he says stuff that makes no sense or is very condescending.

Somehow there is a deep devide between the game designers who actually think we do to much damage (personally I think the majority of their testing is done in optimal raiding situations where every buff/debuff you could want you get) and those testing shamans on the beta in gameplay who say we sometimes get beat by tanks.

I guess only time will tell and hopefully it gets sorted out in the end...