Did 10 games for points this week..

Conclusions:

* First the positive: In one game, I F***ING ONE-SHOTTED AN ENTIRE 5 PLAYER TEAM, all S4 gear. They just got too close and got hit with Novas + CL + Thunder. By some stroke of luck, they all died in one big explosion. KABLAM! Epic feeling, probably my most hilarious WoW moment ever. But that's pretty much the only positive thing I have to say about this.

* It's very, very laggy - barely playable. 5-6 second latency spikes.

* There are many oddball teams at rather high rating exploiting new, possibly unbalanced mechanics.
Examples:
4x retripala + restoshaman (windfury), ouch.. over within 10 seconds. They bubble and kill your team, nothing to it.
mage+warrior+retripala+rogue+rogue, ouch.. CC immune warriors and CoS rogues take you out with ease now.

* Shaman can get instagibbed hard and fast by several other classes.

* It is possible to kill people with Nova+EM+TS, but only barely. Usually you will need a shock or a CL to make a kill with this combo.

* Thunderstorm seems to get spell reflected by warriors somehow. Not sure how this works.


As it looks at the moment, shaman team is not viable for high end arena until level 80. There are just too many superior burst dps classes out there. We got farmed by the paladins+restoshaman setup 4-5 times, not a chance.