I seem to notice quite a bit of anti-boxer stuff too. Is it just me or things anti elemental shaman too?
the special death knight quests prevent follow... it's completely eliminated, an example is trying to get your mount for the death knight.
I've seen it in other quests too. One quest where I was supposed to mount a gryphon and rescue villagers has follow completely eliminated and so is focus.

It seems to me like they went out of thier way to design boss fights that are anti-boxing, like kill your doubleganger or whiplash the whole team around so they face away from the boss.
It also seems to be that they are going out of their way to be anti elemental shaman. I had one of those little plants in the nexus kill my fire elemental in two hits, these are WEAK plants and can't do much damage.
I find the shaman elementals vaporise in these instances. The grounding totems don't work in some fights. No elemental shaman gear except for leatherworking.

I used to have well geared shaman at 70. at 74 I feel like I now have so-so geared shaman and they are weak because I haven't seen hardly anything that's an upgrade.
almost all of the mail quest rewards are worthless for the elemental shaman ( no + spell )
almost all of the plate quest rewards are worthless for the protection pally ( no block, no parry, no dodge )