I have some new thoughts after I entered my first night in AV on my 4x level 71 DK team the other night.

I just happened to run into 5x shamans - all level 80 in pvp gear in AV, someone said - oh #$#$ mutliboxing shamans.

What happened you say???? Well, I kicked their ass, and there's nothing they could do about it.

They got me a couple times, but I got them just as many, probably more. Yes, level 71 DKs kicked the ass of 5x 80 shamans.

Guess who I ran into the next game? 5x shamans. Yes, kicked their ass again, won the BG - and at level 71 wtf???.

And if the situation was reversed, I'm sure I would have gotten my butt kicked by the 71 DKs just the same.

It's so imbalanced it's not even funny.

I've have 4x level 80 shaman and I'm by no means the greatest in arena, only got up to about 1800 in s4 with my shamans.

Personally, I think the best days of the 4x arena shaman are behind them. I do, however, believe some very talented PvPers will make them work to a certain degree, but nothing like before. Down the road, there might be some changes to help shamans out in arena, but that's a LONG way away.

Everyone has NASTY AOE now (mage, druids, locks, hunters, DKs, Warriors, Rogues). Before I could heal through this stuff, but now 1 mage can take down my team while I'm frost novad. Shamans burst damage is crap and they have no "outs" e.g. bubble, ice block etc... A shaman can get burst down in seconds in 5's.

Shamans lost their best killing combo, EM+NS+CL, and we're even losing EM as far as helping burst.
Shamans lost 13% damage on LB as well when they changed the coefficient.

We're getting a few buffs in 3.0.8, but nothing that helps our burst or survivability to any significant degree.

I do think shamans are going to be great for PVE still, and not a total loss in PVP by any means. It just might be S6 before they give Shamans any type of pvp love.