My experience with shaman on the PTR.

[outdrsyguy1]

I'm definitely liking the shaman for cata. The spiritwalkers grace (move while casting for 10 sec) is great and the burst is pretty awesome right now, i've definitely done 24k crits followed by 11k overloads. The overloads really seem to happen a lot and that unleash elements making your next fire spell 20% bigger, that and EM are downright nasty. I'm totally going to use the fire elemental with glyph. Having 5 fire elementals out in virtually every fight is going to be crazy.

Warlocks Burning Embers talent is stupid. Locks do pretty good dps (destro) but after I played with a target dummy and 48% of my damage was burning embers (i had 10k dps) which is an ability you have no control over, it's just a proc off your imp that does like 5k dps all on it's own. You could totally run 4 locks and have a 4 man hit squad of imps chasing people down while the locks do virtually nothing. ***apparently i just learned the spell is bugged op***

BM hunter pets are still pretty nasty too, even after the nerf. I was getting 11 to 12k dps on target dummy (all this is unenchanted, ungemmed, un professioned)

ret pallies are a total letdown. The holy power system sucks. It's terrible dps, very little burst but maybe once every 2 mins after some rampup. And it's very reactionary, i'm a sad panda because i really loved dk/pally team. If dk's could heal each other even a little i'd totally go to a 5 dk melee team and annhialate people.

lol, i just tested locks by sending my imp on a target dummy and leaving the lock afk. Imp does 1500 dps, burning embers dot from the imp does 5k dps, that's 6500 dps for doing nothing but hit attack on the pet. I can BARELY break 5k dps activly mashing keys like mad on the ret pally. let alone the 10k+ the lock can do.