/cast [target=this_thread] Resurrect


I would like to bring this thread back to life for its original intended purpose. The original plan for this thread was to use it as a source of updates over the course of a few months. It turned out to be the catalyst to a mass quit wave, of which I have mixed feelings about; boxers are a rare and fairly intelligent bunch, and there are now less of us in WoW Then again WoW adds very little to the overall quality of one’s life, so I don’t feel too bad More sunshine for all!


None the less, I would like to bring the beast back to life to find out what is happening in the world… of warcraft. My questions are as follows, and are extremely focused:
  • Are elemental Shamans viable in a 5s yet? 4 Ele + 1 healer
  • Have the classes be roughly balanced yet? (God dam mages)
  • Has blizzard started making logical patches yet? (When I left they were changing things about classes just for shits and giggles)

There is much to be said on these three topics, but these topics are basically all I care about. I don’t care much about PvE, raid progression, guilds, or questing.


Recap of where I left:
Elemental was worthless. Burst was non-existent, our survivability was in the toilet, we were manna pigs that did very little damage and had no control over a fight. Mage’s Ring-O-God-Dam-Frost was so OP that it wasn’t evens an insult any more, it was just hilarious. Blizzard still had their heads up their ‘you know where’, and refused to nerf mages to the ground. I left just as they killed druids (Shape shifting), if that helps set a marker in your mind of where I was at.

The game was a cesspool of imbalance, win trading, hopping on bridges to collect your free loots, painstaking weeks of grinding for those that missed the bridge, and a fight being won by how many mages you had on the team.


Anything changed?