I should say that I fully appreciate the benefits of NS, especially the on-the-move aspect of it (and the fact that shamans have basically no anti-pushback abilities). It will be what I respec to after the rest of my 4xShaman team dings L70 (I plan to spend a lot of painful deaths in the arena). However, I think I might seriously reconsider if I was going to do primarily fight in BGs. I also think it's a tougher choice than most of us would have guessed-- even with some crit damage reduction, I can see a lot of scenarios where someone dies in 2 GCDs as opposed to 3...


Short story: I'm not trying to advocate ToW over NS. I'm just showing the negative trade-offs for choosing NS, which is significant decrease in the crits/salvo that you'll see. I also think the math supports it being a good battleground or casual arena spec for someone who might be loving ToW for PvE/gold farming in instances.