I may have gotten the WoW itch, tell me what's happened in the past 2 years.

[heyaz]

So I hadn't boxed since wrath. I had the 4x ret + dk team at the end of wrath as well, and my four shaman. Shaman looked so good on paper (especially with ascendance) in MoP I went with them.

I leveled 4x 90 shaman and a druid (pve tank) right when the expansion came out. It became clear very quickly that elemental was weak in pvp, in fact the weakest I've ever seen it (worse than beginning of wrath). I tested enhance on one shaman and decided not to box it. Anyway I continued to gear them thinking they'd hit critical mass as some pvp power percentage but they didn't get much better. At the moment I mostly play them as 4x resto, just healing - that spec is actually quite strong and stacking them has significant advantages: huge passive healing, no issue with fears (4x tremor totems a minute or 8x with the talent), raid-wide freedom-like totem (windwalk), 4x spirit link and ascendance resto duplicates all healing across the team. it's fun but, it's healing... not blowing stuff up.

I'm leveling 5x DKs (almost 89 now). They're fairly strong in PVP, have their share of aoe-cc (check the 90 talents), can death grip twice in a row, and have several other benefits. With tech being so cheap I'll be building out a new machine and add in my other guys for a 5x DPS 3-5x healer comp I'll use in world PVP and battlegrounds.

Arenas - I'm not planning anything serious this season. If DK's stay strong I'll probably go with 4x DK + dedicated healer or try the method of leading with the healer; if neither my resto shaman nor resto druid are viable I'll bring up a paladin.

I'm also considering swapping in a warrior for one of the DKs to add in shockwave, AOE fear, skull banner, etc. as it would probably add more to the comp than a 5th DK.


tl;dr
-I have 4x shaman + 1 druid at 90, and the shaman suck
-leveling 5x DKs to add to them
-adding in a warrior later