Aelli - This is why I don't play Ele Shaman anymore

[heyaz]

Sure, you can't draw conclusions based on one game.

But, Elemental is unequivocally the worst pvp spec in the game, even solo. Multiply that by four, add in disadvantages of stacked hard casters and it's even worse.

They don't get a lot better with gear. Mine are in full malevolent and they still suck - everything hits like a wet noodle, they have zero survivability, and ascendance is the easiest thing to chain cc and lock down. I went resto on all four of them, super OP healing spec that stacks very very well.

I think that game would've only been a little bit longer had the shaman been fully geared, all epics. They really don't stand a chance.

I did a 2v2 carry the other night on one of the DKs and we ran into Ele+Priest. Both for full malevolent. The damage output of the shaman was garbage even when I let him free cast for a bit, when it got too much it was easy to just lock him down for the duration of ascendance. The rest of the match (which the super geared priest prolonged) he threw out some elemental blasts which hit for for a whopping 40k, and some lava bursts, and it was just laughable. My partner was in greens/contender's gear and easily healed through it while I focused the priest.

When multiboxed you have no instants unless you take ascenstral swiftness, and you can bolt out a... wait for it... ~200k burst, maybe. Then you stand there and hard cast like an idiot, assuming you aren't cc'd (which you are most of the time)... when melee are weaving in and out you can IWT + lightning bolt (which btw hits for less than my Resto druid's wrath), or use spiritwalkers grace and try to hard cast a bunch of crap.