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

[heyaz]

I've a shaman with the T2 2/2 weapon, and there the damage is really good vs full geared players (elemental blast / instant lava burst / full fulmination combos hit like a truck). But totally agree that compared to what other specs can do consitently ele is in a really poor state. I went resto on that shaman and have the 4p resto bonus (silence/interrupt immunity for 5s during spirit walker's grace) which combined with an aura mastery from a hpally makes it a bit less problematic. But I'm not even gonna go into the flame shock dispel and no defense issue.

I think you already implied this, but compared to T2 warlock, spriest, mage.... ele shaman aren't that impressive outside of the lucky mastery/echo proc and a crit on fulmination (good luck, with the 10% crit chance and no modifiers). Getting off that kinda combo on someone that's paying attention also requires CC which... shaman don't really have much of.

I was messin about in Goldshire on my resto druid the other day, pretty much being unkillable flying through, kiting away, flying and mid-air healing myself, etc. Then I got feared while flying mounted (??), immo/conflag/chaos bolt -> dead with half of the fear left. My druid has 61% resil and 380k hp and there was about 50-75k overkill. Now back to ele shaman....if a shaman tried to pull some big combo on me I'd probably lol and hot through it. If he goes ascendance I'll just tree form and remember he has no way to stop me from casting. Most classes react to ele shaman the same way.