Ele shammys @ poor as of patch 3.0.2 :D

[MartinD999]

Anyone else thinking Ele shammys are absolutely dire now? Stormstrike and LB boost is needed! :mad:

[elitenls]

Yup, you need some serious love. :(

<3 for you!

[Grimnir]

After a few days of BGs with ENH on PTR and now live I think all shaman are hurting a bit... We are once again left behind in key areas.

[karolishpm]

yeah elemental shamans are really low now we are like "buffers" now totems and elemental oath we did BT tonight and on High Warlord i was 12th with 1700dps (Bloodlust trinkets etc) and top was retri pally with ~2600dps i think and few rogues ~2500-2550. On all other bosses my dps was around 1400 and i was 6-10. well at least Illidan was quite good all everyone's dps was around same max was only 1700.

Little notice that i had no mana problems when i crit my mana regenerating faster that LB used it (i have -10% mana cost glyph)

also nice thing was that on Bloodboil i had 53% crit (recount showed that, also mage used on me Focus Magic, also flametongue weapon glyph)

[MalooTakant]

I also ran BT last night, and it wasn't THAT bad.

Pre-3.0.2 I would pull 1500 dps, in last nights raid I was pulling 2000 dps. If you ask me that's a pretty good upgrade.

However our hunters and rogue who were normally doing 1700dps are doing 2500dps and up. We're not on par with other dps classes but honestly that's to be expected. We're a hybrid and should never be doing more dps than a pure dps class. A 500-700 dps difference is still a pretty big gap but I don't think elemental shamans are in the terrible state that everyone thinks they are.

[Celia]

We're a hybrid and should never be doing more dps than a pure dps class.

Apparently you have missed the entire reasoning behind the buffs to Ret, Shadow and Balance. Ghostcrawler has said time and again, if anyone still thinks that, Blizzard has failed.

[Lazorbeam]

This is level 70, not 80. Things will be different.

If you think pure dps classes should be doing more damage, why are ret pallies annihilating the dps meters?

Blizzard has stated multiple times that they want all classes to have the ability to dps equally. They will give pure dps classes more utility. Example: Fan of Knives for rogues.

Another, somewhat moot point, is that you're fighting level 60 bosses.

If shammies are still poor at level 80, I will have much sympathy for you. Until then, please abstain from posts like this because I see them in /2 too much already.