Please answer Elemental Shaman concerns

If you are refering to the Elemental changes I announced a few weeks ago, those will be in the next patch. I can't tell you exactly when that patch will be because it has to go through several rounds of testing. It will be before the big Ulduar patch though and will hopefully be available on the PTR.

To be clear though, most of those changes were to address concerns about Elemental scaling at item levels not currently available in the game. They don't include some major buff to Elemental damage overall, though we don't think Elemental shamans are being overwhelmingly sat out of raids either.

Please feel free to keep the thread going, but if I must reiterate again...

I am not the least bit interested in QQ. I am only interested in intelligent discussions on the issues at hand. If you aren't sure what the difference is, then you should probably err on the side of caution and not post. At least half of the posts in this thread don't meaningfully contribute to the discussion. They are /facepalms or how neglected you feel or how we don't understand your class and blah blah. Please post that somewhere else. I'm not going to read it here and I doubt many other players want to see it either.

The numbers are good. We like numbers. But you have to do more than just link to WWS stats and say "Here." We can look at stats ourselves. Some players have attempted to interpret and analyze the numbers. That is something we can use.

Please don't make me have to ban my way to having a good signal to noise ratio here. That's not really what I want my presence on the forums to be.

We have looked at the issue some more and do have concerns that even after these changes that Elemental shaman damage will be too low.

I'll address the problem again when we have an idea for how we're going to fix it, but this is a "soon" fix not a "distant future" fix.

Hopefully this won't get buried here.

Here is what we are thinking about to try on the PTR for Elemental:

Elemental Oath -- In addition to existing effects, now increases spell damage done by the Shaman by 5/10% while Elemental Focus Clearcasting is active.

Elemental Mastery -- Overhauled. Now increases the Shaman’s critical strike chance by 20% for 30 seconds. Cooldown remains 3 minutes. We recognize this might be a slight nerf in certain PvP situations where players relied on the shaman to nuke an injured person to death. Still, I'm betting most shamans will prefer the new design.

Glyph of Lightning Bolt -- No longer affects cost. Now increases damage by 4%.