[Elemental] Crit scaling, address it. Now.

Not in 6 months please.

Q u o t e:
We do take player tests and estimates very seriously, particularly when we can verify the skill, knowledge and motivation of the player involved. At the end of the day, we are still going to rely on our internal testing to a large degree. You can have a tee hee moment about the times when we've gotten it wrong, because that certainly happens, but in the overwhelming majority of cases, our numbers tend to be right.

I'm not tee heeing.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfpqGuOy2gD5x_5fDNtQcDw

My gear's no where near perfect yet but I have enough options from slots to confirm that his data is more or less correct. The EP value for critical strike rating is .52 for Elemental compared to .93 for Haste and 1.16 for Spell Power. Upcoming changes don't fix that. Upcoming gear is not specialized for Elemental, ergo, scaling problem remains. That ~7% we're getting from Elemental Oath really isn't enough to catch Elemental back up to Balance to begin with, but even if you pretend it does, the gap is going to grow again in Ulduar.

You made a spell that always crits a major piece of our rotation and then failed to compensate for the fact that +crit doesn't do jack for our DPS and smothered all caster gear with the stat. At some gearing point, Flame Shock won't be worth casting either, so you should probably look into that too.