Originally Posted by
Kralljin
Generally i agree with you on that sentiment.
But i already tackled this above: It's not just that Elemental is bad, Dps Shaman as a whole is bad.
If Elemental was the "dead" spec of Shaman, okay, shit happens, i'll go enhance, but enhance is overall hardly better and that's kinda the dealbreaker for me, 2/3 of the Shaman class is not considered good for High level mythic raiding, this is a throwback to Vanilla where you have the choice between rerolling to a "proper dps" or go resto.
If two specs of a class are just shit, then the devs fucked up and this is not some scenario that only happens during those crazy expansion release times, that is groundhog day for any person that wants to dps but still play shaman.
Because the repetition of both Enhancement and Elemental being treated as "fringe" specs by a lot of mythic raiders is just disheartening, but the reputation is sadly well earned because ever since Wotlk (which was released a decade ago btw.) seeing those specs in good mythic guilds remained the exception rather than the rule.
Take this example to the Mage side, imagine if both Arcane and Frost remained trash compared to Fire since Wotlk, Mages would have jumped at Blizzards throat sooner or later.
As last sentence, it's not just the utility of Elemental that is debatable, the fact that Blizzard constantly tunes this spec dpswise *just* below average is quite strange, because that it what kills the spec usually.