So it appears after much investigation, Blizzard could not find an actual bug with elemental DPS. However, they agree that we needed a slight boost. The solution is to give lightning overload a small boost. Instead of a 20% chance to proc an additional lightning bolt, it will be bumped up to a 33% chance. According to Ghostcrawler, this works out to about a 5% overall bump to a raid buffed elemental shaman's DPS. This change will be hotfixed into the game over the next couple of days. It should be noted that the tooltip will still read 20% until the next client patch.
I am very happy Blizzard is addressing us. While not an overwhelming boost, it should help us pickup a couple hundred more DPS. Even before this buff, I was in no way "terrible" like everyone on the forums seems to complain about. I came in 2nd overall for the night in our Ulduar last night. Most boss fights I was top 5, and usually hovering just under 5K DPS. A small boost like this will probably let me get back into the top 1-3 in most boss fights where I can stand mostly still and burn. Elemental still suffers somewhat in movement heavy fights.
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