EM + NS Shared Cooldown Nerf Reverted!

As confirmed by a blue in this thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976427746&pageNo=1&sid=1#13

However a veteran poster named Kainazzo, someone who's very intelligent regarding the Shaman and our history with Blizzard, had this to say regarding this issue (Original post found here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976277921&sid=1)

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" Blue confirmed: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976427746&pageNo=1&sid=1#13
It seems that the nerf to the EM+NS cooldown was intentionally reverted to its pre-2.4 state.

Normally I'd say "Yay, good job guys! Blizzard DOES listen!", but under the current circumstances I cannot and will not make that assertion. You see, the thing is, Kalgan - king of all things class balance - STILL said that they do not intend for classes to have "one-dimensional burst damage", and the Shaman was not exempt to this. Why now, would he go back on this and have the change reverted?

Simple - they are not going to be giving Shamans the survivability buffs Kalgan alluded to when he said that there are buffs coming, but that certain ones won't make the patch due to time constraints. To nerf Elemental and not give them the buffs they need in other areas (making the class more complete and thus NOT "one-dimensional"), would spell doom for them in PvP and in 5v5 specifically, where Blizzard currently feels Shamans are doing ok.

All in all this should leave a nauseated feeling in your stomach, because in the end we're going to come out looking mostly the same (with a few modifications to Enhancement to help them, but certainly not fix them) and once again get the shaft just before an expansion, meaning we'll have to wait until then, maintaining the possibility that we'll get shafted in the expansion as well.

Don't stand for it. Cancel your accounts if this all comes true, because it seems to me that they now KNOW what they need, they are just not giving us high enough priority to actually get it done."

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In a sense, he's right. Its not something we haven't seen before (the Earth Shock on DR nerf back in 2.3 that was reverted but nothing else substantially changed) Myself though, I'll be reserving my judgment until all of 2.4 has been finalized...but it wouldn't surprise me if Kainazzo was right.