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I've been pvp'ing a lot as Enhancement lately. It's definitely suboptimal in the arena, but not as terrible as people make it out to be. I was able to go from 1500 rating to 1850 in one evening on my 3v3 team consisting of me, a Holy Paladin and an Arms Warrior. We haven't played anymore games yet, but I'm optimistic. Also, I do very well in BG's. Enhancement does a lot of damage, and can specifically burst a lot of damage upfront due to the mechanics of dual wield, Stormstrike and Windfury.
I don't think we're very far away from being viable in the arena. Shamanistic Rage needs to be immune to dispel and usable while crowd controlled. That change alone could possibly be enough. The other main problem is we can't apply a healing debuff like Warriors, Rogues and Hunters. One idea I had was for them to change Rockbiter weapon to proc a healing debuff of some sort, which I think would be a nice change seeing as Rockbiter Weapon currently has no use whatsoever.
Enhancement isn't that bad. It has some nice advantages. Our dps rotation is very basic and requires very few global cooldowns. Stormstrike every 9 or 10 seconds and maybe a shock and you're pretty much doing max damage. This leaves us a lot of time to do other things, like Purge and drop totems. It is quite easy for me to Purge every single buff on the target while still doing maximum dps. Elemental does not have this same advantage. We can also do a lot more than most classes in the event that we are the focus of the other teams assist train(i.e. 90% of the time.)
Another example of why our basic dps rotation is a huge advantage is that it allows us to reactively cast both Grounding Totem and Tremor Totem, which is very nice. An Enhancement shaman can almost completely lock out certain caster classes via reactive Grounding Totem and Earth Shocks, while still doing good damage on the main target. It's a big advantage.
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