Lujaar

My first reaction when I saw Improved Stormstrike was that it was going to play hell with our cycles. Trying to weave an 8 second stormstrike, a 10-second twisting cycle, and a 6(5?) second shock cooldown just doesn't work. Even if we can't stormstrike every 8 seconds though, we can use the shorter cooldown as wiggle room to hold stormstrikes until windfury is up without throwing off our twisting/shock cycles.

Regardless its a good talent for the extra charges alone, assuming you raid with an ele shaman or a moonkin or both.

Elemental Devastation looks nice with the changes to hit/crit rating, probably as good as Nature's Guidance or better. The rating changes are nice for elemental in general, but trying to twist with no Totemic Focus, no water shield (because of Static Shock) and increased lv80 spell costs might be too much in Sunwell-equivalent gear.

Weapon Spec is the most interesting new talent though. Anyone know whether the fist proc is self-only? If the fist proc reduces armor for everyone, our weapons are going to be fists or nothing. If not, I can see mainhand axe/offhand mace or mainhand axe/offhand fist being good - get the crit bonus on your mainhand where it matters, and get a proc that buffs both weapons from your offhand. Using a fast mace or fist offhand with flametongue might be worthwhile for more buff uptime, but there's no way to know yet. (The new elemental talents imply a change to flametongue, presumably some kind of buff, and the hit/crit rating change would make flametongue offhand less terrible.)

Cool though it may be, I'm dreading what weapon spec could do to our itemization. We're an offspec, we're not going to get as much custom-tailored itemization as, say, rogues, and even rogue weapon itemization was an abortion at the beginning of TBC. Unless Blizzard is planning to put two axes, two maces, two fists on every badge vendor for every tier, I'm not looking forward to being this dependent on very specific and possibly nonexistent weapon drops.