Shaman 5.3 Changes and Elementalqt Changes VLOG

Shaman 5.3 Changes

Lava Burst now has a 2 second cast time, up from 1.5 seconds, and deals 25% more damage.
Lightning Bolt can now be cast while moving.
Glyphs

New Glyph: Glyph of Lightning Shield causes Lightning Shield to reduce the amount of damage taken by 10% for 6 seconds after Lightning Shield is triggered.
Glyph of Unleashed Lightning has been removed and replaced with Glyph of Lightning Shield.
Enhancement

Feral Spirit's summoned Spirit Wolves are now immune to root and snare effects.
Lava Lash now deals 300% weapons damage, up from 250%.
Mental Quickness now converts 65% of the Shaman's attack power to spell power, up from 55%.
Stormstrike now deals 450% weapon damage, up from 375%

these changes are almost as awesome as dan is :3

Still doubting whether the Lava Burst change is a nerf or a buff. Seeing as it was done in regards to Shamans hitting the GCD due to the Legendary Meta gem, I feel like they are balancing the class around a single gem here. (Just like monks are, currently, 'balanced' around the Lei-Shen trinket.)

I do think that balancing around an item that's only going to last a limited amount of time, it will give the devs much more work later on in the game. Rather they'd balance around the class itself, in the form of glyphs if they have to, in order to change things like this. As another problem also arises: what about people who do NOT have the gem? Do they get flatout nerfed? Elemental single target dps is already lacking slightly, so that'd be a real shame.