I mean if they nerf ele shamans or enh shamans, both of which overperform it really won’t fix the bg landscape.
MM hunters, spriest , and boomkins will still oppress every bg at every turn.
The reality is, and I made a post on this.
World buffs plus windfury in classic, make melee scale infinitely better than casters or ranged* in pve.
The devs see casters aren’t doing well so they BUFF their damage in pve. Instead of adjusting pve mob armor, removing or adjusting world buffs, or adding a unique pve mechanic.
When you are in pvp you don’t exist in a world of stand still parse fights, full raid buffs, and definitely not world buffs for long if it all.
So what has the balance done, well you have shifted gross amounts of base power to casters so they can be competitive in a min maxed environment that just doesn’t simply translate to PvP.
We have chimera shots hitting for near 3k (someone had the Imgur in a post around here somewhere I’m Sure this was a unique circumstance but the ability can regularly crit for sub 2k before the damage nerf as an instant cast)because we buffed the abilities and gave HUNDREDS of attack power to marksmen hunter. Sure they needed this for pve but this has created a massive PvP imbalance.
We gave shadow priests flat percent damage bonus to dots and another flat damage bonus aura to shadow form.
We gave boomkins another 10% flat damage bonus on natural weapons and made omen proc from casting spells
We absolutely cooked ele and gave them 200 spellpower and 5 target flameshock with 100% bonus damage and 18 second duration being one of the strongest single global damage buttons in the entire game.
Enhance. Well I have an entire write up x1000 on this but tldr ; enhance should have mimicked storm build from retail and been a physically augmented spec not a full melee mage god. It should have been 2h from the beginning because classic imbues were and will never be balanced for dual wield and the imbue logic is apparently too hard for the devs to fix fully since we are stuck with 5 minute imbues.
They CANNOT balance PvP and PvE until they address world buffs, raid buffs, and available consumables. Likely they won’t either. Just know when that if they keep making buffs based on pve, casters will win. I swapped from enh to ele in pvp and I regularly dominate EVERY GAME without anyone having a hope to do anything about it. It will get worse. Unless the above is addressed. Or if blizz decides to just let casters be worse in pve.