Absolutely nothing wrong with elemental shaman outside of ascend proc.
Proccing ascend is RNG trash that needs to just never be in the game for any reason. Training wheels accidental win condition giving me Sinful Ret vibes where they’d accidentally kill players they weren’t targetting.
Ele shaman outside of ascen proc is 100000% fine and y’all need to get over it.
You don’t even have to play with ascend proc. A lot of people don’t. Skip it, take skybreakers + dispel pvp talent and flame shock does loads of spread damage just by itself and procs a lot more lava bursts/maelstrom than if you were trying to use the first iterations of big meatball build. You still have like 80% of what made the big meatball build work but an easier time getting to stormkeeper and imo better consistent/less rng damage.