Not sure what people expected, it was pretty useless from the moment it was announced that it was ES-exclusive, and especially not being elemental.

I'd still like to see how it works in a group situation, who knows, maybe it will be useful for timed nukes in certain scenarios. That's about the only thing I can see it being useful for right now.

Also, how exactly does group casting work? Will everyone get the new animations, or will there only be one animation, or several different animations, depending on the number of hits landed?

I wish I could log on the test server...