Thanks for all the solid pointers everyone. Looks like I will be trying out EB next week during farm to see how it does. I always thought EB was better for a more standstill style fight in the sense that I fell in love with the mobility UF gives ele shamans since EB can't be cast while moving.
I do have logs for both malkorok and IJ, though I don't know how valid they will be. On IJ we use the knockback strat, the main reason I parse only in the 40's-50's on that fight, and I don't think we have a malkorok log where I haven't been dead haha (my computer doesn't handle that fight well on 2