HARRY! YOU'RE ALIVE! ...And you're a horrible shot...

7/8 Ulduar on farm? Check. (Damn you Yogg-Saron *shakes fist*)

ToC cleared? lulz...

2800 Achievement points? Check.

All of this while only trying moderately hard? *****, please...

What the hell else is there left for a ******* baller like me to do in this game?

The answer: step up the difficulty of the game by rolling a Shaman; an Elemental Shaman.

Of all the classes I have mained, the Elemental Shaman is easily the most fun, yet most absolutely frustrating of them.

On the fun side, there are two amazing reasons to play an Ele Shaman. The first of which is the burst. While still nowhere near capable of what a decently geared Destro Lock can do (nerf this **** harder plz), if I am left alone to cast, people turn into pink mist and grease stains. The damage I can do with 3200SP is downright absurd at times.

The second reason to play an Elemental Shaman is, you guessed it - Thunderstorm. In my humble opinion, there is not a single mechanic in this game that offers the endless hours of sheer entertainment and glee that Thunderstorm does. If I was a 13 year old girl (and I am not, so hold off on the PM's, horndog's), Thunderstorm would be my Robert Pattinson; I just can't get enough of it.

Arathi Basin? The Lumber Mill.

Eye of the Storm? The flag spot.

Isle of Conquest? Parachute onto the opposing teams cannon towers, attack the cannons until the operator jumps out to fight you and *BOOM HEADSHOT* SkillStorm them off the tower to their death.

Blade's Edge Mountain Arena? Buh-bye, GTFO MAH BRIDGE, *****ES.

Alterac Valley? Single handedly recap towers by drawing the other team to the edge, punting them off and recap it while they are running backup.

Yes, I am totally "that ******* guy" in the Battleground that seeks out every opportunity available to be as "gay" as possible (am I doin it rite, Vance?) with such a ridiculously overpowered spell.

The supremely frustrating part about playing an Ele shaman is the simple fact that anything with interrupts humping your leg for any length of time = a big fat GG. In BG's, you are mostly Rogue fodder. In the Arena, you are almost exclusively trained for the entire game, every game.

This can be pretty devastating in 2's and 3's (lol Ele in 2's = /wrists, grats to those who can succeed at it, as such), but in 5's if they get on me, they will more than likely lose. 100% Ghost Wolf + Earthbind roots + Thunderstorm makes me a really horrible target for all of the ******* horribad wannabe faceroll cleaves that just absolutely infest the bracket. Plus I got mad cuts and jukes when I rock out with my **** out in GW.

(Disclaimer: I prefer drawing regular Herpes Melee Cleave over the AIDS Wizard Cleave any day of the week.)

Overall, I am very happy with my choice to have rerolled a hybrid. After farming up my Ele set, I farmed up a starter Enhance set and scored a pair of Deathbringer's from 10 and 25 man Ony the first week, which was only made sweeter by me somehow winning a Main Spec roll on a 196DPS Main Hand weapon as an Ele Shaman and receiving a menstrual flow of nonstop tears and blood clots via tells from the groups enhance Shaman about it. Did he not know I was going to use it to absolutely dominate the 1600's in 2's with a Blood DK? Apparently not; but he should now consider himself informed.

And when I get bored with that? I can respec into Resto in my Ele gearz with my amazing 78Mp5 AND HEAL! YEAH! 30-18 in 2's healing a Destro lock in my Ele gear seems ******* legit.

After playing a Hunter in S2/3 to around 2100, a Rogue in S4 to 2k, a Priest and DK in S5/6 to around 2k and my Shaman to 2k this season, I can safely say that in my opinion, the Shaman class EASILY has the highest skill cap for an average player such as myself, within those ranges.

So to all the pro Ele's out there, please don't hesitate to flood my inbox with some tips and tricks : )