Going Elemental in World of Warcraft

[Image: talents]After logging out of World of Warcraft for just shy of two years, I finally upgraded my account with the Burning Crusade expansion (yep, still one behind the latest), and jumped headlong into resurrecting my level 42 Troll Shaman (name: Scoober) from the proverbial dead.

It’s been a smoother reintroduction than I thought it would be. Most things look and feel more or less the same, although I do miss whatever UI mod I used to use that expanded the Quests window from the default claustrophobic monstrosity into something actually usable. I think it was part of Cosmos, which no longer exists.

Of course, they’ve updated the Shaman talent tree several times since the last time I played, which meant that I got a free chance to “respec,“---to reapportion the finite number of talent points I had earned by leveling up---and a chance to decide which of the three talent trees I want to pursue.

At the moment I’m running up the Elemental tree, because the final skill “Thunderstorm” sounds entirely too cool to me. The problem is that I don’t have much patience for being a ‘caster, which is why I’m playing a shammy in the first place. I think I might just try to wear some really high-quality armor, get a staff with some crazy DPS, and try to figure out what the crap you’re supposed to do with these annoying totems…