What is/was your fondest moment as a Shaman?Follow

Well, my shaman is only 43, but every moment since I got dual-wield has been my fondest. I can tear through enemies so quickly... it's insane. I love it! I'm addicted! Haha :-P

I leveled Elemental from Water Shield to 70. And I hated every minute of it. PvP sucked, I felt like an instant-reliant dueling Arcane Mage, PvE was boring with one button LB spam... I was miserable. Then I changed to Resto... and holy cow... it was like a whole new class. Despite all the shortcomings, I absolutely love playing Resto. In PvE, of course, but especially in PvP, where my true love lies.

Hmmm. Fondest moment you say?

I guess it was about a month or two after I had hit 70, I already had a 70 warrior and was more or less just grinding reps with all the factions in an effort to get the best gear (at the time, was not long after TBC came out, I leveled 1-70 in like 9 days /played which was like... 14 days real time). I had a couple weeks off work, so sue me.

And yeah I did take vacation for this.

I was one of maybe 5-6 level 70 Alliance shamans on the whole server, and despite having been enhancement spec the whole journey to 70, was decently geared to both Elemental and Restoration specs. I got accepted (not sure how) to the best Alliance guild on the server and ended up being in their 3rd Karazhan group. After a dismal couple of runs and lackluster performance from me, I ended up leaving the guild to learn how to play Resto spec.

I wasn't having that much fun healing all the time so I eventually switched to Elemental and became good friends with a Resto spec Shaman, we both joined a fledgling raiding guild but built a 5 person heroic static group with both of us in it. Eventually it became a 3 shaman warrior paladin group that absolutely demolished any heroic and we were having tons of fun. Heroic Old hillsbrad before the nerf though.. :shudder:

We finally got up to prince in Karazhan and my fondest moment was being one of 3 people alive with Prince at about 6-7% health. Popping everything I had and getting him to 1% before I died. But popping back alive with an ankh and toasting his *** with frost shock for the win.

That was fun

Edited, Jul 15th 2008 2:07pm by Paracleets

It is telling of the decline of the class that my fondest moment was easily two whole years ago, back before TBC, even before the Shaman 'review' that trivialised Windfury. I was about level 40-ish, and was running around with the strongest gear it was possible to have for a Shaman at that level, SM mail gear and the glorious Corpsemaker (fiery enchant too).

I was roaming around STV when I got jumped by a Priest and a Warrior, 37 and 42, in an enclosed space (hate STV terrain at times) so I couldnt run, the only thing I could use for cover was a giant tree stump. I attacked the Warrior more out of reflex than anything else, but quickly discovered Priests have healing spells. I ended up Frost Shock kiting the Warrior around the tree stump which broke LoS with the Priest, got a lucky Windfury and downed him. After that, the Priest was an easy kill, since Purge kills HoTs and shields, if I recall correctly I one-shotted him and his 1.7k health pool...

Those were the days...

Edited, Jul 15th 2008 11:27pm by Sinstralis

While specced resto in healing gear consisting mostly of cloth and leathers helping to run a bunch of lvl 50+'s through Stratholme.

Being mind controlled/possessed by the Baroness.

Wiping the floor with the other 4 party members.

When they were all dead, having enough mana left over to res a couple of them.

That was such fun! Pity it wasn't really *me* doing it though ;)

getting WF with a 2H against a hunter and a rogue back to back in a WSG match killed them both so fast

When i was level 47, i killed an AFK Warrior in Un'Goro. Certainly made my day...

Farming rugged leather from the yetis in Winterspring with Jon on his prot pally. This rogue appeared, attacked me (of course), I popped into ghost wolf, had the pally hit me with blessing of protection, and bounced out of range to cast earth shield on the pally and start throwing out lightning bolts and shocks. This happened about five times, each time he would attack me first and then run when the pally started hitting him--I would follow, alternating ghost wolf and frost shock to slow him so the paladin could catch up, and we killed him every time. The last time, though, was the best--he was down to low low health, and I somehow managed to get close enough, still in ghost wolf, to bite him. He died. It was awesome, and probably pretty embarrassing for him, too.

Posted this some point in past I think, but...

Early in BC, went immediately for Allied shammy.
In Un'Goro, the gorilla cave.
Hunter pet takes me on during a mob fight.
I kill the mob, charge the hunter, and get him down to about 10% before he kills me.
He /spits on me, then /dances on my corpse.
I ankh rez and beat the snot out of him.
The true joy was the thoughts of him desperately pounding his keyboard to break out of dance and figure out what the hell was happening.
So, I /spit /danced and hung about his corpse for, ohhh, about 10 minutes and moved on.
Then proceeded to continue kicking the snot out of him all afternoon, every time I saw him, usually waiting till he was in combat.
Think I got him about 10-12 times. Funny bit was every time he saw me he'd run, every time I caught up he'd /beg or /salute.
That was a fun afternoon.

Edited, Aug 6th 2008 7:48pm by OzoneSSX

Finally hit 49 and decided to WSG a bit when I got the opportunity to pull the suprise ress and kill on a hunter that thought it would be funny to /dance on my corpse with his back to me, effectively rubbing his *** in my face. It was a close fight so he didn't have much health left so one more frost shock put him down after I ressed. I /waved and sent him packing.

PvP with a shaman is nowhere near as bad as i've been led to believe it was gonna be.

Hitting 70, of course.