In all fairness, unless they've played the class for a while, you can't expect them to know everything about it. I read through the FAQ here and the only weapons paragraph I found mentioned nothing about weapon classes.
The class description available at the top of the main Shaman forum here on the site has apparently been moved. There used to be a link, but I can't see it anywhere now. In the old days it was all visible above the forum, but they removed it and created a link instead. I haven't clicked that link in forever. It's very easy to miss because it's just some blue text. And now it's apparently gone entirely.
(edit: read below)
I don't think I've ever used the official website's class descriptions. And really, who bothers reading up on everything about a game when you can play it? I came to these forums
after I started playing. Mainly because I needed advice on something I had tried and failed at, not something I was about to do and wanted not to fail at. Of course, at the time, everyone was new so no one considered it /facepalmworthy when people asked why they couldn't equip or train swords as a Shaman.
So, while I don't agree with the tone in Tsuvati's post, I do understand his frustration.
(edit) Ah, now I see. When you select the Shaman forum from the drop-down menu above, you are taken to:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?wclass=8
This page does not contain a Class Description link.
However, if you go to the
class selection menu and select the Shaman forum, you are taken to:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/class.html?wclass=8
Which is an entirely different page.
Same thing happens if you select a thread and then click the Thread Index link. I always use the drop-down menu, hence why I thought the class description to have vanished.
Edited, May 21st 2009 12:54am by Mazra