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So, what’s the score with Elemental as a spec? Why, Mister Rossi, have you been so assiduously avoiding any discussion of it?

Well, in part it’s because I don’t really like playing as an elemental shaman. It’s a personal preference issue: when I’m DPS, I like to be up in mob faces, not standing back casting spells. My default spec for when I’m not enhancement is restoration, if only because I seem to be able to keep people alive fairly well with that spec and usually healing is at a premium. But I would have no difficulty in admitting that not only am I not particularly enthused with elemental (unlike Mike Schramm, one of our big elemental boosters) I’m also not very good at playing one. So speccing elemental this week and testing out the spec was to some degree like asking Wayne Gretsky to go figure skating: sure, the guy can skate, and skate well, but he’s really not known for that particular kind of skating. Still, I did it, and I have to say that as is always the case when I do it I found the spec much less agonizing to play than I expected. It’s actually pretty fun. (Yes, I use basically the same gear as I do when I go resto now, which means my crit sucks, but I’m not going to blow all my badges on elemental gear just to test the spec.)

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