So here I am. Finally.

I’ll be frank I’m the shammy that was put on the shelf, and I haven’t been played since pre-BC when shammys were the hordes kamikaze vanguard. We wielded huge two-handed axes, thew our defence to the winds (not that we had a lot of that) and engaged the Alliance in the manner of Scots warriors having at the English, and just when the Alliance thought they had killed us – up we would return with reincarnation and practically half a health bar of retribution to lay down on their asses.

“You can take our lives but you can’t take our Freeeeeeedom”

Pretty much sums up my previous life as a shaman, heck I am even blue – thus warpaint compliant.

Incidentally paladins were the proper English – plated, horsed and hated. The Alliance game-play balance for the Horde shaman. I have a couple of old-world-wow friends who used to play shaman and they did indeed despise the paladin. It was a bit like a racial hatred that came with the shaman class.

Then burning crusade came out. Horde get the paladin. And I have to say we all rolled one gleefully just so we could venture out, start a gank, and then bubble hearth to safety – it had to be done.

There were a lot of changes to shaman gameplay come Burning Crusade. Two-handed weapons were no longer the bomb, windfury crits had been ‘fixed’ and shamans were given dual weapon abilities … all of which completely changed the game play. As happens to many a new ‘main’ arose from the mess and the shammy was shelved. (One shaman I used to run with actually has taken a paladin as a main which is most amusing … his new racial disgruntlement? Well if he ever blogs on his shaman blog it really does appear to be the Draenei shaman class :p heh)

The potential the Wrath of the Lich King expansion (which I shall probably take to calling Wot-licky) is promising shamans is really interesting me, enough that I think I would like to take the shaman into Northrend.

So this blog will be basically about dusting off a lvl 60 shaman, levelling them to 70 and learning to deal with all the game play changes.