I came across this thread created here last spring and saw a few posts about Elemental Shamans being bad/mediocre in PvP:
http://forum.warmane.com/showthread.php?t=354420
I used to play an Ele Shaman in retail and just recently started re-experiencing TBC again through Warmane. Even though I was only 16-17 years old at the time of retail I managed to get very close to a 2k rating in 3s with my Ele Shaman, (got to around 1995 or something like that), which I was pretty proud of. Our setup was Holy Pala, Arms Warrior and me. Our base tactic usually consisted of picking a target (usually the enemy healer) and we would burst him down quickly, with me giving WF totem to our Warrior. It worked surprisingly well, even though I didn't even have a mic to speak with on TS either.
Later on I joined a fairly skilled 5s team that I did pretty well in also. There were few of us Ele Shamans back then and we seemed highly sought after.
Perhaps people have learned how to counter Ele Shamans better since then? I've been thinking of leveling a Shaman recently, but would I only end up being disappointing because of Ele Shamans not being as great as I remember them?