Well here it goes.. take this as you wish, but i'll post what i know about Elemntal Shaman and how to gear them up. My Main Raid toon is a Elemental Shaman and i'm in Hyjal and BT right now.

If your starting out there are a few minimums that you need to get.

1. you need 3% Hit rating if your Draenei, 4% if your any Horde shaman. This is from Gear and does not include your totems.

2. Spell Damage is the most important Stat for gear, so stack this until you are up to aprox 1000 unbuffed (no totems or anything). You can Never have enough Spell Damage, so make sure every gem you use has at Spell Damage and then another stat like Crit or Haste.

3. 30% crit with no buffs (no totems or trinkets or anything) is the point you want to try to get to. This Does Include Talents tho which is 10%. Making it 30% you need from gear it self. after 40% Crit you actually get less benifit from crit (1% crit after 40%, works out to be about .6% effective so don't go above 40)

4. When you have the above then look at stacking Spell Haste. BIG WARRNING! Your mana Efficency will SUCK the more haste you stack. SUCK BIG TIME! Before +1000 Spell Damage Haste is worse off then streight +spell Damage so this is not a good thing to stack for 5 mans and Heroic content.

The above is for raiding. You won't get 1000 spell damage with out all the badge gear and/or Tier 5 or better.

For Heroics and 5 Man Content (also will get you all the way to SSC and TK If you get that far).

Stack Spell Damage and then Spell Crit. and make sure you have the 3% (4% for Horde) Hit rating which is easy as that's only about 40 points and 14 of that can come from the helm enchant alone. I try to stay with Mail gear for survivability, but i know you can get father if you wear Cloth and Leather as well at lower levels.

Socket +Spell damage gems, or the +spell Damage/+Spell Crit gems

One day i'll do a write up on what Elemental Shaman need and sort out all the Junk that is floating around on the Interwebs, and turn it in to English for thsoe who can't understand Elties Jerks Crappy Graphs and such.

Edit: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...t&n=Anastasiya