Even the most “elite” of the WoW player base are so only within the confines of something that is a leisurely activity…playing a video game. I wouldn’t equate WoW to a board game like chess, but I would equate it to checkers. Would you ever say that there are elite checkers players out there? Are there elite “Sorry” or “Chutes and Ladders” players? No there aren’t.
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There’s no social element to checkers. There aren’t systems in checkers that dictate one thing one day and another thing the next. There’s no mutual cooperation in checkers. There’s aren’t rating gates and time gates in checkers. There are complexities in MMORPGS that facilitate the formation of a hierarchy within the player base.
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This was an analogy that was comparing the position within the genre, not the capabilities of the entity.
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Well, just like there are “elite” football players, there are “elite” gamers in this game. Part of being elite in this game is being able to deal with the circumstances here beyond what casual players might be willing to endure.
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This is subjective, and reletive to the individual player. I don’t feel “elite” when completing the most difficult content in World of Warcraft, due mainly to other more difficult things I have experienced in my life.
Every player isn’t the same though.
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One word to destroy your whole argument…Golf.
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You can say that about any given sport or hobby. The fact is though that within the playerbase, there are those who are better in a very real and objective way than others.
Also deny it all you want, but it is a lot harder to be objectively good at wow than in the past. In fact, with every expansion, the game has gotten much harder to play. Go watch old videos sometimes of Vanilla raiders and read boss mechanics and class guides from them and see how mindlessly simple and easy it was back then especially when compared to today when even dungeon bosses are more mechanically complex than old school raid bosses ever were (let alone how to actually play your spec).
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Not a specific reply to you, Galabris, but using your words to clarify my own.
Prime example of my previous post.
That is why I said this.
World of Warcraft has always had the easiest boss mechanics in the MMO genre. I know this because of the other games I have played which are more difficult, watering down how “elite” you can possibly be in WoW.
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me, I’m 100% a casual player and even if I play 12 hours a day, I’m still a complete causal and always just gonna be. Some of you though are what I’d consider elite gamers and are the real deal. Some of you are actually good at the game instead of just spending a lot of time in it lol…
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If you schedule your life around your WoW time, you’re not casual. End of Discussion.
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Weeeee are the casuals, my friends…
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what’s your point?
trying to ruffle some egos? 
Example of one who scheduled his life around his hobby. Not casual.
What are you, some kind of filthy casual checkers player?
I play in some hard core rings of checkers, no hold bars, people get hurt
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TL3’s asleep at the wheel you gotta do what you gotta do.
Is this like when Rick finally “got” the title of the book/show?
" WE are the walking dead!! " 
If you play pick up basketball every Wednesday night are you Michael Jordan? People schedule their hobbies. Your point is weird.
Casual or not casual doesn’t matter what content you do or how hard it is or even how much you play. It’s all a matter of Priorities: how important is the game to you? If you play casually, then it’s not that important. If it’s important enough to schedule your life around it, then your not a casual player.