

Astral Shift is a very useful damage mitigation tool.It’s buffed in 5.4, but will that be anou to make it useful? Stone Bulwark Totem - Too little absorbtion and too inconvenient to use.This is a passive ability, so one less thing to keep track of. Nature’s Guardian is useful if you anticipate dropping to low levels of health on a frequent basis, such as if you get the attention of a boss in the dungeon, or in PvP.A couple are checked twice, since the picks change whether you’re Elemental or Enhancement. Adjust accordingly and to your style of play. Keep in mind that there are a number of picks and some are better in some situations, such as wether you PvP more or less than the other guy. You can switch them around as often as you like.

Spend one Vanishing Powder (use other reagents if you’re 81+) and click “learn” and you have your new talent. All you need is to open your talent pane and pick the new talent.

Talents can also be changed easily to suit whatever the situations.

Take two weapons and hack the opposition to bits, using the elements to supplement your abilities. Enhancement for the “In Your Face” experience.Next week a hotfix will change them, so we’ll just concentrate on what you need to know, since you do want to play a Shaman.īuilds: Which is best for Shaman leveling? That depends… We’re also not going to cover any of the “flavor of the minute” buffs or nerfs. Restoration is nice in Dungeons and PvP groups, but is going to be a bit slow when soloing. You can definitely level quickly enough to be satisfying.Įlemental and Ehancement are the specs we’ll focus on with this page. If that’s what you’re looking for, read on.Īs a shaman you preserve a balance, you aren’t so easy to level as to make it a one-and-done process, yet you don’t lag so far as to make it to the level cap only to discover it’s been increased by another 10 levels, once again. A Shaman can use the elements to help hack their opponents to bit (Enhancement,) destroy them at range with lightning and other elemental forces (Elemental,) or keep the group healthy and happy (Restoration.) The Shaman takes a bit of skill to play and a lot of skill to play well. Why become a Shaman? Because there’s a certain satisfaction in commanding the forces of nature to obliterate your opposition.
