Shaman Leveling

If you are looking for a Shaman Leveling Guide, you’ve found the right place. I’m going to show you a Shaman Leveling Guide that will allow you to get to level 80. Even better: You’re going to level a lot faster!

I’m going to give you an overview over the talent build, attack rotations and best major glyphs to equip.

Enhancement Leveling Build

  • Enhancing Totems 3/3
  • Ancestral Knowledge 3/5
  • Thundering Strikes 5/5
  • Shamanistic Focus 1/1
  • Elemental Weapons 3/3
  • Flurry 5/5
  • Spirit Weapons 1/1
  • Mental Dexterity 3/3
  • Improved Shields 3/3
  • Weapon Mastery 3/3
  • Unleashed Rage 3/3
  • Dual Wield 1/1
  • Dual Wield Specialization 3/3
  • Stormstrike 1/1
  • Improved Stormstrike 2/2
  • Lave Lash 1/1
  • Static Shock 3/3
  • Shamanistic Rage 1/1
  • Mental Quickness 3/3
  • Maelstrom Weapon 5/5
  • Feral Spirit 1/1
  • Concussion 5/5
  • Elemental Devastation 3/3
  • Elemental Warding 3/3
  • Elemental Focus 1/1
  • Elemental Fury 5/5

Levels 1-39:

Pull enemies with Lightning Bolts > Melee + Shock (switch from earth to fire once you get the spell) until the enemy drops dead > Heal yourself up with Healing Wave.

Levels 40-80:

Use Windfury on both weapons > Pull mob with Lightning Bolt > Stormstrike > Fire Shock > Lava Lash. After you’ve done this, I recommend you to use every skill as soon as the cooldown ends.

These attack rotations should give you a nice boost.

Major Glyphs

Getting the right glyphs will also optimize your Shaman leveling speed.

I suggest you get Major Glyph: Flame Shock at level 15 and Major Glyph: Windfury Weapons when you hit level 30.

Once you hit level 40, you can also equip Major Glyph: Stormstrike. At this point you have to try them all and see which one fits your playing style the most.

I hope you got a lot of value from my Shaman Leveling Guide. Come back soon for more hot information about Shaman leveling!

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Level 40-80 Elemental or Enhancement Shaman?

Recently I read an interesting question from someone leveling a Shaman. Level 40-80: Elemental or Enhancement Shaman?

In my opinion, the answer to this question consists of two parts. The first part of the answer is…

If you are below level 60, DO NOT level with the Elemental Shaman spec!

There’s a simple reason why Enhancement will beat Elemental any time below level 60. The gear is insufficient. In the “old world” you will have a hard time finding any equipment that provides you with the necessary spell power, critical strike rating and mana regeneration.

Sure, you can always ask a friend to pull you through an instance and loot all the blue items, but seriously… Spending so much time on instances in order to level as fast as you would do with the Enhancement build? It’s much easier to stick to Enhancement until you finally hit level 60. Or at least level 58-59.

When you hit level 60, you will travel to the outlands and get your hands on much, much better items. Even the first few quests will provide you with everything you need to equip an Elemental Shaman.

Now to the second part of my answer: From level 60 on both Elemental and Enhancement Shaman leveling builds are viable.

I recommend you to stick to the build you feel most comfortable with. Learning to play with different skills and abilities takes time, too. And playing with a talent build that you don’t feel comfortable with can be the greatest time sink of all.

Perfect execution of your skills and attacks is important for your leveling speed. That means if you don’t like your talent build and misuse your skills, you won’t level any faster. You are more likely to die more often and have to run all the way to your corpse.

If you ask yourself “How should I level 40-80: Elemental or Enhancement Shaman?” I suggest you stick to Enhancement until you hit 60 and go with what you like the most from there on.

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