Shaman [Shawmun] Levelling guide for 1-90.

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Why become a Shaman? Because there’s a certain satisfaction in commanding the forces of nature to obliterate your opposition. 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. If that’s what you’re looking for, read on.

As 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. You can definitely level quickly enough to be satisfying.
Elemental and Ehancement are the specs we’ll focus on with this page. Restoration is nice in Dungeons and PvP groups, but is going to be a bit slow when soloing. We’re also not going to cover any of the “flavor of the minute” buffs or nerfs. 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.

The Quick Shaman Leveling Guide

Builds: Which is best for Shaman leveling? That depends…

• Enhancement for the “In Your Face” experience. Take two weapons and hack the opposition to bits, using the elements to supplement your abilities.
• Elemental for the “Nuke from Range” experience. Use the elements to blast the opposition into dust and ash.
• Restoration is one of the better healing specs in the game, but the damage is lacking. Go with Resto only if you want to stick with the dungeon (or PvP) leveling thing. It’s a bit, ahem, slow otherwise.

Race:
Race makes little difference, so play what you like. If you have to be efficient…

• Alliance: Draenei, for the hit buff
• Horde: Orc, for Blood Fury; Troll, for Berserking; Tauren for War Stomp.
• Pandarens can become Shamen and they level a bit faster (better “Rest XP” than others get) and have a couple of other useful perks.

Professions:
Skip all crafting professions while leveling unless you have a nice pile of gold. If you do get a craft, then Leatherworking will make the mail armor that you want. With Inscription you can make all of your glyphs.

• Herbalism, mining, and skinning. Pick any two. Herbalism comes with a big Haste cooldown and you will find both healing and mana regenerating spirits while gathering in Pandaria zones.

Stats:

• Enhancement: Agility and Stam
• Elem and Resto: Int and Spirit
• All: Haste and Crit

Weapons:

• Enhancement: Dual wield slow wpns (slow wpns hit harder.) Agi, Stam, & Crit. are the best stats.
• Elem & Resto: Weapons with Int, Spirit, and Spellpower are nice. Shields with similar stats are great.

Gems and Enchants:

• If you have gem sockets, and want to bother with them while leveling, then gem for:
  
  • Resto & Elem: Int. Only Int.
  • Enhancement: Agility only.
  
  
• If you have a meta socket, then:
  
  • Resto & Elem: Burning Primal Diamond (M of P) or Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (Cata)
  • Enhancement: Agile Primal Diamond (MoP) or Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Cata)
  
  
• A lot of useful enchants (not the big ones, of course) can be had on the Auction House for very little gold. If you have the gold then go for them. Look for the stats mentioned above. Int/Ag and Stam are good choices.

Potions, Food, Etc:

• Carry the best buffing foods you can find for your level.
• Potions of mana and scrolls or potions of Agility/Int are nice to have and they’re often dirt cheap.

Leveling Talents

Any spec of Shaman can pick any one talent from any one row. Talents can also be changed easily to suit whatever the situations. All you need is to open your talent pane and pick the new talent. Spend one Vanishing Powder (use other reagents if you’re 81+) and click “learn” and you have your new talent. You can switch them around as often as you like.
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. Adjust accordingly and to your style of play. Our picks are checked: . A couple are checked twice, since the picks change whether you’re Elemental or Enhancement.
Tier 1, Level 15
These talents are for damage mitigation.

1. 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. This is a passive ability, so one less thing to keep track of.
2. Stone Bulwark Totem - Too little absorbtion and too inconvenient to use. Skip it. It’s buffed in 5.4, but will that be anou to make it useful?
3. Astral Shift is a very useful damage mitigation tool. Pick either this or Nature’s Guardian although personally I’m partial to Astral Shift because of the big damage mitigation. Great for mitigating heavy, short term damage, such as from the Boss’s crushing strike or a burst attack in PvP or a pile of mobs. Stacks nicely with Shamanistic Rage, if you have that ability. In 5.4 the cooldown was reduced.

Tier 2, Level 30

1. Frozen Power is only effective on a single target and adds a root to your Frost Shock. Nice for any single target fight, including PvP. Best for questing or dueling or small group PvP. Limited use in larger groups.
2. Earthgrab Totem is an AoE root/slow, which has some PvP use, especially in the battlegrounds. Useful if you get mobbed while questing, making escape easier.
3. Windwalk Totem gives you and your party/raid immunity to movement impairing effects for a short time, quite useful under the right circumstances. This is the one to pick if you’re in a team and the opposition is casting slows/snares.

Tier 3, Level 45

1. Call of the Elements is the most useful choice of this tier, for longer fights. You will get more of the shorter (under 3 min) duration totems.
2. Totemic Projection is useful for movement heavy fights, of which there are quite a few in M of P. Not to mention questing, where you can quickly move from group to group. If your PvP victims move out of range of your totems you can put them right back on them. Relocate Magma to reveal stealthed enemies.
3. Totemic Persistence: Summoning a second totem of the same element no longer causes the first totem to be destroyed. Only one non-Fire totem can benefit from this effect at a time

Tier 4, Level 60

1. Elemental Mastery is my recommended choice, offering the greatest DPS increase. Every 90 seconds you get a very nice Haste burst. Add it to a macro with any other damage buffs and you get a short period of mightiness.
2. Ancestral Swiftness is an instant cast spell every minute plus a passive haste buff, not bad. It lets you insta cast your big cast-time spells. Just the thing for dropping a big heal on someone. The passive Haste is also pretty nice and is great in high level gear, at the level cap.
3. Echo of the Elements has a chance to duplicate spells that deal direct damage or healing, including A of E spells.

Tier 5, level 75

If you’re solo leveling then none of these is of any great value.

1. Rushing Streams increases healing done by Healing Stream Totem by 15%, and causes the totem to heal 2 targets at once. Healing Tide Totem, the old talent here, is now a baseline ability for all Shamans.
2. Ancestral Guidance is similar in effectiveness only it depends on your damage dealt and is thus best paired with other effects/cooldowns that boost your damage output. This is the best pick for Elem and Enh. in most situations.
3. Conductivity is only useful for situations where the raid and enemies stack up in a single position. It requires Healing Rain to be cast first. Not as useful for Enhancement or Elem as it is for Resto, and even then it isn’t too hot.

Tier 6, level 90

1. Unleashed Fury improves the weapon buffs provided by Unleash Elements.
2. Primal Elementalist allows you to have improved Fire and Earth Elementals, which isn’t a bad thing at all. These guys to a pretty fair chunk of damage. This one may be the most generally useful talent for leveling for any Shaman spec.
3. Elemental Blast directs elemental energy at the target and buffs stats. The latter bit is why it’s the pick here.

Shaman Leveling Glyphs

Generally the minor glyphs offer little more than color, though a couple have some real use. As with talents the glyphs are easily changed.

Enhancement Glyphs Glyph of Feral Spirit - Your Feral Wolves healing (Feral Spirit,) done by their Spirit Hunt, is increased. Glyph of Healing Storm - Each use of Mealstrom Weapon increases your direct healing. Glyph of Flame Shock - Your Flame Shock heals you. Enhancement Minor Glyphs Glyph of the Lakestrider - gain water walking Glyph of the Spectral Wolf - Changes your wolf form. Or, if you prefer Raptors: Glyph of Spirit Raptors Glyph of Thunderstorm - very useful if you’re in a dungeon, as tanks don’t much like knockback. Glyph of Spirit Wolf - you can become a ghost wolf when dead. Hopefully you won’t have much need for this… Glyph of Astral Fixation causes your Astral Recal to take you to your Capital City’s earthshrine.

Elemental Glyphs Glyph of Telluric Currents - Get some mana back when lobbing lightning bolt. Glyph of Flame Shock - do damage, get healed. Pretty nice. Glyph of Chain Lightning - hit more targets. Esp. nice if you’re fighting groups, such as in the dungeons. Elemental Minor Glyphs Glyph of the Lakestrider - gain water walking Glyph of the Spectral Wolf - Changes your wolf form. Or, if you prefer Raptors: Glyph of Spirit Raptors Glyph of Thunderstorm - very useful if you’re in a dungeon, as tanks don’t much like knockback. Glyph of Spirit Wolf - you can become a ghost wolf when dead. Hopefully you won’t have much need for this… Glyph of Astral Fixation causes your Astral Recal to take you to your Capital City’s earthshrine.

Abilities for the Leveling Shaman

You pick your specialization (spec) at level 10 and then you are locked into that spec until you change specs. Mists of Pandaria brought a whole new talent system, and everything before has been scrapped. In a nutshell, things work like this:

• All specs share a common pool of abilities, just as they always have.
• Each of the class specs has unique abilities that you gain beginning at level 10. These used to be the talents, now they are core abilities, and they define the differences between Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration. There is no customization here.
• All of the above abilities are learned as you level. You will never again have to visit your trainer to learn.
• Any spec can take any of the talents. The Talents are also easily changed and you can change them anywhere, without having to see your trainer.

A level 6+ guild gives you a 10% bonus to all XP gained.
Keep in mind that at level 30 you can get the Dual Build ability, for a bank crushing 10 gold, and do your dungeoning as Resto and your Questing or PvPing as Elemental or Enhancement.

Shaman Abilities by Specialization

These are the abilities unique to each specialization (spec.) They define you.
In the dungeons both Elly and Enh are Damage (aka: DPS) and you job is to lay down the hurt on whatever the tank is fighting. Let the tank get their attention, then you burn them down. Durable as you are you are not the tank and you should not initiate attacks, let the tank handle that.
In PvP stay with your group and assist them. Lone heroes get crushed. Find a healer and stick near him. Your heals are decent, but it’s better if you don’t have to aorry about healing yourself and can make them worry about it, instead.
(P) = Passive ability

Elemental Abilities: You harness the elements (Lightning and Storm) to blast the opposition.You don’t want to get your hands dirty with hand to hand combat, prefering to incinerate your opponents from range. Your Weapons: At level 10 put Flametongue Weapon on your weapon, your shield can take various regular enchants.		Enhancement Abilities: ​Dual wielding melee machine, using your weapons to destroy the enemy and you spells to enhance your damage.You’re the Shaman who feels that bolt-lobbing and healing is for someone else. You want to get up close and personal and hack. Weapons and such: At level 10 put Flametongue Weapon on both of your weapons. At 30 put Windfury Weapon on your man-hand weapon, leaving Flametonue on the other.
10	Ancestral Focus (P) – Cast while under attack with less worry.	10	Dual Wield - Use two weapons.
10	Elemental Fury (P) – 50% crit bonus, +100% damage total.	10	Lava Lash - Lava change your off-hand weapon and spread Flame Shock around. Flametongue Weapon adds to this damage.
10	Elemental Precision (P) – Spirit from items & effects counts as Hit.	10	Mental Quickness (P) – Modifies spellpower and mana cost of certain abilities.
10	Elemental Reach (P) – Increases range of various spells	20	Flurry (P) – Melee crits make you attack faster.
10	Shamanism (P) – More damage from Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, removed CD from Chain Lightning.	26	Stormstrike - Hit with both weapons, increased chance to crit with followup spells.
10	Spiritual Insight (P) – Bigger Mana Pool and Reduces the CD of Earth and Flame shock by 1 second each.	30	Windfury Weapon - Each hit has a chance to trigger extra hits.
10	Thunderstorm - Calls down your Thunderstorm, knocking back enemies among other things.	34	Searing Flames (P) - Searing Totem and your Fire Elemental buff your Flametongue attacks.
20	Rolling Thunder (P) – Chance to recover mana and gain Lightning Shield charge.	40	Static Shock (P) – Chance for extra damage
20	Fulmination (P) – Use excess Lightning Shield charged to power Earth Shock.	44	Fire Nova - Ignites your Flame Shock and spreads damage around.
34	Lava Burst - Hurl lava at the target, always crits, does more damage if Flame Shock is already on the target.	50	Maelstrom Weapon (P) – Chance to reduce cast time of spells.
40	Elemental Focus (P) – Chance to Clearcast next two spells.	50	Mail Specialization (P) – +5% to your Agility if all your armor is mail.
50	Lava Surge (P) – Chance for free Lava Burst from Flame Shock ticks.	55	Unleashed Rage - Increase melee and ranged attack speed of entire party.
50	Mail Specialization (P)- +5% to your Int if all your armor is mail.	60	Feral Spirit - Summon two wolves to eat the opposition.
55	Elemental Oath (P) – 5% spell haste to entire group.	60	Spirit Walk - Removes roots and snares, increases speed for a few seconds.
60	Earthquake - Damage enemies in an area, chance to knock them down.	65	Shamanistic Rage - Reduces incoming damage, many spells cost no mana, usable when stunned.
65	Shamanistic Rage - Reduces incoming damage, many spells cost no mana, usable when stunned.	80	Mastery: Enhanced Elements (P) – Increases elemental damage.
80	Mastery: Elemental Overload (P) – Chance to cast a weaker copy of your current spell at no cost.

Shaman Gear, Stats, Etc.

Don’t worry about stacking the secondary stats (Hit, Crit, etc.) until you’re into your 80s, or even done leveling. You’ll be leveling too fast to make gems and enchants, other than cheap ones, really worthwhile. If you are looking to stack these, then Haste is good stat for all specs. If you’re only healing you don’t need the hit.
Primary Stats

1. Hit, Expertise, Spell Hit: Any time that you’re attacking you will want these stats. Your can’t hurt what you can’t hit, after all. Healing does not require any of them. As for Spell Hit that is acquired by adding your Hit and your Expertise. Racial bonuses also count. Hit goes against the chance to miss and Expertise goes against the opponent’s chance to dodge hits. For casters it’s just rolled into Spell Hit.
   
   • Enhancement will want 3% each of Hit and Exp. to be “hit capped” Vs same level mobs. 7.5% of each for mobs 3 levels higher. This is for all your “special” strikes. Hit over 3% goes towards you auto-attacks from your dual weapons.
   • Elemental will want the same stats as Enhancement, but this will be in order to build Spell Hit. You want 6% Vs same level mobs and 15% vs opponents that are 3 levels higher. Your Elemental Precision grants you Hit based on the Spirit on any or your items or effects.
   
   
2. Intelligence increases Spellpower so is the #1 Stat for Resto and Elem.
3. Agility is #1 for Enhancement, and you have no use for Int.
4. Spell Power: If you’re lobbing bolts all the time, and as Elemental you will be, then this is a good stat to get, but it only appears on some trinkets and enchants. Enhancement will use Attack Power instead.
5. Attack power: this equals a straight up increase in damage, so is quite helpful. Unfortunately, it only appears on some enchants and a very few items. Resto and Elly shamans will use Spell Power.
6. Strength is of no use to any Shaman.

The Other Stats

1. Stamina: Your #1 stat when leveling at lower levels. You need enough to stay alive and I recommend stacking only Stam at low levels. Stamina enchants, for your gear, are often very cheap on the Auction House. You can also get Stam scrolls and various foods will also buff Stam.
2. Spirit is for your mana regeneration. Enhancement doesn’t have much use for it, But Elly and Resto do.If you’re having mana issues than see if a couple of spirit enchants, potions, or scrolls will help. At high level it’s very important for Resto. If you’re not having mana problems then get the Int scrolls, petions, etc instead.
3. Haste makes you do everything faster, including burning your mana. All flavors of Shaman like Haste.
4. Crit rating is obviously important, and a high crit rating allows you to have a more active Flurry effect going. Flurry counts for quite a lot of damage for Enhancement, and therefore is quite handy to have going 24/7. Given a choice between Haste and Crit, go for Haste.
5. Mastery is gained at level 80. Don’t worry about it until the end game.

PvP Stats

• Resilience used to be an all important stat in high level PvP, but patch 5.3 changed things. Now all players start at 72% Resilience, regardless of class or gear. It also no longer appear on high level PvP gear, it still appears on lower level gear.
• PvP Power is like Attack or Spell Power, but only for PvP damage and healing. After the patch 5.3 nerf it’s somewhat less valuable than before.
• Stamina is a great things to have for PvP, the more the better. Stam gear, enchants, scrolls/potions, and some buffs will adds to your total health.
• Here is the Shaman PvP gear list, for all PvP gear from level 18.
• Check out Skill-Capped for all kinds of Shaman PvP stuff (and all other classes.) It’s aimed at level 90, but you’ll be able to get a lot of use out of that site, even at much lower level.

Enchants & Gems:

Chasing down the best gems or enchants is of little use while leveling. You’ll burn through a lot of gold, and you’ll probably be leveling fast enough that you will outgrow any enchanted/gemed gear that you’re using very quickly. Assuming you have the gold and you want to pick up some gems anyway:

• Enhancement should gem and Enchant for Agility first, attack power and Haste being 2nd choices if Agility is unavailable. Int gems have “brilliant” in the name, Agility gems are “Delicate.”
• Elem and Resto should gem for Int, they should also enchant for Int, then SpellPower, then Haste.
• Haste is a good stat for any Shaman.

Basic Gearing Up

At low level (up to 40) you will be wearing leather armor. If you enchant your gear at all try to get Stamina enchants.
At 40 you get to wear mail armor, though you might have (or find) some leather pieces with better numbers. This is fine for now, but at 50 you will want to be in all mail armor. You will get a 5% bonus to your best stat (Int or Ag) by wearing mail in all of your armor slots.
Before you hit 70 do enough Battlegound PvP to get around 2k Honor Points. At 70 head to the Legacy Arena Vendors and pick up your epic PvP set, even if you don’t PvP. This is much better than the other gear you might find at that level.
At 77 you cat start wearing Cataclysm gear. This is far superior to non-Cata gear. You can recognize it by item level, greens start at iLevel 270 or so. The regular gear for level 77 is around 170. (Example: This 272 piece Vs this 172 piece.)
If you have Heirloom gear you should know that the Cata gear will be much better until your heirlooms make the switch at level 81.
at 81 put your heirlooms back on. Keep an eye on the Auction House for Mists of Pandaria gear. You can sometimes find blue items for a level 81 which are iLevel 417. This is better than Heroic Cata raid gear, though that raid gear will have gem slots.
At 85 your heirlooms are done. Send them to alts as you get better stuff.
If you don’t want to spend the gold or keep an eye on the Auction House then that’s Ok. Your cata gear that you find through level 85 will do you fine. In the lands of Pandaria there are vendors who will sell you complete sets of green gear for very good prices. If won’t be the better gear that’s on the AH, but it will be good enough and it will be cheap.
If you want to gold to get the better stuff then check out Tycoon.


Shaman Races

All the Shaman Approved races bring something to some aspect of the end-game (raiding, pvp, etc.,) but none of them are major abilities.

• Orcs and trolls have a damage cooldown and other useful abilities.
• Goblins and Draenei have stat increases that will add to overall damage.
• Dwarves and Taurens have useful defensive abilities.

For the Horde

Goblins as Shamans? Who’d they bribe to get that deal? Do they buy their totems from GobMart?

• Orc
  
  • Blood Fury increases melee and spell damage for a short time. Stick it in a macro with your opening attacks. Test it to make sure it works right.
  • Resistance to stuns (Hardiness) is nice for PvP and certain other situations. Youi won’t see much need for it while questing.
  • Experise with Axes and Fist weapons will save a few points at the end-game, if you use those weapons. The expertise also adds into your Spell Hit number.
  
  
• Tauren
  
  • War Stomp is nice to have for the melee shaman. It’s not quite so useful for bolt lobbers, but can help with escaping.or kiting the opposition.
  • Increased Health is always nice to have, as it increases your base health. It works out to about three Stam gems or so at level 90.
  
  
• Troll
  
  • Berserk increases casting and attack speed for a few seconds, which is always useful. Stick it in a macro with your opening attacks.
  • Increased Regeneration sounds nice, but it’s a very small amount and you have heals.
  • Reduced Duration of Movement Impairing Effects is nice in PvP and has its uses elsewhere.
  • Increased damage Vs beasts is nice for leveling and some PvE.
  • Ranged weapon expertise is completely useless to you, since you don’t use ranged weapons.
  
  
• Goblin
  
  • Rocket Jump is a nice way to get to the fight or to escape from it.
  • Vendor discounts will make living cheaper.
  • Haste (1% increase) is a nice little DPS increase in all cases.
  • Potion Healing increase from alchemy is nice for those situations where it’s easier to click your action bar (and the potion placed there) than to cast a spell.

For the Alliance

These two can be Shamans and Humans can’t? Sheesh.

• Dwarf – The Dwarves have been corrupted/enhanced by new tribes, some with a Shamanistic tradition. Naturally their totems should be kegs, unfortunately they aren’t.
  
  • Stone Form washes away bleeds and such, for a few seconds, as well as reducing damage by 10%.
  • Increased Expertise with Maces save a few points when trying to maximize your end-game efficiency, if a mace is the best weapon.
  • Expertise with ranged weapons is useless to you.
  
  
• Draenei
  
  • Heroic Presence (1% increased chance to hit) is rather nice for any spec of Shaman. Resto has less use for it than the the others, though.
  • The heal (gift) is nice, but redundant for you.

Pandarens can become Shamans. They can pick Horde or Alliance at character creation.

• Pandarens have a melee range stun. This pus your enemy to sleep for a brief time and breaks combat.
• They get better Rest XP (Inner Peace.)
• Better buffs from food. That Ag/Int food you just ate will give you twice the buff that others get.
• Less falling damage, which is rather nice.
• They’re good with Cooking.

Shaman Leveling Notes

Note on leveling: Regardless of whether you’re questing, dungeoning, or PvPing you will be far more effective if you use macros and keybindings. Macros are just sets of commands that can all be activated at the same time with one keypress.
It used to be that going level 1 to 60 in 6 days in-game time was pretty fast. These days? heirlooms + questing + Recruit a Friend + charging as hard as you’re able can get you to 85 in under three days (in-game time.) Keybinds are just where you assign an action to a key. You can google or Youtube wow keybindings and find some good stuff.
Nowadays we have three (or four) ways of gathering our XP. All are fast.

• Questing and or Grinding – low stress and you’ll level fast enough. The in-game quest helper is fine.

• Dungeoning – via the Dungeon Finder tool: DPS classes are a dime a dozen so the wait times to get into the dungeons can be a few minutes, but this can result in fast XP and better gear than you’ll get from questing. Just go questiing while you’re waiting for the dungeon queue. Dungeon leveling isn’t much faster than questing (mostly due to the sometimes long wait times for a group,) but it’s different and you get the nicer gear.

• PvP leveling – Battleground weekends can result in seriously fast XP if your side wins. Since winning doesn’t seem to be a priority these days, for either faction, it might be best to do this with a well-oiled team. Even if it’s not the BG weekend, wins still result in very nice XP gains. XP while losing is about the same as questing XP and is more frustrating (to me, anyway.)

• Healing – Bind your best heals to a key. Keep food in your bags for when you just want to sit and admire the scenery. Buffing foods can add Int and Stam and other stats.

• Always have the biggest bags you can afford
• Make an Auction House alt and send anything (that isn’t grey) to the alt instead of vendoring it. Vendor the grey junk.
• Questing is faster than grinding, except at the very lowest levels, but you do have to have a plan for your questing. Get a guide or study the in-game quest help thing and organize your quests to hit several at one time in the same place.
• Keep your weapons updated; the rest of your gear can fall behind a bit.
• Killing mobs of a bit lower level gives less XP but a lot less downtime, for a net XP per hour increase.
• Always log out at an Inn, to get the Rest XP when you come back.
• Level with a new friend for 3x XP. I hit level 42 in 12 hours played this way. People who are actually trying hard will go faster. I’ve seen people hit 85 in under three days with RAF, Heirlooms.
• Dungeons (instances) are a great source of XP (especially if you get the associated quests ) and much better gear than you’ll find while soloing. Depending on the teams you join they may also be a great source of irritation or fun. For example:
  
  • Only attack what the tank is attacking.
  • Stay out of any goop on the floor unless your guys are creating it (such as healing circles.)
  • Stay behind the opponent at all times.
  • If you get aggro then either kill the mob or drag it to the tank.

More Dungeon Leveling Tips:

OK, you’re in a dungeon and you’re healing/blasting/hacking stuff. Here are some pointers.

1. When you are moving always be doing something, never do nothing on a boss fight. Use Earth Shock while moving, re-apply Searing Totem so you don’t have to do it later, or use Unleash Elements.
2. Do not keyboard turn! Bind the A and D keys to strafe left and right. Turn with your mouse. This not only makes you much more effective as a player, but allows you to use Spiritwalker’s Grace much better.
3. Key bind all of the abilities you use in a boss fight. If you bind these keys as you level (and learn the new abilities) then you will learn to use them more effectively.
4. Get the Glyph of Thunderstorm or don’t use that ability on mobs the tank is tanking, it is very annoying to tank when a shaman keeps knocking away all the mobs that the tank is trying to position.
5. Be able to carry out your rotation and pay attention to what is going on around you. if you cannot do this, get more addons (see addon section) and practice more. If you level in the dungeons this will become second nature.
6. Use your interrupt. You have one of the best in the game, you should use it.
7. Use Purge when you should. There are a lot of trash mobs that get some kind of magic buff which makes them hit extremely hard. You should purge this to prevent a wipe and save your repair bill.

General Dungeon Tips

• Let the tank lead & pull (attract the enemy,) unless he states that someone else should pull.
• Do not use Knockback effects on anything the tank is fighting.
• Stay out of any goop on the floor unless your guys are creating it (such as healing circles.)
• Stay behind the opponent at all times.
• If you get aggro then either kill the mob or drag it to the tank.
• Groups tend to move very quickly through the dungeons. Kill, move, kill, move… Be quick with your looting and try to keep up. Guild groups are generally much more forgiving.
• Questgivers are located just inside the entrance to the dungeons. Grab all of the available quests and hand ‘em in when done. Sometimes the questgivers will come to you when the final boss is down. Other times you will need to get back to the entrance. An easy way to do this is to exit the dungeon (using the icon on your mini-map, right click it and teleport out) and then teleport right back in. You’ll be at the entrance.

Originally from GotWarcraft Just fixed spelling mistakes and some **** ups

[Teh Canadian]

Holy ****. Now that is a wall of text. Good read though. +Rep

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[Rogptor]

Glad you liked the guide enough to lift it from my site. Some credit, such as a nice link back to the original would be nice.
Here it is: The Shaman Leveling Guide for Mists of Pandaria - GotWarcraft.com

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[Pukka]

Dont rip guides and pass them as your own.

[Vengfull]

Updated and added a link back

[Rogptor]

Updated and added a link back

Thanks dude.

[Vengfull]

Thanks dude.

No problem, Going through the Guides at the moment and will make threads of useful ones and link back.

[Laykith]

Id like to add that the Elemental force enchant is worth getting on your weps. Its cheap and really good up to around 40s.
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[hazelbeiz]

Now that is a wall of text. Good read though.