[Enhancement] Leveling guide, 1 'till 80.

Ghostwolf talent = HUGE increase in speed while leveling. Think how many times you start and stop combat between small groups of mobs. You have a big advantage over everyone but druids and hunters in getting from one camp of mobs to another quickly. Without the talent, it's not really worth it and you might as well mount. With the talent, its very fast and also a great get away tool, so it increases survivability.

I would just keep your same leveling spec until you hit 80. At that point, you will probably want to respec into some sort of DPS-focused spec. Some people still keep that ghost wolf talent though, it can be useful even in raid situations!

I don't have a high level shaman so I can't give advice about what totems to use or what spec to change to at 80. I can say that I probably wouldn't use totems on trash unless the group is having a hard time. You'll just be moving too fast for it to matter, most of the time.

In 3.08 (I think?) it was changed from being an item that you had to use to summon Ghaz'rilla, to the current weapon that it is now. You no longer need to have it to summon the final boss in ZF, and it is now a one handed mace.

So in essence your friend was correct, the mallet was changed.

If your interested in how to get it read the comments here.

'yes' is my thoughts on this. I vaguely recall a minor argument with Troll about this. However, it's worth quite a bit less without points in static shock, and there aren't any in the levelling build.

At level 80, yeah. Levelling, perhaps not.

The last thing we want is dual wielding and missing alot. If you really want to, change the talents, but I had a horrible time dual wielding without the +hit talents. That's why we take Stormstrike first, because we can use it with a two-hander.

You should level pretty fast anyway, if you're following Jame's leveling guides.

From my experience (and I play both classes), I see no difference. Not at all. They use the exact same stats. Wasn't always like this though; patch 2.4 or 3.0 changed a bunch of stuff including agility giving attack power; instead of the strength only, and that made us use the exact same stuff as hunters.

Heya, no problem Glad I can help. If you have any suggestions, just comment!

This is only from an endgame perspective, but it may apply lower down.

(Note, I've been using magma tot already for a while).

I've found with the SS changes in the new patch, I can now perfectly happily use chain lightning for my maelstrom procs. More DPS, yay (If you have 5 stacks at the start of a pull, lightning bolt, or you'll just pull aggro).

Loving the fact that I'm even more like a WCIII shammy =D

Yep, I will include things like Static Shock now, and more.

For those that want to continue leveling their shaman; go ahead and take a spec based on mine.

Even further, where it reads "minimum mana useage" it should be "minimum mana usage." There is no "e" in usage.

I have updated the guide, you should now see a different spec, but still optimized for leveling.

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I would like some more shaman guide's though. For raiding, instancing and stuf

Well, if you're going to this page in the first place, you probably are interested in the shaman class. But why not...

Classes:

• Death Knight: This is a class that can either DPS, or Tank. Since it starts at level 55, it's basicly a class anyone takes as an alt (or main), I too have a Death Knight, but it's quite boring after a while.

• Druid: One of the more interesting classes, they can fulfil any role, and can do all of them very well, this is a good choice if you're looking for alot different playstyles (but not as unique as their main-classes.

• Hunter: This is one of the so called 'pure' classes. Only capable of dealing damage, but in different kinds of ways, this and the shaman are my favorite classes.

• Mage: Also a pure class, but a caster this time. It's a cool class, but there is alot of 'micro-maneging' involved.

• Paladin: Just like the Druid, a class that can do everything. They do alot with 'the light', and that's kind of boring, in my opinion. But strong nevertheless.

• Priest: Usually seen as a healer, but can do damage as well. Provides good buffs. Overall a good class to take.

• Shaman: So, finally at this class. In my opinion, the shaman has alot of choices. Not as much as druids/paladins, but still very useful. They bring alot of buffs to a raid (in the form of totems), and are capable of very efficient leveling. They can also heal, while they bring buffs.

• Warlock: A casting class. See this as a 'dark' mage. This class also has pets, but not as strong as those of a hunter.

• Warrior: This isn't a pure class, per se, because they can either DPS or Tank. They're remarkable for their slow leveling though.

Well, that's my view on the classes, if you have any questions left, comment or send me a PM.

~Trollvink