The Shaman

Shaman are spiritual guides and practitioners, not of the divine, but of the very elements. Unlike some other mystics, shaman commune with forces that are not strictly benevolent. The elements are chaotic, and left to their own devices, they rage against one another in unending primal fury. It is the call of the shaman to bring balance to this chaos. Acting as moderators among earth, fire, water, and air, shaman summon totems that focus the elements to support the shaman’s allies or punish those who threaten them.

Gotwarcraft Shaman Guides

• Shaman Class Guide – This is an overview of the Shaman class, general info, and so on. More detail is in the other guides.
• Shaman Leveling – Info to help you get your Shaman leveled ASAP
• Elemental Shaman – Using the elements to hurl devastation at the opposition. Builds, gear, PvP tips, and more.
• Elemental Shaman DPS Guide – How to maximize your raiding DPS
• Enhancement Shaman – Get face to face with the opposition and use the elements to help you smash them. Gear, tips, enchants, builds, and more.
• Enhancement Shaman DPS Guide – How to max your DPS in raids as Enhancement
• Restoration Shaman – Excellent healers to keep your dungeon or PvP group alive. Here’s what you need to know.
• Restoration Shaman Healing Guide – What you need to raid heal as Resto
• PvP Builds – Just the builds, please.

Leveling your Shaman? Shaman leveling is as easy as any other class, unless you’re Resto, and even that isn’t bad. With the changes in Cataclysm and the 4.3 changes to leveling (70-80 XP requirement has been reduced by a third) quest leveling is as fast (or faster) than any other form of leveling. If you don’t care for the pace, frustrations, and occasional jerks in PvP or the dungeon groups you’re joining, then questing is the way to go and with Cataclysm it’s soooo much faster than it used to be. Here’s how to get leveled even faster:  This is a widget which sits in your in-game window and shows you exactly where to go and what to do, every step of the way, all the way to max level. Grab it here!

Mists of Pandaria

Here’s footage from Blizcon, discussing the new Shaman abilities in MIsts of Pandaria

4.3 Patch for the Shaman

This is from the Bliz patch page.

Overall

• Flametongue Weapon no longer increases spell damage. It now increases all non-physical damage done by the wielder by 5%.
• Lightning Bolt has a new spell effect.
• Wind Shear’s base cooldown has been adjusted to 15 seconds, up from 6 seconds.
• Talent Specializations

Elemental Shaman

• Call of Flame no longer causes Fire Nova to extend the duration of Flame Shock.
• Earthquake damage has been increased by roughly 75%.
• Elemental Fury now removes the cooldown from Chain Lightning.
• Reverberation now reduces the cooldown of Wind Shear by 5/10 seconds, up from 0.5/1 second.
• Shamanism now increases the spell power benefit to Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning by 36%, up from 32%.
• Fire Elemental now benefits from 55% of its master’s spell power, up from 50%

Enhancement

• Improved Lava Lash now causes Lava Lash to spread a Flame Shock debuff from the target to up to 4 nearby targets. This excludes crowd-controlled targets and those who already have a Flame Shock debuff from the shaman.
• Improved Lava Lash no longer increases base Lava Lash damage by 15/30%. This increase has been rolled into the base Lava Lash skill.
• Mental Quickness has been redesigned. Instead of granting the shaman spell power, Mental Quickness now causes Enhancement shaman spells to behave as though the shaman has spell power equal to 55% of attack power. Enhancement shaman spells no longer benefit from spell power from other sources.
• Maelstrom Weapon can now also proc from fully absorbed melee attacks.

Restoration

• Ancestral Healing now also causes the shaman’s heals to increase the target’s maximum health by 5/10% of the amount healed, up to a maximum of 10% of the target’s maximum health, for 15 seconds. This effect does not stack if multiple Restoration shaman are present, and does not apply to heals from procs.
• Riptide’s periodic healing coefficient has been increased by 50%. The initial direct heal is unchanged.

Bug Fixes

• Chain Heal will now animate properly when it bounces to the shaman.

For a more in-depth and highly detailed resource on everything for your Shaman, from leveling to PvP to Raiding to earning gold and more, check out the
Killer Guides’ Shaman guide.

Our class guides for whichever class you’re playing:

Death Knights – Druid – Hunter – Mage – Paladin
Priest – Rogue – Shaman – Warlock – Warrior

The GotWarcraft Gold Guide

Cataclysm Heroic Guides

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