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Shafire
Hey there fellow shamans. I have a couple of questions for you guys. What is the best spec to level as? I have heirlooms for any spec. I was thinking of leveling as Elemental / Restoration since they pretty much share the same gear. Enhance is fun, but I'd like to be able to go off-spec as resto. If I do that I can easily quest as Elemental, and heal instances as Resto. so what do you guys think I should go as?
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Rankkor
I recomend Enhance for SEVERAL reasons.
the main one is that they pretty much have zero downtime. They have acess to Maelstrom Weapon, a stacking buff that reduces the casting time (and mana cost) of all your healning spells as well as lightning bolt, chain lightning, and hex by 20%. This stacks up to 5 times (granting you esentially a mana-free instant nuke or heal)
the speed at wich it stacks is HUGE, you can usually reach 5 stacks in less than 4 seconds, making nuke-spamming a piece of cake. On top of it, Enhance has better Cooldowns to survive stuff while u're leveling.
getting your ass kicked? Activate Shamanistic Rage and all damage recieved is reduced by 30% (on top of making all your skills and spells free for the duration of the buff) it's short CD (1min) makes this almost spammable.
are you in need of both greater damage and greater healing? no problemo, use Feral Spirits to summon 2 kickass wolves that hit really hard, AND heal you up pretty good. You can solo pretty much all the elites in the game (minus the ring-of-blood related ones) thanks to these wolves.
and this is without including other perks of being an enhance shaman, such as being the closest thing this game has to a Mage-warrior (they have strong physical hits like Stormstrike, Lava lash, Unleash elements, and Windfury Weapon, as well as strong magic attacks such as instant lightning bolts, chain lightnings or the shocks)
also they have some of the most fun procs in the game. Scored a magical crit? grats, you now have 9% more chance to deal melee crits. Scored a melee crit? gratz you now have 25% more attack speed. All those extra hits procced Maelstrom weapon? gratz after 3 stacks you can pretty much shoot instant nukes to blast your foes.
and of course the best part of it all? mix all your buffs and u're a pretty insane monster. Unleash elements(40% attack speed)+Flurry(25% attack speed)Windfury totem (10% attack speed) and bloodlust (or heroism if u're alliance) for an extra 30% attack speed. Total result=105% attack speed. Can you say FIST MACHINEGUN???
for better results (if ure horde or are intrested in playing horde) the absolute BEST race to be a shaman is the Orcs due to the exelent synergy of their racials and your class. (Blood Fury wich increases your Spell Power by 500 at lvl 85 and 1100 attack power (wich thanks to being enhance also boosts your SP by an aditional 500) mixed with Command wich boosts the damage of your Feral Spirit wolves, and your elementals by 5%, and Axe Specialization, wich grants free expertise when you use Axes and Fists (wich together with maces are the weapons of choise of a shaman)
if you don't like to play horde (for whatever reason that may be) the best alliance race to play shaman is Draenei. Yep forget the dwarves. Draenei Shaman have 1% free hit, wich at lvl 85 is A LOT, it will reduce the ammount of hit you need to be capped, making room for more usefull stats like crit, or haste.
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