Good shammy solo leveling build?
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Good shammy solo leveling build?
Anyone of you happen to know a good shammy spec that will last me to 80 on my own? :)
Also any shaman tips (totems, gear, and all that jazz) would be appreciated considering this is my first time playing the class.
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As for gear, if you are going Enhancement, basically pretend you're gearing as a Hunter, but a Hunter that really likes Haste. So AGI, Haste, Crit, AP, ArPen are what you're after, but STR is good too and you want the most Armour you can get since you'll be hit a lot.
It has been a long time since my Shaman was Enhancement (he's Elemental/Resto now), but I remember the best part of Enhancement was that it was very cathartic as you're in melee blowing the heck out of stuff with both spells and flailing weapons. Very satisfying, especially if you're an Orc and pop Blood Fury, and when Bloodlust is on, oh it's fun.
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This is the spec I'm going with to level my shammy (found on bighitbox.com, a great site for shammy (and other melee class) information!). I started out as elemental because I thought I'd prefer to pewpew from range, but man... not fun at all. Shammies are made to get in there and whack with their weapons. (My opinion, of course, ymmv)
If you want to go elemental, something like this spec might work for you. It's the one I intended to use until I switched to enhance.
Side note: once you can access lfg, resto is a viable option. I dual specced resto at level 45, and I haven't looked back. I'm having a ton of fun, I get to practice shammy healing (which I want to do at 80 anyway) and I'm getting dungeons right away. And if I get tired of it or get a group that's all "L2HEAL STUPID LOLOLOL", I'll just queue as dps for a bit. Win-win.
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You are very correct that the LFG tool is fantastic for leveling with Resto, you get groups so much faster than as DPS. But Resto is still a pain to quest with, though not nearly as bad as it was back in TBC.
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Hmm. Everything I've read says to avoid it as much as possible.Anansi wrote:The Enhancement Shaman in my raid group speaks well of ArPen and puts up some solid DPS. I'll ask him about it though.
Haha yeah, that's why I dualed. I just wanted to put the option out there. For example, I'm debating whether to spec my baby priest holy and level her 100% through dungeons, since I'm in no particular hurry to level her and it'd be fun. *shrug* To each their own.Anansi wrote:You are very correct that the LFG tool is fantastic for leveling with Resto, you get groups so much faster than as DPS. But Resto is still a pain to quest with, though not nearly as bad as it was back in TBC.
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Re: Good shammy solo leveling build?
This is the "norm" elemental spec for PvE here: http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman# ... ,k9U,11403
Of course, I put the fire nova talent in for quite a bit more AoE DPS. You could take those out though and put them into Convection if you wanted.