Guide to WoW Elemental Shaman

Hello Readers,
First off I would like to thank you for taking time out of your life and reading my thoughts about World of Warcraft shamans. I would first like to thank Blizzard for making this game possible. Would like to thank my guild for supporting me in the game and making my experience enjoyable. Thanks to ALL Silver Hand members for making a great realm. And thanks to this site for hosting this Guide. This guide will teach you how to become a great shaman in PvE and PvP. If you are reading this you are most likely:
1) An elemental shaman wanting to improve.
2) A shaman picking what route to take.
3) Somebody who may roll a shaman.
4) Bored.

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Shaman Talent Specs

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=uiczE0hqoEV00V
This will be my talent build as elemental and enchance. The elemental warding will help in many instances as well as PvP, and the sheild block got buffed, and this is a skill that cannot be passed up.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hiczEchRZZxbIb0xo
This may be the best world pvp/pve build. if you are caught with your ‘pants down’ you get an instant large heal. This is guarnteed to save you many, many times!

Finally
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=uiczE0hqoxVckV
This is simiar to my build but this would not be as mana dependant because of the 2-handed wep.

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I’m sure there will be plenty of arguments on my talent trees, but you may use mine or change any of the others to suit your playing style.

Some Great Totem Combos

* My usual if fighting 3 or more monsters
Stone Skin, Searing
* Helping Tank
Stone Skin, Wind Fury, Healing Stream
*Group Support
Stone Skin, Wind Fury, Mana, Searing

PvE – Player vs. Environment

Solo:

Most of your beginning levels you will be playing solo, this part will teachyou what to do in situations and how to escape if needed.

Pulling- 1 mob: Shoot off a Lighting Bolt and back up.
Promptly when mob is in range Frost Shock and another LB
Stop, and drop Searing totem and melee until death.

Pulling- 2 mobs: Shoot your main target with LB
Earth Shock same target while backing up.
Drop Stoneclaw to attract other mob while backing up.
Melee main target keep eye on secondary target.
If the Sc Dies before your main target is dead frost shock secondary and keepfighting main target.

Soloing a Leet: Make sure there is room around you to run in circles.
Pull the leet with LB. make sure it is only 1 mob.
Drop a EarthBind and a Searing totem.
Run in circles around your searing while using FS.
If mob happens to resist FS, the EB will slow it.
If done correctly you will have taken no damage.
There are plenty of times where i run out of mana doing this, i highly reccomendputing rank 1 FS and rank 1 ES on your action bar.

Escaping: This is not too complicated but done wrong just sucks.
You have 3 main Spells to escape with.
EB, SC, and FS

Running- 1 mob: If you accidentally draw in a mob you don’t or can’t fight run!
Your best bet is jumping, rotating, and then FS to slow it.
If you are oom, drop a SC if you haven’t done damage to it.
Otherwise EB and run.

Running- Multi: Start with a EB totem.
Keep checking behind you.
If one resists the EB, Frostshock the sucker.
The others that were EB will pass him and Drop a SC now
The SC will not last long but it will distract them.
Repeat if still chasing.

Grouping:

As you are progressing through the game you will find yourself in plenty of groups.These are some Shaman tips for groups.

Tanking- If you fin yourself in a group with a bunch of cloth wearing your thetank. As much as you want to use windfury, don’t. Rockbiter will add plenty ofaggro to your attacks and will hold the monster off the casters. SC is usefulagain, after you have pulled all but one monster to you drop it. The SC shouldhold out until you have killed the others. Earthshock is a aggro holder, if anyonebut you gets the aggro instant cast ES and get them back over to you. Keep aneye out for wanders, healers’ mana, others HP, and runners. Don’t forget thatyou can heal so don’t use all your mana
casting, save others. And please, use protection…A shield! Geeze! Where isyour mind…

Support- This is what elemental does best. Your job here is to draw as littleas possible people to you and if one happens to come, then you should kill itand not run away scared. Drop totems, Stoneskin/Strength of Earth, Searing, Healing/Mana,and Windfury/Grace/Tranquil depending on your groups choices. Start shootingLB a few times, if your target comes toward you use a shock and melee with someshocks on the same target. If you know you cannot take the target, you need toback up to either tank or priest so they can heal/take off aggro. If u can takethe mob follow soloing instructions. After that mob is killed go directly tothe next mob and help out. Use Chain Lighting if there is around 3 or more non-leetmobs that you can take. and kill them. This should make you a successful shaman,watch your totems, and others health because,
You Can Heal!

PvP – Player vs. Player

Yes, some people don’t like PvP and some live for PvP. In this section you will find ways to kill certain classes and how to work well with others.

Classes:

These are some tactics you should use when taking on a specific class.

Druid: Personally, I find druids the easiest class to kill. When fighting druidsstay within melee distance, Purge ASAP. If the druid is in cat or bear form,drop a EB run away and start casting CL and instant casing FS, it should gethim out soon enough. When the druid is out make sure you save mana for an ES.Use ES when the druids hands turn green, the druid is most likely casting andyour ES will interrupt the cast. And kill, druids cannot kill you in melee don’tbe scared.

Hunter: These guys have to be one of the most annoying classes out there. Whendueling hunters you will want to not worry about their pet and just slow thehunter down. Using earthbind with FS will work very well, but you cannot usefrost shock more than 3 times in a row so throw in Flame Shock also. Your maingoal is to keep the hunter in melee distance so he cannot shoot at you. Obviously.Don’t worry about keeping a ES ready. Go all out on him. Don’t forget to useremove poison also.

Mage: Mages can be both hard and easy. If the mage does not see you charge upa CL and run in close. He will use Frost Nova. Let him get far enough away sohe starts casting. Use a ES to interrupt the cast. If he is too far for yourES, CL him. Now he will use Cone of Cold with Blink and will cast again. Keepyour grounding totem up incase of a cast. This will redirect the cast away fromyou.
Interrupt and cast another CL. This will be how you win the duel. Save enoughmana for ES always.

Paladin: I hate fighting these guys. I am basing this Pre-1.11.0 because I didn’tread the updates for pallys. Pallys are warriors with mana. They wear plate,so not too good melee damage, the have 2 unpurge-able shields, and they havegood heals. So. Start off with a LB because this will be a long battle. Purge.Conserve your mana. The pally will fight you until he has next to no health left.then will pop up his invincible shield. While the shield is up don’t cast anyspells at him. as soon as his hands turn yellow do a Healing Wave on yourself.Or use a bandage. And run away until his shield drops. Fight him once again tonext to no health and look. Another Shield. Heal your self and run away. Nowhe has no more shields and you can go all out now… if u have any mana left.Use EB and FS and run around your EB totem and cast. This is how you will killhim, you cannot melee him to death.

Priest: I admit, I don’t have too much experience dueling priests. They are nottoo hard when I fight them though. Priests are another class you must hold yourES. When you go in at the priest he will DoT and mind blast you. By that timehe hasn’t much HP left. He will instant fear you, shield, and get full HP. Nowis when you go at him. You must kill him before his fear is back. When he popson a shield, at any time, Purge right away. The shield is…*poof*… gone andinterrupt his cast. Keep meleeing until he is dead.

Rogue: To kill rogues you must use a very cheap tactic that is also used on warriors.You will drop a EB totem and run in circles around it Using FS, then FlS, thenFS ect. You cannot allow the rogue to get near you, if he gets the first attackdrop a EB and then use the cheap tactic. If you have time, and are well enoughaway you can throw in a CL. Don’t forget to use remove poison when you are afflicted.You could just drop a poison cleansing totem, this is a water totem. A searingtotem will help. Rogues don’t like to sacrifice combo points so your totems shouldbe safe until he unleashes eviscerate.

Shaman: At high levels most shaman are Elemental/Resto or Elemental/Ench so itis who has better tactics and items. (at 59, I beat a 60 with his epics, I wasin blue and green.) Use the ol’cheap tactic, EB in middle and FS and run aroundhim meleeing. He will most likely use EB so if you get close enough attack thetotem so you are free. Purge him of his lightning shield and/or Elemental Mastry- not sure if this is purgeable. During this battle consistently use shocks aswell as Lesser Healing Wave. When the opposing shaman casts a shock on you stop,and heal. he should not have enough time to get his shock cooldown back. Goodluck

Warlock: I have a difficult time killing warlocks. And also don’t have much experiencefighting them. If the warlocks imp is out shock it and melee it until dead soonly 1 guy to worry about. The warlock will put curses on you that you cannotremove and he will keep fearing you. Drop a Grounding totem to help during thebattle and a Tremor totem. Set up a searing totem to delay his casting and EShim whenever his hands turn dark purple. He is open to
Melee attacks so keep within weapons distance from him. Will report back wheni have more experience fighting locks.

Warrior: Cheap Tactic Stikes Again. My best friend is a warrior so I have plentyof exp fighting these guys. Drop a EB and circle around using FS, don’t let him/herget close to you at all. If he does you have only a few hits, from a 2h, to livebefore execute. you must keep a EB up and a searing will add some more dps. yourmain goal is to slow him, and shock him. If u happen, somehow, get the chanceto chain lighting, do it, but watch out for intercept stun! Also, try and geta Lesser heal in also if needed. No purge is needed this duel.

PvP in Groups

Small groups- 1-5 people
Grouping with small amount of people changes depending on who is in your groupbut I will tell you the general idea to group with small amounts of people. Ifind that the shaman’s job in small groups is to go around back and beat up the

priest. The order needing to kills is as follows:

Priests
Mages
Hunters

Warrior
Rogue

Pally

Druids – not in animal form

Warlocks
Druids – animal form

I chose this order because Priests can heal and group fear and shield

Mages can do huge damage to any class but are easy for shaman to kill
Hunters pet will constantly do damage while the hunter is AoE or just cappingone guy
Rogues will get behind your casters and kill them within a few seconds so killthem quickly
Warriors will do alot of melee damage so try to knock them off before they gettoo much rage
Pallys will survive a long time, buffs their entire party, and heal so be careful
Warlocks do instant casts on your party, but usually someone besides a shamanwill kill it fast.
Druids in animal form can do decent damage but not too powerful attacks exceptthere charge.

Large Groups – AB, AV

When I am in AV I try and stay in the middle of the raid group and lay down somebeneficial totems like stone skin, windfury and healing stream. I use my chainlighting to pick a target, usually when that happens our mages/hunters attackthat target. If a you can stop a cloth wearer from casting you must do that.Stop Any AoE with ES ASAP. Plenty of times alliance rogues will come and ambusha mage or priest. If this consistently happens, lay down a magma totem or a EBtotem to remove the rogues stealth. This should keep the casters safe. You shouldact as a hybrid, mage/warrior. Cast LB or CL until a brave warrior or pally comesfor your group. As soon as that happens charge with him/her with your weaponat hand and melee him. The group will surely be helping you kill ‘um. If thewar/pally is chasing a caster, drop an EB totem to keep them away if that doesnot work, use your FS spell on ‘um. This is the best tactic I can offer you.

Recap- Cast until a rogue/warrior/pally charges or appears in your group. Meleeand instant cast them until dead.
If they are chasing someone EB and/or FS them. If they run, FS and CL them theyshould die.

Thanks for taking time out of your day and reading this. I hope this helps youwith playing an elemental shaman. Please, Take time and post any feedback youmay have. This is constantly being updated with more experience of mine and yourposts.