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Guide to Elemental Shaman
Version. I
Brought to you by: Gorgen.
Guild: The Rusty Pike Squad.
Server: Silver Hand (RP)
Hello Readers,
First off i would like to thank you for taking time out of your life and reading
my thoughts. 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 tecach
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.
Video Out Soon.
~Talent Specs.
*This is my talent tree here: www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html?3500501550105215005000053
I find this spec is equally good for PvE and PvP.
*Here is a PvP speced tree: www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html?4500500550103215005030115
This has your 2h wepon, so you can deal some crazy high instant casts as long
with your Battleaxe
*Finally a PvE tree: www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html?5505101502105000000000000000000000502030050501
You get the magic damage boots from elemental tree, and you get natures
swiftness also.
Im 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.
~PvE - Player vs. Enviroment
*Solo:
Most of your beginning levels you will be playing solo, this part will teach you
what to do in situations and how to esape 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 keep
fighting 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.
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 accidently draw in a mob you dont or cant fight run!
Your best bet is jumping, rotating, then FS to slow it.
If you are oom, drop a SC if you havnt done damage to it.
Otherwise EB and run.
Running- Multi: Start with a EB totem.
Keep checking beind 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 the
tank. As much as you want to use windfury, dont. Rockbiter will add plenty of
aggro to your attacks and will hold the monster off the casters. SC is useful
again, after you have pulled all but one monster to you drop it. The SC should
hold out until you have killed the others. Earthshock is a aggro holder, if
anyone but you gets the aggro instant cast ES and get them back over to you.
Keep an eye out for wanders, healers mana, others HP, and runners. Dont forget
that you can heal so dont use all your mana
casting, save others. And please, use protection...A sheild! Geeze! Where is
your mind...
Support- This is what elemental does best. Your job here is to draw as little as
possable people to you and if one happens to come, then you should kill it and
not run away scared. Drop totems, Stoneskin/Strength of Earth, Searing,
Healing/Mana, and Windfury/Grace/Tranquil depending on your groups choices.
Start shooting LB a few times, if your target comes toward you use a shock and
melee with some shocks on the same target. If you know you cannot take the
target, you need to back up to either tank or priest so they can heal/take off
aggro. If u can take the mob follow soloing instuctions. After that mob is
killed go directly to the next mob and help out. Use Chain Lighting if there is
around 3 or more non-leet mobs that you can take. and kill them. This should
make you a sucsessful shaman, watch your totems, and others health because,
You Can Heal!
~PvP - Player vs. Player
Yes, some people dont 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 spicific class.
Druid: Personally, i find druids the easiest class to kill. When fighting druids
stay 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 get him
out soon enough. When the druid is out make sure you save mana for an ES. Us ES
when the druids hands turn green, the druid is most likly casting and your ES
will intrrupt the cast. And kill, druids cannot kill you in melee dont be
scared.
Hunter: These guys have to be one of the most annoying classes out there. When
dueling hunters you will want to not worry about their pet and just slow the
hunter down. Using earthbind with FS will work very well, but you cannot use
frost shock more than 3 times in a row so throw in Flame Shock also. Your main
goal is to keep the hunter in melee distance so he cannot shoot at you.
Obviously. Dont worry about keeping a ES ready. Go all out on him. Dont forget
to use remove poison also.
Mage: Mages can be both hard and easy. If the mage does not see you charge up a
CL and run in close. He will use Frost Nova. Let him get far enough away so he
starts casting. Use a ES to intrrusp the cast. If he is too far for your ES, CL
him. Now he will use Cone of Cold with Blink and will cast again. Keep your
grounding totem up incase of a cast. This will redirect the cast away from you.
Interrupt and cast another CL. This will be how you win the duel. Save enough
mana for ES always.
Paladin: I hate fighting these guys. I am basing this Pre-1.9 because i didnt
read the updates for pallys. Pallys are warriors with mana. They wear plate, so
no good melee damage, the have 2 unpurge-able sheilds, and they have good 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 invicable sheild. While the sheild is up dont cast any spells at him.
as soon as his hands turn yellow do a Heling Wave on yourself. And run away
until his sheild drops. Fight him once again to next to no health and look.
Another Sheild. Heal your self and run away. Now he has no more sheilds 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 kill him, you cannot melee him to death.
Priest: I admit, i dont have too much experince dueling priests. They are not
too hard when i fight them though. Priests are another class you must hold your
ES. When you go in at the priest he will DoT and mind blast you. By that time he
hasnt much HP left. He will instant fear you, sheild, and get full HP. Now is
when you go at him. You must kill him before his fear is back. When he pops on a
shield, at any time, Purge right away. The shield is...*poof*... gone and
inturrput 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, then FS ect. You cannot allow the rogue to get near you, if he gets the
first attack drop a EB and then use the cheap tactic. If you have time, and are
well enough away you can throw in a CL. Dont forget to use remove poison when
you are afflicted.
Shaman: At high levels most shaman are Elemental/Resto or Elemental/Ench so it
is who has better tactics and items. Use the ol'cheap tactic, EB in middle and
FS and run around him meleeing. He will most likely use EB so if you get close
enough attack the totem so you are free. Purge him of his lightning sheild
and/or Elemental Mastry - not sure if this is purgeable. This battle
constistantly use shocks as well 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. Good luck
Warlock: I have a difficult time killing warlocks. And also dont have much
experiance fighting them. If the warlocks imp is out shock it and melee it until
dead so only 1 guy to worry about. The warlock will put curses on you that you
cannot remove and he will keep fearing you. Drop a Grounding totem to help
during the battle and a Tremor totem. Set up a searing totem to delay his
casting and ES him whenever his hands turn dark purple. He is open to
Melee attacks so keep within wepons distance from him. Will report back when i
have more experiance fighting locks.
Warrior: Cheap Tactic Stikes Again. My best friend is a warr so i have plenty of
exp fighting these guys. Drop a EB and circle around using FS, dont let him/her
get close to you at all. If he does you have only a few hits, from a 2h, to live
before execute. you must keep a EB up and a searing will add some more dps. your
main goal is to slow him, and shock him. If u happen, somehow, get the chance to
chain lighting, do it, but watch out for inctercept stun! Also, try and get a
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 group
but i will tell you the general idea to group with small amounts of people. I
find 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
Druids - not in animal form
Mages
Hunters
Rogue
Warrior
Pally
Warlocks
Druids - animal form
I chose this order because Priests can heal and group fear and sheild
Druids are very powerful healer with entangling roots and Intant casts
Mages can do huge damage to any class but are easy for shaman to kill
Hunters pet will contantly do damage while the hunter is AoE or just capping one
guy
Rogues will get behind your casters and kill them within a few seconds so kill
them quickly
Warriors will do alot of melee damage so try to knock them off before they get
too 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 shaman
will kill it fast.
Druids in animal form can do decent damage but not too powerful attacks execpt
there charge.
Large Groups - AB, AV
When i am in AV i try and stay in the middle of the raid group and lay down some
benificial totems like stone skin, windfury and healing stream. I use my chain
lighting to pick a target, usually when that happens our mages/hunters attack
that 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 ambush
a mage or priest. If this consistanly happens, lay down a magma totem or a EB
totem to remove the rogues stealth. This should keep the casters safe. You
should act as a hybird, mage/warrior. Cast LB or CL until a brave warrior or
pally comes for your group. As soon as that happens charge with him/her with
your wepon at hand and melee him. The group will surely be helping you kill 'um.
If the war/pally is chasing a caster, drop an EB totem to keep them away if that
does not 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. Melee
them until dead.
If they are chasing someone EB and/or FS them. If they run, FS and CL them they
should die.
Thanks for taking time out of your day and reading this. I hope this helps you
with playing an elemental shaman. Please, Take time and post any feedback you
may have. This is constantly being updated with more experiance of mine and your
posts.
~Gorgen of Silver Hand, Member of The Rusty Pike Squad
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