Leveling your shaman is very fun. As you start out it can be quite tough, but you will get many abilities that will more than make up for this. Ancestrall Recall gives you an additional hearthstone to get around quickly. If you happen to die you will get reincarnation which allows you to revive without running back to your corpse. Another nifty ability is the ghost wolf form which increases your movement speed by 30%.

Later on you will get even more abilities that will turn you into one of the strongest soloers at that point. These are heroism/bloodlust (name depends on the faction) which give you a 40% melee and casting speed buff for 45 seconds. Another great boon are the elementals, being fire and earth, that you can summon to temporarily fight your enemies.

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Anyway let’s get into the talent builds. Due to its horrible damage restoration is not a tree to level with. For dungeon crawlers you may wish to go restoration as it helps your healing, but you could easily queue up for instances as DPS and enjoy leveling fast solo while dealing damage in groups. Right, now to get into both enhancement and elemental. Personally I’m not a big fan of elemental, at least not until outland/northrend. Unfortunately Blizzard didn’t make items for non clother-wearers very plentiful if you’re a caster making it hard to have good enough gear to not make your leveling a drag as elemental.

So let us move onto enhancement then, and the core of this guide.

As an enhancement shaman you will find yourself smashing through mobs with your powerful weapon enchants in combination with your ability to weave in spells. I personally prefer this build:

Click here for the shaman talent build

One thing to mention is that your melee damage is pretty poor at the lower levels. A good benchmark is going elemental first to make up for this and play as a caster early on. At that point you can respec to enhancement for shamanistic focus as this is a huge talent and starts the trend of building all the way to the bottom of the tree.

As you can see once you hit level 20 is where the enhancement tree really becomes a powerhouse. One tier higher you already get flurry which significantly increases your melee damage. Especially once you get windfury weapon at level 30 you will find this wonderful. After that you will find a couple of great talents that either reduce incoming damage significantly or further improve your damage.

Once you hit level 40 you may be wondering whether you’re still playing a shaman. You will finally be able to dual wield and pick up storm strike at 41. This is where you will find your damage improving by ridiculous amounts and you will really get a feel of how your enhancement shaman is supposed to be played.

Further into the tree you will find more useful talents. Such as improved stormstrike to keep your mana up and lava lash to give you yet another attack. On top of this you get Shamanistic Rage which reduces damage taken while allowing melee attacks to restore mana to the point where you will never have mana problems again.

And we’ve already come to the final 2 talents of the tree of which Maelstrom Weapon finally turns you into the melee-caster hybrid. It reduces cast time for every charge on you to the point where spells become instant cast. Not only will this increase your leveling speed it also makes your shaman a lot more dynamic in regards to playstyle. Lastly you will get your feral spirits. These not only deal significant damage they also have useful abilities and heal you for the damage they deal. This talent allows you to solo most group quests.Remember the Heroism/Bloodlust and Elemental totems mentioned before? Now combine these with the feral spirits.

After you get all this you can move back to the elemental tree and pick up some nifty goodies there, such as increased spell damage or the always lovely Elemental Devastation which increases your melee crit by a whopping 9% whenever one of your spells crits.

Shamans may not start out as great levelers but later on they are arguably the best. Thanks to the bursty effects like windfury weapon, earth shock and lightning bolt you will not only burn through monsters, you will also play one of the more interesting classes, as you always have to pay attention to maelstrom weapon to use up the charges as soon as possible.

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