WoW Shaman Leveling Guide

The shaman is quite possible the perfect hybrid class, with a tree dedicated toward offensive magic, healing, and melee damage. This Shaman Leveling Guide will help you through the early stages of leveling your shaman, including proper shaman leveling spec, gear, and professions.

Shaman Leveling Guide Part 1: Getting Started

So, you’re getting through the preliminary quests and your starting zone when suddenly you ding level 10, and you get to pick your talent spec. Well, I would personally go with enhancement. You will be a bit more gear dependent since enhancement is a melee tree, but you can easily find all the gear you need through dungeons. However, you will have almost no downtime, due to reduced mana cost, increased mana regeneration, and instant healing abilities. Also, the instant Ghost Wolf ability and passive movement speed increase your leveling speed significantly. Elemental is also a very viable leveling spec, though you will probably be drinking much more frequently for mana. Restoration is not a recommended leveling spec because you will be getting most of your experience through questing. Once you hit level 30, a secondary healing spec for dungeons is highly recommended due to the almost instant queue times.

Shaman Leveling Guide Part 2: Gear

Ok, so shaman can wear leather to start off, and mail once they reach level 40. At level 50, you will want all mail gear in order to get the mail specialization bonus. When collecting your gear do NOT EVER buy gear on the auction house. There’s just no good reason to. You can get all the gear you will ever need by running dungeons or by questing. In terms of stats, this is what you want to look for:

Regardless of spec, stamina will help your survivability.

Enhancement shaman will want to collect gear with agility for damage and crit chance. Hit is also beneficial since dual-wielding suffers a hit penalty. Slow one-handed weapons with high damage are recommended.

Elemental Shaman will want to pick up gear with intellect and spell power for increased mana and damage. Spirit is decent for reducing down time as well, but not necessary. Staves can be worn, but spell daggers, maces, and shields are recommended.

Shaman Leveling Guide Part 3: Professions

Gathering professions are recommended if you are just powerleveling and don’t want to slow down. Good gold, decent buffs, and you get a pretty nice experience boost from gathering. Crafting professions are best paired up with the appropriate gathering skill to provide all necessary materials. However, if you have plenty of gold it is possible to level two crafting professions at the same time. A good WoW Gold Guide is recommended if you plan on doing this, as the materials can be costly. However the rewards are well worth the effort in the long run.

With this Shaman Leveling Guide, you should be off on a good start. However, the World of Warcraft is massive, and with literally thousands of quests, over 100 zones and dungeons, it’s easy to get lost. So don’t be afraid to look for help or look at a WoW Leveling guide to get your bearings straight.