So i’m currently leveling this shaman and i’m gonna be honest, i’m struggling. Struggling real hard.
My issues currently:
-The damage feels very low and low-impact (no big numbers or anything)
-Survivability is low, shamans are like superfragile paper and quickly die to pulling more than one mob.
-The downtime feels very punishing.
-Transmog sets for shaman are really poor…
Does the class get better? more powerful? tougher?
At this point, to me, shaman feels like the worst class by far in the game.
Yes and YES I think I’ve got a post further down on the same subject for my elemental shaman. I was having my back side handed to me soooooooo much in game but as you level and get more abilities it gets easier and soooooooooo much more fun, hurling lumps of rock at your enemies faces burning them with lava and of course zapping em gets even more satisfying at endgame with a decent ilvl. Remember to use your totems and heals to help with survivability, As for mogs I’ve personally always found them easy to tmog and they look amazing when mogged correctly.
If your struggling to level as elemental, level as enhancement more survability and quicker then switch to elemental at 120 and equip benthic gear.
Also to help with gameplay try using the addon hero rotation it’s amazing at teaching you how to play a spec and once you learned it just turn it off .
All I can say is make sure you use cooldowns on cd. Earth Ele is great for big pulls and Fire ele helps with maelstrom. You can kite some if needed with snare totem/stuns. Once you get like Icefury and Stormkeeper it will get even better.
OP didn’t say which spec (s)he was leveling in so it’s up to us to guess, but as far as ele goes your damage is is ES and EQ, which means you must 1/ have access to them 2/ get the maelstrom to use 'em.
so spec aftershock pull 5 mobs min with CL, then EQ or go singletargety with LvB and pull a new mob as FS comes off cd to keep rolling
Well i tried to level as elemental and as enhancement.
The enhancement abilities are so incredibly low impact and low damage that it takes ages to kill a single mob and when i pull more i always seem to end up dieing rather rapidly.
I don’t even know what ES and EQ are… i think i might just stand around in AV.
With most other classes/specs i could handle the leveling, but shaman is just…it feels Bad and weak. What am i missing? :<
Elemental isn’t much better and with lava burst requiring flame shock, it likewise takes a lot of time to kill mobs. The whole thing feels very clunky
i’m currently level 82 and i find that out of all the classes…shaman is the weakest in almost every aspect. I don’t know what i’m doing wrong or if i’m missing things…i don’t understand why people willingly play the class. Help me out here D:
I’m currently leveling this shaman…but i also realise that there is nothing at max level. I don’t have a guild, i don’t have people to play with allianceside…in short…there’s nothing to do but LFR, and i don’t want to do LFR.
a landslide Stormstrike will almost one shot a mob.
Leveling in bfa as enhance or ele was indeed terrible when bfa came out, but I leveled another enhance in 8.1.5 and it was already much better.
But in the lower levels it is really easy.
Maybe you don’t use heirlooms?
I never leveled a shaman as enhancement (and I had a couple of them already), but I know that people find enhancement leveling much easier. You might find a detailed guide on that before reading the rest of my post.
As I can see you are currently level 71, that’s good!
Let’s start with talents then:
15: Echo of Elements, the more times you can throw a lavaburst, the better during leveling,
30: Call of Thunder, the other two talents just don’t cut it for leveling, I was never able to use a procc from the first talent, and the totem talent is just a pain to use, when you just move around all the time,
45: Earth shield, as you said, we don’t have many tools to survive, every healing bit is great,
60: Master of Elements, because more damage,
75: Natures Guardian, more healing,
90: Icefury, grants you good single target damage, with instant casts, really useful for kiting,
100: Stormkeeper, best in both ST and AoE while leveling, you can get away with wrong pulls or just pump that elite.
As for the general rotation:
Precast Lavaburst unless the mob is already at you, then switch places with point 2,
Cast Flame Shock,
Second Lavaburst,
Cast Lightning Bolt.
When enough maelstorm cast Earth Shock.
If the mob isn’t dead at this point or you know that you won’t kill it fast enough do one of the following:
Cast a Frost Shock to make him move slower,
Cast slowing totem at his location,
Thunderstorm him into the Nether.
As others mentioned, use a shield. It helps a lot during leveling. Moreover, always wear mail items. Welcome to the Shaman family, although we sometimes have it rough .
I’ve noticed that not even earth shield can help me survive enough.
It feels like the life of a shaman is killing mobs one at a time, no more because that’ll kill you. I Just can’t seem to do it. I’m 83 now i believe. With leveling i like the sense of being powerful, like that hard hitting obliterate, that destroying pyroblast…shamans don’t really feel like they have anything. Maybe it’s cause my casts are so dreadfully slow?
Currently feels like the best way to level a shaman is to afk in AV. D: i hope icefury will make it feel better!
Well, cant say about higher levels as my Shaman is level 46
but, it started as Enchantment Shaman and at level 15 i switched to Restoration.
Why? Because i got bored with wrapping mobs, and believe it or not, i actually enjoy being a healer very much so i spam dungeons and level up super fast.
And when i want some rest off dungeons, i can easily do quests including wrapping up 5 or even more mobs at once, because im a healer im pretty much immortal, and my AOE damage is decent, so there is that
Damn…it still doesn’t get better…I get hit by a chaos bolt and i’m wondering…what is a shaman if not a Terrible version of a warlock? You’re even more vulnerable against interrupts as shamans inherently have next to no useful instant cast spells… ugh
Gonna give it till icefury. People say it’s supergood so i’m gonna try it. Hope it gets better!
Even when i’m resto, everything pretty much kills me. Restoration for example, gets hardcounter by rogues.
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