Thank goodness for the kindness of friends. I’ve been stretched very thin recently, what with one thing and another. My good friend Gazimoff, co-host of the Obscurecast, founder of the Mage Forums and blogger, offered to write about his experiences of trying out a shaman character from a mage’s perspective. Huzzah guest post! – Pewter [...]
If you plan to raid with your Elemental Shaman, at 80 you will be locked into the ‘big 3′ that produces the most DPS at any given time. As of 3.3.3 this has changed somewhat, with Blizzard giving us a choice between Flametongue Weapon and Lava as our ‘third glyphs of choice’. I’m not 80 [...]
Essentially I wanted to try something that COULD be less complex than a Shadow Priest. It might be the lack of optimised UI on Qia (my shadow priest), but I’ve found it incredibly hard to keep on top of dps when playing her and trying to learn new fights. Maybe it’s the lack of haste, [...]
(This is a historical post from my guild forum ‘shaman blog’. I’m add it here to be able to trace the issues I was struggling with when I started, and how I approached joining our guild raids on a completely fresh character.) Now, there are currently some computer issues that prevent my SO and I [...]