Levelling Elemental

[Guest Post] Switching Sides – from Mage to Shaman

December 21, 2010
Gazimoff's shaman, struggling with too many totems

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 I’ll let you into a secret: when I originally looked at getting into Warcraft back in 2005 I was planning on rolling a shaman. There was a group of us all planning on getting into the game together and we were all getting our...

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Levelling Elemental: Glyphs

April 1, 2010

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 yet! Well, you can use one of the current big three. Or you can play around and have fun with your glyphs. As much as one can have fun with glyphs. I imagine it’s not a popular game with children. MOVING ON. I am...

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An ex-Shadow Priest

October 2, 2009

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, but her dps was low even for her gear level (by about 1k) and I can’t help thinking that’s my failure to be able to track several dots+cooldowns. Elemental Shaman is not so much simpler as a different way of looking at things. One...

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So I've gone 'mental

September 28, 2009

(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 both raiding 25 mans at the same time. I’m also trying not to get purple envy at the moment My shaman is currently level 75. I really enjoy enhancement, but a post from the GM has pointed out that having an elemental shaman available...

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