WoW Guide: Class Guide for Elemental Shaman in WoW: Cataclysm

In WoW: Cataclysm, the elemental shaman is also in the service of the raid and supports the damage dealers with his various totems and abilities. Especially the Totem of Wrath has long been the Elemental Shaman’s flagship. Our Elemental Shaman Guide!

The Elemental Shaman has always been in the service of the raid, supporting the damage dealers with his various totems and abilities. The Totem of Wrath, in particular, has long been the Elemental Shaman’s flagship item. But now Cataclysm has spread across Azeroth, bringing with it a whole host of changes to your spells and abilities, in addition to new zones, demanding challenges, and five more tiers. This is a good opportunity for us to review all the important information about the Element Junkie for you. We’ll you which abilities are especially strong in the new raids, what basics beginners should pay attention to, and let you in on the secrets of reforging and the new glyph system. Finally, we’ll take a look at the first steps in the new areas and show you what skills you need to advance to level 85. Shamans who prefer to heal will find our hereWoW Restoration Shaman Guide . An overview of all WoW guides can be found here.

The new skills

With the WoW expansionCataclysm, your warrior can finally level up to the new maximum level of 85. In this way, you will learn three new skills from the teacher that we have only been able to marvel at in the magic book and on the beta server:

Unleash Elements – Level 81:

Instant – 15 second cooldown Focuses and unleashes

the elemental power bound within the Shaman’s weapons. The concentrated effect is the same as the unleashed enchantment. The details of the unleash effects are recorded in the tooltips of the respective weapon enchantments.

Unleash Flames is the relevant effect for you as you smear your weapon with Flametongue Weapon .

Conclusion: At the moment, the effect of Unleash Flames is still quite small and should therefore only be incorporated into your play style if you have to move for a short time and Favor of the Spirit Walker is not ready. However, we assume that Unleash Flames will be boosted a bit more so that it will find a place in your rotation sooner or later.

Spiritwalker’s Favor – Level 85:

Instant – 2 min cooldown

A call for spiritual guidance allows the shaman to move while casting spells with cast time. This spell can be cast while other spells are being cast. Lasts 10 seconds.

Conclusion: The biggest dip in the damage of an elemental shaman has always been observed in phases of a fight with a lot of movement. Sure – most of your attacks have a casting time. That should be over now, thanks be to the spirit walker’s favor. The cooldown is quite high at two minutes. Therefore, make sure that you only use the favor in movement-intensive battles if you really have to move more than two meters.

Shaman – Patch Notes for WoW Patch 4.0.6 (German)
  • Chain Heal’s effectiveness has been increased by approximately 10%.
  • Flametongue Weapon procs now deal approximately 20% less damage.
  • Healing Rain now has a range of 40 yards (increased from 30 yards) to match other Shaman spells.
  • Hex now has an 8 second duration in PvP.
  • Purify now dispels a single effect instead of two.
  • Spiritwalker’s Favor duration increased from 10 to 15 seconds.
  • Quake Totem has been redesigned. The totem can now be used while fear, charm, or sleep effects are in effect and pulses much faster, but only lasts 6 seconds and has a 1 minute cooldown.
  • Windfury Weapon’s effect can now trigger 3 additional attacks, increased from 2.

elemental combat

  • Earthquake damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
  • Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning spells triggered by Elemental Overload (Mastery) can now generate stacks of Rolling Thunder.
  • Lava Burst damage has been increased by approximately 10%.

reinforcement

  • Flametongue Weapon damage now scales with attack power instead of spell power (for Enhancement Shaman only).
  • Purify’s mana cost is no longer reduced by Mental Quickness.

Restoration

  • Cleansing Waters’ healing effect no longer triggers twice when a cast removes both a magic and a curse effect at the same time.
  • Deep Heal (Mastery) increased from 2.5% to 3% per point.
  • Earth Shield can no longer be dispelled.
  • Greater Healing Wave mana cost increased by 10% and healing done increased by 20%.
  • The Mana Tide Totem has been redesigned. The totem no longer multiplies the willpower of targets. Instead, the totem grants a fixed bonus equal to 400% of the caster’s Spirit. Temporary willpower buffs applied while the totem is deployed are excluded from the calculation. Additionally, its effects are now raid-wide.

glyphs

  • Glyph of Hex now reduces cooldown by 10 seconds instead of 15.

Bug Fixes: Shaman

  • Ancestral Resolve now properly reduces the damage of Chaos Bolt.
  • Earthquake’s mana cost is now properly reduced by Elemental Focus clearcasting.
  • Elemental Oath now properly increases the damage of Earthquake.
  • While in Ghost Form, the player’s movement speed can no longer be reduced below 100% if the player was or is in an indoor environment.
  • Healing Rain’s casting process should no longer be canceled when a low-level player or NPC is in the area of ​​effect.
  • Reincarnation can now properly be used after the Shaman has already been revived by Soulstone or Rebirth during a boss fight.

Bug Fixes: Glyphs

  • Elemental Mastery tooltip now updates when using Glyph of Elemental Mastery.
  • The Ghost Wolf buff icon now updates when using Glyph of Ghost Wolf.
  • Grounding Totem’s tooltip now updates when using Glyph of Grounding Totem.
  • Healing Stream Totem’s tooltip now updates when using Glyph of Healing Stream Totem to show the additional 25 magic resistance it grants.
  • Healing Wave tooltip now updates when using Glyph of Healing Wave.

What is ?

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Getting Started

All players with an active World of Warcraft subscription or game time on their accounts have access toWoW Classic at no additional cost.

  1. Open the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App and select World of Warcraft from the menu.
  2. Select World of Warcraft Classic from the Version menu. If you have more than one World of Warcraft account, you’ll see a second Account drop-down list. In this column, select the active account you want to play with.
  3. Click the Install button. The progress bar will tell you when your game is ready to play.
  4. Click the Play button when the installation is complete.

You will need to select the realm you want to play on from several different realm types. Make sure you choose the same realm as your friends – in World of Warcraft Classic, you can only group with characters that are on the same realm as you!

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