How GOOD Is SHAMAN In HARDCORE Classic WoW? | Tips & Tricks | Classic WoW

Earth, Fire, Water and Air are the calls of the Shaman, making them a powerful and versatile class. Whilst often seen as healers during the endgame of WoW Classic, the more leveling focused hardcore challenge allows you to see much more of what the Shaman is capable of.
Whether its melee or ranged dps, heal or tank, the Shaman can do it all. So today, we check out -
How GOOD Is SHAMAN In HARDCORE Classic WoW? | Tips & Tricks | Classic WoW 9/9

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14:34 - Key Abilities To Buy
15:36 - Weapon Progression
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[AcieEoff]

Stormstrike missing/parrying, going on CD, and still consuming mana, is the biggest crime of all

[TheMexican]

As someone who leveled a shaman during the classic release I have to say the addon totem timers is an absolute must for quality of life with totems. You can set your default totem of each element, bind them to a key bind while still having your other totems on an accordion to pull out any other totem you may want situationally and some other bonus buttons like one for your lightning shield or weapon imbue of choice

[HogeH]

WF procs are the best feeling in the game.

[Vourne]

Big Tip: For those that only want to level Enhancement Shaman 1-60 start with Resto. I know it sounds strange but at low levels you don't really need added damage talents. What you desperately need is Hit Rating. Natures Guidance for 3% hit with an Axe (If your Orc) and you basically can no longer miss, and your glancing blow damage goes way up. It's actually the biggest buff to your DPS while leveling. Plus you get cheaper healing spells, and much cheaper totem spells. You'll be level 22 by the time you start in the Enhancement tree, which is when you'll start needing the damage.

[gamingshowerthoughts]

How to level as elemental:

1-24: gear and play exactly as if you were enhancement.
25-39: pull with 2 lightning bolts and 1 shock and then melee while regening mana. Don't wear cloth and don't avoid melee stats.
40-60: continue same as 25-39 or buy a lot of water and become a wizard. Wear mail either way.

[Tom]

Shaman and warrior is a lethal duo.. WF totem and Sweeping strikes/whirlwind is simply unfair.

[grabeck]

Few things.

The most important addon to have on shaman in classic is something like Totem Caddy. It adds a bar for totems like in TBC which helps a lot with saving space on skill bars. You can customise it or make binds for it.

You mentioned Ghost Wolf as a defensive ability for some reason where even with 1s cast its rarely used to run.
The most important thing is that it litrerally acts as a bit slower mount for 20 levels (probably more, since its often hard to buy a mount at 40) which is something most classes can only dream about.
There is also Astral Recall which another great thing which helps with leveling speed.

As of builds for leveling.

Yes, slow two hander and WF is the most fun thing to play with but its definitely not most efficent. Rockbiter is the enchant to go on every weapon, no matter if its 1h or 2h, if its slow or fast. You can switch it to Flametongue when you fight a lot of highly armored enemies (if you don't know how to tell which mob is 'warrior' class then just stick to RB). RB simpy outperforms in dps every other imbue, WF is catching up slightly on very slow weapons though.

As of the most 'efficent' way to level, its 1h + shield. It offers only slightly lower dps and leveling speed than 2h but you use way less water to level like this. 2h leveling is a bit faster, but more costly.

On level 40-45+ the fastest way to level is actually elemental. The speed is wayyy faster than 1h+shield or 2h (even including downtime for drinking), but its also the most costly one since you will be going through your water stock like crazy.

Im happy that you mentioned enh+resto, I belive many guides for some reason recommends ele but especially with how bad gear is in solo play adding +3 hit rating AND +3 spell hit rating is king, considering like 1/3 of our damage is elemental.

edit: anyone interested in shaman talk with all the details, small things and numbers I highly recommend Defcamp & Melderon TV channel, few hours of videos just for shaman testing.

[TheRealOnlind]

Stoneclaw Totem being able to stun was not a thing in classic, it was added in a later expansion.

[andrewg]

Opie is a great addon for shaman totems. It opens a radial menu when you press a button, allowing you to assign a bunch of totems to a single button for example. Certain ones you may use very often or may want to place the very quickly, so you can just use a normal keybind for those. But for all the extras that you only use in specific situations it can be really nice.

[Xamanez]

Just proves how scuffed shaman talents were. 100% would want to see a rework in classic +

[BuTbKa]

I’ll never forget that day when I one shot a gnome mage in the shimmering flats with a wf crit

[mitchtheronin]

Man you forgot the most important quality of life thing. Astral Recall. A hearthstone every 15 min + the one you get at the start. Makes travelling so much comfortable

[mrwreckit]

For anybody curious about playing a HC shaman, the "drop off" isnt as bad as some videos make them out to be. Shaman is a great class overall. My very first toon in wow was a shaman also was my very first 60. After playing a shaman for well over a decade, for people that are newer to the shaman class, dont let what some videos are saying about them discourage you. It will take some time to learn totem rotations etc but as with any class that will come with time and practice. Biggest issue I would say in vanilla is our mana issues. Shaman class is very mana intensive but you have many options to counter the mana issues. Always carry mana pots so viable.

[LobbeWOW]

Shaman is a great support class, but their support tools are sadly limited only to groupwide buffs, so you need quite a few of them in raids to give all your melee what they desire.

[majmop]

we had a shaman in classic who tanked our alt runs at 60, and has main tanked all endgame bosses including patchwerk, wherever you are Shamantank <fit> Herod we miss u

[smithykong]

I think mulgore and durotar are friendly to below lvl 10 witch might pump those numbers up
In durotar you get the deadly cave next to orgri, but you will be past lvl 10

[travelingbard]

Was a mage main for years but gave shaman a go during the first classic re-release and have to say... I love having a totem for basically every scenario lol full hotbars but still fun 😁

[electrocit]

going mele-ish elemental can work too. you spec for hit and shock cool down. then spam rank one shock until you trigger elemental focus then do a big shock. It is a bit slower but is less mana dependent so it feels faster to me as I don't have to sit and drink if played right. Especially if you want to spec into resto for improved mana totem and play more of a healer in groups.

[ankha]

I'm a Shaman, lvl 59, most of what you said is accurate about the leveling experience. Key is to stack Agility to keep flurry proc'ing so your dps never seems to fall off.

[ChairmanMeow]

I hate that theres no totem recall. Leaving totems hanging around in the open world makes me nervous AF.