To create a good talent build for your shaman there are a few prerequisite that you need to ask yourself before you can begin. Do you want to raid? Do battlegrounds or arena? Do you need a good leveling specc? Regardless of your playstyle you should take into account the class/specc of your fellow guild mates / arena partners to achieve maximum compatibility, beneficial combinations, and avoid redundancies. Players who prefer to go solo obviously don’t need to bother worrying about these issues.
Spells and Abilities with similar effects:
- Strength of Earth Totem / Horn of Winter (death knight)
- Windfury Totem / Icy Talons (death knight)
- Flametounge Totem or Totem of Wrath / Demonic Pact (warlock)
- Totem of Wrath / Heart of the Crusader (paladin)
- Unleashed Rage / Abomination’s Might (death knight) / Trueshot Aura (hunter)
- Elemental Oath / Moonkin Aura (druid)
- Focused Mind / Improved Concentration Aura (paladin)
Keeping in mind that there are always many possible variations and modifications depending on one’s playstyle, here are a few talent build examples:
Elemental
The weapon enchant you should use is Flametounge Weapon.
The stats that elemental benefits the most from are: “Spell Power”, “Critical Rating”, and “Hit Rating”. Some prefer to substitute hit rating with “Haste Rating” since shamans naturally have various talents to increase there chance to hit with spells and melee.
PvE Talents
PvP Talents
- Talents for Arena (Totem of Wrath is optional for both builds).
Enhancement
The enchants you’ll use while dual wielding can vary depending on the situation. I personally use Windfury Weapon on my main hand and Flametounge on my off-hand for PvE since it provides good synergy with Lava Lash and Glyph of Lava Lash. For PvP I use Windfury Weapon on my main hand and Frostbrand Weapon on my off-hand to provide more control and burst using Frozen Power.
The stats we need for this talent tree are: “Attack Power”, “Critical Rating”, “Agility”, and “Haste”. Of course since we’re a hybrid class we also benefit from caster attributes like “Intellect” and “Spell Power” (although that latter we get plenty from talents alone).
PvE Talents
PvP Talents
With the release of patch 3.1.0, the talents we can pick for PvP have varied in a way that we have to sacrifice some talents which previously we took for granted in order to access others such as Improved Fire Nova Totem. To know which talents we should sacrifice we need to be aware of the talents of our arena partner(s) in order to benefit our team to the max. Talents such as Unleashed Rage, Improved Fire Nova Totem, Weapon Mastery are examples of talents we can swap in and out of our build depending on our needs. Here’s an example of a variant arena specc:
- Talents for Arena (variant)
Restoration
The enchant to use with this talent tree is Earthliving Weapon hands down.
The stats that this talent tree requires are the same as any healer (except for Spirit): “Spell Power”, “Intellect”, “Critical Rating” and “Mana / 5 Seconds”. Personally I like to accumulate a healthy amount of “Haste” in my gear since it compliments our healing style which is heavily based on spells with long cast times; with enough haste our spells cast fast enough to make a difference.
PvE Talents
- Leveling talentsl (Restoration isn’t the most optimal specc to level with so I’d recommend a more hybrid build like this one)
PvP Talents
- Talents for Battlegrounds / World PvP (Mana Tide Totem is optional)
- Talents for Arena (Build maximizes survivability and utility)
Hybrid Talents
Hybrid builds are varied and depend on the likes of the player and there are a ton of possibilities for PvE and PvP, although it goes without saying that hybrid builds only exaggerate our crutch of “Jack of All Trades, Master of None”. A few examples are:
- Elemental (PvP with a bit of resto).
- Restoration (A more offensive PvP build).
- Enhancement (PvE combination to take advantage of Nature’s Swiftness).
This is a pretty solid explanation about which criteria we should use when it comes to picking out our talents. By all means I’ll do my best to keep this information updated from time to time.
Translated by Yiedra
Tags: Guías, Shaman, Talent builds, Talent Speccs, Talents
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