for sitting back and casting quick chain lightning spells into the fray.
Burst damage is the name of the game for PvP, so stick with Elemental and you’ll do fine.
Another option is a heavy resto build with a heavy emphasis on chain heal, find big groups of your team, hang at the back and help them out with healing. Don’t forget to be sneaky and use terrain to hide.
Raiding Shaman’s are another resto hangout for the Shaman, and chain heal really comes out to shine.
I strongly suggest you invest heavily in ensuring your Shaman will crit chain heals as much as possible, and get your mana totems working hard too. Your group will love you for it.
Earth shield in particular is great for helping out the primary healer or tank, and you should max its related talents out.
Another talent I recommend you get is Thundering Strikes. Max it out with 5/5 points and you’ll get an extra 5% crit chance – great for your healing spells. Just remember, its in the enhancement branch, not resto!
If you want to do DPS in a raid, I’d look at enhancement since your average DPS will be higher than elemental. Get all the talents you can find which back up windfury and flurry, and they’ll do all the hard work for you.
At the end of the day, you generally don’t need hard and fast rules for your Shaman build unless you’re at the very top of the competition, or are hungry to get there.
Jon is a passionate WoW gamer. If you want more specific build advice from Jon, he has an Elemental Shaman Build, an Enhancement Shaman Build, and a Resto Shaman Build on his blog.
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