Why Your Shaman Needs a PvP Guide
Even if your Shaman has avoided it in the past, Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in their future. Wrath of the Lich King transformed World PvP. The big change is visible in the new real time PvP battle zone called Lake Wintergrasp. There, the emphasis is on real-time World PvP.
In this new zone, you face off on the live server to win points that allow you to buy a wide variety of rare and valuable items, including the new Heirloom items that any of the player’s characters in that account regardless of that character’s level can take advantage of.
Given the popularity of Lake Wintergrasp and the increasing amount of PvP combat in other popular games, you’ll surely see more even more PvP in WoW in the future. Here’s what you need to know to handle your Shaman in this new world:
Playing a Shaman class character in World of Warcraft PvP can be incredibly fun because of all the things they can do in combat. Whether it is throwing down an armful of offensive and defensive totems, or slicing their opponent to ribbons using Windfury, Shaman can do it all, with style and power. But all those abilities mean there’s a significant amount of learning you must do if you want to play a Shaman in PvP without dying continuously.
What makes playing a Shaman hard to learn is the same thing that makes it so much fun once you do learn: all those totems. When you count all the different elemental specs available to a Shaman, there are more than 30 totems combined. For example, the Grounding Totem which disrupts attacks while Earthshock interrupts them. Poison Cleanse which removes poisons as they are cast. Depending on which totem your Shaman uses, they can dispel attacks, keep Rogues out of combat, absorb the Warrior’s