Enhancement Shaman leveling guide

Enhancement is the usual way to level a Shaman in Classic Era. A slow two-handed weapon with Windfury Weapon from level 30 gives huge hits, Flurry speeds up your attacks after every critical strike, and your own heals, totems and Reincarnation keep you alive. In Classic Era the Shaman is Horde only, for Orcs, Trolls and Taurens.

Strengths and weaknesses

• Windfury Weapon and a slow two-handed weapon give big, sudden damage.
• Mail armor from level 40 and your own heals make you hard to kill.
• Totems like Strength of Earth, Grace of Air and Windfury Totem help every group.
• Mana runs out in long fights, and before level 30 the damage is low.

Talents by level

Level 10 to 30

• Ancestral Knowledge 5/5 and Thundering Strikes 5/5.
• Two-Handed Axes and Maces at level 20, Improved Ghost Wolf 2/2 and Enhancing Totems 2/2.
• Flurry 5/5, then Elemental Weapons 1/3 at level 30.

Level 31 to 40

• Elemental Weapons 3/3, Parry and Toughness 1/5.
• Weapon Mastery 5/5, then Stormstrike at level 40.

Level 41 to 60

• Toughness 5/5, for 35 points in Enhancement.
• In Restoration: Tidal Focus 5/5, Totemic Focus 5/5, Nature’s Guidance 3/3 and Improved Healing Wave 3/5.

Rotation

One enemy

• Rockbiter Weapon before level 30, Windfury Weapon after. Lightning Shield and Strength of Earth Totem before the pull.
• Pull with Lightning Bolt, then melee. Earth Shock interrupts a caster or finishes an enemy that runs.
• From level 40, Stormstrike, then Earth Shock while its effect is on the enemy.

Two enemies

• Stoneclaw Totem draws the second enemy away from you for a while.
• Searing Totem, or Magma Totem from level 26, adds damage against both.

Staying alive

• Healing Wave, or Lesser Healing Wave from level 20, when a fight turns, and Frost Shock on an enemy that runs away.
• Stoneskin Totem reduces melee damage, and Ghost Wolf from level 20 helps you get away.
• Reincarnation from level 30 brings you back once per hour, as long as you carry an Ankh.

Leveling route

Level	Horde
1-12	Durotar, Mulgore
12-20	The Barrens, Silverpine Forest
20-30	The Barrens, Hillsbrad Foothills, Thousand Needles
30-40	Stranglethorn Vale, Arathi Highlands, Desolace
40-50	Tanaris, Feralas, The Hinterlands
50-60	Un’Goro Crater, Felwood, Western Plaguelands, Winterspring

Dungeons worth the detour: Scarlet Monastery from level 30 to 40, Zul’Farrak around 45 and Blackrock Depths from 52.

Stats, weapons and tradeskills

• Strength first, then Agility, Crit and Hit. Intellect keeps mana for heals.
• The slowest two-handed mace or axe you can find, because Windfury Weapon hits harder with a slow weapon.
• Enchants: Crusader on the weapon, Strength on the bracers and Agility on the gloves.
• Tradeskills: Mining with Blacksmithing for weapons, or Skinning with Leatherworking for leather and mail armor.