Elemental Talent treesFollow

I'm sure this has been done before but I'm going to post my talent tree and my planned relearn of talents and why I want to do this. Please comment on my choices and add a link to your elemental shaman and why you've chosen what you did... WoWLK not in consideration.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Arthas&n=Dreadnasty

That is my current spec (did it just starting out without any sound reasons...started playing in January and had no idea).

Thinking about this one:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents.html

It may be PvP oriented but I like the instant GW as well as keeping my shield on to buy me more time spamming LB's...

Thanks!

Doesn't Natures swiftness require 20 points in Resto? How would I get that?

My thought process on GW was that I could get it and still keep the crucial Elemental talents. GW as an instant cast would help me run out of bad situations and give me time to heal and re-enter the battle. Please elaborate 'cause I feel like I might be missing something.

FTR, I'm doing BG's to get some decent gear and then hit the heroics and raids to get the next higher sets available. I have another thread discussing my elemental shaman choices as a new 70 and pretty much decided to get the thunderfist gear and then do dungeons...

I am looking at GW is my "out" of bad situations and it could help me a bit in WSG and EoS for Flag captures.

Thanks for the response!

EM - Elemental Mastery, CL - Chain Lightning.

It's common practice for a lot of elemental shamans to use a +damage trinket, then a macro that casts EM + NS then chain lightning as an opener/finisher in arena or BG's.

I think if you plan to PvP, NS will be far more useful to you than instant GW. Once you're snared, instant GW won't help you get away, and it quickly gets dispelled anyhow. In a BG, a shaman is a pretty poor flag runner anyway, you're far better as offensive/defensive support/harasser. Run around, purge everything in sight, drop earthbinds and groundings, try to CL or LB crit people who have low health. If you check, most successful elemental shamans spec 40/0/21 to get nature's swiftness.

Well...NS is more than enough reason to go into the resto tree. NS coupled with EM and a CL crit can be quite devastating in a BG/arena.

Other things in the resto tree are still decent...Nature's Guidance +3% hit with spells, Tidal mastery +5% crit with spells is huge, totemic mastery is great (bigger radius for tremor and grounding totems).

Anyway, play how you want man, I'm just letting you know how myself and the majority of elemental shamans spec for PvP. If you prefer to go elemental/enhance, more power to you, I just think the resto tree has better synergy with elemental.

Pay attention to posts =D
NS is not resistance. NS is Natures swiftness and it makes your next cast instant! So u can instantly cast Chain lightning or what ever.

Ele shamans can and is effecitve in PVE raids using PVP gear, at least, up to T5 and early T6 content.
Currently, the PVP gear is better than what you can get in heroics and Kara even.

Just checkout the list from the link (oboards) I've posted some time ago with all the associated weightage. U will understand why.

BTW, I thought EM and NS now share a cooldown and thus an instant cast crit CL opener is no longer as before?

PvP gear is fine all elemetal shaman needs is crit to perform well, mana pool is meaningless and mana regen while beneficial is still behind crit.

For a elemental shaman gearing up for crit I would say the belt boots bracers neck and the badge cape are all great pieces for pve. The S1 is only ok but make decent placeholders for better stuff and offer a powerful set bonus which can be quite useful.

It does lack haste but I would say thats any elemental shaman trying to get PvE gear and resorts to pvp probably just hit 70 and should be focused on upping crit before considering haste which takes a while to stack up.

Edited, Jun 27th 2008 8:31am by jmfmb