Are Shamans fun to play?Follow

every class can solo. Even elites (some easier than others...). The game is designed to be solo'd. And yes levelling enhance is the best way to go (least amount of down time for drinking etc.). Are they fun to play? Sure. It's nice seeing windfury procs, and your target go down in a few hits.

The hardest part will be levels 1-30. When you get windfury things do get easier, and you get to see those nice windfury procs I mentioned above. Until level 40 just get a powerful 2 hander, and it shouldn't be too hard to level. Get the best 2 hander you can find.

Edited, Jan 29th 2009 7:26pm by thrashering

Once again it is pointless to ask others if a certian class/spec is fun to play. It's like saying you have never tried sushi and you ask others if it's good or not. Sure I like it, but you may not.

Any other info you need on a certain class is in stickies on pretty much every WoW forum on the web.

lol I'll assume you are joking.

They are the least played class for a reason. But I think that's because people don't want to take the time to learn totems (they aren't that hard), or are too mentally challenged to figure out what the 4 elements are LOL.

Above post mentioned elemental. Yes they are fun too. And with water shield at an earlier level than it used to be, definately viable. You get ranged spellcasting, but wear decent armor (compared to a mage). You don't have to worry about being 3 shotted if your cc is resisted like with a mage. Worst comes to worse you heal yourself.

They aren't the fastest class to level up. And let's face it, people want to play OP classes. There's a reason why more people are playing pallies and DK's right now than any other class.

Easy isn't necessarily fun. I'm levelling my holy priest right now. Although it really hasn't been that challenging as I thought it would be. she can kill things fairly easy. Only areas that are challenging are when taking on lots of mobs at once, or places with insanely fast respawn times. My point is sometimes it's fun to do something, just because other people aren't doing it. In fact, I'll never level my DK. He (actually have 2- one horde one ally) will always be at 55. There are too many of them. And they are a noob class (took that spot from hunters). 90% of them can't tank worth a sh*t, and are completely inept at everything. I don't want to be associated with that.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2009 11:35pm by thrashering

lol, I hear you. I actually thought about playing my DK for a similar reason. To "show them how it's done" :)

Ran ramparts last night with my holy priest. We made it, but I credit that to some awesome dps by the enhancement shaman. So that goes to show you enhancement shaman are fun to play, and can put out great dps. Sure you can say that about any class if played properly of course. Anyways the DK tank was of course crap. And I'm thinking, I should level my DK and show them how it's done. but the disease combat mechanic doesn't appeal to me very much. And I prefer healing. I just wish my fade had better than a 30 second c/d. His aoe threat (when he remember to use d&d or whatever aoe damage he has) wasn't good enough sometimes to counteract my healing threat. I wasn't a perfect healer though, I'm used to shammy healing. But I think I did pretty good. Only went OOM when the tank pulled the 1st boss along with the 3 trash mobs. But we downed him (mainly due to that enhance shammy dps being insane)

I found with my newest alt as a shammy i can level at a reasonable speed but only after getting some half way decent gear did it become good fun at level 18 , the hardest thing i find is working out which totem to use but saying that it is rather fun trying to see what does the most good in my survivability and my damage output , the best part i find is you can treat them much like a pally with totems to help a bit , i guess in normal play you will only need a few totems , or at least it seems that way to me at my level , attract mob set totems and just watch the auto attacks until either the mob/mobs are dead or heal myself works for me at the moment , if you go enhancement you do not need to use many spell attacks ( i only use to attract mobs to me ) and the totems only use a small amount of mana so you will have plenty to heal yourself.

I guess they are one of the most difficult classes to get used to with all the totems , but saying that i also think they are a nice change from my hunters and pallys and my mages , probably not the fastest to level but at least that way you will get the chance to see what totems do for you unlike some classes that can race to 80 and still not know how to fight well .

After playing and loving my hunter to level 73... I went Shammy as well.

This class has it all!

-DPS or Heals your pick
-Buffs

and the Skill Trees are sweet.

I played all of the Skill Trees, and while some people swear up and down at how awesome Enhancement Shammies are, I went Elemental and Resto so that I don't need to switch out gear.

With my Shammy the cycle goes be super L337 heals, for instances and then switch to Elemental for BGs.

I score such high DPS, that in BGs people hunt me down. But luckily the DPS is high enough that I can avoid getting a finger layed on me.

In short... HELL YES!

Shammies are awesome and the can heal just as good, as anything with just 5 points in resto.

Shaman are fun to play in IMO
I have level as element shaman I have found it's easy to do. I know enchant shaman is suppose be fastest tree to level but I love using shocks so I stay with element and have not seen much different in leveling between element & enchant. I actual think I do better against elite mob then enchant shaman but they probably do better against trash mobs.(just IMO).
But what I like made not be what you like I say give it a try.

I started out as a Hunter, when I lvl capped that toon I started a Shammy, while I was lvling this toon I was a hybrid elemental/enhance, and it took me no time to lvl to the lvl cap of 70 (pre Wrath). So yes shaman are fun to play you will learn the class along the way snd will be a big help in groups and raids

Took me a while (something like a good 5+ months) to finally get into the groove of leveling my Shaman again. It was just slow from 1-20 (as compared to a Warlock), but after Water Shield, I feel terribly overpowered, and grinding BECOMES FUN. Yes I just said that.

If you're not having fun, just go back to something else, but I'd say tough it out till at least 20. The further you go, the more fun it should theoretically be.

Well I personally have a level 80 hunter and I understand why you didn't feel like taking him past 70 but I still had fun. As far as the Shammy goes, I recently made one and although I'm still a low level I am having fun with him and I also went enhancement. I was weary of trying one at first but I'm glad I did so go for it, roll a shammy.