1h or 2h levelingFollow

If your dying while questing at this point in the game, your doing something wrong. 2h = more dps = faster killing = faster lvling.

At 40 you can duel wield some 1 handers and go to town with windfury.

One handers are ok but you can only use one enhancement on them , so at level 40 and the chance of two weapons with enhancements on them means a lot more damage possibilities , i am not sure of how much extra damage can be done but from all i have read about dual wield it is well worth it .


Personally i like the look the dual wield gives , there is nothing like two weapons flashing and banging on the enemy mobs to make me think i am having fun unlike the slow one hander where you can count the seconds off before it hits again.


edited to add where i said slow one hander i meant a two handed weapon and i guess i messed up a few other bits as well , thats what comes from being half asleep when writing but i guess you get my thoughts on it.

Edited, May 1st 2009 3:42am by sandralover

to steal the thread alittle bit. if you do go duelwielding what should you put on weapon duel wf or the rockbiter on one?? i like elemental better than enchancement so far but maybe i'm doing something wrong with enchancement.

What would you recommend to dual-wield with BoA gear? Daggers or Swords? Thrash Blade multi-attack might be pretty nifty if speed is not a factor.

Calm down. Shamans can't use swords. It was a very dumb question.

Your options are basically to use BoA daggers, or to find AH items. Slow one-handers are much better than fast ones, so it's an interesting question of what would be best to use. Until 40 it's obviously your Bloodied Arcanite Reaper. After that point you'd be better off using AH blues when at all possible (Wirt's Third leg is a good one in the 40s, and only comes from one place so you could theoretically find some by yourself). Once you get Lava Lash, using a fast offhand dagger with Flametongue is a viable option, but you'll still want to find a slow main-hand blue when possible.

BoA options did kinda ***** over enhancement shamans, unfortunately.

For those that don't even look on the Main WoW Site:




Or Alla's very own Shaman wiki page.

Edited, May 20th 2009 1:16pm by xNocturnalSunx

In all fairness, unless they've played the class for a while, you can't expect them to know everything about it. I read through the FAQ here and the only weapons paragraph I found mentioned nothing about weapon classes.

The class description available at the top of the main Shaman forum here on the site has apparently been moved. There used to be a link, but I can't see it anywhere now. In the old days it was all visible above the forum, but they removed it and created a link instead. I haven't clicked that link in forever. It's very easy to miss because it's just some blue text. And now it's apparently gone entirely. (edit: read below)

I don't think I've ever used the official website's class descriptions. And really, who bothers reading up on everything about a game when you can play it? I came to these forums after I started playing. Mainly because I needed advice on something I had tried and failed at, not something I was about to do and wanted not to fail at. Of course, at the time, everyone was new so no one considered it /facepalmworthy when people asked why they couldn't equip or train swords as a Shaman.

So, while I don't agree with the tone in Tsuvati's post, I do understand his frustration.

(edit)

Ah, now I see. When you select the Shaman forum from the drop-down menu above, you are taken to:

http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?wclass=8

This page does not contain a Class Description link.

However, if you go to the class selection menu and select the Shaman forum, you are taken to:

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/class.html?wclass=8

Which is an entirely different page.

Same thing happens if you select a thread and then click the Thread Index link. I always use the drop-down menu, hence why I thought the class description to have vanished.

Edited, May 21st 2009 12:54am by Mazra

All of your links go to the exact same page, Maz (at least it is for me).

It'd be easier if you just follow my link to the Alla Wiki page which has the weapon information for shamans near the top of that page.

Go to the Game Info drop down menu > Class > Shaman.

That will take you to the wiki. (See link in my prior post)

Unfortunately, Tsuvati, you'll find this anywhere you go online. You just have to roll with the punches and be sassy back. People here may seem like they're douches, but you'll find that many of their replies and posts do actually contain useful information and they do help people out a lot. People usually see the few negative responses instead of looking at them all.

Good luck!

I finally hit 42 on my Shaman and went from pretty terrible to absurdly powerful. The double Flurry Axes with Mongoose *may* have something to do with that >.>;;;;