WoW Classic Shaman Leveling Guide 1-60 (2024)

This guide will aim to provide you with a clear skill and gear path to max levelin WoW Classic. While detailing every single quest and the optimal leveling routesis beyond its scope, you can find detailed talent builds for all tastes, their rotationsand which skills to buy, as well as guides for class quests and weapons below.

Shamans have three talent trees: Enhancement, Elemental, and Restoration.

Enhancement is the generally recommended leveling build, due to its consistencyand Mana efficiency, as well as the raw power of Shaman's weaponenchants such as Rockbiter Weapon.

Elemental is also viable to level with, as long as you can stomach having tosit and drink every few kills.

Finally, Restoration is generally slower than the other two specs, due to itslower damage output, but if you are going to be leveling in a group or dungeons,then it is likely you will be healing more often than not, anyway.

If speed is what you care about, the best way to proceed in WoW Classic as asolo Shaman is to use our Enhancement talent builduntil level 40, at which point you should respec to our Elemental talent build.

The reason for this is that Enhancement has much stronger talents early on, andmelee attacks are also much stronger earlier in the game. By the time you hit Level40, Elemental will already have access to its killer talents:

• Elemental Fury increases your critical strike damage and has great synergy with the next talent;
• Elemental Mastery makes your next spell free and a guaranteed critical strike, allowing for huge Chain Lightning bursts;
• Lightning Mastery increases your DPS massively by heavily reducing your cast times.

This will make killing enemies much faster than if you were to keep theEnhancement talent buildall the way to 60. Fast enough, in fact, to be a faster leveler even when you considerthe time lost to drinking.

Leveling with a premade group in dungeons has become popularin WoW Classic. While leveling this way will not be for everyone, as it requiresa group of people of certain classes for maximum efficiency,Shamans are a core part of a melee cleave group, where they are off-healersand Windfury Totem / Strength of Earth Totem providers!

It should be noted that most dungeons in WoW Classic can be done with more than 5 people. While this willruin your experience gain,it is an option if you are struggling to get through.

Feel free to give it a try with your friends, in which case we recommend followingHakurai's video guidefor dungeon leveling in a melee cleave group.

In order to get to 60 as a Shaman you will also want to knowwhich professions / gear / stats to pursue and how to complete your class quests.In the following sections we will be discussing each of these at length.

By setting yourself up with an upgraded user interface and macros from the getgo, you will make your leveling process much easier. Check out our Shaman Macrosand Addons guide in the link below for the full list.

Learning professions early on is very useful, as you can naturally level themas you go, avoiding extra work at max level. This is especially true for gatheringprofessions, but crafting professions compensate your efforts by giving you extratools to level with.

We recommend that you learn First Aid as soon as possible foreasy self-healing. Skinning, Herbalism, and Miningare great primary professions for a leveling Shaman, allowing youto make extra gold, or accumulate materials that you can use to level crafting professions later.

While leveling, if you are Enhancement specced, your weapon is the most importantpiece of your gear. You should look for high raw damage, as Stormstrikescales with it, making slower weapons generally stronger when they have equal damageper second values. Slower weapons also allow you to kite with Earthbind Totemmore efficiently.

The rest of your gear should have Agility or Critical Strike on it, as these statsincrease your damage the most due to the synergy with Flurry. Strengthwill also increase your DPS. Finally, try to get some Stamina and Intellect, sothat you can kill more enemies before having to rest.

For the other specialization options, Elemental and Restoration, gear is lessimportant but try to aim for Intellect first and foremost, as it will allow youto kill more enemies or cast more heals before having to rest.

While all gear is relevant while leveling, weapons are especially important,as they contribute a great part of your damage, especially when you rely on meleehits as Enhancement andalso Elemental andRestoration early on. Read our full guideon weapons below.

Every class in WoW Classic has important class-specific quests that allow themto gear up and learn new active abilities, which are often critical to the class.Every single one of your totems, Earth, Fire, Water and Air comes from doingthese quests, and we will detail every single step of the way for you in our fullguide for quests below.

By the time you hit maximum level, it will be very helpful to read the restof our guides. Pick Restoration Shamanif you intend to heal at maximum level, which is the preferred specialization fora Shaman looking for a raid group, but Elemental Shamanand Enhancement Shaman are alsogreat supports, and do well in dungeons and PvP.

You are also welcome to catch up on what to do in PvP combat with our PvP Shaman Guide,and to start you epic mount grind with the help of the Goldmaking Guide for Shamans!