Shaman - WoW Level 19 twink

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By Elzabrad

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Elemental: Ranged Magic Damage Dealer.


Elemental shamans are quick and powerful magic dealers, casting fast spells and producing many critical strikes, at low levels such as 19 though, it may be a bit different. Twink shamans are limited to only a few spells such as the two shock spells Flame Shock and Earth Shock and Lightning Bolt. Their yard range is also limited to only 30 yards whilst others are 40 yard, such as Druids, Mages, Warlocks and Priests. But what Elemental shamans lack in range and less choice of spells they definitely make up for survivability. They are the only range spell casters that can wear mail armor reducing physical damage against them by a considerable amount, and have abilities such as lightning shield that ensure even if they're attack by melee classes, they continue to cause damage. The special ability they get is called Thunderstorm, this is an instant cast spell that damages targets within 10 yards, and knocks them back for 20 yards. This also restores 8% of your health and has a 45 second cool down. This can help kite melee classes by using Thunderstorm and a quickly following up with an Earthbind Totem, (which slows anyone within 10 yards).

Although Elemental shamans are slow at the beginning, their spell are still quite dangerous. They focus on slow, powerful spells that hit with a boom, this is shown through their two passive abilities called Elemental Fury and Shamanism. Elemental Fury increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Searing Totem and your fire, frost and earth spells by a huge 100%, Shamanism increases the spell power benefit that Lightning Bolt gets by 20% and reduces it's cast time by 0.5 seconds. This makes Lightning Bolt faster and more powerful than ever. allowing you to cast quicker spells with extra damage.

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Enhancement: Melee Damage Dealer.


Shamans in general are normally spell casters, but these certain Shamans like to choose up close combat using preferably maces and axes. They Enhance their weapons with the elements to deal extra damage and increase their own spells. Their special ability is called Lava Lash, this strikes your opponent with your off-hand weapon, dealing 200% of it's damage to the enemy target, the damage is also increased by 40% if the Flametongue Weapon buff is applied to the off-hand weapon. This is just an extra attack to use in your rotation so you don't have a huge gaping hole while waiting on your next shock or Primal Strike, it also has a 10 second cool down. This attack is extremely useful in pvp because already Enhancement Shamans attack extremely fast with Auto Attack plus Flametongue Weapon on both Weapons, their opponent is sure to die soon after Primal Strike, but if not Lava Lash is a great finishing move.

While being skilled in dealing loads of damage at a time, the Enhancement shaman can also constantly resupply themselves with extra mana so they will never lose mana. One ability they get is called Mental Quickness, this increases their spellpower by equal to 50% of their attack power, it also reduces the mana cost of their totem spells by a ginormous 75%, costing basically nothing. Their successful melee attacks also have a 40% to cause them to regenerate 5% of their base mana, due to their passive skill called Primal Wisdom.

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Restoration: Healer/Flag Carrier

Restoration shamans as twink healers are not the greatest, because they lack the necessary abilities a normal twink healer would have like speed and power. Shamans do not obtain their version of 'Flash Heal' (Healing Surge) until level 20, and they are only limited to the one healing spell Healing Wave where as others may have up to 3, 4 or even 5. Shamans are still reasonable healers if you are only healing one person, but any more than that and it will become too difficult. Fourtunately, Restoration shamans true talents lie else where as a twink.

Restoration shamans may be terrible healers, but they are phenomenal Flag Carriers. For starters, shamans obtain the ability Ghost Wolf at level 15, this spell transforms the caster into a wolf and increases their speed by 30%. Shamans also have the ability called Earthbind Totem, which slows down everyone within a 10 yard range for 50%. So while running even faster than their opponents already, they can also slow them down by 50%, giving them an 80% speed advantage. Their extra ability from Restoration Earth Shield, is also excellent for Flag Carrying. This ability puts an earthen shield around the target reducing cast time lost by 30% and healing them for a certain amount every time they're struck by an attack. The buff has 9 charges and lasts for 10 minutes. This is great because if you have no healers around to keep your health up, no worries because your shield automatically does it for you, also if you need to heal yourself because your health is becoming drastically low, the reduced cast time lost makes up for the slow Healing Wave.

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