Cataclysm Classic Elemental Shaman Leveling

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Your first talent point unlocks at Level 10.

Start with Concussion.

Start with Concussion and Acuity.

Start with Concussion and Acuity and move on to Elemental Precision, which will increase your ability to Hit enemies considerably and make Spirit a useful stat.

Start with Concussion and Acuity and move on to Elemental Precision, which will increase your ability to Hit enemies considerably and make Spirit a useful stat. Pick up Call of Flame for more Lava Burst damage.

Start with Concussion and Acuity and move on to Elemental Precision, which will increase your ability to Hit enemies considerably and make Spirit a useful stat. Pick up Call of Flame for more Lava Burst damage, and Elemental Focus for better Mana management.

Rolling Thunder is another nice Mana management tool, which will double as a DPS source later.

Rolling Thunder is another nice Mana management tool, which will double as a DPS source later. Elemental Reach increases the range of your abilities, allowing you to move around less while pulling enemies.

Rolling Thunder is another nice Mana management tool, which will double as a DPS source later. Elemental Reach increases the range of your abilities, allowing you to move around less while pulling enemies. Pick up your raid buff Elemental Oath.

Rolling Thunder is another nice Mana management tool, which will double as a DPS source later. Elemental Reach increases the range of your abilities, allowing you to move around less while pulling enemies. Pick up your raid buff Elemental Oath and Lava Flows.

Rolling Thunder is another nice Mana management tool, which will double as a DPS source later. Elemental Reach increases the range of your abilities, allowing you to move around less while pulling enemies. Pick up your raid buff Elemental Oath and Lava Flows on the way to your other raid buff, Totemic Wrath.

Fulmination makes Earth Shock become a heavy damage hitting ability if you have enough Lightning Shield stacks.

Fulmination makes Earth Shock become a heavy damage hitting ability if you have enough Lightning Shield stacks and Elemental Mastery, one of your DPS cooldowns, is your next talent point.

Fulmination makes Earth Shock become a heavy damage hitting ability if you have enough Lightning Shield stacks and Elemental Mastery, one of your DPS cooldowns, is your next talent point. Take Reverberation as the next point.

Fulmination makes Earth Shock become a heavy damage hitting ability if you have enough Lightning Shield stacks and Elemental Mastery, one of your DPS cooldowns, is your next talent point. Take Reverberation as the next point to unlock the way to Lava Surge which can is a powerful burst damage talent.

Fulmination makes Earth Shock become a heavy damage hitting ability if you have enough Lightning Shield stacks and Elemental Mastery, one of your DPS cooldowns, is your next talent point. Take Reverberation as the next point to unlock the way to Lava Surge which can is a powerful burst damage talent. Finish the Elemental tree with Feedback, which will help reduce the cooldown of Elemental Mastery.

Elemental Weapons in the Enhancement tree is a great way to go forward.

Elemental Weapons and Improved Shields in the Enhancement tree are a great way to go forward.

Elemental Weapons and Improved Shields in the Enhancement tree are a great way to go forward. While there are many options for the final talents, we recommend taking Ancestral Swiftness for leveling for the extra movement speed and instant Ghost Wolf.

Elemental Weapons and Improved Shields in the Enhancement tree are a great way to go forward. While there are many options for the final talents, we recommend taking Ancestral Swiftness for leveling for the extra movement speed and instant Ghost Wolf. Finish your talents with Ancestral Resolve and / or Spark of Life for added personal survivability.

Your leveling glyphs are mostly the same as your endgame glyphs. Glyphs can be a huge boost to your DPS capabilities as some glyphs greatly improve the baseline power of your key abilities.

1. Glyph of Lava Burst — a nice passive boost to your Lava Burst damage.
2. Glyph of Unleashed Lightning — is a gameplay-changing glyph that allows your Lightning Bolt to be cast while moving, drastically increasing your mobility.
3. Glyph of Flame Shock — increases the duration of Flame Shock by a large amount.

1. Glyph of Lightning Shield — causes Lightning Shield to no longer go under 3 charges when you are attacked, making it a powerful glyph for leveling, especially!
2. Glyph of Healing Stream Totem — removes the need for using Elemental Resistance Totem by baking its power into Healing Stream Totem.
3. Glyph of Chain Lightning — increases the targets hit by Chain Lightning by 2 while decreasing damage taken by the first target, a very worthwhile trade off against large clumps of enemies. This can be a good glyph swap in large area damage scenarios.
4. Glyph of Thunder — reduces the cooldown of Thunderstorm, which is of small, but occasional use.

1. Glyph of Water Walking — allows you to cast Water Walking without a reagent, saving gold in the process.
2. Glyph of Renewed Life — removes the reagent requirement from Reincarnation, saving some gold over time.
3. Glyph of Astral Recall — lowering the cooldown of your Astral Recall allows you to move around more frequently, especially if you have your Hearthstone at your faction's central hub and all its portals.
4. Glyph of Thunderstorm — increases the Mana gained from Thunderstorm and removes the knockback, which is usually a downside when leveling.

Make sure to keep Lightning Shield active on yourself.

Make sure to keep Flametongue Weapon active on your weapon and Lightning Shield active on yourself.

Make sure to keep Flametongue Weapon active on your weapon, Lightning Shield on yourself, and any useful support totems such as Flametongue Totem.

1. Use Flame Shock on as many long-lived enemies as possible;
2. Cast Lava Burst on cooldown on a target with Flame Shock;
3. Use Earth Shock once at 7+ charges of Lightning Shield;
4. Cast Lightning Bolt;

Against multiple enemies, you can follow the single-target rotation and swap Lightning Bolt for Chain Lightning against 2 enemies or spam only Chain Lightning against 3 or more enemies. If fighting 5 enemies for an extended period of time, make sure to have Glyph of Chain Lightning on for maximum damage!

While leveling, you will not need to use all of your spells. Many can be skipped to save gold and trained at a later date, when you have more gold available to you. We recommend to not train these spells below, and save your gold for gear, glyphs and mounts instead.

• Primal Strike
• Frost Shock
• Frostbrand Weapon
• Far Sight
• Elemental Resistance Totem (assuming usage of Glyph of Healing Stream Totem)
• Bind Elemental
• Totem of Tranquil Mind
• Rockbiter Weapon

Congratulations on hitting Level 85 in Cataclysm! Now that your leveling process is over, you can learn more about maximum level Elemental gameplay by reading our detailed guide below.