Cataclysm Classic Enhancement Shaman Leveling

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Your first talent point unlocks at Level 10.

Focused Strikes increase the damage on some of your main abilities considerably.

Focused Strikes increase the damage on some of your main abilities considerably. Put two points into Improved Shields next for more damage and pathing purposes.

Focused Strikes increase the damage on some of your main abilities considerably. Put two points into Improved Shields next for more damage and pathing purposes towards Ancestral Swiftness, which will speed up your leveling considerably.

Focused Strikes increase the damage on some of your main abilities considerably. Put two points into Improved Shields next for more damage and pathing purposes towards Ancestral Swiftness, which will speed up your leveling considerably. Flurry is your next aim.

Focused Strikes increase the damage on some of your main abilities considerably. Put two points into Improved Shields next for more damage and pathing purposes towards Ancestral Swiftness, which will speed up your leveling considerably. Flurry is your next aim, followed by Stormstrike, one of your main attacks.

Static Shock allows your attacks to discharge Lightning Shield for added damage.

Static Shock allows your attacks to discharge Lightning Shield for added damage. Pick up Elemental Weapons next for more passive damage.

Static Shock allows your attacks to discharge Lightning Shield for added damage. Pick up Elemental Weapons next for more passive damage, followed by Searing Flames which causes your Searing Totem to become much more important in your rotation.

Static Shock allows your attacks to discharge Lightning Shield for added damage. Pick up Elemental Weapons next for more passive damage, followed by Searing Flames which causes your Searing Totem to become much more important in your rotation. Proceed by taking Elemental Devastation.

Static Shock allows your attacks to discharge Lightning Shield for added damage. Pick up Elemental Weapons next for more passive damage, followed by Searing Flames which causes your Searing Totem to become much more important in your rotation. Proceed by taking Elemental Devastation and your main defensive ability, Shamanistic Rage.

Unlock your main raid buff, Unleashed Rage.

Unlock your main raid buff, Unleashed Rage, and Improved Lava Lash, which allows you to easily spread your Flame Shocks, and thus enable massive Fire Nova area damage!

Unlock your main raid buff, Unleashed Rage, and Improved Lava Lash, which allows you to easily spread your Flame Shocks, and thus enable massive Fire Nova area damage! The next talent, Maelstrom Weapon is also incredibly powerful as it allows you to cast instant cast free spells often.

Unlock your main raid buff, Unleashed Rage, and Improved Lava Lash, which allows you to easily spread your Flame Shocks, and thus enable massive Fire Nova area damage! The next talent, Maelstrom Weapon is also incredibly powerful as it allows you to cast instant cast free spells often. Finish the Enhancement tree with Feral Spirit, your main DPS cooldown.

Finally, pick up Acuity from the Elemental tree.

Finally, pick up Acuity and put two points into Concussion on the Elemental tree.

Finally, pick up Acuity and put two points into Concussion on the Elemental tree to unlock Call of Flame for even more Fire Nova area damage.

Finally, pick up Acuity and put two points into Concussion on the Elemental tree to unlock Call of Flame for even more Fire Nova area damage. Finish with Elemental Precision for slightly more elemental damage.

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 Lash — a nice passive boost to your Lava Lash damage.
2. Glyph of Stormstrike — despite its tooltip, this glyph increases the critical strike bonus to spells applied by the Stormstrike ability.
3. Glyph of Feral Spirit — another passive boost, this time to your Feral Spirit guardians damage.

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 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.
3. Glyph of Fire Nova — increases the radius of Fire Nova, making it more likely to hit every other enemy in the pack your are fighting with.

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.

Make sure to keep Lightning Shield active on yourself, as well as any useful totems such as Searing Totem and Strength of Earth Totem.

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

Make sure to keep Windfury Weapon active on your main-hand weapon, Flametongue Weapon on your off-hand weapon, and Lightning Shield, as well as any useful support totems such as Strength of Earth Totem.

1. Cast Feral Spirit on cooldown;
2. Cast Lightning Bolt when you hit 5 Maelstrom Weapon stacks;
3. Use Lava Lash on cooldown;
4. Cast Primal Strike on cooldown;
5. Cast Stormstrike on cooldown;
6. Use Flame Shock on as many long-lived enemies as possible;
7. Use Earth Shock on cooldown.

Against multiple enemies, you can just follow the single-target rotation and swap Lightning Bolt for Chain Lightning against 2 enemies.

If facing 3 or more, use Fire Nova on cooldown once you have 3+ targets with Flame Shock, courtesy of Improved Lava Lash spreading mechanic.

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.

• Frost Shock
• Frostbrand Weapon
• Far Sight
• 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 Enhancement gameplay by reading our detailed guide below.