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Guide last updated: April 2008 for patch 2.4
Review last updated: 2008-04-10
The Shaman guide by Killer Guides’ is a 109 page ebook designed to take all the way from creating your shaman to becoming a powerful level 70 character, regardless of play style.
As you may already know the shaman is a hybrid, and depending upon your choices of gear and talents you can become similar to either a mage (elemental shaman), warrior (enhancement shaman) or a priest (restoration shaman).
I think the guide does a good job of separating these builds so you get an understanding of which stats, gear and talents to focus on depending on what you want to accomplish. The guide contains many discussions on topics such as character creation, stats, gear, gameplay stratgeies (PvP & PvE), macros, leveling paths for both horde & alliance, addons, talents, professions, shaman quests and gold making.
As you can see, that’s quite a lot and the guide is 109 pages long.
If there was something that could have been better about this guide it would be clearer advice in some places. For example, the discussion on horde races weighs all the pros and cons of each race against each other, but a specific recommendation as to which race to go with is never made.
The gameplay strategies for solo play could also have been clearer, i.e. how to approach a one mob encounter, two mob encounter, three mob encounter and so on.
As far as accuracy (descriptions of spells and talents and such) is concerned, I found almost everything in the guide to be correct. That is important so you will be able to trust the tips.
My favorite chapters were those on gear (nice selection of gear for levels 15-58)… which stats to go for… leveling paths (makes use of the new 2.3 leveling improvements)… talents (a discussion of all but 3 talents and example talent builds with authoritative advice on their purposes)… and gold making (really effective tips for levels 60-70). Oh, and I almost forgot the detailed walkthroughs for the 4 shaman class quests which will give you your totems.
I think if you return to the guide to look up things as you progress it will be of great help for you in making the shaman you want to play. You may need more than one reading to absorb all the info here. If you’re already level 70 you probably know most of the stuff already.
Click here to get it.
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