shaman abilities (WoW)  

Overview

Like all other classes, Shaman abilities are broken down into 3 spheres: Restoration, Elemental Combat and Enhancement. The Restoration sphere centers around healing and cleansing. The Elemental Combat sphere centers around casting abilities. The Enhancement sphere centers around melee abilities and buffs. These spheres are important, but what really sets the Shaman apart from other classes are the use of totems. Each previously mention sphere contains totemic abilities related to itself but the totems are really broken down by the element used to case them.

A Shaman can lay down one totem for each element they have mastered: Earth, Fire, Water and Wind. The elements are mastered via quests that the shaman must complete. Earth is received after a level 4 quest, Fire after a level 10 quest, water after a level 20 quest and Wind after a level 30 quest. When these quests are completed, the Shaman will receive a totem of that element. That totem must be present in the bags of the Shaman if they wish to put down totems that use that element. In other words, when you receive the Earth Totem, the Earth Totem must be in your bags if you want to cast a Stoneclaw Totem. So do not leave them in the bank or destroy them.

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Note that Rank 1 of all spells and totems is listed below.

Totems By Element

Earth

Fire

Water

Wind

Other Shaman Abilities

Elemental

• Lightning Bolt (Level 1) - Just what it sounds like, casts a lightning bolt at the target dealing nature damage.
• Earth Shock (Level 4) - This is an instant cast spell that deal nature damage to the target. It will also interrupt spell-casting and prevent casts from that school of magic for 2 seconds. Unfortunately the cooldown is such that, even talented, you can't use it as quickly as you're probably going to like to in some cases.
• Flame Shock (Level 10) - An instant cast spell that does some immediate fire damage to the target and also causes additional fire damage over 12 seconds. If you're going to use this shock, use it near the beginning of a fight to give the damage over time effect maximum time to tick.
• Purge (Level 12) - This spell removes one beneficial magic effect from an enemy player. It cannot be used on allies. Note that this spell causes no damage to the target, it just removes a magical buff from them.
• Frost Shock (Level 20) - Instant cast spell that does frost damage and slows the movement speed of the target by 50% for 8 seconds.
• Chain Lightning (Level 32) - A Nature spell that causes damage to the target and then jumps to 2 additional targets. The spell does 30% lkkess damage to each target it jumps to.

Enhancement

• Rockbiter Weapon (Level 2) - This is the first of several weapon "enchants" that shamans have access to. It can only be cast on the shaman's own weapon, but can be applied to both the main hand and off-hand (when dual wielding is available) weapons. Rockbiter increases the damage per second of the weapon its applied to.
• Lightning Shield (Level 8) - Though it's called a shield, this spell doesn't reduce incoming damage. However, it will damage attackers (whether they attack with spells, ranged or melee attacks) when they hit the shaman. There are only 3 charges to the sheild, however, and each reflective damage uses up one of the charges. In some cases this shield may use more mana than it's worth, but it can be useful in others.
• Flametongue Weapon (Level 10) - Another weapon enchant, this one causes additional fire damage for each successful swing of the weapon. The fire damage is increased on slower weapons.
• Ghost Wolf (Level 20) - This is the druid travel form, it increases movement speed by 40% but is only usable outdoors. Also, the ghost wolf /dance is the best in the game.
• Frostbrand Weapon (Level 20) - A weapon enchant that has a chance to cause additional frost damage to the target and a chance to slow their movement speed by 25% for 8 seconds.
• Water Breathing (Level 22) - Allows the target to breathe underwater for 10 minutes. This spell requires a reagent Shiny Fish Scales which are readily available from Murlocs and Naga as well as other mobs.
• Far Sight (Level 26) - Changes the viewpoint to the targeted location and can only be used outdoors. This ability can be usedto see what's going on around corners or over ridges or other places not easily viewable.
• Water Walking (Level 28) - Allows the target to walk on water for 10 minutes. Damage caused to the target will cancel the effect. Note that this can also be used to walk across laval and other liquids. It can be very useful if you're running out to an island because your speed becomes your walking speed, not your swimming speed. Use caution with this, however, if you jump off a cliff into water with this active you will take fall damage.
• Windfury Weapon (Level 30) - A wepaon enchant that gives each successful melee attack a 20% chance of dealing additional damage equal to 2 additional weapon swings with additional attack power.
• Astral Recall (Level 30) - It's like having extra hearthstones! This allows you to teleport back to the inn you have set as your home. 15 minute cooldown.
• Stormstrike (Level 40) - This is a talented ability in the Enhancement tree. It instantly attacks the target with both weapons (when dual wielding). In addition, the next two nature damage spells against the target over the next 12 seconds have their damage boosted by 20%.
• Shamanistic Rage (Level 50) - This is a talented ability in the Enhancement tree. It reduces all incoming damage by 30% and also gives each successful melee attack the chance to return an amount of mana equal to 30% of the shaman's attack power.
• Bloodlust/Heroism (Level 70) - Increases melee, ranged and spell-casting speed by 30% for all party members for 40 seconds. Bloodlust is the Horde version of the spell, Heroism is the Aliance version.

Restoration

• Healing Wave (Level 1) - Heals a friendly target.
• Ancestral Spirit (Level 12) - This is the Shaman resurrection spell. It brings a player back to life with a fraction of their health and mana.
• Cure Poison (Level 16) - Removes 1 poison effect from a friendly player.
• Lesser Healing Wave (Level 20) - Heals a target for less than Healing Wave, but has half the cast time.
• Cure Disease (Level 22) - Removes one disease effect from a friendly target.
• Reincarnation (Level 30) - Allows the shaman to resurrect himself after being killed with 20% health and mana. It's a bit like soulstoning yourself. When you die you will get an option to release your spirit or, if you have the required reagent (Ankh) resurrecting yourself.
• Totemic Call (Level 30) - Destroys all currently active totems and returns 25% of the combined mana cost of all totems destroyed back to the Shaman. This can be handy for the mana return but it can also be a nice way to prevent your totems from drawing unwanted aggro as you move on.
• Chain Heal (Level 40) - Heals the inital target and then jumps to two additional friendly targets. Each jump reduces the effectivemess of the heal by 50%.
• Earth Shield (Level 50) - This is a talented ability in the Restoration tree. The spell can be cast on the shaman or a party member. It protects the shielded player from spell interruption caused by damage and also heals the target when struck. The shield has 6 charges. This is an excellent spell to put on tanks because the healing aggro generated from the charges on Earth Shield gets applied to the tank and not the healer.
• Water Shield (Level 62) - The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. These globes will increase the MP5 of the shaman by a set amount. When the shaman is struck in combat, one of the globes is used to return a larger amount of mana immediately to the shaman.

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