Hey Preach i put my Shaman on the shelf for a long time, until i found your chanel and your awesome class guides, now iv brought him back to life and now almost topping the Deeeps, cheers ;-)
I just love the way the shaman is designed. Instead of a boring Moar-DPS-for-X-seconds-CD they get a formchange and can crit all the time for that duration (only Lavasurge). They can also heal, buff und shield themselfs and others. I love to play a DPS but can heal, wich I also like, too, even if not mainly. Shamans don't need to be top of the DPS-Meter, since they can keep the raid alive at crucial times, helping all the healers out and providing everyone with DPS-Buffs when called for.
Being a old shaman player, i loved EVERYTHING about it, incl the leveling, only thing i didnt like was rogues but we have to have some weakness :D and i LOVED being Hybrid ! hell yeah! It made you loved by casters and melee, and have a job to be proud of, namely helping your team, and i want shamans to stay, or even be more hybrid than they are, cause there has to be some of that, and shamans always been and still are, imo, the biggest hybrids, them and druids, specialy as enhance, since you use spells as well as melee. I dunno if you still get buffed by spell buffs as enhance, but i sure effing hope so, cause thats what shaman in its core is, a caster melee class combined, and its awesome and original imo, if that changes, i dont know if i wanna play wow anymore. (Havent played my shaman for some time now but i love him to death)
stats are stats, if crit is better we get more crit etc. As someone who plays all specs lemme tell you, it's irrelevant whats better and for what reason. We just get whats better each time. e.g. we want bla bla to care more about haste = regem haste. Ultimately it doesn't matter. In terms of ele shamans, i would like at ele blast not being able to proc crit so its more interesting.
I absolutely love this spec, it is my main and I could not be happier with it, only downside I've felt so far is defensive CD's are not that great. Astral Shift is fine but the 2 min cool down it's just too long. But the utility of this class is awesome, nobody in my raid has ever cared that I'm not the top DPS (never been in the bottom of the meters either), I almost always have specific jobs to do in fights and this is an amazing spec to accomplish that. Awesome video Preach.
Totally agree with you Preach, been playing and Ele/Resto Shaman class as my main for a while now. They are just so much fun at the moment. Don't even care where I am on the damage meter, I'm just lolling all the way to my loot.
thanks for the vid preach!, I started a shaman 3 days ago.. only class i haven't leveled yet.. this video was very nice to see right now :) I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear your take on The Healers of MOP and how you feel they "feel" compared to other expansions :) thanks brother!
He's probably referring to the Glyph of Telluric Currents. It's pretty much required for Ele's. It's unfortunate, too, that we have to use a major glyph on a filler spell to keep from going oom. We have Thunderstorm, a spell that gives back a little mana, but it's on a 45 sec cooldown and doesn't give enough back to rely on it solely.
I made a shaman to play elemental because of the elemental overload and then I fell in love with enhancement. Even with the Echo of Elements and even more potential to double or triple cast I've still kept myself enhancement but I have elemental as an off-spec.
I can tell you this. My Elemental shaman alone on Alterac Valley pushed back the entire alliance from crossing over that bridge. Everyone in front of me fighting allowed me to work my god like magic. Throwing down Earthquake under the healers in the middle of the Alliance, Healing rain on our front line, and spamming Chain Lightening + Echo of the Elements was like hot lava to them. We won that BG because of me being able to work my magic. Great spec to sit back and destroy. CC at it's best.
Mike! Love your videos! They help me become and appreciate my class more! Quick question...what addon are you using for your spell bars at the bottom? I love how it doesn't take up the whole bottom of your screen.
Been playing wow with my main being fury warrior since BC, had every class going at max level except druid and I'v never considered changing what I play as my main...... until I got my Ele MOP shaman! So much fun and hits sooooooo hard :)
Played ele through all of TBC was constantly in top 5 dps on raids; we cleared BT roughly one month after release. 2500+Arena 3man and loved switching to resto when needed. good times.
I've been ele since 2.1 PUGS would spam: "LFM for HFR No Shamans". I fought tooth and nail to get the right gear and fight my way up the ranks of crappy guilds until I got the opportunity to raid with some of the best through BC and Wrath. Ele is and will always be my favorite spec of any class. You make a great point about utility. I makes me sad that most ele's don't see it as a blessing. Learning to healing rain or heal-stream totem right as a boss AOEs... Overworked & Underpaid! Ele4lyfe!
It's not so bad now that lava burst was moved to a much lower level. Once you get lava burst it's smooth sailing. Before the cata changes though yeah it was rough.
I really love my elemental shaman, but lately I've been looking for a class that can do well in pvp and pve. I've seen people do well in pvp on shamans but it seems hard. I've tried it and it's definitely fun. Sometimes RNG will just work in your favor and you'll just destroy a person, but it sometimes seems if anyone so much as looks at you you're dead.
whats up Mike! just wondering if there was a possibility for a UI folder link love your set up perfect,or maybe an in depth addon/UI set up thanks baller :D
I've been maining an Elemental Shaman since since Vanilla, and I can say in they're current state, they're pretty underpar. Mostly because at lower gear levels their sustained DPS is fairly low compared to the Dps of other classes. Our burst is fairly good at pretty much any gear level though. It is a truly gear-dependent spec, which I don't like very much. But I still have a blast with the spec.
im leveling an elemental shaman right now, and its alot of fun. im waiting to get the passive that lets you do instant Lava Bursts, but still fun at level 34
Try not to use any "Hit" on your gear and gems, just go for Spirit to increase your hit. Use Thunderstorm on every cooldown. Increase your "Haste" and dot as many baddies with flame shock as you can while chuckling lava/bolts. Using this method I rarely go less than half of my mana pool. Cheers.
?? Frost DKs have a chance on melee swing for their next oblit/FS to crit. It's not RNGception like the way I said it would suck to be for flame shock.
Rolled a Elemental Shaman for the first time after playing this game for 7 years fuk me i need a life..Bloody fun class having fun again.. Cheers Preazhy for .......Should You Roll A: Always interesting to view them ;) PEACE!!!
In 10m raiding i'm not allowed to go Elemental because the dps loss compared to my Enhancement is huge, and in 10m having even only one underperforming dps will hurt alot. I only ever end up using it to reduce the amount of melee for like Iron Qon. =(
hey there mike, i really like your videos :) your guides helped me alot. i was wondering, what addons are you using on this video? I really like the interface and I wanted to get it too. ty
Thank you, Preach, for the message of "Hey, it may not always top the charts, but fuck me if it isn't fun!". Too many people, even on my RP server (gasp! I'm one of them!) are rolling up characters purely for min-max and flavor of the month reasons, and then continually re-rolling 'cause they find out it isn't any fun to play that class. WoW is meant to be FUN. If you wanna crunch numbers all day long, go be an accountant or something.
That's how we play the game. Lol. The way you see number crunching as not very fun, is the way some of us look at the game without the number crunching.
he did a video where you can download his entire UI, you should go check it out you should find it under "mikepreachwow ui" but the addons are MSBT (Mik's Scrolling Battle Text) and and TidyPlates for the health bars.
I normaly go along with prity much every thing you say but i got to disagre with this one. I used to play ele as my main in cata and found that thay had just not been developed properly. Just looking at the amount of aoe spells thay had and how many changes there were to them should give you a clue. I like your self have played every class on end game normal/HC raids as well as pvped with them so have a good understanding of all classes. Ele was lacking in pvp as well. I would divulge more but o
totems ARE shamans. As well as the massive nuke fest of death by lava burst (love its the best) & Chain lightning Blizzard really need to sort out the totems. The old style before the Cata/MoP totem nerf I think is better than what we have now. :)
They want Lava Surge to only proc off Flame Shock CRITICAL hits, to make Critical Strike more valuable for elemental shamans. What are your thoughts on this, Preach?
Yeah i know that, however DC online was pretty fun, and you do know that xbox ps and pc will have separate servers, so they can pretty much change things around. Then again, anything can happen.
Shamans don't have burst? The only controlled burst is that of Ascendance, everything else is random. If I burn another player in 4 seconds, it wasn't intentional.
preach i know you done a kitty dudu guide but will you been doing anything updated for it, im struggling with it and some things on your guide didn't seem cover stuff like using thrash on omen of clarity - regardless im still struggling to hit past 35k even though im ilvl 375, i just rerolled it after clearing content on a lock and after being a caster for so long frankly im struggling to figure out what im doing wrong.
i know it might have been asked a ton of times, but what is the addon for your health bars? i know grid is the one for raid, but whats the other one you have for you and your target?
i lvled 1-85 as ele then 1-90 as ele and im still ele now in PVE and PVP (got 2k rating not great but still good) and i love ele but i did cheat when lvling got my gf hooked on wow and she lvled a hunter which just helped round up cc/aoe grind while questing
preach, blizzard dont seem to know what to do with totems, so what do you think of the becoming a expendable resource? they are missing a secondary resource like most other classes?
Could you please give me the name for the bar overhead the enemy addon and the name of the addon which shows me my dmg heal and dmg done on the left and right side?
They're not boring? Half of your flavor abilities are talents, you have to talent to get your totems (which should be a baseline level 1 ability...) You're pressing lightning bolt and lava burst ... that's about it. Earthen Rage should be an Elemental Baseline, Totem Mastery, Storm Elemental, most of these abilities should be baseline to give us flavor back.
I never said number crunchers shouldn't play. I said people should play to have fun. Besides, if you are actually crunching numbers all day, then you aren't playing, right? Because of the numbers. All day.
Pfff I've always played Ele sham and had to deal with all those people telling me, no your dps isnt like a mage go dungeon. Now i just refer them to this video and bam.. people see how much of an idiot they were. Thx Preach :D
i know ilvl375 is low but so far on my other toons i wasn't struggling to even hit 35k with this gear i dont know if its because kitty's don't become good until higher gear or i am doing something very wrong. ( any help/info is appreciated btw)
Hey Preach i put my Shaman on the shelf for a long time, until i found your chanel and your awesome class guides, now iv brought him back to life and now almost topping the Deeeps, cheers ;-)
Even levelling an Elemental Shaman has been a lot of fun for me, I'm level 86 now and still enjoying the fuck out of it.
***** Dude, it's a fucking blast to machinegun that ilvl 600 newb huntard
I just love the way the shaman is designed. Instead of a boring Moar-DPS-for-X-seconds-CD they get a formchange and can crit all the time for that duration (only Lavasurge). They can also heal, buff und shield themselfs and others. I love to play a DPS but can heal, wich I also like, too, even if not mainly. Shamans don't need to be top of the DPS-Meter, since they can keep the raid alive at crucial times, helping all the healers out and providing everyone with DPS-Buffs when called for.
Being a old shaman player, i loved EVERYTHING about it, incl the leveling, only thing i didnt like was rogues but we have to have some weakness :D
and i LOVED being Hybrid ! hell yeah! It made you loved by casters and melee, and have a job to be proud of, namely helping your team, and i want shamans to stay, or even be more hybrid than they are, cause there has to be some of that, and shamans always been and still are, imo, the biggest hybrids, them and druids, specialy as enhance, since you use spells as well as melee. I dunno if you still get buffed by spell buffs as enhance, but i sure effing hope so, cause thats what shaman in its core is, a caster melee class combined, and its awesome and original imo, if that changes, i dont know if i wanna play wow anymore. (Havent played my shaman for some time now but i love him to death)
stats are stats, if crit is better we get more crit etc. As someone who plays all specs lemme tell you, it's irrelevant whats better and for what reason. We just get whats better each time. e.g. we want bla bla to care more about haste = regem haste. Ultimately it doesn't matter. In terms of ele shamans, i would like at ele blast not being able to proc crit so its more interesting.
I absolutely love this spec, it is my main and I could not be happier with it, only downside I've felt so far is defensive CD's are not that great. Astral Shift is fine but the 2 min cool down it's just too long. But the utility of this class is awesome, nobody in my raid has ever cared that I'm not the top DPS (never been in the bottom of the meters either), I almost always have specific jobs to do in fights and this is an amazing spec to accomplish that. Awesome video Preach.
Totally agree with you Preach, been playing and Ele/Resto Shaman class as my main for a while now. They are just so much fun at the moment. Don't even care where I am on the damage meter, I'm just lolling all the way to my loot.
thanks for the vid preach!, I started a shaman 3 days ago.. only class i haven't leveled yet.. this video was very nice to see right now :) I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear your take on The Healers of MOP and how you feel they "feel" compared to other expansions :) thanks brother!
One would define shamans as the perfect support class with also outstanding dps!
i have been waiting so long for a new shaman vid ^^ ty preacher
been playing my elemental shaman since 2007...I go through thick and thin with him; absolutely love that class.
The title currently says "Should You RollA A". Pretty sure this is a typo. ;) Thanks for the videos, Preacher! Keep 'em coming!
He's probably referring to the Glyph of Telluric Currents. It's pretty much required for Ele's. It's unfortunate, too, that we have to use a major glyph on a filler spell to keep from going oom. We have Thunderstorm, a spell that gives back a little mana, but it's on a 45 sec cooldown and doesn't give enough back to rely on it solely.
I made a shaman to play elemental because of the elemental overload and then I fell in love with enhancement. Even with the Echo of Elements and even more potential to double or triple cast I've still kept myself enhancement but I have elemental as an off-spec.
I can tell you this. My Elemental shaman alone on Alterac Valley pushed back the entire alliance from crossing over that bridge. Everyone in front of me fighting allowed me to work my god like magic. Throwing down Earthquake under the healers in the middle of the Alliance, Healing rain on our front line, and spamming Chain Lightening + Echo of the Elements was like hot lava to them. We won that BG because of me being able to work my magic. Great spec to sit back and destroy. CC at it's best.
Mike! Love your videos! They help me become and appreciate my class more! Quick question...what addon are you using for your spell bars at the bottom? I love how it doesn't take up the whole bottom of your screen.
Can't decide whether or not I want to hear your take on my beloved Enhancement Shaman. =P
Been playing wow with my main being fury warrior since BC, had every class going at max level except druid and I'v never considered changing what I play as my main...... until I got my Ele MOP shaman!
So much fun and hits sooooooo hard :)
Played ele through all of TBC was constantly in top 5 dps on raids; we cleared BT roughly one month after release. 2500+Arena 3man and loved switching to resto when needed. good times.
I've been ele since 2.1 PUGS would spam: "LFM for HFR No Shamans". I fought tooth and nail to get the right gear and fight my way up the ranks of crappy guilds until I got the opportunity to raid with some of the best through BC and Wrath.
Ele is and will always be my favorite spec of any class.
You make a great point about utility. I makes me sad that most ele's don't see it as a blessing. Learning to healing rain or heal-stream totem right as a boss AOEs... Overworked & Underpaid! Ele4lyfe!
Love this series keep em coming!!!
It's not so bad now that lava burst was moved to a much lower level. Once you get lava burst it's smooth sailing. Before the cata changes though yeah it was rough.
I really love my elemental shaman, but lately I've been looking for a class that can do well in pvp and pve. I've seen people do well in pvp on shamans but it seems hard. I've tried it and it's definitely fun. Sometimes RNG will just work in your favor and you'll just destroy a person, but it sometimes seems if anyone so much as looks at you you're dead.
@Matt Smith Watch His UI video, he has the same general ui for all his chars.
thanks for the reply :) i'm doing better now since i got more spirit gear.
I Love my ele sham, also GZ on 45k subs :)
Amgz I loved leveling both of my shamans! Enhance is a great spec!
I rolled a shaman because of this video :) having the time of my life.
Preach, love your vids, what are your favorite class/spec for tanking, healing, mdps and rdps?
And in 5.4 enhancement shamans are doing so much damage. Was in a LFR yesteday and the top dps was a enhancement shaman doing 1.2 million burst dps.
whats up Mike! just wondering if there was a possibility for a UI folder link love your set up perfect,or maybe an in depth addon/UI set up thanks baller :D
I've been maining an Elemental Shaman since since Vanilla, and I can say in they're current state, they're pretty underpar. Mostly because at lower gear levels their sustained DPS is fairly low compared to the Dps of other classes. Our burst is fairly good at pretty much any gear level though. It is a truly gear-dependent spec, which I don't like very much. But I still have a blast with the spec.
Ive been on the fence about staying Ele, or going back to Enh in PvP. Ive decided to stick with Ele!
im leveling an elemental shaman right now, and its alot of fun. im waiting to get the passive that lets you do instant Lava Bursts, but still fun at level 34
Once you go level 75 take conductivity, pull several mobs, use healing rain and spam chain lightning
Try not to use any "Hit" on your gear and gems, just go for Spirit to increase your hit. Use Thunderstorm on every cooldown. Increase your "Haste" and dot as many baddies with flame shock as you can while chuckling lava/bolts. Using this method I rarely go less than half of my mana pool. Cheers.
i was expecting it to be a to sec vid of preach saying: no
yay i'm rolling up a shaman now. this looks like so much fun
?? Frost DKs have a chance on melee swing for their next oblit/FS to crit. It's not RNGception like the way I said it would suck to be for flame shock.
Thanks for this video... I was thinking of rolling a hunter but instead I think I will go for an ele :)
yea i rolled an ele shaman when i saw a constant chain of chain lightning :D, it was glorious.
This class is starting to become really good I wonder how much time will pass until some idio will call it OP
THIS SERIES IS AWESOME!!!
Rolled a Elemental Shaman for the first time after playing this game for 7 years fuk me i need a life..Bloody fun class having fun again..
Cheers Preazhy for .......Should You Roll A:
Always interesting to view them ;)
PEACE!!!
Looks like a really fun spec.
In 10m raiding i'm not allowed to go Elemental because the dps loss compared to my Enhancement is huge, and in 10m having even only one underperforming dps will hurt alot. I only ever end up using it to reduce the amount of melee for like Iron Qon. =(
the elemental shaman kicks a lot of ass because it has so many advantages and doesn't get nerfed cuz it is used a lot less than other classes
persuaded me to roll a shaman. thanks man.
ele shammy main since BC! always loved it
what song was that when you say "just check it out" at 1:02?
It's by Hatebreed but i do not know the song's name sorry :(
NooblaerProductions The song is Doomsayer.
hey there mike, i really like your videos :) your guides helped me alot.
i was wondering, what addons are you using on this video?
I really like the interface and I wanted to get it too. ty
nvm, i found it :)
i hope it isn't outdated.
Cheers!
i've been elemental since Burning Crusade when i switched at lvl 67 and have never switched back... i've never thought leveling was hard as ele ever
Thank you, Preach, for the message of "Hey, it may not always top the charts, but fuck me if it isn't fun!". Too many people, even on my RP server (gasp! I'm one of them!) are rolling up characters purely for min-max and flavor of the month reasons, and then continually re-rolling 'cause they find out it isn't any fun to play that class.
WoW is meant to be FUN. If you wanna crunch numbers all day long, go be an accountant or something.
It is a fun spec to play once you get it capped and geared. Just capped my shammy.
That's how we play the game. Lol.
The way you see number crunching as not very fun, is the way some of us look at the game without the number crunching.
When is the next should you roll a?
I guess Ezeki means the bar that shows the your and the tragets hp, and that is pitbull.
Enhancement is just flat out better. Can do everything ele can do with more dps.
he did a video where you can download his entire UI, you should go check it out you should find it under "mikepreachwow ui" but the addons are MSBT (Mik's Scrolling Battle Text) and and TidyPlates for the health bars.
I'm constant switching between speccs on my rogue so a roll a .. rogue would be awesome
I love ele and hate resto, i will not go near enhance with a ten foot pole. Sadly i put up with resto to gear up my ele.
hi, nice vid. which addons do u use? i like the ui
I normaly go along with prity much every thing you say but i got to disagre with this one. I used to play ele as my main in cata and found that thay had just not been developed properly. Just looking at the amount of aoe spells thay had and how many changes there were to them should give you a clue. I like your self have played every class on end game normal/HC raids as well as pvped with them so have a good understanding of all classes. Ele was lacking in pvp as well. I would divulge more but o
totems ARE shamans. As well as the massive nuke fest of death by lava burst (love its the best) & Chain lightning Blizzard really need to sort out the totems. The old style before the Cata/MoP totem nerf I think is better than what we have now. :)
They want Lava Surge to only proc off Flame Shock CRITICAL hits, to make Critical Strike more valuable for elemental shamans. What are your thoughts on this, Preach?
Mike, little typo in the title "Should you Rolla A".
Preacher is there going to be Should You Roll: Warlock?
wow, I really like your UI, do you have a link or anything for download?
I actually loved levelling my shaman :P
is it shaymin or shomin for pronunciation? I hear it both ways and I personally say it as shomin? am I saying it wrong?
Elemental Shamans just have such brilliant burst, and can own lower level instances in dps. :)
what GUI do you use it looks awesome
Yeah i know that, however DC online was pretty fun, and you do know that xbox ps and pc will have separate servers, so they can pretty much change things around. Then again, anything can happen.
Shamans don't have burst? The only controlled burst is that of Ascendance, everything else is random. If I burn another player in 4 seconds, it wasn't intentional.
Should you roll an Monk!? Please do it!
preach i know you done a kitty dudu guide but will you been doing anything updated for it, im struggling with it and some things on your guide didn't seem cover stuff like using thrash on omen of clarity - regardless im still struggling to hit past 35k even though im ilvl 375, i just rerolled it after clearing content on a lock and after being a caster for so long frankly im struggling to figure out what im doing wrong.
i know it might have been asked a ton of times, but what is the addon for your health bars? i know grid is the one for raid, but whats the other one you have for you and your target?
I like to say it the way the first boss in the thrall escort heroic from Cata says it... Shaaaah- maaaaaaaaahn
How do you get your camera to zoom out so much???
i've always watned to do that :X
How did you track the searing totem?? I can't figure it out. I use Weak Auras
i lvled 1-85 as ele then 1-90 as ele and im still ele now in PVE and PVP (got 2k rating not great but still good) and i love ele but i did cheat when lvling got my gf hooked on wow and she lvled a hunter which just helped round up cc/aoe grind while questing
Elemental is (in my experience) on of the fastest leveling specs.
still waiting for that Warrior or DK video ;)
"Should You Rolla" Holla Rolla Balla!
What addons are you using for this ui preach? Im levelling my shaman at the moment and am looking for a good raiding ui to compliment the class =P
You forgot to talk about Thunderstorm in PVP!!! The most fun thing is to see ppl flying for their deaths! ;D
My shaman is pandaren and casts facing the right. The orc cast animation is really throwing me off
preach, blizzard dont seem to know what to do with totems, so what do you think of the becoming a expendable resource? they are missing a secondary resource like most other classes?
okay ty :D yeah our mana situation could be a bit better!
I leveled ele before lava burst, what does this say about me. Boring? I found it the most fun.
Could you please give me the name for the bar overhead the enemy addon and the name of the addon which shows me my dmg heal and dmg done on the left and right side?
HOLY SHIT I LOST IT AT HATEBREED ENJOY YOUR LIKE YOU DESERVED IT
Yeah lol. I was like "HATEBREED!"
They're not boring? Half of your flavor abilities are talents, you have to talent to get your totems (which should be a baseline level 1 ability...) You're pressing lightning bolt and lava burst ... that's about it. Earthen Rage should be an Elemental Baseline, Totem Mastery, Storm Elemental, most of these abilities should be baseline to give us flavor back.
so is he talking about Shamans(Sha-Mahn) or Shaymin the Pokemon?
I made the mistake of making my shammy enhanc at 90, and now I never touch him...
I never said number crunchers shouldn't play. I said people should play to have fun.
Besides, if you are actually crunching numbers all day, then you aren't playing, right? Because of the numbers. All day.
Pfff I've always played Ele sham and had to deal with all those people telling me, no your dps isnt like a mage go dungeon. Now i just refer them to this video and bam.. people see how much of an idiot they were. Thx Preach :D
What race do you recommand for the Horde ? And for leveling, which spec do you find most fun and efficient ?
PvE = Troll (haste racial) PvP = Orc (stun resist) Tauren (warstomp)
Soulrak87 what about goblin?
the racials are waaay over the top, dont they?
***** Rocket boost jump or the rocket shot are crapy :(
i know ilvl375 is low but so far on my other toons i wasn't struggling to even hit 35k with this gear i dont know if its because kitty's don't become good until higher gear or i am doing something very wrong. ( any help/info is appreciated btw)
What's more fun, an elemental shammy or a balance druid? PvE wise