Hi and welcome to my article about the great changes that are happening right now. The World of Warcraft is changing and the Cataclysm is about to begin. And with the raised level cap Shaman leveling guides are becoming more relevant again.
As we all know most of Azeroth doesn’t look like the old world anymore. Terrain, Quests, NPCs…. they are all different now. In fact the change has already taken place. But what does that mean for you and all the other Shamans out there?
Of course your main Shaman character can level up 5 levels. But now leveling is different! You will discover that the new talent system offers a lot of new possibilities to play. And it’s completely different from the talent system of the past.
Guides on the internet about Shaman leveling before the Cataclysm are pretty much useless. It’s not even worth to take a look at them. The talent builds will be completely new and the talent specs will be completely different. Caster items are much more likely in the earlier levels now. All of the sudden the Elemental build is viable just as the enhancement build was up until now – you can use both of them.
The players who have bought a Shaman guide in the past want to know if those are useless, too. If guides from the past can still be used for fast leveling. All in all, the answer is Yes. Most publishers already informed their customers that a completely updated version is available for their guides.
Almost every leveling guide will contunie to work as soon as the world events are over and the new world has settled down. As long as the world events continue there might be some difficulties. But don’t worry, once the events are all over everything will work fine.
You better bet that there will be tons of new online guides on new talent builds for every kind of Shaman in the next few weeks.