Shaman Ultimate Leveling Guide 0-60 - Talents, Gear, Stats and More

Enhancement Shaman have been significantly updated for WoW Forever compared to Classic, and in many great and exciting ways which helps your leveling journey. Enhance will be very easy for new players to pick up and do well with.

Enhance is the fastest and easiest way to level to 60, and this guide will show you everything you need to know to get tehre.

WoW Forever unique aspects of Enhance Shaman:

• Rage of the Farseer gives a huge offensive cooldown, basically bloodlust
• Stormstrike you can get at level 25, and the cooldown is only 8-seconds
• Windfury Weapon is very powerful, similar to classic in the high amount of burst damage
• Fire Nova is available early giving AOE damage most other classes don't get until later
• Mental Dexterity gives Enhance Shaman many ways to gear and optimize for damage
• Maelstrom Weapon allows mana-free casts and encourages chain pulling

And other talents from Enhance/Restoration which are now revamped as options:

• Improved Ghost Wolf allows Ghost Wolf can be instant cast and can be used inside, the fastest movement speed before mounts
• Water Shield now gives 2% mana when you get hit, or critically strike with a spell

All of these tools make Enhance Shaman fresh and exciting for WoW Forever.

DISCLAIMER: This is based on beta testing, and will not include Legacy talent points for talent build. Further updates to be build will come in the future with launch and as new things are discovered.

Gearing in WoW Forever has changed with increased amount of gear with Spell Power.

Priority:

1. Critical Strike Chance: Very important for Flurry and Elemental Devastation (uncommon until late game)
2. Strength: Increasing the attack damage by 2-attack power per point of Strength
3. Attack Power: Increasing overall damage of physical melee damage
4. Intellect: Increases mana pool, and increases spell critical strike chance, with Mental Dexterity Intellect converts to Attack Power
5. Agility: Increasing melee critical strike chance, dodge, and armor. Since it doesn't increase attack power we will not primarily stack this though many pieces will also have this stat.
6. Spell Power: This stat will benefit your Earth Shock/ Flame Shock / Frost Shock and Lightning Bolt though Maelstrom Weapon, but not your melee damage
   1. Depending on how important Maelstrom Weapon will be, this may increase in priority later
7. Spirit: Increases mana regeneration when not casting for 5-seconds, or once you have Mindfulness / Improved Stormstrike
8. Hit Chance: Not a priority while leveling since you will generally be fighting mobs around your level

If you find yourself sitting between mobs too much, you can stat more Spirit which will help with Mindfulness / Improved Stormstrike

Consumables are not required, but can help keep make leveling smooth.

Experience buff food. New in WoW Forever, there is food which increases experience gain by 5%. Most food gives this buff, select the cheapest option, even if from lower level as the main objective is to get +5% experience from kills:

• Smoked Sagefish
• Longjaw Mud Snapper
• Bristle Whisker Catfish
• Smoked Bear Meat
• Crispy Bat Wing
• Twice-Spiced Raptor Slice

Health potions can help you avoid death to allow you to keep leveling:

• Search "Healing Potion" in the auction house to find which is cheapest and/or at your level. You can take lower level potions if cheap to consume very frequently.

Mana potions reduce time between mobs and are usually very cheap:

• Search "Mana Potion" in the auction house to find which is cheapest and/or at your level. You can take lower level potions if cheap to consume very frequently.

Consumables increasing stats for more damage and survivability:

• Level < 10:
  • Minor Mageblood Elixir giving 3 mana every 5 seconds for 30 minutes.
  • Elixir of Minor Strength giving 4 strength for 60 minutes
  • Elixir of Minor Spirit buffing Spirit by 3 for 30 minutes.
  • Coarse Sharpening Stone / Coarse Weightstone to increase weapon damage
• Level 10-20 new items:
  • Elixir of Wisdom giving +6 intellect for 60 minutes (if cheap).
• Level 20-30 new items:
  • Lesser Mageblood Elixir giving 6 mana every 5 seconds for 30 minutes.
  • Elixir of Ogre Strength increasing Strength by 8 for 60 minutes.
  • Elixir of Lesser Spirit buffing Spirit by 6 for 30 minutes.
  • Lesser Troll's Blood Elixir: This lets you regenerate 6 Health every 5 seconds for 60 minutes.
  • Continue using Solid Sharpening Stone / Solid Weightstone to increase weapon damage as you level

Including level 30+ items once more information is known with launch

Read these tips and follow these for a seamless leveling experience:

1. Enjoy the auto-attack Windfury casino: While slower versions of WoW can feel like a grind, take it easy with Enhancement and allow Windfury Weapon to carry you through leveling. You don't need to setup totems, shock, and optimize each mob. Enhance lets you go at your own pace.
2. Maximize mana mob to mob: The most important way to level smoothly as Enhance Shaman is optimizing mana, it is critical to be aware of how mana generation works in WoW Forever. You must stop casting for 5 seconds, which will trigger mana to start generation. This means you once mobs are <20% finish the mob with melee, or allow Searing Totem and Flame Shock to finish the mob. This allows you to start mana generation early.
3. Focus on Dungeon quests: (Dungeon Journal addon is great to help find quests. Dungeon quest rewards and dungeons drops will help leveling smooth for you.
4. The Relic slot will be empty for a while, unless you pick Enchanting and craft Polished Driftwood Icon, the only accessible option you will receive from your Fire Totem quest is Totem of Charged Flames but this does not really help Enhance Shaman much.
5. Buy mana potions, or health potions, if you need them: Buy cheap mana potions/health potions and pop them like candy if they can help keep your leveling experience smooth. Lower level potions are mass produced so grab them!
6. Mana tip: Totemic Recall's 25% refund should be used if moving away from where you place totems to get mana back.
7. Use Rank1 Earth Shock for interrupting mobs, if conserving mana.
8. Learn all your weapon specializations early, as you reach each of the faction cities.

For Shaman, there are multiple strong options for Races, almost all are viable and seem strong for different situations.

Horde

Tauren

Recently buffed Tauren brings multiple offensive, defensive and utility racials:

• The strongest stat racial of all Endurance giving 5% hp, but more importantly 2% critical strike bonus for damage and healing is very significant since critical strike is a priority for Shaman
• War Stomp a great 2 second AOE stun, now on a 1.5 minute cooldown
• Plainsrunning a quality of life movements speed buff which will help before we get Ghost Wolf at level 20
• Cultivation is only for professions/gold.

Troll

Strongest of the horde in offensive capabilities, though not as durable as other races (Tauren/Orc)

• Berserking is a strong haste buff and offensive cooldown, stacking this with potentially Rage of the Farseer will likely be an insane combinations for single target burst
• Beast Slaying giving +5% against beasts will surely add value in the future
• Rapid Regeneration is decent while leveling, though does not help with mana
• Regeneration is nice for leveling but generally not too valuable

Orc

Due to recent updates during Beta, Orc is still strong, particularly for PvP but for PvE they were slightly nerfed:

• Blood Fury being a 3-minute cooldown for increased damage for attack and spellpower is strong for Shaman
• Shatter Curse is a great cleanse and slight increase defensive against magic
• Savage increasing critical strike chance by 1% overall which is great for Shaman for Flurry / Elemental Devastation
• Hardiness is not use valuable in leveling or PvE, only really PvP

Skyborne

The new WoW Forever race, with strong base stat buffs, utility and mobility. It is the most unproven and with +3% haste and dependency on fighting elementals for +5% it is unclear how strong they will be.

• 3% Haste from Wind Blessed , helping out cast and melee speed
• Elemental Insight for +5% damage against elementals, though it is unclear how often we will face elementals
• Skysight giving movement speed as a nice quality of life
• Walk on Air allowing for jumping off cliffs in style

Alliance

Dwarf

The only option on Alliance, bringing strong offensive damage passives:

• Earth Fury 2% critical strike bonus for damage and healing is very significant since critical strike is a priority for Shaman
• Big Game Hunter giving +5% against beasts will surely add value in the future
• Stoneform is a great defensive and cleanse which can be useful defensively
• Find Treasure is only for fun/gold.

For leveling there are professions which can help, though are not "required", but these are my recommendations:

1. Enchanting , which is very easy to level compared to other versions of the game, has a Polished Driftwood Icon from Merchant Favors which come from completing crates like Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Herbs (for example). Since this is Bind on Pickup, you can drop Enchanting after getting this item.
2. Alchemy / Herbalism , in WoW Forever there are significantly more herbalism nodes generally, this will allow you to be self sufficient and create mana potions if helpful to you
3. Leatherworking / Skinning - with skinning being the easiest way to gather materials and there being more crafting recipes than ever this can be a good combination and relatively easy to be self sufficient
4. First Aid is a useful to use the cloth from mobs, and recover health without spending mana on Healing Wave to recover.

25 Oct 2026, initial leveling guide for Shaman leveling guide.