Faction for Shaman

[Perrigrin]

I realize this might be a bit lazy, but hoping someone can give me a tip

My shaman is about to hit 80 kinda soon, I would love to get input on what faction(s) to max first, both for a resto and 3 elemental.

cheers and merry x-mas!

[Multibocks]

I did Wyrmrest first, it's got some good stuff for shaman (don't discount the cloth stuff it has great stats!)

[Bovidae]

Wyrmrest and Ebon Hold were at the top of my list, because they both had a piece of caster mail, and dps caster cloth.

define: caster mail - resto gear that will be a decent starting point for level 80 elemental. Don't be shy to replace it with better epics of the same ilvl.

[puppychow]

My order has been:

#1 Argent Crusade first to honored/revered for tank head enchant (no point if you dont have a tank) -- can do this with just quests btw
#2 Wyrmrest to exalted for items and red drake mount (wearing tabards, running heroics -- not really doing the dailies, too much effort for 250 rep)
#2 (parallel) Sons of Hodir, do the 4-5 hour quest chain in Storm peaks to open up the dailies, quest starts in K3. You can get 500-1k rep a day doing dailies, after 4-5 days you will be honored (shoulder enchant), it'll take a while longer to hit exalted

next I will do Kirin Tor to exalted for revered head enchant and items at exalted, after that probably Ebon Hold with tabard heroics. I wouldn't focus too much on Warsong/Alliance faction, their items are crap and you can get pretty high just doing all the quests in the starting zones and there are a ton of dailies in Icecrown for this faction.

Sholozar has two factions that give fun items, like a egg that takes 7 days to hatch and can turn into a mount (very rare though, i've had 10 hatch on my team so far and 0 mounts, but have gotten 4-5 pets).