Help with Gear and what builds for 4x shammies

[betrayed]

I Currently reached lvl 52 and I'm not sure what kinda of gear I should be focusing on. I see all of the veteran 5 boxers with 1h +shield gear. Should I go for the same or should I be trying to get as much + damage gear as possible? Right now Im also using cloth and leather items is this good or bad. The other question I have is I have a 70 paladin waiting and rushing the 4x shammies should I make one of the shammies resto build?

Any advice on this is appreciated. THanks

[Ellay]

There is not a lot of good gear choices until you hit outlands. I'd say what you have is fine if your able to keep on progressing It only gets better.

[betrayed]

thanks for responding. Ill keep progressing. cant wait till outlands although im afraid ill have problems with great geared lvl 70 players

[Ellay]

It is all relative though, you'll eventually get there - once 70 do battlegrounds most players in BG's are very under geared so your pretty much at a level playing field. The super geared only applies to Arenas mostly, and in that bracket you can get your 10 games in and call it a week. Accumulate points and eventually buy items to where you'll be on par after a while.

[Boylston]

I agree with Ellay, gear until L58 and Outland quests is not even worth worrying about. Most stuff on my 3x Shammy team dies before it hits me anyway... Your big upgrades come in the form of new spells until L58.

I also think when you hit 70 (or heck, before it), BGs are a good way to hone your movement/macro/fighting skills. I plan on running Arenas and BGing it up a LOT once I ding 70. There's not a ton of dungeon/raid gear that can really beat the PvP stuff... Heroics with badges are the only real exception.

[Toned]

I wore whatever spell dmg gear I could find even if it was cloth till lvl 57, and then I bought full mail invoker/sorceror sets for all 5. Pre-TBC gear doesn't really matter in the instances the stuff gets 1 or 2 shotted. The first few quests in hellfire = seksi lewt. As for specs just go elemental on all of them... for PVE go down to 41 ele... for pvp 40 ele. Another thing to make agro management easy for PVE, is spec all the shamans except your main with elemental precision so they have less agro, and then enchant your mains gloves with threat. This makes it easy to hold agro with 1 and you could stack stamina gear on your main and you now have a pocket tank.

[Stealthy]

If you can do instances there's some good gear available - a lot of gear was re-done in 2.3, so much more is shuited to shams now.

Maraudon:

http://thottbot.com/i17736

http://thottbot.com/i17714

Blackrock Depths:

http://thottbot.com/i22240

http://thottbot.com/i11749

http://thottbot.com/i11627

http://thottbot.com/i11722

http://thottbot.com/i22242

Temple of Atal'Hakkar:

http://thottbot.com/i10786

http://thottbot.com/i10833

Stratholme:

http://thottbot.com/i13383

http://thottbot.com/i18721

http://thottbot.com/i13344

Blackrock Spire

http://thottbot.com/i13244

http://thottbot.com/i12953

http://thottbot.com/i13179

http://thottbot.com/i22343

http://thottbot.com/i18104

Scholomance:

http://thottbot.com/i13969

http://thottbot.com/i14522

http://thottbot.com/i18694

Dire Maul:

http://thottbot.com/i18379

[opt]

Loot info from wow-loot is mad.
Shaman Pre-BC http://www.wow-loot.com/v1-shaman.htm
Shaman Post-BC http://www.wow-loot.com/shaman.htm

As for specs I would suggest that at level 70 you have 1 shaman 41/0/20 or 41/5/15 and the other 3 40/0/21(Lightning Overload/Natures Swift) for bigass burst dmg

[Stealthy]

It is all relative though, you'll eventually get there - once 70 do battlegrounds most players in BG's are very under geared so your pretty much at a level playing field. The super geared only applies to Arenas mostly, and in that bracket you can get your 10 games in and call it a week. Accumulate points and eventually buy items to where you'll be on par after a while.

I'd take this with a grain of salt. This is highly dependant on the battlegrounp you're in. In mine, the majority of BG players are highly geared, and you'd be very fustrated when your team of level 70 players in blue gear gets competely killed off by a single rogue or warrior that you can't seem to do any damage too. Or a single mage that jumps in the center of your group and AoE's you down in just a couple of bursts.

I'm no PvP Pro by any means, but I do know the difference between "skill" and "overgeared god mode"

Yes & no...People running BG's are usually doing it to get geared up, which means they will generally be poorly geared. There are exceptions of course, paticularly with pre-made groups. But 5 70's in scrubby blues should by easily able to take care of one 70, regardless of how well geared they are. The only real problem I have is if i get fear bombed in bewteen WoTF cooldowns, or getting zerged myself.

Cheers,

Stealthy

[marvein]

It is all relative though, you'll eventually get there - once 70 do battlegrounds most players in BG's are very under geared so your pretty much at a level playing field. The super geared only applies to Arenas mostly, and in that bracket you can get your 10 games in and call it a week. Accumulate points and eventually buy items to where you'll be on par after a while.

I'd take this with a grain of salt. This is highly dependant on the battlegrounp you're in. In mine, the majority of BG players are highly geared, and you'd be very fustrated when your team of level 70 players in blue gear gets competely killed off by a single rogue or warrior that you can't seem to do any damage too. Or a single mage that jumps in the center of your group and AoE's you down in just a couple of bursts.

I'm no PvP Pro by any means, but I do know the difference between "skill" and "overgeared god mode"

Yes & no...People running BG's are usually doing it to get geared up, which means they will generally be poorly geared. There are exceptions of course, paticularly with pre-made groups. But 5 70's in scrubby blues should by easily able to take care of one 70, regardless of how well geared they are. The only real problem I have is if i get fear bombed in bewteen WoTF cooldowns, or getting zerged myself.

Cheers,

Stealthy

ya, even in my high pop battlegroup (Nightfall) there are very few geared people in AV (I run it on my hunter for some gear upgrades) most people in BGs are getting geared up, arena is where you must really worry about getting rolled by people in S2/3 gear because that is what they are trying to get more of.