Shaman x5 Gear Viability from 60

[_Savage_]

I can weigh in here whilst my shaman team is not 60 I main a shaman and created a lot of pre raid BIS lists for PvP/PVE for the community and a very solid understanding of gearing, stat weights phase gear etc.

Current phase this is how I would go without touching a raid. There is a TON of great upgrades in AQ20/ZG both easily possible for you to get into and grab but i have gone off the assumption you touch nothing outside of 5 mans. Briarwood is also something you can solo with your 5 shaman team as is every other bit of gear on this list.

There are some slight adjustments you can make if you wish to farm/pay more for smaller upgrades (things like UBRS + Damage shield/Darkmoon faire Neck/T1 Bracers).

6 Items on this list come from quests, two come from cheap BOEs and a 9th from a boe + quest (tier 0.5 bracers). This gives you a well rounded amount of Stam/Spell power for PvP and will smash any 5 man.

Remember you get all the + Hit you need for PvP from talents as shaman (3%) any extra just frees up talent points however these can only be used in resto as anything but 30/0/21 or 31/0/20 is garbage for elemental PvP).



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[Kruschpakx4]

my other 4 shamans hit 60 today, got almost full nature's wrath gear (+200), dm class trinkets and stamina/int in the other slots...its like a ~120 dps difference to full aq gear but still does very well (470 vs 350 average dps in lbrs). My last boss killed was wyrmthalak who lasted a total of 10.05 seconds with 799,721, 697, 656 and 525 dps... as long as you have a mage to supply with water that team does totally fine in dungeons.

Havent tried scholo so far but strat living and especially ud are kind of easier than with the warriors. To come back on topic, if you're not up to raiding 5 times a week its hard to really get any good mail spelldmg gear...and to be honest no one is gonna take 5 elementals to a raid so either accept the fate to stick to dungeons /t0.5 questline to get half decent elemental gear or play them solo as elemental healer hybrid (means healing 90% of the time) to eventually get full elemental gear, which will still not convince anyone to bring 5 elementals in a raid. To me that team is quite useless in classic but i enjoy it for now and will eventually be necessary for tbc

And honestly fuck follow in battlegrounds, Im having a blast standing in flagroom grinding kills, like the best thing we can do in tbc to grind full pvp gear for arena is having multiboxer premades and you just go for the fast loss with as much kills as possible...that would also reduce the amount of complaints against multiboxer because technically no one suffers from this as long as you do it in a premade.

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I'd go for the jagged obsidian shield its really cheap and better imo, it can procc on aoe spells I tested it on arcane explosion so in both pve and pvp aoe bombing has 5 times the chance on getting silienced. I havent tested long enough to have an estimate on its inner cd however, it might be around 30-45 seconds.