What to expect at level 70 5x shaman

[Rabbitx]

This was my biggest question as I was leveling up, so I figured I would give my experience for any of the shaman groups leveling.

My shamans have been 70 for just under one week now and I have just over 2 days /played at level 70.

When I hit 70 and got all of my rep gear/enchants I was around 500 + damage. At that point I could do ramparts and slave pens full clear, one boss in SV and one boss in sethekk halls. I tried a few others but I just didn’t have the DPS/skill for it. It wasn’t easy, quite a few wipes learning everything but still a lot of fun.

While farming heroics I got the rep/mats for my shoulder/head/leg enchants. In that time I got the SkyCall totem.

At the end of the week I have 630 + damage and 16.40% crit(without talents) on my guys. With that I can now do full clears of Steamvaults, Botanica, and Mana Tombs also. So far I have got 65 badges. Now I’m trying to do 20 badges a day to gear up fast. I was able to do it yesterday but I don’t know how long I will keep that up.

Also from just running instances and selling everything on the AH I was able to get the 5k gold for the epic mount on my main guy.

Edited to make it a bit more clear.

[Gallo]

so you did full Slave Pens and Sethekk Heroic clears right at 70? I'm impressed. I will (hopefully) hit 70 this weekend with my shammies, and plan to PVP my ass off... and maybe get some questing in. At some point I will start doing heroics to badge farm.

[Rabbitx]

I only did the first boss in sethekk. The pulls that have the guys that fear and then turn into a ghost when they die, are hard enough on regular. I don't even want to try them on heroic. ;(

[Gallo]

did you try working your tremor totems into the rotation?

[dizz]

Some questions:

Which would you think is the fastest badge farming instance so far? (badges/hr)

Do you have them all spec'd elemental or 1 resto? I am too lazy to go armory searching

For bosses, do you usually use 2 earth elementals + 3 fire elementals? Or can you get away with using fewer? I imagine it differs on each boss, but as a general guideline.

Thx

[Rabbitx]

did you try working your tremor totems into the rotation?

Yea what I ended up doing was dropping the tremor totems like that so the fear would last under a second if it did anything at all. The problem was then I couldn’t drop my stone claw totem for CC and the guys hit pretty hard when they got to me. If I killed them first the ghost would two shot my guys.

I ended up dropping the tremor totems, bursting down one of the guys (prophets I think?) on the pull so the ghost would fade before it got to me. Then killing the melee mob, then the caster and the other prophet last. I think you could do it on heroic by doing ½ tremor and ½ stone claw, but I want more gear before I try.

[antishadow]

Thank you for this writeup of your experiences from hitting 70 and on. It was a very insightful read and gave me that little extra ooomph to get my team going at a faster leveling clip than its already at. Its so hard to level when everyone gawks at you anywhere you go.

[Rabbitx]

[quote='dizz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=58583#po st58583]Some questions:

Which would you think is the fastest badge farming instance so far? (badges/hr)

Do you have them all spec'd elemental or 1 resto? I am too lazy to go armory searching

For bosses, do you usually use 2 earth elementals + 3 fire elementals? Or can you get away with using fewer? I imagine it differs on each boss, but as a general guideline.

Thx [/quote]
[font='Calibri']Ramparts, Slave Pens, and Steamvualts are the best for me because I don’t have to wait for Totem cool downs. Ramparts is the fastest for me, but maybe that’s just because I know it really well. [/font]

I have all of my guys elemental.

I should switch it up but I’m very lazy when it comes to my elemental totems. I either drop all earth for hard hitting bosses or all fire for soft hitting ones.

[Zzyzxx71]

This was my biggest question as I was leveling up, so I figured I would give my experience for any of the shaman groups leveling.[/font]

My shamans have been 70 for just under one week now and I have just over 2 days /played at level 70.

Uhh the biggest secret I wanna know is how you got 2 days played at 70.... Mine are gonna hit 63 tonight and have over 11 days played.


Edit: NM I'm a retard.

[Eteocles]

Yeah I realize you realize it Zy but just so everyone's clear, he said 2 days played AT 70; aka, "Played time this level" not "Total play time"...I almost thought the same thing :P