Our guild is very active these days on perenolde. Everyone is in a rush to get to level 80 and see the raid content. The fact that the raids have a 10 man and a 25 man mode is nice. I’ll be leveling my shaman first. I switched to enhancement, which I had no good gear for. Now I look like a clown in my greens and a couple of blues.
I’m getting used to dropping a different set of totems. When there are enough mobs to make it worthwhile, I drop Strength of Earth, Windfury, and Mana Spring. I keep Windfury weapon on my weapons now that the totem and weapon enchant stack.
My current attack rotation probably needs work, but here it is:
- Turn on auto-attack
- Lightning Bolt (maybe)
- Flame shock
- close with mob
- storm strike if windfury is not up.
- lava lash
- continue stormstrike/lava lash rotation.
- Whenever maelstrom weapon is up, use lightning or healing wave depending on need.
- keep water shield up.
The stats that I look for on gear are in this order:
- Agility
- Intelligence (only a slight preference for agility)
- Attack Power
- strength
- Crit
This is only for leveling. I pay very little attention to Stamina although a lot of northrend gear seems to have it. I am trying to do as much damage as possible with the least downtime possible. Stamina adds hitpoints, but with instant Healing Wave every time maelstrom weapon is up, I haven’t seen a lack of stamina slow me down.