Shamans are often confused on what kind of weapons to use. As elemental or Restoration, you have very few choices on what kind of weapons you want to use. Shamans can use one-handed and two-handed maces, staffs, one-handed and two-handed axes, and daggers.
What Type Of Weapon To Use?
When you are using weapons with an elemental shaman or restoration shaman, it is important to carry a one-handed weapon and shield, along with a two-handed weapon, either staff, axe, or mace. What type of weapon you use doesn’t matter most of the time. If your opponent has low armor, and you don’t require high armor, use your staff. If your opponent has high armor, or you need that added armor, equip your shield and one-handed weapon. A lot of elemental shamans and restoration shamans who have high plus spell damage use fast daggers with flametongue. Due to flametongue gaining the spell damage and it not being reduced by the speed, it is very efficient damage wise. Enhancement shamans are going to run into carrying three sets of weapons. Enhancement shamans will use a one-handed weapon and shield only when he is fighting an opponent that he really needs the armor, or sometimes when he is tanking instances.
Enhancement shamans should dual wield two slow weapons with windfury on both of them. Weapons that are 2.8 are the recommended speed of weapons. The reason being that you want windfury to go off with the main hand weapon, and the slower the weapon, the higher the base damage is when you compare to a fast weapon of similar DPS. Two-handed weapons are used against other players. The massive damage from a two- handed windfury critical hit combo can be insane and catch players off guard when their hit points drop from 50% down to 20%, or worse, in one simple attack.
ARMOR
Armor is used to reduce the damage taken from a physical attack. It also has statistic
modifiers on it that further enhance the character. What type of armor to wear depends on what you are trying to make the character into.
Cloth, Leather, Or Mail
Shamans have the ability to wear cloth or leather armor right away. At level 40 they can train to use mail armor. At low levels, you are going to want to use leather armor whenever you can. Once you hit level 40 and can use mail, you should move up to mail armor for all your armor. Once you get to level 58–60 you should start considering where you want your shaman to end up. This is when “down-grading” to a lower armor type will begin to happen. There are times that a cloth piece of armor will have better plus to spell damage, or plus to healing than a piece of mail armor does.
Elemental shamans and restoration shamans will commonly switch to this better piece of armor giving up the actual armor attribute for these other pluses. Enhancement shamans should never “down-grade” armor. Enhancement shamans are constantly being hit by opponents and need all the armor they can get. Considering that enhancement shamans seldom use their shields, they don’t get that added armor class, thus good mail armor is important.
If you need to buy a better WEAPONS And ARMOR at the auction house, please go to WOW Classic Gold AU and buy a lot of cheap Gold to make your shopping at the auction house happy.
Read the WOW Classic Career Guide for more details.
