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When you start raiding for the first time, the biggest culture shock many players face is the fact that the character style they’re used to playing might not be good enough for the raid leader. There are players who, as Paladins, Druids, Warlocks, or Priests might be required to shift their talent specs, their style of play or their location in the raid according to who shows up on raid night and how many players are going into the raid. If you want to be drawn upon as much as possible and to prove that you are worth the efforts of your guild leaders, you need to be flexible and willing (plus able) to adapt quickly.
How Will You Adapt
To be fair, some classes don’t need to adapt all that much. Mages, Warlocks, and Warriors are not going to be asked to change what they do. They have roles in a raid that don’t change all that much. They might be asked to get a certain ability ready or to make certain items, but they’re not going to need to move. A Warrior with Protection spec is usually a tank, and Mages and Warlocks are always DPS (though Warlocks might on occasion prove useful as ranged OTs for short spurts).
However, those of you out there with hybrid classes such as the Paladin, Druid, Shaman, or Death Knight (and sometimes Priest), will find that your role in the fight becomes much more fluid. In some fights, a DK or Druid might prove to be a more effective tank for resistance reasons while Shamans might be great at support in one fight and work as off healers in another fight.
The long and short of it is that if you have abilities that work for tanking, dps and healing together on your character, you should be ready to use any of them at any time.
How Will I Know to Switch
In a raid, once the fight is started, you’ll almost always have a set position to work on. You’re not going to be tanking for one trash mob, then DPS for the next and then Healing on a boss. But, between bosses or instances as a whole, you might find that the needs of your raid party change and that is when you should be willing to switch.
Of course, you need to be honest. If you know nothing about DK tanking (it’s a tough role), you should say so upfront. Everyone in that raiding party is going to rely on the tank to keep them alive (by staying alive). If you fail to do that one thing repeatedly even when you claim to know what you are doing, your peers may not be pleased.
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They say that Shaman in World of Warcraft is a “Jack of all trades, master of none”. What means that Shaman is not quite a specialist in anything. But I say this thinking is wrong. It can be a very powerful healer and buffer (because of the powerful totems). Let me also mention that Restoration Shaman has the best AoE (area of effect) heals and Elemental has the best burst damage. When it comes to the fast leveling, we must be aware of some facts about talent builds and quests.
WoW Shaman Fast Leveling Guide – Which talent tree is the best for leveling?
Shaman has the following talent trees: Elemental, Enhancement and Restoration. Let me first tell you this: Do yourself a favor and don’t try to level as Restoration. This build is for healing only and has very low output. As long as fast leveling requires killing mobs, this talent tree is just NOT suitable to do the job.
Elemental talent tree is for boosting offensive spells. So you become a caster. It is quite good for leveling, it has a very high burt damage, but the downside of this build is that for all the damage output you need mana. So you must drink to regenerate mana quite often. From my experience the best talent tree is Enhancement. With this talent tree you boost your melee damage output. And for the killing you don’t need mana. That is a good side, because all your mana you spare for healing after each fight. That’s why there is no downtime for eating and drinking.
WoW Shaman Fast Leveling Guide – Questing?
Absolutely! Questing is still considered as the best way of getting XPs (experience points). This way of leveling has the highest XP/hour ratio. But unfortunately this is a bit tricky. A huge number of quests are there just to slow us down. You spend a lot of time to complete them and reward you with very little XP.
To know exactly which quests to pick up, get yourself a WoW Shaman Fast Leveling Guide. With this guide I started raiding with my guild after 7 days when started from level 1: http://www.kreativaonline.com/zygorguides.