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The purpose of this guide is to show the best way for an Elemental Shaman PVE gameplay. I just focused on FAQ people asked me in game, based on questions I saw in "Global" WoW chat, on WEB forums and on other Internet resources, which are "bad" explained and outdated overall. The Warmane server was modified a few times, with a lot of changes, and that was one of the reasons why I suspended the development of this guide. Moreover, now I improved my english language skills a bit and I changed the context of many sections in this guide as the final edition. Any significant changes to the guide sections, as the latest updates to them, are marked respectively as [Updated].
This guide is huge. Just use only the required sections to solve the current issues, otherwise the guide usage will be boring and difficult to use for you. Based on what is your purpose, here you'll find sections about how to choose a character and level up, how to prepare your Shaman for raids and how to optimize and maintain your character abilities further. All sections are combined in logical structures based on their purposes - chapters. Below are all chapters and their purposes.
Chapter1 is dedicated to new WoW players which decided to play an Elemental Shaman character, to level up, to perform lvl 80 dungeons and BG.
Chapter 2 is dedicated to WoW players which are doing raids in normal mode instances, both 10 man and 25 man mainly.
Chapter 3 contains different aspects of Elemental Shaman gameplay in heroic mode instances, unusual concepts of play mode, Stats analyze. The chapter contains a lot of information about the generic Shaman gameplay concept, its strong and weak sides.
Chapter 4 contains different links to my Youtube video channels referred to Warmane in game raids and character builds. It also contains some screenshots about elemental shaman dps potency vs a single target and multiple targets as statistical records, just to show you the character boundary possibilities.
This guide as any other guide should contain all aspects about the described object and I tried to fulfill it here. Considering it takes just a lot of time to gather all information, check it, test some things, pre-format it including the forum bb-codes.
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Chapter 1. Intro (recommended for new players only)
1.1. WoW 3.3.5 Gameplay
1.2. Shaman's Available Races
1.3. Urban WoW Dictionary
1.4. The Elemental Shaman Leveling
1.4.1. Shaman Quests
1.5. Profession Recommendations for Elemental Shaman
1.6. Elemental Talent Tree and Glyphs
1.7. GearScore (GS) System
Chapter 2. I'm a raider
2.1. Macros
2.2. GS Under 6k
2.3. GS Over 6k
2.4. The Elemental Shaman BiS Set
2.5. DPS Trainer
2.6. New Profession Topic
2.7. Our Friendly Addons
2.8. The Stats Priority
2.9. Gemming the BiS Gear
2.10. The Elemental Shaman Best Enchants
Chapter 3. Beyond the Frontier of Elemental Shamans
3.1. Totem Optimization in Raids
3.2. The Best Caster Offensive Buffs and Debuffs
3.3. Elemental Shaman in Normal and Heroic Raids
3.4. DPS Optimizations
3.5. LB vs CL
3.6. BiS Lists Overview for 25 Man Raids
3.7. Deep Analysis of Stats
3.7.1. Additive and Multiplicative Stats
3.7.2. Spell Power
3.7.3. Spell Hit
3.7.4. Spell Haste
3.7.5. Spell Crit
3.7.6. Resistances
3.7.7. MP5
3.8. The Client-Server Model of MMOs
3.9. Blizzard's Imbalanced Draft of Patch 3.3.5a
Chapter 4. The Hall of Memories
4.1. Rexar Jr’ Youtube Channel
4.2. Rexarjr’s Training Guide Channel
4.2. Screenshots
About my character
I’m playing both PVE and PVP, got the Kingslayer title, Bane of the Fallen King (video; 16.02.2014), The Light of Dawn (video; 05.06.2014), I got Warlord title at 40,000 Honorable Kills progression and High Warlord at 60,000. Completely leveled on old (Molten) Lordaeron realm (x1) and currently playing on Warmane Icecrown (x7) server.
P.S. Sorry about intermediate english :)
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This chapter contains a set of sections which have responses to most rookie questions referred to the Elemental Shaman. Here you'll find a lot of suggestions from picking up a character and how to optimally level it up to level 80. In this process, you'll have to deal with a set of important class quests, talents, Glyphs and available professions.
1.1. WoW 3.3.5 Gameplay
c.1.1 October 2013
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1.2. Shaman’s Available Races
c.1.2 October 2013
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1.3. Urban WoW Dictionary
c.1.3 October 2013
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1.4. Elemental Shaman Leveling
c.1.4 November 2013
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1.4.1 Shaman Quests
c.1.4.1 September 2019
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1.5. Profession Recommendation for Elemental Shaman
c.1.5 November 2013
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1.6. Elemental Talent Tree and Glyphs
c.1.6 November 2013
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1.7. GearScore (GS) System
c.1.7 November 2013
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This chapter contains a set of sections dedicated to prepare your Elemental Shaman for 10 and 25 man raid encounters. This preparation includes the process of gear farming up to its BiS level, optimizing the used macros, installing a set of required addons, determining a set of spell rotations for optimal DPS and balancing the character BiS set with respective gems and enchants.
2.1. Macros
c.2.1 November 2013
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2.2. GS Under 6k
c.2.2 December 2013
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2.3. GS Over 6k
c.2.3 January 2014
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2.4. Elemental Shaman BiS Set
c.2.4 January 2014
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2.5. DPS Trainer
c.2.5 February 2014
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2.6. New Ele Profession Topic
c.2.6 March 2014
2.7. Our Friendly Addons
c.2.7 March 2014
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2.8. The Stats Priority
c.2.8 April 2014
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2.9. Gemming the BiS Gear
c.2.9 April 2014
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2.10. The Elemental Shamans Best Enchants
c.2.10 May 2014
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This chapter contains a set of sections oriented on suggestions on how to improve the Elemental Shaman performance in 25 man raids, especially in their Heroic modes. This chapter discovers the principles how the Elemental Shaman buffs and his debuffs applied to a target works in conjunction with other raid buffs and debuffs, what can stack and what not. Here you'll find a lot of trivial and non-trivial suggestions on how to improve your character DPS. Finally, you'll learn how to read and calculate your character Primary and Secondary Attributes and how they influence on the Elemental Shaman spells damage.
3.1. Totems Optimization in Raids
c.3.1 January 2015
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3.2. The Best Caster Offensive Buffs and Debuffs
c.3.2 January 2015
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3.3. Elemental Shaman in Normal and Heroic Raids
c.3.3 January 2015
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3.4. DPS Optimizations
c.3.4 December 2015
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3.5. LB vs CL
c.3.5 December 2015
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3.6. BiS Lists Overview for 25 Man Raids
c.3.6 June 2020
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3.7. Deep Analysis of Stats
c.3.7 May 2020
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3.8. The Client-Server Model of MMOs
c.3.8 July 2020
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3.9. Blizzard’s Imbalanced Draft of Patch 3.3.5a
c.3.9 August 2020
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The final chapter of this guide, which contains just a row of videos and screenshots of my in game character performance on Warmane server. BTW, few videos I performed on my private WoW server, because at the time of writing this guide, I didn't have all the required items available. Long story short. Here is shown how to play the Elemental Shaman in different raid encounters. Many videos were made long ago, when I just began my WoW raiding. Nowadays I'm playing the character much more aggressively and using even more keybind abilities. Just take a look at my Youtube channel for newer videos. I'll try to upload new ones.
4.1. Rexar Jr’ Youtube Channel
c.4.1. September 2020
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4.2. Rexarjr’s Training Guide Channel
c.4.2. September 2020
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4.3. Screenshots
c.4.3. September 2020
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P.S. Final Edition
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