Shaman, a hybrid class, can be played in many ways. You will find yourself playing like a melee DPS, caster DPS, and a healer quite often.

But, which spec and play style is the best for the leveling shaman? Enhancement wins, hands down.

Let me start with a disclaimer. Leveling a Shaman as enhancement prior to dual wield (level 40) is actually a fairly slow path, and in the 1-39 level range Elemental is the best. Not to say you can’t level as enhancement, just know that the pace will be a little bit slower than what you could be doing as Elemental.

Enhancement shaman, once they acquire dual wield, easily will have little to no downtime due to a combination of factors. The enhancement tree is heavily focused on melee DPS abilities which will allow you to quickly drop any foe. As a healing class, you will be healing between fights (and during fights if things get rough) which eliminates the need to carry food. Add in the nukes from the elemental tree and you are poised to outlast most straight fights.

Talent choices are fairly straight forward. There are very few choices between talents you need and those you might want to have.

Obvious essentials are Ancestral Knowledge, Thundering Strikes, Flurry, and Dual Wield as these all form the cornerstone of your abilities. Stormstrike and Shamanistic Focus are two abilities that you should definitely consider as they give you a few more options by regaining mana, or reducing costs on your shocks.

Shamanistic Rage should be picked up as soon as possible as it gives you a much needed source of mana regeneration, as well as a small damage shield.

Maelstrom Weapon is another must have skill, as it makes your heals and lightning bolts instant cast as you do melee damage. This alone makes the you a potent killing machine.

Finally, you will probably want to pick up Feral Spirit to give you an extra damage source every couple of minutes.

Playing an enhancement shaman is pretty simple. Run up and attack your target, add in as many instant casts as mana allows (shocks and stormstrikes). Alone this will allow you to kill efficiently. Add in Shamanistic Rage and Maelstrom Weapon and you eliminate downtime almost completely.

Enhancement shaman is a fun class to level once you get the hang of it. Most World of Warcraft Guides will agree that they are also fairly easy.

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World of Warcraft has 9 classes that you can choose between to play. The ultimate decision should come between your likes, and desires. Some players, due to one restriction or another, will want the easiest path available to hit the highest levels. That narrows it down to Warlocks, Hunters, and Druids.

Warlock

Warlocks are your typical evil class as they rely on summoned demons to do their dirty work. They obtain their first pet early on, the Imp. This is easily one of the weakest pets available to the warlock, but it doesn’t take long until better options present themselves.

Once the leveling warlock obtains a voidwalker, leveling gets a lot easier. You will send your pet to tank the target, while you do damage to it. Unlike a hunter pet, voidwalkers do not hold aggro nearly as well, but will keep you safe. You can easily level with a voidwalker pet from 1-80, but that is a very slow path. There are other options that will really speed things up.

Leveling as Demonology gives you access to a pet that is a great tank, and does great damage. This pet is easily one of the best in the game, and will greatly speed up your kill times. It has an stun that can interrupt casters or buy you an escape route. In many ways, this is one of the easiest ways to level.

If you level as affliction you will rely less on your pet, and more on your fears and speed. Lay down a volley of DoTs, fear the target, and find your next victim. You will spend more time looting corpses than it takes to kill a group of mobs. Just be careful. It is easy to overextend as affliction, leading to a costly death.

Hunter

Hunters are, without a doubt, the easiest class to level. When you spec into Beast Mastery your pet becomes a true beast. You can give it abilities to increase its Stamina, its Health, its Damage, and more. You also gain speed increases to your ranged attacks.

Beast Mastery hunters are very survivable. You have to really mess up to die with this spec, especially after you get Feign Death. Your pet will take the brunt of any assault, and you can sacrifice your friend to escape if needed. If you run away early enough your pet may despawn leaving it alive, but all the aggro will shift to you. It is of little issue as you will be far enough ahead to get away.

Druid

Third place is a close call between Druids and Shaman, and both have very similar benefits to leveling. Druids win out as they can easily switch between a variety of roles without a lot of work.

You can level your druid many different ways. As a feral spec you can DPS much like a rogue, sneaking around and choosing your fights. Rogues are also an easy class to level, but cannot compete with a druid for one simple fact. Druids can heal between fights, which eliminates downtime. That is easily the biggest benefit to being a druid. How many other classes allow you to damage to the full extent of your abilities, drop into another form to heal yourself, and go back to killing like nothing has happened? None.

Druids can also level as Balance, which plays quite a bit like a mage. The options also sit to level as a tank or a healer and rely on instances and grouping to level. Druids are not short on options when it comes to leveling in World of Warcraft.

Truth be told, any class in World of Warcraft is easy to level if you put your mind to it. The best way to speed up your leveling, regardless of spec, is with your copy of Zygor Guide.