by MATTHEW ROSSI

Of course, any guide to emblem gear would have to mention that you can get your Tier 7 chest and glove tokens via emblems. Like most tier gear, these come in three flavors, enhancement, restoration and elemental. (We won’t forget the gloves, either.) Honestly, I was a trifle surprised to see them go this route, but considering how hard it could be to get your Tier chestplate in BC it’s certainly not a bad idea, especially if you have a lot of emblems from running heroics and feel like dropping 140 of them (80 for the BP, 60 for the gloves) in one go. Heck, it also means that if you’re having bad luck in Naxx 10 either due to drop rate, losing the roll or bid, or what have you that you’ll have a way to get yourself geared up without as much RNG.

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by MATTHEW ROSSI

One of the ways to gear up as you level and prepare for endgame in Wrath of the Lich King is by making use of the reputation gained via questing for various factions in Northrend. In addition to the main Alliance or Horde factions the Alliance Vanguard andHorde Expedition, there are a variety of other groups you can meet and ally with as you explore Northrend, often through daily quests, and these factions offer gear, head enchants and other items of interest to you as an up and coming shaman. Today, we’ll go over what each group has to offer and which ones you might want to prioritize depending on your spec and interest.

One group to mention in particular is the Sons of Hodir: unlike other factions, they don’t have a Tabard which you can wear in level 80 dungeons and heroics to gain reputation with them. However, they do have quite a few dailies to unlock as well as a long series of quests which will get you started, and in addition to the usual gearing reasons to unlock and progress in this reputation they also provide shoulder enchants that equal or exceed the best outland ones, so they’re a group you’ll eventually want to work on.

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by MATTHEW ROSS

Grizzly Hills

As is always the case, we’re probably going to skip most green quest rewards unless they’re exceptional, as it’s not like you won’t get piles of the stuff questing.

First up, let us talk blue quest rewards. From the quest Ursoc, the Bear God which both Alliance and Horde get access to, there’s the Greaves of Sanctified Dissolution. That’s a lot of attack power. 169 AP between the Agility and the straight bonus. And the amount of crit you’ll get from the combined agi and crit rating is nothing to sneer at either. These are straight up physical DPS legs, although with no Int on them you’ll take a hit to your mana pool when Maelstrom procs.

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by MATTHEW ROSSI

Dragonblight has some of the best lore-related quests in the game. Since I’m focusing my leveling efforts on my alliance warrior and horde shaman, I may have missed some quests from either faction but I’ve made my best effort to be comprehensive. Please feel free to mention anything I didn’t catch in the comments.


General Quest Rewards

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allright, i always do this in thunder bluff on my 19 twink shaman, not sure if it will work anywhere else.
i /duel someone, then i just lay down totems next to the guards that walk past and 99% of the time if my enemy attacks my totems the guards will own them.
pretty funny when i /duel level 70’s and watch them get raped by guards.

heres a few screenies.

http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guards1fy1.jpg
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Being about half-way through Grizzly Hills on my shaman and already nearly level 75 (I did both starting zones) you could even skip one of these zones if you wanted to. If that’s the case, don’t skip Zul’Drak, as the zone has some weapon rewards that are simply extraordinary.

Grizzly Hills

As is always the case, we’re probably going to skip most green quest rewards unless they’re exceptional, as it’s not like you won’t get piles of the stuff questing.

First up, let us talk blue quest rewards. From the quest Ursoc, the Bear God which both Alliance and Horde get access to, there’s the Greaves of Sanctified Dissolution. That’s a lot of attack power. 169 AP between the Agility and the straight bonus. And the amount of crit you’ll get from the combined agi and crit rating is nothing to sneer at either. These are straight up physical DPS legs, although with no Int on them you’ll take a hit to your mana pool when Maelstrom procs.
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Just a pretty neat trick for all you resto shamans out there.

Earth shield is currently castable on siege machines (I have yet to use it on the ones in Wintergrasp, i know it is currently working though in Strand of the Ancients.)

It only procs off actual people hitting it though it seems, the cannons hitting it won’t heal it, but i HAVE watched the green text show up for heals when people are hitting it

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Atm im trying to work out why my water shield is bugged so thought id share this find on here searched and found nothing.

Im resto spec shaman and was killing mobs when i noticed my water shield was giving more mana than the tooltip said and was like .. wow strange ( because i didnt have any talents used to improve it or glyphs ).. the spell says it gives 428 mana back at level 80 and there is a totem which can add a extra 27 mana to that .. also talent points to increase it by 15%..

without the totem water shield gave me 477 mana back when it should only give 428.

with the totem it gives me 504 mana back when the tooltip says 455 mana back.
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So, A buddy and I were bored on a PvP server and were flying around ganking people, when a druid (non-epic flight form) flies by us. My friend (being an elemental shaman) decides it would be funny to use his thunderstorm on the druid.

He catches the druid (both are still in flight). My friend dismounts in mid air and thunderstorms. The druid is knocked back and his flying form changed into his Night Elf form. He falls to his death.

We have tried this on other chars, Apparently:
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