Cataclysm Enhancement Shaman Leveling Spec

Enhancement is the way to go for a solid Shaman Leveling Spec. No doubt about it, Enhancement Shamans will have the highest killing rate and lowest downtime while leveling 1-85 in cataclysm. With today's release of patch 4.0.1, the talent trees have been revised and with it, class specialization has been introduced. So when you pick Enhancement as your Shaman Leveling Spec, you will be gifted with a few new abilities right away:

• Lava Lash - You charge your off-hand weapon with lava, instantly dealing 200% of that weapon's damage to an enemy target. Damage is increased by 40% if your off-hand weapon is enchanted with Flametongue.
• Mental Quickness - Increases your spell power by an amount equal to 50% of your attack power, and reduces the mana cost of your instant spells by 50%.
• Dual Wield - Allows one-hand and off-hand weapons to be equipped in your off-hand, allows you to parry frontal melee attacks, and and increases your chance to hit by an additional 6%.
• Primal Wisdom - Your melee attacks have a 40% chance to immediately restore 5% of your base mana.
• Mastery (trainable at 80) - Enhanced Elements: Increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage done by 20%. Each point of Mastery increases damage by an additional 2.5%

So right off the bat, you have some powerful new abilities to make the leveling process much less painful than when I was a lowbie coming up through the ranks. An Enhancement Shaman Leveling Spec will look something like this:

Levels 10-17

Focused Strikes 3/3

Elemental Weapons 2/2

Levels 19-27

Flurry 3/3

Elemental Devastation 2/3

Levels 29-37

Stormstrike

3/3 Elemental Devastation

3/3 Static Shock

Levels 37-47

Searing Flames 3/3

Improved Shields 2/3

Levels 49-57

Shamanistic Rage

Unleashed Rage 2/2

Improved shields 3/3

Ancestral Swiftness 1/2

Levels 59-69

Maelstrom Weapon 3/3

Improved Lava Lash 2/2

Feral Spirit

Levels 71 and up

Ancestral Swiftness 2/2

Acuity 3/3

Concussion 3/3

Elemental Precision 3/3

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your Shaman. This Shaman Leveling Spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Ret Shaman leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best Shaman leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees have received a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com has reviews of the best guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

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Cataclysm Paladin Leveling Spec

Retribution is the way to go for a solid Paladin Leveling Spec. No doubt about it, Retribution paladins will have the highest killing rate and lowest downtime while leveling 1-85 in cataclysm. With today's release of patch 4.0.1, the talent trees have been revised and with it, class specialization has been introduced. So when you pick Retribution as your Paladin Leveling Spec, you will be gifted with a few new abilities right away:

Templar's Verdict - A fun new instant strike that causes a % of weapon damage based on Holy Power
Sheath of Light - Increases spell power by 30% of attack power and increases spell hit chance by 30%
Judgments of the Bold - Judgments restore 25% of base mana over 10 Seconds
Mastery (trainable at 80):
Hand of Light - Auto attacks have a 8% chance to grant Hand of Light causing your next Holy Power ability to consume no Holy Power and to cast as if 3 Holy Power were consumed. Each point of Mastery increases the chance by an additional 1%.

So right off the bat, you have some powerful new abilities to make the leveling process much less painful than when I was a lowbie coming up through the ranks. A retribution paladin Leveling Spec will look something like this:

Level 10-17
Crusade: 3/3
Imp Judgment: 2/2

Levels 17-27
Rule of Law 3/3
Pursuit of Justice 2/2

Levels 27-37
Divine Storm
Communion
Art of War 3/3

Levels 37-47
Seals of Command
Sanctity of Battle
Sanctified Wrath 3/3

Levels 47-57
Rebuke
Divine Purpose 2/2
Long Arm of the Law 2/2

Levels 57-67
Inquiry of Faith 3/3
Eye for an Eye 2/2

Levels 67 and up:
Zealotry
Repentance

Holy
Arbiter of the Light 2/2
Judgments of the Pure 3/3
Blazing Light 2/2

Protection
Seals of the Pure 2/2

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your Paladin. This Paladin Leveling Spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Ret Paladin leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best Paladin leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees have received a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com will have reviews of all the game guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in under 5 days play time.

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Cataclysm Balance Druid Leveling Spec

While leveling, you can choose between feral or Balance as your Druid Leveling Spec. Balance is a somewhat trickier Druid Leveling Spec than feral, but it is a very fun way to level. Remember that these talents are still in a very raw form and are subject to a lot of changes. For a good talent guide that is always up to date, I suggest using wowpowercataclysm.com. When putting talents into your Balance Druid Leveling Spec, you will have a lot of trouble deciding which ones will benefit you right away. Some seem good now, but may not actually be useful until later levels. Look here for a solid Balance Druid Leveling Spec and plan.

level 10 – Choose “balance” on the talent summary page. This gives you Starsurge (a short cooldown spell that hits pretty hard).

Level 10, 11, 13 – Starlight wrath (tier 1) – decreases your cast times. Faster spells are good!

Level 15 & 17 – Nature’s Majesty (tier 1) – increaes your crit chance by 4%

19, 21, 23 – Moonglow (tier 2) decreases mana costs. Mana tends to be a problem for moonkin, so you won’t have to drink as much with this.

25 & 27 – balance of power (tier 2) – increases spell damage and turns spirit into hit rating to reduce the chance that your spells will miss.

29 – Moonkin form (tier 3) – You shift into moonkin form and you get haste, more damage, an armor bonus, and a fun graphic.

31 & 33 Shooting Stars (tier 3) – gives your DOTs a chance to make your starsurge instant and removes the cooldown. Should help make the leveling “rotation” a little more interesting.

35 – Typhoon (tier 3) – gives you a new spell that knocks things back from you and slows them.

37, 39, 41 – Nature’s Grace (tier 1) – gives you a haste bonus that will proc about once a minute from your DOTs.

43, 45, 47 – Owlkin Frenzy (tier 4) – gives you a damage bonus when you get hit. This is nice for leveling since things are often hitting me which will proc this ability.

49 – Force of Nature (tier 5) – spawns tree buddies to help you by attacking things.

51 – Earth & moon (tier 5) – gives you a group damage buff when you cast wrath or starfire.

53 – solar beam (tier 4) – gives you an ability that gives you a silence effect. When soloing, you can root a caster mob in a solar beam to keep it from hurting you.

55 & 57 – Gale Winds (tier 4) – your typhoon & hurricane do more damage.

59 – Sunfire (tier 5) – used to unlock the next talent at this point.

61, 63, 65 (tier 6) – when you are moving, your moonfire does more damage and costs less mana

67 & 69 (tier 3) – Talents that you will need later on once you learn your mastery, and helps you move up to the next tier.

71 Starfall (tier 7) – gives you an AOE spell that will aggro everything around you if you aren’t careful. Pick up glyph of focus for leveling to reduce it’s aggro radius.

73, 75, 77 – Heart of the wild (restoration tree, tier 1) – At this point you can finally go into resto and pick up heart of the wild that will increase your intellect.

You can also choose an AoE leveling build. You would want to add the Overgrowth talent, and use glyphs of Hurricane, Focus, and Starfall.

How to AoE grind as a druid –

1. Root your enemies (overgrowth roots all in an area)

2. Cast Hurricane until they are within starfall range (Some will break roots, but will be slowed 50%)

3. Cast starfall

4. Typhoon to knock mobs back

5. Hurricane again if needed.

6. At Level 85 you can lay down your wild mushrooms for extra AoE damage.

I will say that I do NOT recommend AoE as a regular leveling tactic. Too many variables can totally screw you, but for a small group of 5-6 mobs, you can take them down pretty fast. While leveling, it is best to stick to questing.

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your druid. This Balance druid leveling spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Balance Druid leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best druid leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com will have all talents updated with recommendations on how to spend your talent points.

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Cataclysm Mage Leveling Build

With Cataclysm coming shortly and the 4.0 patch coming out tomorrow, the World of Warcraft will be changing forever... and so are your talent trees. Here is a sample Mage Leveling build for Cataclysm. I only have fire completed right now, but I will be updating these posts with each additional patch and talent update. Always know that Blizzard is constantly updating, and these talents are sure to be changed before Cataclysm's release.

4.0 Fire Mage Leveling Build

Beautiful fire... destructor of wood... You get Pyroblast at level 10, Fire Specialization increases the damage of your spells by 25%, and Mastery: Flashburn increases the damage from all your periodic effects by a fair amount.

1. 2/2 Improved Fire Blast - more range and more crits, all in one.
2. 2/2 Master of Elements - your crits refund mana
3. 1/3 Burning Soul - reduces the casting time lost from attacks against you.
4. 3/3 Ignite - Your crits cause the target to burn for a short time
5. 2/3 Fire power - A bit more fire damage and an exploding orb
6. Blastwave - Area Effect burnination
7. Hot Streak- spell crits have a chance to make yor next Pyroblast instant and free.
8. 2/2 Cauterize - shots that would kill you, don't
9. 3/3 Fire Power
10. Combustion
11. 2/2 Blazing Speed - Chance for hits against you to increase your speed and dispell all movement impairing efects.
12. Firestarter - Your Molten Armor spell allows you to cast scorch while moving
13. 1/2 Improved Hot streak - any time you crit twice in a row with your non-periodic spells you have a chance to trigger Hot Streak
14. Dragon's Breath - Shoots flames in a cone and stuns targets
15. 3/3 Molten Fury - increases damage against low health targets
16. 1/2 Improved Flamestrike - Reduces Flamestrike casting time and give Blastwave a chance to trigger Flamestrike
17. 3/3 Critical Mass - Living Bomb and Flame Orb do more damage, Pyroblast and Scorch cause your opponent to become a bit more vulnerable to spell damage
18. 2/2 Pyromaniac - Increases spell haste by a small amount if three or more targets are suffereing from your periodic damage
19. Living Bomb - Your target takes periodic damage, then explodes, damaging up to three nearby targets
20. You can now take talents from the other trees
21. 3/3 Piercing Ice - Increases crit chance of spells by 3%
22. 3/3 Netherwind Presence - increases spell haste by 3%
23. 3/3 Arcane Concentration - Chance for your next spell to cost no mana
24. 1/3 Improved Blink - Increases your movement speed after casting Blink

Fire Spells:

1. Fire Blast - Instant spell for medium damage
2. Fireball - Unchanged. Fire damage at long range
3. Flame Orb - A red orb of flame moves awy from you and attacks the nearest target.
4. Flamestrike - Unchanged, area blast
5. Frostfire bolt - Long range frostfire bolt, slows the target
6. Molten Armor - Increases crit chance, reduces chance of being crit, causes some damage to attacker
7. Scorch - A little less damage and a little faster cast

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your mage in Cataclysm. This Cataclysm mage leveling spec sacrifices some damage for utility, defensive ability, and mana efficiency. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your mage leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best mage leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Zygor’s Leveling Guide will have reviews of game guides that include all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

Priest Leveling Spec

Shadow Priest Leveling -

When deciding how to start your Priest Leveling Spec, Shadow will be your preferred talent tree. Many players will make the mistake of choosing Holy right off the bat. While it is a very valuable talent tree, Holy is primarily a healing build and very slow for a priest leveling spec. A shadow leveling build is the best choice since you will be dealing damage faster, killing more quickly, and completing quests more efficiently. Shadow also comes with some very handy abilities that help you regen health and mana, decreasing downtime, and further strengthening it as the number 1 priest leveling spec.

Not only are shadow priests effective at leveling, but they make an excellent off-healing class for groups where the main healer isn't pulling their weight, not properly specced, or dies too often. They also have a lot of fun features and utility to add to a group, from silence to fear, mind control (one of my favorites), and group mana regen.

So before we get started, here is the ideal shadow priest leveling spec. Simply add the talent points in this order:

Shadow

3 in Spirit Tap

2 in Improved Spirit Tap

3 in Shadow Focus

2 in Improved Shadow Word: Pain

Mind Flay

2 in Improved Mind Blast

2 in Improved Psychic Scream

3 in Shadow Weaving

2 in Shadow Reach

Vampiric Embrace

2 into Improved Vampiric Embrace

2 into Focused Mind (2 of 3)

5 in Darkness

Shadowform

1 in Focused Mind (3 of 3)

2 in Mind Melt

Silence

2 in Improved Shadowform

3 in Misery

Vampiric Touch

3 in Pain and Suffering

1 in Shadow Power

5 in Twisted Faith

Dispersion
Discipline Talents

5 points into Twin Discipline

3 in Improved Inner Fire

2 in Improved Power Word: Fortitude

3 in Meditation

1 in Inner Focus
Shadow again

2 into Veiled Shadows

4 in Shadow Power

Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Shadow Priest leveling spec. Wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best priest leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Wowpowercataclysm.com has guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

Mage Leveling Spec

The mage class is a very fun but difficult class to learn. With each spec there are multiple playstyles that you can adapt and apply different ways. The mage leveling spec can be broken down by either frost or fire. After that, you may want to consider the ability to AoE versus direct damage. The choice is up to you and it will greatly affect your playstyle and spell rotations. The Challenge with leveling a mage is that you have so many different options to choose from. I will try my best to sum up some of the different tactics for building your Mage Leveling Spec.

First I'll address AoE tactics for plowing through groups of mobs.

Frost: You will be using frost nova, blizzard, and cone of cold primarily.

Key Talents: Ice Floes, Permafrost, Improved Blizzard, Ice Barrier (later, of course) DO NOT pick up frostbite. The freeze effect can seriously screw your efforts. Any other talents you will want are simply for damage boosts or mana efficiency.

1. Frost armor and Ice barrier - Reduce the damage you're taking and slow the when you're struck
2. Mount up and kite MELEE MOBS ONLY! start with 3-4 to get comfortable. Never go over 10. your aoe loses effectiveness after that, and it's just way too dangerous to handle that many. I'd say stick to 6-7 mobs to maximize effectiveness and efficiency
3. When you have a good group following you, Frost nova to root them in place.
4. Blink away and Blizzard from max distance. With the chill effect, you should be able to get 2 blizzards in before they reach you.
5. If there are any survivors, Cone of cold, Frost Nova again, and repeat the process or just arcane explosion to finish them off.
6. Drink and repeat the process

Fire/Arcane: Key abilities will be flame strike, Arcane explosion, Frost Nova, and Blast Wave.

1. Turn on mana shield for protection
2. Mount up and gather 4-6 mobs (again, melee only)
3. Frost Nova
4. Flame Strike
5. Blast Wave
6. Cone of Cold
7. Arcane Explosion til dead

Note, when AoE grinding, you will probably have a few mishaps which will result in a hefty repair bill and time wasted running back. You pull a ranged attacker, you pull too many mobs, you get the point. With Blizzard's changes to experience gains through questing as well as caps to AoE damage, you are going to be spending a lot more time leveling than is really necessary. It can be very beneficial to find a partner who can AoE tank or heal you while you dish out all the damage. This is a more effective technique if you are focusing on an AoE mage leveling spec. Paladins with consecrate and bear druids with swipe will work really well, especially since they can also heal to help with downtime. With proper talents and abilities they can also help with mana regeneration.

However, when you have no partner Questing is by far the easiest and fastest way to level up.

Now you just have to decide whether you want to chose fire or frost as your primary mage leveling spec. Many players favor frost because of its survivability, mana efficiency and after level 60 can really throw out some strong damage. Here is a sample frost mage leveling spec:

Improved Frostbolt - 5/5

Frostbite - 3/3

Ice Floes - 3/3

Ice Shards - 3/3

Permafrost - 3/3

Icy Veins - 1/1

Arctic Reach - 2/2

Frost Channeling - 3/3

Shatter - 3/3

Cold Snap - 1/1

Cold as Ice - 2/2

Winter's Chill - 3/3

Shattered Barrier - 2/2

Ice Barrier - 1/1

Arctic Winds - 1/5

Empowered Frostbolt - 2/2

Fingers of Frost - 2/2

Brain Freeze - 3/3

Summon Water Elemental - 1/1

Enduring Winter - 3/3

Chilled to the Bone - 3/5

Deep Freeze - 1/1

Then, continue on the Arcane to finish out your spec:

Arcane Subtlety - 2/2

Arcane Focus - 3/3

Arcane Fortitude - 3/3

Magic Absorption - 2/2

Magic Attunement - 2/2

Spell Impact - 3/3

Improved Counterspell - 2/2

Torment the Weak - 3/3

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your mage. This mage leveling spec sacrifices some damage for utility, defensive ability, and mana efficiency. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your mage leveling spec. Zygor’s Leveling Guide is always kept up to date with the best mage leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Zygor’s Leveling Guide will have all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

Hunter Leveling Spec

One of the hardest parts of leveling a Hunter is picking the best Hunter Leveling Spec. To level, you will probably want to pick a Beast Mastery talent build, because of its high aggro and damage output from your pet, resulting in less damage taken, less ammo used, and less mana consumed. There are many different builds and methods, but this is one that I've found to have Minimal downtime and high survivability. There are other specs that may fit your playstyle, but this one fit me best and helped me level faster than any other hunter leveling spec. This is a very basic rundown of a Hunter leveling spec, but for a more comprehensive leveling guide to get you to 80 in no time, check out Zygor’s Leveling Guide. Note once more, that there may be other Hunter Leveling builds out there, but this Beast Mastery Hunter leveling spec worked better for me than anything else.

As you level, simply enter in your talent points in this order.

Beast Mastery Talents

Endurance Training : 5/5

Focused Fire : 2/2
Thick Hide : 3/3

Aspect Mastery : 1/1
Unleashed Fury : 5/5
Improved Mend Pet : 1/2
Ferocity : 5/5

Spirit Bond : 2/2
Intimidation : 1/1
Bestial Discipline : 2/2
Frenzy : 3/5
Ferocious Inspiration : 3/3
Bestial Wrath : 1/1

Catlike Reflexes : 3/3
Serpent’s Swiftness : 5/5
Longevity : 3/3
The Beast Within : 1/1
Cobra Strikes : 2/3
Kindred Spirits : 5/5
Beast Mastery : 1/1

Fill in the remaining levels in this order:

Marksmanship Talents

Lethal Shots : 5/5
Careful Aim : 3/3
Mortal Shots : 2/5
Go For The Throat : 2/2

Survival Talents

Improved Tracking : 5/5

Ok, now that you have your ideal Hunter Leveling Spec, you need a good attack setup:

1. Cast Aspect of the Beast to boost pet damage and aggro
2. Cast Hunter’s Mark on enemies to increase ranged attack damage
3. Send your pet into the melee
4. Use Concussive Shot to slow the enemies advancement and attack
5. Use Rapid Fire to kick your attack speed up a level
6. If the situation requires it, you can use your freeze trap
7. Feign Death if you think you're in over your head.
8. Wait for mobs to reset, revive your pet, continue on.

Now that you have the proper Hunter Leveling Spec, you will want to know how and where exactly to quest to level up and waste as little time as possible getting to level 80. See Zygor’s Leveling Guide for all your Hunter Needs from here on out.

Enhancement Shaman Leveling Spec

If you can't tell by now, I love hybrid classes, a good mix of melee and magic. Shaman are the perfect hybrid class in my eyes because of this. With powerful strikes, devastating nukes and the ability to heal in an emergency, Shaman are truly the kings of the hybrid Classes, especially Enhancement Shaman. Your Enhancement Shaman Leveling spec will focus around heavy strikes with a 2-handed weapon until you can learn Dual Wield at level 40/41. After that your dual wield Enhancement Spec will really start to kick out some quick killing. You may have some trouble adapting at first, especially if you haven't leveled up 1-handed weapon skills for a while, and after level 41 you need to start putting points into dual wield spec to increase your hit rating. So until you have these things down, it may be safer to use DW weapons on lower level mobs and quests, or just use your 2-hander for your enhancement leveling spec for the time being.

Enhancement shaman come in a few different varieties and variations, but here is the spec and build I have found most useful:

Levels 10-20:
3/3 Enhancing totems
2/5 Ancestral Knowledge
5/5 Thundering Strikes
1/1 Shamanistic Focus

Levels 21-30
3/3 Elemental Weapons
1/3 Improved Shields
5/5 Flurry
1/1 Spirit Weapons

Levels 31-40
2/2 Improved Windfury
3/3 Mental Dexterity
3/3 Unleashed Rage
1/3 Weapon Mastery
1/1 Stormstrike

Levels 41-50
1/1 Dual Wield
3/3 Dual Wield Specialization
1/1 Lava Lash
2/2 Improved Stormstrike
3/3 Weapon Mastery
1/1 Shamanistic Rage

Levels 51-60
3/3 Mental Quickness
2/3 Improved Shields
5/5 Maelstrom Weapon
1/1 Feral Spirit

Levels 61-70
5/5 Concussion
3/3 Elemental Devastation
2/3 Call of Flame

Levels 71-80
1/1 Elemental Focus
5/5 Elemental Fury
3/3 Improved Shields
3/3 Static Shock

Building this Enhancement Leveling Spec will push your dps through the roof and leave you little to no downtime. If you are low on mana, pop Shamanistic Rage. If you are low on health, pop Feral spirit or use a Maelstrom proc for an instant heal. Typically, enhancement shaman will want to fight only one mob at a time in order to minimize downtime, though you could handle 3-5 mobs if you really need to. This build also suffices as a viable raid dps spec, so once you hit 80 you won't even need to respec. However, while leveling, talents and downtime are not the only factors to keep in mind. Questing is going to go much faster with these talents, but you will want to complete. As you may or may not know, many quests are hardly more than filler to waste your time. In order to really maximize your questing and experience per hour, You will want to pick up Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Enhancement Shaman leveling spec. Zygor’s Leveling Guide is always kept up to date with the best Shaman leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Zygor’s Leveling Guide will have all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.With Zygor’s Leveling Guide, there is a built in addon that directs you straight to the quest givers that only provide the highest return on experience, gold, and quest rewards. If you really want to get the most out of your game, then click here to get Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

Retribution Paladin Leveling Talent build and gear Guides

The second toon I created was a paladin. I started back in Good Ole' Vanilla Wow, back when Ret specced pallies were absolutely awful for leveling and seen as a joke in groups (even though I topped the damage meters while tanking). Retribution has evolved a LOT since its inception and has seen a huge development since the introduction of Crusader Strike, the revamped seals and judgement system and a boatload of other skills and abilities that I didn't have the luxury of back in 2006.

Well, Retribution leveling has come a long way since then. When getting started, especially if you're new to WoW, it helps to get your bearings straight. I like to use Zygor’s Leveling Guide to clear up a lot of the questions surrounding the game and correct my learning mistakes before I make them. It simply makes the learning curve a little smoother, and makes the leveling process a lot faster. Starting at Level 10, here is your sample

Retribution Leveling Spec:
Add the points in this order

Level 10-20
5/5 Benediction
2/2 Improved Judgement
3/3 Heart of the Crusader
1/1 Seal of Command

Level 21-30
2/2 Pursuit of Justice
5/5 Conviction
2/3 Sanctity of Battle
1/1 Sanctified Retribution

Level 31-39
3/3 Sanctity of Battle
3/3 Crusade
3/3 Vengeance
2/3 2-Handed Weapon Specialization

Level 40-50
3/3 Judgements of the Wise
2/2 Art of War
1/1 Repentance
3/3 Fanaticism
3/3 2-Handed Weapon Specialization
1/1 Crusader Strike

Level 51-60
3/3 Sheath of Light
3/3 Swift Retribution
3/3 Righteous Vengeance
1/1 Divine Storm

Level 61-70
5/5 Divine Strength (Protection)
5/5 Seals of the Pure (Holy)

Levels 71-80
2/2 Sanctified Wrath
2/2 Improved Blessing of Might
2/2 Vindication
4/5 Divinity (Protection)

All of these talents are oriented toward turning you into a righteous killing machine. Ret Paladins should start off with single mob killing, though as you get higher in levels and you have Divine Storm, you can start taking out 2-4 Mobs at a time. I don't recommend this because it will drain your health and mana very quickly. If you are looking for a build that will have you plowing through groups of mobs, you may want to consider a Protection AoE leveling build. This is not recommended until higher levels though, when you have more powerful gear and skills like Hammer of the Righteous.

For the purpose of questing though, it's hard to go wrong in this spec, as most quests won't have you AoE grinding mobs. While questing, speed is a very important factor. Not only killing speed, but efficiency in passing through groups of useless quests, knowing where to pick up the best quests, and where to find the mobs and quest items that you need to kill and turn in. Check out Zygor’s Leveling Guide and see just how quickly you can quest your way to 80. They offer a free version that get you started on your questing path and you can see just how fast you can level, and it is by far the quickest way to go. The best part is it knows which quests you have done, so you can get started at ANY level, at any point in the game. So step your game up with Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

55-80 Death Knight Leveling Specs and tactics

Currently Blood is the most popular leveling path for Death Knights due to the constant health regeneration and high damage output. There are many different paths, but here are two of my favorites. I'll provide a breakdown, starting at level 60 since the DK talents are all given over their intro quests which will have you on your own between levels 57 and 60, and from there you can fill in the rest.

By level 60, you will want these talents maxed:

Butchery, Subversion, Bladed Armor, 2-Handed Weapon Specialization, Dark Conviction, Death Rune Mastery, Vendetta, Bloody Strikes, Veteran of the Third War, Bloody Vengeance, Abomination's Might, Imp Blood Presence, Imp Death Strike, Sudden Doom, Heart Strike, Might of Mograine, Blood Gorged, Dancing, Rune Weapon

From here, there are a lot of different options and talents to take. It's actually kinda hard to go wrong. But I'll post a few different specs you can work with from this basic template:

61/0/10 Blood/Unholy

Plain and simple, in the Blood tree, you will get every talent except for Blade Barrier, Scent of Blood, Spell Deflection, and Will of the Necropolis. This will put you at about 61 points in the Blood tree

The remaining 10 points will all go unholy

Unholy –

Vicious Strikes, Virulence, Epidemic, Ravenous Dead

51/20/0 Blood/Frost

Max out the following talents:

Frost –

Imp Icy Touch, Runic Power Mastery, Black Ice, Icy Talons, Annihilation, Endless Winter

I like this build because of the raw increases to stats: a total of 8% raw crit added through talents, not including special abilities; 12% flat increase from strength; Bladed armor 5 per 180 armor and Abom might’s 10% Attack power are sweet, plus a 20% haste buff from icy talons. You are hitting hard, and the damage bonuses all boost the health received through blood presence.

There are so many different ways we can go from the 51 points at 60, but that basic template are probably the essentials for leveling. There are many other popular builds and advocates for each one. I liked the two above for leveling, and when stacking strength, crit and stamina, you are gonna be charging through Outland and Northrend at an almost unstoppable rate. Keep in mind, these are not endgame raiding or pvp specs. Those will change depending on your gear, glyphs, and raid composition.

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1-80 Elemental Shaman Leveling Talent Spec and gear guide

Elemental Shaman are the pure magic casting class, utilizing fire, frost, and most heavily nature elements. The elemental shaman is a fun class to play with a 1-handed weapon and shield. The challenge though, is managing mana and downtime properly. You will want to bring lots of water and food to keep that downtime minimal, and maximize efficiency.

It is difficult to pick exactly which talents you will want to pick up early on in your leveling as many of them look promising. However, you will want to refrain on many of the fire oriented talents until you get Lava Burst at 75. Later on in your leveling, you will want to back track to these early talents to grab them.

A strong elemental build looks like this:

10-14: 5/5 Convection

15-19: 5/5 Concussion

20: 1/1 Elemental Focus

21-25: 5/5 Elemental Fury

26-28: 3/3 Eye of the Storm

29: 1/3 Call of Flame

30: 1/1 Call of Thunder

31-33: 3/3 Unrelenting Storm

34: 1/2 Elemental Reach

35-37: 3/3 Elemental Precision

38-39: 2/5 Lightning Mastery

40: Elemental Mastery

41-43: Storm, Earth, and Fire

44: 3/5 Lightning Mastery

45-46: 2/2 Elemental Oath

45-49: 3/3 Lightning Overload

50: Totem of Wrath

51-54: 1 point Booming Echoes, 1 point Elemental reach, 2 points Lightning Mastery

55-59: Shamanism

60: Thunderstorm

Now you want some extra points to go into the Enhancement tree:

61-65: Ancestral Knowledge

66-70: Thundering Strikes

Back to Elemental:

71-75: 2 points in Call of Flame, 3 Points in Lava Flows

76-79: 1 point in Booming Echoes, 3 points in Elemental Weapons

Leveling as Elemental can be very confusing from the backtracking, so it is extremely important you know what particular talents are valuable at YOUR LEVEL as some of them are not really worthwhile until higher levels. In the meantime, you have a bloated tree with lots of confusing directions you can go wasting points that might be more useful elsewhere.

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Cataclysm Feral Druid Leveling Spec

For new Druids starting out, it can be a real challenge picking the right talent spec to make the leveling process as painless as possible. Feral is definitely the fastest Best druid Leveling spec up to 85 because you need no mana, except for the occasional heal. Though with the rapid mana regeneration while shapeshifted, you will almost NEVER stop to eat and drink, except for food buffs if you care enough about that while leveling.

My druid was the first toon I created when I started playing. It is by far my favorite class due to the diversity, the lore, and group utility. Feral is also my favorite druid leveling spec and it is great for of endgame tanking or dps.

Cataclysm will be released soon, and the new talent builds have been released in patch 4.0.1 Keep in mind that these are all new talent trees and will be subject to a LOT of changes and tweaks before anything is final (Like it ever is), but for now, this is the best feral druid leveling spec.

1) Feral talents version 4.0.1 for 1 to 79 leveling:
Level 10 – choose “feral” in the talent summary page. According to Wowhead’s talent calculator, you get a point at level 10 and then another point every odd level as you are leveling up to 80.

Upon Choosing Feral, you will receive 4 new abilities:

• Mangle - Mangle the target, inflicting damage and causing the target to take additional damage from bleed effects for 1 min. This ability can be used in Cat Form or Bear Form.
• Aggression - Increases your attack power by 25%.
• Vengeance - Each time you take damage while in Bear Form, you gain 5% of the damage taken as attack power, up to a maximum of 10% of your health.
• Feral Instinct - Reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling.
• Mastery (trainable at 80) – Savage Defender Increases the damage absorbed by your Savage Defense ability by 32%. Each point of Mastery increases the absorb by an additional 4%.

10 & 11 – Feral swiftness (tier 1) – to move faster in cat form. You get cat form at level 8 now, so moving faster before you get a mount will be helpful.

13 thru 17 – Furor (Tier 1) gives you energy when you shift into cat form so you don’t have to wait after shifting. Also gives rage in bear form when you hit level 15.

19 & 21- Primal Fury (tier 2) – gives you more combo points in cat & more rage in bear when you crit

23 thru 27 – Fury swipes (teir 2) – This is a neat damage increasing talent that makes your auto-attacks proc for extra damage.

29 – Feral charge (tier 3) – gives you a new ability that allows you to charge up to your target fast.

31 & 33 – Feral aggression (tier 2) – increases ferocious bite damage, and makes your feral faerie fire stack up to 3 faster.

35 & 37 – Predatory Strikes (tier 1) – go back and pick up the ability to get an instant cast heal when you use a finishing move, and increased damage for ravage when you use it for your opener. You don’t get ravage until level 22, and you shouldn’t need to heal that much at the lowest levels, so this is about the point where I really enjoy having this talent available in beta.

39 – Leader of the Pack (tier 4) – increases crit chance, and you gain health/mana when you crit.

41 thru 45 – King of the Jungle (tier 3) – getting more energy when you use tiger’s fury can be helpful.

47 & 49 – Brutal Impact (has a couple really neat effects that should be useful for leveling – such as increasing the stun durations and lowering the cooldown on skull bash).

51 – Survival Instincts (tier 5) – Survivability ability to help keep you from dieing when things start to hit hard or gain up on you. Works in cat or bear, but is typically a bear survivability cooldown.

53 & 55 – Natural Reaction (tier 5) – This is a bear talent, but it’s likely that you may want to try tanking instances from 55 to 80 at some point, so you will need this. It will also increase your survivability when you pop into bear while soloing.

57 & 59 – Infected wounds (tier 2) reduces your target’s movement & attack speed. This should be helpful as you transition into Burning Crusade-level content for level 60 +.

61 thru 65 – Rend & Tear

67 – Pulverize (tier 6) you probably have to use bear form some, so you might as well pick it up.

69 – Berserk (teir 7) lowers the energy cost of your cat abilities, and stops you from being feared.

Level 71 thru 75 – Heart of the wild (restoration tier 1) – You can now put talent points in a secondary tree, which you should do at this point. Heart of the wild will increase your cat attack power by 10%.

77 & 79 – Pick whatever talents you want. In the build leveling up to 85, this is where natural shapeshifter would be picked up to unlock master shape shifter. However, you can’t get MSS until level 81.

Gear for Feral Leveling Druids -

Currently, Agility is the best stat for a leveling druid. It provides attack power, critical strike chance, dodge, and even some armor. You will want this to be your primary stat while leveling, with stamina obviously being a close second as your survival stat. Hit, crit, and dodge rating are all important stats as well, but less so in leveling as they are endgame.

Druids can wear cloth and leather armor - Feral druids will only be interested in leather. Obviously the armor will be higher on leather, and if you go into bear form at all, that armor makes a huge difference. Also, on cloth gear, you WILL NOT see any stats that are beneficial to a feral druid.

The way weapons affect a Druid's damage have been greatly re-worked recently. Formerly, the only stats that mattered were the attribute modifiers and added feral attack power on specialized weapons, but now ALL weapons have Feral Attack Power based on dps. Druids have also only recently gained the ability to train in polearms. It is important to note that the weapon damage and speed do not directly affect a druid's feral damage - Only the dps. Feral druids will primarily be interested in obtaining a high dps 2-handed weapon. Druids can use 2 handed maces, staves, and polearms. You typically won't want anything else.

So, look for a high dps 2-handed weapon and leather gear with agility and stamina.

For professions, druids may choose skinning an leather-working so that you can craft your own gear as you progress through the levels. Be on the lookout for quests that offer strong 2-handed weapons and start working dungeons as soon as you can. In early levels, this will work as a tanking spec as well.

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your druid. This druid leveling spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Feral Druid leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best druid leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com has links to guides with all new questing paths for cataclysm and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.