It's too hard to be a Shammy

I've played all classes in WoW and I've enjoyed them all except for
two. Warriors and Shamans.

I like tanking with the warrior but I don't like levelling him so he's
stuck at 38 now. I don't like levelling him because I hate the rage
mechanic. Whenever you have to pause to heal up or move on to another
area you lose the rage and then you need to get it going again to
start dpsing. I hate that. I just can't get used to not being able
to use all my abilities at the start of a fight. I know and
understand that this is why I don't like my warrior.

The Shaman is an odd thing. I have no idea why I can't play one
effectively. I started and deleted a number of Shamans before I even
got one to level 10!

My current attempt is at level 23 but I'm not enjoying him at all. I
have him specced enhancement and I have a good blue 2h axe and he just
seems to be too fragile. Also, there's not much to do that I can
see. I generally cast my totems, open with lightning and cast
lightning shield on incoming and then fire shock when in range. Now
what? There just seems to be auto-attack from then on with shocks
when I get the 60% cheaper buff from a crit. If I get an add then
that's usually all my mana gone and if I didn't start with full health
and mana it will often mean that I'll have to run off or die.

I normally only start off with strength of earth totem and cast
healing stream and searing totem if I need to. Even one on one it's
much more effort than any other character that I've played. I'm
currently questing in the charred vale which is a bugger for adds and
so is making the problem even worse than it has been.

The mobs that I'm fighting in the vale are 2 or 3 levels above me but
I'm sure that I've just followed the quests the same way as I always
do and I'm sure that I've done this zone with other characters at this
level.

steve.kaye

On Jul 15, 8:07 am, "steve.kaye" <nos....TakeThisOut@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
> I've played all classes in WoW and I've enjoyed them all except for
> two. Warriors and Shamans.
>
> I like tanking with the warrior but I don't like levelling him so he's
> stuck at 38 now. I don't like levelling him because I hate the rage
> mechanic. Whenever you have to pause to heal up or move on to another
> area you lose the rage and then you need to get it going again to
> start dpsing. I hate that. I just can't get used to not being able
> to use all my abilities at the start of a fight. I know and
> understand that this is why I don't like my warrior.
>
> The Shaman is an odd thing. I have no idea why I can't play one
> effectively. I started and deleted a number of Shamans before I even
> got one to level 10!
>
> My current attempt is at level 23 but I'm not enjoying him at all. I
> have him specced enhancement and I have a good blue 2h axe and he just
> seems to be too fragile. Also, there's not much to do that I can
> see. I generally cast my totems, open with lightning and cast
> lightning shield on incoming and then fire shock when in range. Now
> what? There just seems to be auto-attack from then on with shocks
> when I get the 60% cheaper buff from a crit. If I get an add then
> that's usually all my mana gone and if I didn't start with full health
> and mana it will often mean that I'll have to run off or die.
>
> I normally only start off with strength of earth totem and cast
> healing stream and searing totem if I need to. Even one on one it's
> much more effort than any other character that I've played. I'm
> currently questing in the charred vale which is a bugger for adds and
> so is making the problem even worse than it has been.
>
> The mobs that I'm fighting in the vale are 2 or 3 levels above me but
> I'm sure that I've just followed the quests the same way as I always
> do and I'm sure that I've done this zone with other characters at this
> level.
>
> steve.kaye

My goal was to have at least 1 of each class up to level 20 or above.
I've managed to do this with all but priest, warrior, and shaman. I
somewhat enjoyed playing my priest, and I think he is close to 20 now,
so I should really switch back to him and finish that one out. But I
just can't get any enthusiasm for warrior or shaman. When my warrior
hit level 10 I bought him a bunch of nice gear on the AH, and he
started to kill things really easily at that level, but I don't think
I have taken him past 12. Likewise, I played my shaman just the other
night, and hit 12 with him. The totem system just seems too clumsy to
me and I rarely even throw down a totem.

Part of my problem here might not even be with the classes. It might
have more to do with the starting zones. I hate Mulgore and Durotar.
The size of the zones and difficulty of a few of the quests make them
unenjoyable for me. Tirisfal is a little better, and pre-TBC was my
hordie low level zone of choice. Eversong was a big surprise to me
when TBC came out. Quests are well laid out, have nice progression,
and none of them are overly difficult. I've leveled a warlock,
paladin, rogue, hunter, mage, and now my warrior, priest, and shaman
there. Only 3 of those classes I rolled as BE's. The rest I ran
there soon after hitting level 5. As such, I;ve done Eversong a bunch
of times and its gotten a little boring. Other than discovering an
isolated quest giver with 2 quests I missed on a bunch of earlier
characters, there hasn't been much excitement in Eversong. But I
still don't want to go back to any of the other zones.