Shaman abilities

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This is an article on Shaman abilities. Nearly all of the Shaman's abilities are mana-based and are split into three disciplines.

Elemental

The focus lies on the shaman's offensive spell casting abilities. It increasing their damage and critical strike chance.

Enhancement

Enhancement spells include those which increase your melee damage output and your chance to survive.

Restoration

Includes healing capability, reducing the casting time and mana cost of healing spells, while increasing their effectiveness.

Mists of Pandaria[]

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

Overall abilities[]

Ability	Min Level	Description
Lightning Bolt	Starts with	Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for X Nature damage.
Primal Strike	3	An instant weapon strike that causes X additional damage.
Earth Shock	6	Instantly shocks the target with concussive force, causing X Nature damage and applying the Weakened Blows effect. Weakened Blows: Demoralizes the target, reducing their physical damage dealt by 10% for 30 sec.
Healing Surge	7	Heals a friendly target for X.
Lightning Shield	8	The caster is surrounded by a reactive lightning barrier. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for X Nature damage. This effect may only occur once every few seconds. Lasts 1 hour. Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Flametongue Weapon	10	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with fire, increasing magical damage done by 7%. Each hit causes X additional Fire damage, based on the speed of the weapon. Slower weapons cause more fire damage per swing. Lasts 60 minutes.
Flame Shock	12	Instantly sears the target with fire, causing X Fire damage immediately and X Fire damage over 24 sec.
Purge	12	Purges the enemy target, removing 1 beneficial Magic effect.
Ancestral Spirit	14	Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead target to life with 35% of maximum health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat.
Ghost Wolf	15	Turns the Shaman into a Ghost Wolf, increasing speed by 30%.
Searing Totem	16	Summons a Fire Totem with 5 health at your feet for 1 min that repeatedly attacks an enemy within 25 yards for X Fire damage.
Wind Shear	16	Disrupts the target's concentration with a burst of wind, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 3 sec. Also lowers your threat, making the enemy less likely to attack you.
Cleanse Spirit	18	Removes all Curse effects from a friendly target.
Water Shield	20	The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting X mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster, the reactive shield generates X mana. This effect can only occur once every 3 seconds. Lasts 1 hour. Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Frost Shock	22	Instantly shocks an enemy with frost, dealing X Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50%. Lasts 8 sec. Causes a high amount of threat.
Water Walking	24	Allows the friendly target to walk across water for 10 min. Any damage will cancel the effect.
Earthbind Totem	26	Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 20 sec that slows the movement speed of enemies within 10 yards.
Chain Lightning	28	Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing X Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 30%. Affects 3 total targets.
Healing Stream Totem	30	Summons a Water Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 15 sec that heals the most injured party or raid member within 40 yards for X every 2 sec.
Totemic Recall	30	Returns your totems to the earth, giving you 25% of the mana required to cast each totem destroyed by Totemic Recall.
Reincarnation	32	Allows you to resurrect yourself upon death with 20% health and mana.
Astral Recall	34	Yanks the caster through the twisting nether back to <Hearthstone Location>. Speak to an Innkeeper in a different place to change your home location.
Far Sight	36	Changes the caster's viewpoint to the targeted location. Lasts 1 min. Only useable outdoors.
Magma Totem	36	Summons a Fire Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 1 min that causes X Fire damage to creatures within 8 yards every 2 seconds.
Grounding Totem	38	Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that will redirect one harmful spell cast on a nearby party member to itself, destroying the totem. Will not redirect area of effect spells. Lasts 15 sec.
Burning Wrath	40	Fiery elemental energy emanates from the Shaman, empowering all nearby party and raid members and increasing their spell power by 10%.
Chain Heal	44	Heals the friendly target for X, then jumps to heal the most injured nearby targets. If cast on a party or raid member, the heal will only jump to other members. Each jump reduces the effectiveness of the heal by 30%. Heals 4 total targets.
Frostbrand Weapon	46	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with frost. Each hit has a chance of causing X additional Frost damage and slowing the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 sec. Lasts 60 minutes.
Mail Specialization	50	Increases your primary attribute by 5% while wearing Mail in all armor slots. Elemental specialization grants Intellect, Enhancement specialization grants Agility, and Restoration specialization grants Intellect.
Tremor Totem	54	Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that shakes the ground around it for 6 sec, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party and raid members within 30 yards. This totem may be dropped even while the caster is afflicted with such effects.
Earth Elemental Totem	58	Summons an Earth Totem with X health at the feet of the caster, calling forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect the caster and his/her allies. Lasts 1 min.
Healing Rain	60	Calls forth healing rains to blanket the area targeted by the Shaman, restoring X health to allies in the area every 2 sec for 10 sec. Healing effectiveness diminishes for each player beyond 6 within the area.
Capacitor Totem	63	Summons an Air totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and then explodes after 5 sec to stun all enemies within 8 yards for 5 sec.
Fire Elemental Totem	66	Summons a Fire Totem with X health at the feet of the caster, calling forth a Greater Fire Elemental to rain destruction on the caster's enemies. Lasts 1 min.
Heroism	70	Increases melee, ranged, and spell casting speed by 30% for all party and raid members. Lasts 40 sec. Allies receiving this effect will become Exhausted and be unable to benefit from Heroism or Time Warp again for 10 min.
Bind Elemental	72	Binds the target hostile elemental for up to 50 sec. The bound unit is unable to move, attack or cast spells. Any damage caused will release the target. Only one target can be bound at a time.
Hex	75	Transforms the enemy into a frog. While hexed, the target cannot attack or cast spells. Damage caused may interrupt the effect. Lasts 1 min. Only one target can be hexed at a time. Only works on Humanoids and Beasts.
Rockbiter Weapon	75	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with the fury of the earth, increasing all threat generation by 30% and reducing damage taken by 5%. Lasts 60 minutes.
Stormlash Totem	78	Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster, empowering allies within 30 yards with lightning. While empowered, allies' spells and attacks will trigger bursts of electricity, dealing additional Nature damage to their target. Lasts 10 sec.
Grace of Air	80	Empowering winds swirl around the Shaman, granting all nearby party and raid members X Mastery.
Unleash Elements	81	Focuses the elemental force imbued in the Shaman's weaponry, with the concentrated effects depending on the enchantment unleashed. See individual weapon imbue spell tooltips for details regarding the effects of unleashing each.
Spiritwalker's Grace	85	Calls upon spiritual guidance, permitting movement while casting non-instant Shaman spells. This spell may be cast while casting other spells. Lasts 15 sec.
Ascendance	87	The Shaman surrenders his/her physical form to the power of the elements, gaining the ability to transform into a being of raw elemental energy for 15 sec. Elemental: While in the form of a Flame Ascendant, Lava Burst has no cooldown and Chain Lightning is empowered to become Lava Beam. Enhancement: While in the form of an Air Ascendant, autoattacks and Stormstrike deal pure Nature damage and have a 30-yard range. Restoration: While in the form of a Water Ascendant, all healing done is duplicated and distributed evenly among nearby allies.

Elemental abilities[]

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

Ability	Min Level	Description
Thunderstorm	10	You call down a bolt of lightning, energizing you and damaging nearby enemies within 10 yards. Restores 15% mana to you and deals X Nature damage to all nearby enemies, reducing their movement speed by 40% for 5 sec and knocking them back 20 yards. This spell is usable while stunned.
Elemental Fury	10	Increases your spells' critical strike damage bonus by 50%.
Elemental Precision	10	Grants Hit equal to any Spirit gained from items or effects.
Elemental Reach	10	Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 10 yards, and increases the range of your Shock spells and Searing Totem by 15 yards.
Shamanism	10	Increases the damage of Lightning Bolt by 50% and Chain Lightning by 70%, reduces the casting time of both spells by 0.5 sec, and removes the cooldown from Chain Lightning.
Spiritual Insight	10	Increases your mana pool by 400%. Reduces the cooldown of your Earth Shock and Flame Shock spells by 1 sec.
Rolling Thunder	20	When you deal damage with Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning while your Lightning Shield ability is active, you have a 60% chance to recover 2% of your mana and to generate an additional Lightning Shield charge, up to a maximum of 7 charges.
Fulmination	30	When you have more than 1 Lightning Shield charge active, your Earth Shock spell will consume any surplus charges, instantly dealing their total damage to the enemy target.
Lava Burst	34	You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing X Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst will deal a critical strike.
Elemental Focus	40	When you land a non-periodic critical strike with a Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell, you enter a Clearcasting state. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next 2 damage or healing spells by 25%, increases spell damage done by 10%, and increases single-target healing done by 50%.
Lava Surge	50	Your Flame Shock periodic damage ticks have a chance to reset the cooldown of your Lava Burst spell and cause your next Lava Burst spell to be instant.
Elemental Oath	55	Grants 5% spell haste to all party and raid members within 100 yards.
Earthquake	60	You cause the earth at the target location to tremble and break, dealing X Physical damage every 1 sec to enemies in an 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance of knocking down affected targets. Lasts 10 sec.
Mastery: Elemental Overload	80	Grants a 16% chance for Elemental Overload to occur. Elemental Overload causes a Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, or Lava Burst spell you cast to trigger a second, similar spell on the same target at no additional cost that causes 75% of normal damage and no threat.

Enhancement abilities[]

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

Ability	Min Level	Description
Lava Lash	10	You charge your off-hand weapon with lava, instantly dealing 250% of that weapon's damage to an enemy target and spreading your Flame Shock from the target to up to four enemies within 12 yards. Damage is increased by 40% if your off-hand weapon is enchanted with Flametongue.
Dual Wield	10	You may equip one-handed weapons in your off-hand, and you have a chance to parry incoming frontal melee attacks.
Mental Quickness	10	Your spell power is now equal to 55% of your attack power, and you no longer benefit from other sources of spell power. Your instant beneficial, damaging, and totem spells cost 75% less mana. Your melee attacks have a 40% chance to immediately restore 5% of your mana.
Flurry	20	After dealing a melee critical strike, your attack speed increases by 15%, and you gain 50% additional benefit from Haste granted by items. Lasts 15 sec, or until 5 melee attacks have occurred.
Stormstrike	26	Instantly strike an enemy with both weapons, dealing 375% weapon damage and granting you an additional 25% chance to critically strike that enemy with your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lightning Shield, and Earth Shock spells for 15 sec.
Windfury Weapon	30	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with wind. Each hit has a 20% chance of triggering three extra attacks with X bonus attack power. Lasts 60 minutes.
Searing Flames	34	When your Searing Totem deals damage or your Fire Elemental lands a melee attack, the damage dealt by your Flametongue Weapon is increased by 8% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times. Your Lava Lash ability will consume this effect, dealing 20% increased damage for each application present.
Static Shock	40	When you use your Stormstrike or Lava Lash abilities while having Lightning Shield active, you have a 45% chance to deal damage equal to a Lightning Shield orb.
Fire Nova	44	Ignites your Flame Shock spell on any nearby enemies, causing each of them to emit a wave of flames that deals X Fire damage to every other enemy within 10 yards.
Maelstrom Weapon	44	When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and mana cost of your next Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Unleashed Rage	55	Increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%.
Feral Spirit	60	Summons two Spirit Wolves that aid the Shaman in battle, lasting 30 sec. Spirit Wolves' attacks heal them and their master for 150% of damage done.
Spirit Walk	60	Removes all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 15 sec.
Shamanistic Rage	65	Reduces all damage taken by 30% and causes your skills, totems, and offensive spells to consume no mana for 15 sec. This spell is usable while stunned.
Mastery: Enhanced Elements	80	Increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage done by 16%.

Restoration abilities[]

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

Ability	Min Level	Description
Riptide	10	Heals a friendly target for X and another X over 18 sec. Your Chain Heal spells are 25% more effective when their primary target is affected by your Riptide.
Meditation	10	You retain 50% of your mana regeneration from Spirit while in combat.
Purification	10	Increases the effectiveness of your healing spells by 25%, and the healing done by your Water totems by an additional 50%. In addition, heals you cast increase allies' maximum health by 10% of the amount healed, up to a maximum of 10% of their health.
Spiritual Insight	10	Increases your mana pool by 400%, and increases your chance to hit with Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, Hex, and Flame Shock by 15%.
Purify Spirit	18	Removes all Curse and Magic effects from a friendly target.
Healing Wave	20	Heals a friendly target for X.
Earth Shield	26	Protects the target with an earthen shield, increasing the effectiveness of Shaman healing spells on that target by 20%, and causing attacks to heal the shielded target for X. 9 charges. Lasts 10 min. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time, only one Earth Shield may be on a target at a time, and only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Earthliving Weapon	30	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with earthen life. Increases spell healing by X and gives each heal up to a 20% chance to trigger the Earthliving effect on the target, healing an additional X over 12 sec. Single-target direct heals on targets below 35% of maximum health will always trigger this effect. Lasts 60 minutes.
Lava Burst	34	You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing X Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst will deal a critical strike.
Ancestral Awakening	34	When you critically heal with a single-target direct heal, you summon an ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the most injured party or raid target within 40 yards for 30% of the amount healed.
Resurgence	40	While Water Shield is active, you recover mana when your direct healing spells have a critical effect. You regain X mana from a Healing Wave or Greater Healing Wave critical, X mana from a Healing Surge, Riptide, or Unleash Life critical, and X mana from a Chain Heal critical.
Tidal Waves	50	When you cast Chain Heal or Riptide, you gain the Tidal Waves effect, which reduces the cast time of your Healing Wave and Greater Healing Wave spells by 30% and increases the critical effect chance of your Healing Surge spell by 30%. 2 charges.
Mana Tide Totem	56	Summons a Water Totem with 10% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster for 16 sec. Party and raid members within 40 yards of the totem gain 200% of the caster's Spirit (excluding short - duration Spirit bonuses).
Greater Healing Wave	60	Heals a friendly target for X.
Spirit Link Totem	70	Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem reduces damage taken by all party and raid members within 10 yards by 10%. Every 1 sec, the health of all affected players is redistributed, such that each player ends up with the same percentage of their maximum health. Lasts 6 sec.
Mastery: Deep Healing	80	Increases the potency of your healing spells by up to 24%, based on the current health level of your target (lower health targets are healed for more).

Pre-Mists of Pandaria[]

Trainable abilities[]

These abilities are available to all Shamans, at the appropriate level, regardless of Talents.

Ability	Min Level	Description
Lightning Bolt	Starts with	Causes X Nature damage to the target.
Primal Strike	3	An instant attack with your equipped weapon. Use once enemies have entered melee range. Requires melee weapon.
Strength of Earth Totem	4	Summons a Strength of Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem increases the strength and agility of all party and raid members within 30 yards by X. Lasts 5 min.
Earth Shock	5	Instantly shocks the target with concussive force, causing X Nature damage and reducing melee attack speed by 10% for 8 sec. This ability shares the cooldown of all other shock spells.
Healing Wave	7	Heals a friendly target for X.
Lightning Shield	8	The Shaman is surrounded by 3 balls of lightning. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for X Nature damage. This expends one lightning ball. Only one ball will fire every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Flametongue Weapon	10	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with fire, increasing total spell damage by X and increasing spell critical strike chance by 2%. Each hit causes Y additional Fire damage, based on the speed of the weapon. Slower weapons cause more fire damage per swing. Lasts 30 minutes.
Searing Totem	10	Summons a Searing Totem with 5 health at your feet for 30 sec that repeatedly attacks an enemy within X yards for Y Fire damage.
Ancestral Spirit	12	Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead target to life with X health and Y mana. Cannot be cast when in combat.
Purge	12	Purges the enemy target, removing X beneficial magic effect.
Flametongue Totem	12	Summons a Flametongue Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. Party and raid members within 30 yards of the totem have their spell damage and healing increased by up to X. Lasts 5 min.
Flame Shock	14	Instantly sears the target with fire, causing X Fire damage immediately and Y Fire damage over 18 sec. This periodic damage may critically strike and will occur more rapidly based on the caster's spell haste. This ability shares the cooldown with all other shocks.
Wind Shear	16	Instantly blasts the target with a gust of wind, causing no damage but interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 2 sec. Also lowers your threat, making the enemy less likely to attack you.
Ghost Wolf	16	Turns the Shaman into a Ghost Wolf, increasing speed by 40%. As a Ghost Wolf, the Shaman is less hindered by effects that would reduce movement speed. Only useable outdoors.
Earthbind Totem	18	Summons an Earthbind Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 45 sec that slows the movement speed of enemies within 10 yards.
Cleanse Spirit	18	Removes one Curse effect from a friendly target.
Healing Stream Totem	20	Summons a Healing Stream Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 5 min that heals group members within 30 yards for X every 2 seconds.
Healing Surge	20	A fast yet inefficient heal. Use if you need to heal during combat,when there isn't enough time for Healing Wave.
Water Shield	20	Increase mana regeneration and restores mana when enemies strike you. If you are gettin glow on mana, use this instead of Lightning Shield.
Frost Shock	22	Instantly shocks the target with frost, causing X Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50%. Lasts 8 sec. Causes a high amount of threat.
Water Walking	24	Allows the friendly target to walk across water for 10 min. Any damage will cancel the effect. Reagents: Fish Oil.
Frostbrand Weapon	26	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with frost. Each hit has a chance of causing X additional Frost damage and slowing the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 sec. Lasts 30 minutes.
Mana Spring Totem	26	Summons a Mana Spring Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 5 min that restores X mana every 5 seconds to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Chain Lightning	28	Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing X Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 30%. Affects 3 total targets.
Fire Nova	28	Causes the shaman's active Fire totem to emit a wave of flames, inflicting X Fire damage to enemies within 10 yards of the totem.
Astral Recall	30	Yanks the caster through the twisting nether back to the home inn. Speak to an Innkeeper in a different place to change your home location.
Call of the Elements	30	Simultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar.
Reincarnation	30	Allows you to resurrect yourself upon death with 20% health and mana. Reagents: Ankh.
Totemic Recall	30	Returns your totems to the earth, giving you 25% of the mana required to cast each totem destroyed by Totemic Recall.
Windfury Totem	30	Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem provides X% melee haste to all party and raid members within 30 yards. Lasts 5 min.
Windfury Weapon	32	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with wind. Each hit has a 20% chance of dealing additional damage equal to two extra attacks with X extra attack power. Lasts 30 minutes.
Lava Burst	34	You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing X Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst will deal a critical strike.
Magma Totem	36	Summons a Magma Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for X sec that causes Y Fire damage to creatures within 8 yards every 2 seconds.
Far Sight	36	Changes the caster's viewpoint to the targeted location. Lasts 1 min. Only useable outdoors.
Grounding Totem	38	Summons a Grounding Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that will redirect one harmful spell cast on a nearby party member to itself, destroying the totem. Will not redirect area of effect spells. Lasts 45 sec.
Chain Heal	40	Heals the friendly target for X to Y, then jumps to heal additional nearby targets. If cast on a party member, the heal will only jump to other party members. Each jump reduces the effectiveness of the heal by 30%. Heals 4 total targets.
Call of the Ancestors	40	Simultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different totems than Call of the Elements.
Mana Spring Totem	42	Summons a Mana Spring Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 5 min that restores X mana every 5 seconds to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Wrath of Air Totem	44	Summons a Wrath of Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem provides 5% spell haste to all party and raid members within 30 yards. Lasts 5 min.
Water Breathing	46	Allows the target to breathe underwater for 10 min. Requires Shiny Fish Scales. Reagents: Shiny Fish Scales.
Stoneskin Totem	48	Summons a Stoneskin Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem protects party and raid members within 30 yards, increasing armor by X. Lasts 5 min.
Call of the Spirits	50	Simultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different Call of the Elements or Call of the Ancestoral
Tremor Totem	52	Summons a Tremor Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that shakes the ground around it for 6 sec., removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party and raid members within 30 yards. Lasts 5 min. This totem may be dropped even though the caster is afflicted with such effects.
Earthliving Weapon	54	Imbue the Shaman's weapon with earthen life. Increases healing done by X and each heal has a 20% chance to trigger the Earthliving effect on the target, healing an additional Y over 12 sec. Lasts 30 minutes.
Earth Elemental Totem	56	Summon an elemental totem that calls forth a greater earth elemental to protect the caster and <his/her> allies. Lasts 2 min.
Stoneclaw Totem	58	Summons a Stoneclaw Totem with X health at the feet of the caster for 15 sec that taunts creatures within 8 yards to attack it. Enemies attacking the Stoneclaw Totem have a 50% chance to be stunned for Y sec. Stoneclaw totem also protects all your totems, causing them to absorb Z damage.
Elemental Resistance Totem	62	Summons an Elemental Resistance Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 5 min that increases the Fire, Frost, and Nature resistance of party and raid members within 30 yards by (cond($lte(level, 70), level, cond($lte(level, 80), level + (level) * 5, level + (level) * 5 + (level) * 7))).
Fire Elemental Totem	66	Summons an elemental totem that calls forth a greater fire elemental to rain destruction on the caster's enemies. Lasts 2 min.
Greater Healing Wave	68	Heals a friendly target for X.
Bloodlust Heroism	70	Increases melee, ranged, and spell casting speed by 30% for all party and raid members. Lasts 40 sec. Allies receiving this effect will become Exhausted and will be unable to benefit from Bloodlust/Heroism again for 10 min.
Totem of Tranquil Mind	74	Summons a Totem of Tranquil Mind with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 5 min, causing party or raid members within 30 yards to lose 30% less casting or channeling time when damaged.
Rockbiter Weapon	75	Imbue the Shaman's weapon, increasing its damage per second by X. Lasts 30 minutes.
Hex	80	Transforms the enemy into a frog. While hexed, the target cannot attack or cast spells. Damage caused may interrupt the effect. Lasts 30 sec. Only one target can be hexed at a time. Only works on Humanoids and Beasts.
Unleash Elements	81	Focuses the elemental force imbued in the Shaman's weaponry, with the concentrated effects depending on the enchantment unleashed. See individual weapon imbue spell tooltips for details regarding the effects of unleashing each.
Healing Rain	83	Calls forth healing rains to blanket the area targeted by the Shaman, restoring X health to allies in the area every 2 sec for 10 sec. Healing effectiveness diminishes for each player beyond 6 within the area.
Spiritwalker's Grace	85	Calls upon spiritual guidance, permitting movement while casting non-instant Shaman spells. This spell may be cast while casting other spells. Lasts 15 sec.

Talent granted abilities[]

Rank 1 in these abilities is only unlocked by purchasing them from the appropriate Talent tree. Ranks 2 and beyond can then be purchased from the Shaman Trainer as normal.

Elemental[]

Ability	Reqs	Type	Description
Elemental Mastery	Elemental 20	Buff	When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, you gain 15% spell haste for 15 sec. Elemental Mastery shares a cooldown with Nature's Swiftness.
Thunderstorm	Elemental None	AoE Damage	You call down a bolt of lightning, energizing you and damaging nearby enemies within 10 yards. Restores 8% mana to you and deals X Nature damage to all nearby enemies, knocking them back 20 yards. This spell is usable while stunned.
Earthquake	Elemental 30	Offensive	You cause the earth at the target location to tremble and break, dealing X Physical damage every 1 sec to enemies in 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance of knocking down affected targets. Lasts 8 sec.

Enhancement[]

Ability	Reqs	Type	Description
Lava Lash	Enhancement None	Attack	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.
Dual Wield	Enhancement None	Dual wield	Allows one-hand and off-hand weapons to be equipped in your off-hand, allows you to parry frontal melee attacks, and increases your chance to hit with melee attacks by 6%.
Stormstrike	Enhancement 10	Attack	Instantly strike an enemy with both weapons, dealing 125% weapon damage and granting you an additional 25% chance to critically strike that enemy with your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lightning Shield, and Earth Shock spells for 15 sec.
Shamanistic Rage	Enhancement 20	Buff	Reduces all damage taken by 30% and causes your skills, totems, and offensive spells to consume no mana for 15 sec. This spell is usable while stunned.
Feral Spirit	Enhancement 30	Summon	Summons two Spirit Wolves under the command of the Shaman, lasting 30 sec.

Restoration[]

Ability	Reqs	Type	Description
Earth Shield	Restoration None	Elemental Shield	Protects the target with an earthen shield, reducing casting or channeling time lost when damaged by 30% and causing attacks to heal the shielded target for X. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. 9 charges. Lasts 10 minutes. Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time and only one Elemental Shield can be active on a target at a time.
Nature's Swiftness	Restoration 10	Buff	When activated, your next Nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec. becomes an instant cast spell. Nature's Swiftness shares a cooldown with Elemental Mastery.
Mana Tide Totem	Restoration 20	Water Totem	Summons a Mana Tide Totem with 10% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster for 12 seconds sec that Increases the spirit of all party and raid members within 40 yards by 400%.
Spirit Link Totem	Restoration 20	Air Totem	Summons a Spirit Link Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. The totem reduces damage taken by all party and raid members within 10 yards by 10%. Every 1 sec, the health of all affected players is redistributed, such that each player ends up with the same percentage of their maximum health. Lasts 6 sec.
Riptide	Restoration 30	HoT	Heals a friendly target for X and another Y over 15 sec. Your next Chain Heal cast on that primary target within 15 sec will consume the healing over time effect and increase the amount of the Chain Heal by 25%.

Abilities by type[]

Ranged damage[]

Long range[]

Shaman have three long range attack spells (30 yards range), the single target Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst, and the multi-target Chain Lightning.

Short range[]

The 3 Shock spells have a 20 yards range and provide good burst damage during a fight. Earth Shock reduces enemy attack speed. Frost Shock slows the enemies which allows you to catch people running away or slow down attacker coming at you (this is the shaman's best kiting spell), it also causes extra threat, making it great for pulling mobs off of casters. Before talents, a single Flame Shock does more damage than either Earth Shock or Frost Shock. However, the damage is spread out over 12 seconds (this is the shaman's only DoT spell). After the changes to downranking in patch 3.0.2, wind shock was added as a possibility for a short range counterspell, instead of rank 1 earth shock - with the additional effect of lowering the aggro on the target.

Weapon buffs[]

Windfury Weapon gives a 20% chance of 2 extra attacks with greatly increased attack power. While this can give inconsistent damage, it can also provide impressive results if the additional attacks score critical hits. Beware, Windfury crits can cause high amounts of threat and can easily steal aggro in group battles.

Flametongue Weapon adds a bonus to the shamans damage spells and it does slightly less damage than its peers, but it is a good choice for increasing damage consistently against foes with high armor or frost resistance. It also benefits from spell damage gear and is the best choice for a elemental shaman or an enhancement shaman's offhand, due to Lava Lash.

Frostbrand Weapon provides superior (though less consistent) DPS when compared with Flametongue. It also slows enemies when it procs, though most consider this to have marginal utility considering the availability of Frost Shock. For PvP situations, it can be combined with the talent Frozen Power for additional damage of other shaman spells.

Earthliving Weapon is unique among weapon buffs as it gives bonuses to healing spells rather than providing a damage bonus to the shaman's attacks, and has the chance to add a heal over time effect on the target of a shamans heals.

Rockbiter Weapon increases a weapon's DPS, and is currently intended as a low-level alternative to to Windfury Weapon. In Patch 3.0.2, all ranks of Rockbiter Weapon beyond rank 4 were removed from the game.

Which buff to use is a matter of preference and situation. Windfury delivers the highest burst damage, Frostbrand produces a limited snare effect basically for free, and Flametongue delivers constant damage regardless of opponents' armor. Earthliving Weapon is purely for the healing and support role, but its bonuses are not to be underestimated.

Dual-wielding shamans apply buffs to each weapon separately. Procs from offhand weapon buffs suffer the usual damage penalty. See the article of Windfury Weapon for quirks about dual-wield buffing.

Healing[]

Shaman have three types of healing spells. Healing Wave is big, slow and relatively mana-efficient heal. Lesser Healing Wave is quick and less efficient. Chain Heal is an AoE heal of sorts. When a shaman puts enough points in the Restoration tree, he can become a full-fledged healer with special healing abilities through talents, like riptide (a instant heal with healing over time effect) or Earth Shield.

Shaman can also Cure Poison and Cure Disease (singularly or with group-affecting totems), and cleanse curses with the talent Cleanse Spirit.

Totem[]

Totems fall into several different categories. For more, go to Shaman Totems.

Damage[]

Searing Totem is a single target damage totem. Fire Nova Totem does a single AoE attack to all nearby. Magma Totem surrounds itself with an AoE DoT effect. None of these totems cause substantial amounts of damage.

Buff[]

Shamans have the ability to buff all party members instantaneously through the use of totems. These totems can increase stats, resistances, armor, spellpower, and melee/casting speed.

Debuff[]

Earthbind Totem and Stoneclaw Totem debuff the enemies by slowing them down or distracting them. Totem of Wrath also places a debuff on all enemies within range, increasing their chance to be critically hit.

Healing[]

Healing Stream Totem and Mana Spring Totem increase the regeneration rate of health and mana respectively. The Cleansing Totem removes poison and disease effects from party members.

Shaman spell damage2 — Damage-based Shaman spells, displayed as damage-per-mana-point.

Shaman damage crits — The same graph, but with Crit values displayed as well.

Other[]

Grounding Totem makes the next hostile spell within its range hit the totem instead of its target.

Non-nature based damage[]

Elemental and Resto shamans tend to have a hard time dealing with enemies that are resistant to nature based spells, though at later levels this is improved with the addition of Lava Burst. One strategy is to switch to an enhancement style of play, using strong melee attacks (2H weapons with Windfury Weapon or Flametongue Weapon), non-nature based shocks (Flame Shock or Frost Shock), and damage totems (Searing Totem, Magma Totem, or Fire Nova Totem) as your main sources of damage.