Shaman Dragonflight Leveling Guide from 1 to 70 (2024)

Table of Contents

• 1. Leveling in Dragonflight
• 2. Best Leveling Spec for Shaman in Dragonflight
• 3. Ability Unlocks for Shaman Leveling in Dragonflight
• 4. Best Heirloom Items for Shaman Leveling in Dragonflight
• 5. Changelog

Welcome to our Shaman leveling guide. Here you will find all youneed to know to level up your Shaman efficiently. In addition, you may wishto check out our general Leveling guide,complete with detailed information on XP, mounts, addons, consumables, tips, andmore. We encourage to read it to increase your leveling speed even more.

Shamans can level as either melee or ranged damage dealers, both of which havestrong area of effect damage and self-healing capabilities. They can also swap intoa healing specialization, which is particularly useful for group play, and to reducethe queue time on the Dungeon Finder.

Shamans have three talent trees: Elemental, Enhancement and Restoration.

Elemental is a ranged damage specialization with decent burst damage andarea of effect spells. Its main limitation is that you cannot do as much damagewhile moving, although this limitation is alleviated by the instant-cast spellsgain while leveling.

Enhancement is the melee damage option for Shamans, and has a distinctbattle-mage melee style. You will be able to do most of your damage whilemoving and also heal yourself instantly with Maelstrom-enhanced Healing Surges, making it an efficient leveling spec.

Finally, Restoration is a healing specialization, and thus slower for soloquesting due to its lower damage output, but if you are going to be leveling ina group or by doing dungeons, healing is a very important role which will allowlarger pulls and much quicker dungeon queues.

• At Level 1, you unlock Lightning Bolt, which is a long castranged damage spell. This will be your ranged bread and butter attack.
• At Level 2, you unlock Primal Strike, which will be your bread andbutter melee attack for a while.
• At Level 3, you unlock Flame Shock which deals some instantdamage and more damage over time. Because it only takes a single global to apply,it is very damage/time efficient.
• At Level 4, you unlock Healing Surge, which letsyou heal with a short cast time. Use it to keep yourself healthy when needed.
• At Level 5, you unlock Earthbind Totem, which slows nearby enemies by50%, on a 30-second cooldown.
• At Level 7, you unlock Flametongue Weapon, which enchants your weaponfor 1 hour, causing your melee attacks to deal extra fire damage.
• At Level 8, you unlock Reincarnation, which allows you to resurrectyourself at the place of death, once every 30 minutes.
• At Level 9, you unlock Lightning Shield, a 30 minute self-buff thatcauses enemies that strike you in melee to suffer Nature damage.
• At Level 10, you unlock Ghost Wolf, which allows you to instantly transformyourself into a spectral wolf, increasing movement speed by 30% and preventing yourmovement speed from being slowed under 100%.
• At Level 13, you unlock Ancestral Spirit, a long cast that allows youto resurrect dead allies outside of combat.
• At Level 14, you unlock Far Sight, a spell that allows you to seedistant areas while channeling.
• At Level 16, you unlock Skyfury, a 1-hour long buff that works onyour entire party or raid.
• At Level 32, you unlock Astral Recall, a second Hearthstoneon a 10-minute cooldown.
• At Level 33, you unlock Water Walking, which allows you to walk on waterfor 10 minutes. Taking any damage will instantly cancel this effect.
• At Level 48, you unlock Bloodlust, which causes your and nearby alliesto gain 30% haste for 40 seconds, on a 10-minute cooldown due to the debuff thatit leaves on affected players.

The best Heirloom to level with are the ones with Haste and / orVersatility. That is because they increase your DPS (and thus your levelingspeed), the smoothness of your rotation and your survivability,respectively.

Haste can also be useful to get tags faster when competing for mobs withother players, giving you a slight leveling advantage.

• 18 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
• 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
• 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
• 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
• 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
• 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
• 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
• 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
• 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
• 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
• 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
• 28 Nov. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight launch.
• 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.0.

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