Season of Discovery Enhancement Shaman Tank Leveling

This guide will aim to provide you with a clear skill and gear path to level 50 as an Enhancement Tank in WoW Classic Season of Discovery Phase 3. We will focus on talents, skills to buy and spell rotation, as well as leveling gear and the class specific quests you will find along the way.

While Enhancement has traditionally been the best specialization to level a Shaman with due to great early game talents and low Mana consumption, the tanking rune Way of Earth is amazing for survivability and also potentially increases your ability to interrupt, as it decouples Earth Shock's cooldown from your other shocks, allowing you to use it and Flame Shock on cooldown simultaneously, if so you wish.

We recommend the following talents for Enhancement Tank leveling in SoD:

Gameplay wise, you will mostly melee enemies while interrupting casts with Earth Shock, maintaining Water Shield or Lightning Shield once the Overcharged rune is obtained, and using Flame Shock to initiate combat. Using a shield is recommended, as Way of Earth will not work otherwise.

You can also learn more details about this build, which weapons to chase, and what spells to buy on our level-by-level WoW Classic leveling guides listed below:

• Gloves — Molten Blast (early game) or Lava Burst once acquired
• Pants — Way of Earth
• Chest — Shield Mastery
• Waist — Maelstrom Weapon
• Feet — Spirit of the Alpha (if not available from other Shaman) or Decoy Totem
• Head — Mental Dexterity
• Wrist — Overcharged

Molten Blast and Way of Earth can both be unlocked early and are very strong. The other recommended runes are somewhat harder to obtain but can also be very useful once you do get them.

If you want to know about the rest of the runes and how to find all of them, make sure to check our Shaman Rune guide, which has all runes you can obtain at Level 50:

The Cozy Sleeping Bag is a new item in Season of Discovery that you can use to gain extra experience and rested experience, for yourself and any nearby party members, even if they do not have it themselves!

It has a lengthy unlock process that will take you all around the world:

Horde starts at a charred body near 46,74 in the Barrens, and then goes to the charred body at 37,50 in Westfall, while Alliance does the same in opposite order.

Afterwards, head to 40,52 in Stonetalon Mountains and look for a box next to a tent with a red cross on it. Click the nearby item to turn in the quest and proceed to a pile of dirt nearby at 40,50 for the next part of the quest.

Head to 49,13 in Loch Modan to turn in the next step at the top of the dam, to a eagle statue. Finish by going up the Thoradin Wall at 87,49 in Hillsbrad Foothills using a nearby cart to climb up the wall. Inside you will find the final turn in spot (bag and note) to receive Cozy Sleeping Bag. Make sure to use it on cooldown to speed up your leveling!

By setting yourself up with an upgraded user interface and macros from the get go, you will make your leveling process much easier. Check out our Shaman Macros and Addons guide in the link below for the full list.

Learning professions early on is very useful, as you can naturally level them as you go, avoiding extra work at max level. This is especially true for gathering professions, but crafting professions compensate your efforts by giving you extra tools to level with.

We recommend that you learn First Aid as soon as possible for easy self-healing. Skinning, Herbalism, and Mining are great primary professions for a leveling Shaman, allowing you to make extra gold, or accumulate materials that you can use to level crafting professions later.

While leveling, the number one thing is to use weapons with high damage per second, as you will not be using many abilities that scale from weapon damage on the way to Level 50. One advantage to using a slower weapon, however, is that Stormstrike will hit harder.

The rest of your gear should have Strength/Agility/Intellect on it, as these stats increase your damage the most. You should also aim to have high Stamina/Armor, so that you can kill more enemies before having to rest, and more Intellect will lead to a better ability to sustain your Mana pool in a fight.

Once you grind your way to 50, browse through our Enhancement Tank PvE Guide in order to learn all the tricks and tips relative to the current maximum level Enhancement Tank gameplay, or try out Elemental Shaman for some ranged DPS, Restoration Shaman for healing, or melee DPS with our Enhancement DPS PvE Guide, instead!

Enjoy Azeroth!