Just boosted this guy to 50 and picking up resto/elemental. Probably focus on resto for m+. However, as I’m putting all the totems and spells on my bars I realize there are quite a few.
Any totems or spells that don’t necessarily need to occupy a bind? Does resto use Primal Strike or dps much in general? It’s likely because I boosted this guy but at first glance it’s fairly overwhelming.
Shaman has more buttons than most classes. Possibly the most of all classes.
You can ignore primal strike entirely.
AFAIK Primal Strike isn’t used by Resto, fair bet it’s not used by Ele either.
But pretty much everything else has value. I use all the totems in some form. This week in M+ earthgrab and earthbind are very powerful tool to be using, as an example.
I use 13 buttons to control everything (1-4, Q, E, X and then 6 buttons on my mouse). Then a combination of mod:alt, mod:ctrl, and help/harm on macros helps maximum those buttons.
Good to know. I’m quite surprised at the complexity… or at least all the tools. Makes me wish I had picked up the class sooner than now since I love all the tools. Plus, ele looks pretty darn appealing as well.
Yeah Shamans have a lot of buttons, mostly thanks to how much utility we get packed into our kit.
I generally won’t bind anything that isnt useful in combat like far sight or our class hearth (can’t remember the name right now) and prefer to just have a seperate bar to click them instead.
Something I like to do is seperate out my abilties into main rotation, Off/Def CDs and Utility and decide what I want to bind and where depending on how often I’m going to be using the ability.
As an example:
1-5,Q,E,R,F,V,T, etc. : I like to use these for main rotation abilities on short CDs (lightning bolt, lava burst, Earth shock, EQ, interupt, etc.)
Shift Mods: I generally use for Off and Def CDs and other situational stuff I don’t use as often.
Ctrl Mods: Totems and other utility spells (Hex, Trinkets, etc.)
Also, you can bind any healing abilities to click macros or use the clique add-on and that can also help free up some space.
Again this is just an example and you can set it up however you prefer it.
Using an addon like Clique will significantly help on keybinds, particularly for Resto. You can free up keybinds for earth/water shield, as well as all of your targeted healing spells.
Shaman have always had the most buttons and were only ever competing against warlocks for that title.
In TBC for instance, we had so many buttons that I had to create extra bars and keybinds that I did not need on even my warlock.
I bind everything in my spellbook (that’s not passive that could be used in combat).
I assign them to 1-5, q-r, a-f, z-c.
I also use shift and alt modifiers for 1-5, q-r, and a-f.
In TBC however, I had to have more… alt+1-5, shift+1-5, ctrl+1-5, 1-5 were my totems. That wasn’t enough for all of them I don’t think, so I had to use a couple of other keybinds to get them all.
Which meant that all my other abilities were restricted to just 11 keys, so shift and alt on q-r and a-f was not enough. I had to use shift + alt on z,x,c as well a control on a few of them.
What we have now is far and away better than how it was as far as keybinds goes, but I do miss the flexibility and complexity of the class.
You’ll probably need to keybind the following for healing spells:
For Healing CDs you’d need to keybind:
For Utility spells you’d need to keybind:
For damage spells you’d need to keybind:
There really is alot and I still find myself clicking sometimes for keybinds and CDs I don’t use often or haven’t memorized well. Like some of the above posts mentioned you will likely have to utilize Shift+, Alt+, CTRL+ buttons unless you have a decent 12 button MMO mouse that can take some of that away.
In the tons of years I’ve been playing wow (since early TBC), I have never played another class lol.
Are we truly the one if not the class with most spells/binds in the game? Really amaze me to know about this
I appreciate everyone’s replies. Really looking forward to getting into my Shaman!
Absolutely. I run with a gaming mouse that has keybinds 1-12.
As restoration, I actively use 1-12, shift 1-12, and ctrl 1-12 reuglarly. That’s 36 keybinds.
This doesn’t include things like pots and health potions, which I struggle to find a place for on my bars, let alone a keybind.
I only use the mouse though, whereas I know some people keybind abilities around their movement keys.