I just wanna hit level 52 so I can start doing the higher end dungeons. But I swear 48-52 is gonna be the death of me.
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I actually breezed thru this section. I actually only went to Uldaman once at 48 because I kinda completely forgot/did not care about it at all. I’ve done Mara a handful of times, but only princess runs. Basically just quest hubbed my way from 44-55, at which point i started integrating the occasional BRD run with guildies/friends.
stick it out!
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Trust me, it gets worse. Wait til 53 when you’re stuck with nowhere to really go because you’re just a hair too low or too high for like 4 or 5 different zones. Same thing at 57.
Manage your quest hubs carefully from 50-60.
I am just farming ZF over and over till i ding 52. Then I will do the same thing for ST till 54. Then same thing at BRD… Only doing quests while I wait for invites
Questing as resto is a nightmare tho. 
Really? For me, I just grinded out the hinterlands quests and then moved onto ungoro. Those got me to like 52 where I then moved onto Felwood. All went by pretty smoothly.
For me, the hardest part was 23-27 oddly enough
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I mean I could have done much better with my questing areas in the 50s. A run or two through ST would have helped dramatically. But yeah at 53 I found myself stuck…too low for plaguelands, burning steppes, and winterspring, too high for tanaris, blasted lands, feralas, searing gorge…already finished Felwood, ungoro, and hinterlands…
Then once again at 57…I was banking on knocking 57 out in Silithus but to my disappointment, there are no quests in Silithus until AQ patch. I had finished WPL and Burning Steppes, was too low for EPL and refused to start Winterspring until 58,
I spent maybe 10 hours apiece on each of those levels, simply because I blew through all the quests in each zone and did 0 dungeons on my way from 50 to 60, and planned my path poorly (not knowing about Silithus).
Every level besides 53 and 57 took me about 3-4 hours. So long as you don’t make the same mistakes and sprinkle in some dungeon runs here and there, you’ll be alright.
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31/0/20 spec while leveling. then swap to 30/0/21 for end game unless you plan to heal only. 30/0/21 is favored pvp spec and with +healing gear will be fine in raids as shamans are mainly just here for totems.
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I’ve no intention on being a DPS, I’m pure healer.
I’m happy with just being able to jump into a dungeon group when advertised. I also don’t really like elemental in classic, and I’m not a fan of enhance either.
So resto is what I do. 
Yeah it makes questing a nightmare but it makes getting into dungeon groups easier.
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sounds like you need to spam some ST or mara for that BiS item or two we each have in there
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elemental gets groups as healers all the time, its not even missing much at 50+ for healing.
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Spam zul >> ??? >> profit
Missing enough to make me not interested in playing elemental. 
I got the shield already, was there more than one pre-raid BIS item out of Maraudon? 
That is kinda how I’ve been doing stuff though, might swap over to trying to find groups for Sunken Temple.
I haven’t had too hard a time yet, at all. Any time I’ve either run out of quests, or did not feel like questing in a particular zone, I’d just do a mob-grind for XP and cloth.
This has been a long journey, but a most enjoyable one!
I’ve always felt that the early 40s are the worst. From 41-45 the game feels very slow. I didn’t get that on my priest this time around, but I felt it hard on my rogue.
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Heal Zf spam via chain heal. Should get a level every 2 hours.
Early 40’s actually felt easy for me as a healer, just ran SM Cath/Armory for gold for my mount (Which I got at 40 \o/) and then move over into ZF for a few levels, tackle uldaman a few times, until I was ready to try taking on Maraudon, then basically bounced between ZF and Maraudon for a while.
Now I’ve got ZF that isn’t worth a ton of EXP at level 50, Uldaman which the first half of the dungeon is quite worthless, Sunken Temple, which strangely doesn’t seem popular, and then Maraudon, where people just wanna rush princess. Which isn’t optimal for EXP. lol
All the groups I get for ZF just wanna rush down the bosses. 
I wish we’d all just sit back and murder all the graves, but no one wants exp for some reason. Q_Q
I’m a mage so I just did spam gy runs. But I guess most mages leveled past that phase quickly.
ZF spam! 
If I can find a group for it maybe! But most groups just wanna boss rush and bail.