Shaman, Dwarf totems included

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Mail armor and a mana bar, with Elemental, Enhancement and Restoration. That is the Mobalytics split. The race story is the part Classic players will trip on. Alliance can now be a Dwarf Shaman. Horde keeps Orc, Troll and Tauren, and adds Skyborne only on the Windshaper side. A High Order Skyborne cannot be a Shaman. The Skyborne news post is the source for that faction lock, and IGN’s race page agrees on Dwarf as the Alliance recommendation.

Enhancement stat priority is a popular query. Icy Veins and Wowhead have pages for it. I did not retrieve those bodies, so I am not writing “stack agility after hit.” That sentence would be a habit, not a citation. Follow the Wowhead Enhancement guide for weights. What I can cite from Blizzard is smaller and concrete: on 11 Nov, Flametongue Totem Rank 2 was fixed so the rank works.

Restoration Shaman is the top of Wowhead’s healer list, published 1 Nov 2026, with the caveat that the list is theorycraft while gear data is still thin. I repeat that rank on the healer page and I do not pretend it is a Blizzard tier. If you want the class for totems and a melee off-spec, Enhancement is the tree. If you want the healer slot, read that comparison before you spend the Heroic pack on a Windshaper.