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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Totem Talk for elemental, enhancement, and restoration shaman. Do your likes include bladed weapons, the elements, and fights with short to no movement/target switching? So does Josh Myers, new kid on the block and now host of Totem Talk: Enhancement! From Timbermaw Hold to the Dragonmaw Clan, who you love has ever been an important component of the Man of Warcraft.

When Deathwing smashed the World Pillar, toppled the Stonewrought Dam, and went Death Star on Stormwind’s Park District, he made a whole lot of enemies. From angry earth elementals to druidic defenders of those with “wet little noses,” the Disaster of Azeroth has brought about an variety of new factions for grinding friendship with. This is WoW Insider’s guide to plotting your enhancement shaman’s reputation progression in the most practical manner possible. Before we get into the actual reputation, we should speak about gearing. This place is written with the end of getting you the items that will be most useful to you in the shortest amount of time. In society to do that, we want to recognize what we’re looking for in items. First off, we want hit. Some 1,742 (1,639 if you’re a draenei) hit is required to achieve the 17 percent spell hit cap, and we’re leaving to get that in any way possible. While enchants, gems, and reforging are all possible ways to get hit rating, we’re really looking for it on gear. Hit will be our most prioritized stat, followed close by expertise. We need to obviate being dodged by raid bosses by amassing 541 expertise, or 451 if you’re a shadow or orc who’s wielding race-appropriate weapons. After hit/expertise are capped, mastery and agility become our two best stats. Since agility stays constant among equal iLevel gear (for example, all ilvl346 cloaks have 168 agility), what we’re actually look at is secondary stats. Mastery blows critical hit/haste rating out of the water, and critical hit is somewhat more valuable than haste. Haste, our delightful best friend from Wrath of the Lich King, comes in a solid last point in the stat-weighing game. Items with hit/expertise are valued above all other combinations. Hit/mastery and expertise/mastery are next on our “important to search for” list, and mastery/crit or mastery/haste become what we use once we’re solidly hit-capped. Crit/haste items (which seems to be half of the rare-quality loot at level 85) are merely to be furnished in last-ditch circumstances when they’re replacing older, significantly lower iLevel loot. Delving into Deepholm Bearing this in mind, we begin our reputation adventure in the Primary Plane of Deepholm, with Therazane the Stonemother. Therazane rep is amazing because you can get it while leveling to 85, and completing the Sons of Hodir-esque quest chain that unlocks Therazane reputation puts you solidly into honored to start. At honored, you get admission to the Lesser Inscription of Shattered Crystal, a 30 agility / 20 mastery (our two most desired stats) shoulder enchant. You’re going to extend on afterwards the request line with Therazane by wearing their tabard. Do this until you hit revered, which unlocks Terrath’s Signet of Balance. Beyond having mastery and hit rating, our favorite combination, this band has an item level of 346, on par with heroic gear. This will aid you in pursuing that dreaded ilvl329 required gear average. [View Remaining 18 Paragraphs]