Talents

Talent Points for the Shaman class fall into 3 areas, similiar to their spell lines. They can focus on their enhancement abilities, further enhancing their tanking and melee damage dealing abilities. Restoration, to help them heal much better, for example when you are the only healer in an instance. And Elemental Combat, which improves your spell damage capabilities. Ultimately where you spend your points will make a difference in how you can play your character. A fully restoration specced character could very well function as a sole healer in a lot of grouping situations. A Fully Enhancement based Shaman would be able to tank most non "uber" monsters, and with the proper equipment, can dish out good consistent melee damage. However, if one were to specialize in doing additional magical damage, the additional burst damage would be noticable. While there is no "correct" way for playing a Shaman, assigning your talent points to the things you enjoy the most about your Shaman.