After level 80 the talents are really up to you.  I put some points into the enhancement tree but it really is up to you once you have hit your max talent in the Elemental tree.  You really cant go wrong.

Any intellect item will go along well with your Elemental shaman.  In Cataclysm, mastery is obtained on gear instead of talents.  Reforging is the way to get your master stats.  There are reforgerys in any major city.  You will want to reforge your stats to Mastery.

The glyphs are only recommendations.  I have left some open spots because its pretty open as far as what you want to use

The following is the Cataclysm Elemental Shaman Leveling Build Guide.  These are the best talents for leveling to go along with a good leveling path such as Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

The guide below takes you to 80.  A link to the talent tree of this guide and skills up to 85 can be found here.

Rotation

Flameshock Debuff

Lava Burst

Earth Shock (when lightning shield has a 9 stack on target)

Lightning Bolt

Cataclysm Elemental Shaman Leveling Build Guide

Level 85 Shaman (36/5/0)

Elemental (36 Points)

Acuity – Rank 3/3
Increases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 3%.

Convection – Rank 2/2
Reduces the mana cost of your damaging offensive spells by 10%.

Concussion – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Thunderstorm, Lava Burst and Shock spells by 6%.

Call of Flame – Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and Fire Nova by 20%, and damage done by your Lava Burst spell by 10%.

Reverberation – Rank 2/2
Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells and Wind Shear by 1 sec.

Elemental Precision – Rank 3/3
Increases your Fire, Frost and Nature damage by 3% and grants you spell hit rating equal to 100% of any Spirit gained from items or effects.

Rolling Thunder – Rank 2/2
When you deal damage with Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning while your Lightning Shield ability is active, you have a 60% chance to recover 2% of your mana and to generate an additional Lightning Shield charge, up to a maximum of 9 charges.

Elemental Focus – Rank 1/1
After landing a non-periodic critical strike with a Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell, you enter a Clearcasting state. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next 2 damage or healing spells by 40%.

Elemental Reach – Rank 2/2
Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 10 yards, and increases the range of your Shock spells and Searing Totem by 15 yards.

Elemental Oath – Rank 2/2
While Clearcasting from Elemental Focus is active, you deal 10% more spell damage. In addition, party and raid members within 100 yards receive a 5% bonus to their critical strike chance.

Lava Flows – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Lava Burst spell by an additional 24% and the periodic damage of your Flame Shock by 60%. In addition, when your Flame Shock is dispelled you gain 30% spell haste for 6 sec.

Fulmination – Rank 1/1
When you have more than 3 Lightning Shield charges active, your Earth Shock spell will consume any surplus charges, instantly dealing their total damage to the enemy target.

Elemental Mastery – Rank 1/1
When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost, and Nature damage is increased by 15% and you gain 20% spell haste for 15 sec.

Earth’s Grasp – Rank 2/2
Grants your Earthbind Totem a 100% chance to root nearby targets for 5 sec when cast.

Totemic Wrath – Rank 1/1
Causes your Fire totems to increase the spell power of party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%.

Feedback – Rank 3/3
Your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells reduce the remaining cooldown on your Elemental Mastery talent by 3 sec.

Lava Surge – Rank 2/2
Gives your Flame Shock periodic damage ticks a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of your Lava Burst spell.

Earthquake – Rank 1/1
You cause the earth at the target location to tremble and break, dealing 493 Physical damage every 1 sec to enemies in 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance of knocking down affected targets. Lasts 8 sec.

Enhancement (5 Points)

Elemental Weapons – Rank 2/2
Increases the passive bonuses granted by your Flametongue Weapon and Earthliving Weapon abilities by 40%, the damage of your extra attacks from Windfury Weapon by 40%, and the effectiveness of the ongoing benefits of your Unleash Elements ability by 50%.

Improved Shields – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 15%, increases the amount of mana gained from your Water Shield orbs by 15%, and increases the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 15%.

Restoration (0 Points)

None

Glyphs

Glyph of Flame Shock (Prime Glyph)
Increases the duration of your Flame Shock by 50%.

Glyph of Lava Burst (Prime Glyph)
Your Lava Burst spell deals 10% more damage.

Glyph of Lightning Bolt (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage dealt by Lightning Bolt by 4%.

Glyph of Chain Heal (Major Glyph)
Increases healing done by your Chain Heal spell to targets beyond the first by 15%, but decreases the amount received by the initial target by 10%.

Glyph of Totemic Recall (Major Glyph)
Causes your Totemic Recall ability to return an additional 50% of the mana cost of any recalled totems.

Glyph of Healing Stream Totem (Major Glyph)
Your Healing Stream Totem also increases the Fire, Frost, and Nature resistance of party and raid members within 30 yards by (cond($lte(level, 70), level, cond($lte(level, 80), level + (level) * 5, level + (level) * 5 + (level) * 7))).

Glyph of Renewed Life (Minor Glyph)
Your Reincarnation spell no longer requires a reagent.

Glyph of Water Walking (Minor Glyph)
Your Water Walking spell no longer requires a reagent.

Glyph of Astral Recall (Minor Glyph)
Cooldown of your Astral Recall spell reduced by 7.5 min.

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The new expansion to World of WarCraft – Wrath of the Lich King is finally here and offers more in-depth play with a slew of exciting new features and new areas to explore. Not only are there tons of great additions and balance changes, but some characters have undergone transformations like the Shamans. These changes were necessary to increase the appeal of shamans, as they were one of the least played characters amongst World of WarCraft players.

Shamans have gone through changes from expansion to expansion and this time, a number of changes have affected its character statistics and some of its abilities.

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WotLK Shaman Changes

For the fastest way to level up a shaman check out this guide or you can read the review here.  Attack power can now be increased as both Strength and Agility statistics increase. The critical and spell critical ratings have been merged into a single stat. This merge has been applied to hit rating and spell ratings too.

New WotLK Shaman Abilities

The Shaman has been granted several new abilities with the launch of Wrath of the Lich King.

The first ability is a skill that was used previously by Shadow Hunters in WarCraft III – Hex. The hex spell can turn their targets into frogs rendering them helpless and only able to move. Even if the target is damaged after transformation, the spell may not break so only restoration spells can cure it.

The two other spells are elemental spells – the Lava Burst and Wind Shock. The Lava Burst spell does some massive fire damage while causing some major slowdown to the target. The Wind Shock spell doesn’t do any damage, but lowers the chances of enemies to attack you as well as interrupting any spell casting attempts.

Regarding weapon enchantments, one new enchantment was added and an existing one has slightly changed. The new Earthliving Weapon is useful for shaman healers as they add a significant passive bonus to all the healing spells as well as give the healing spell a chance to heal over time. The healing bonus and heal over time effect increases as the rank goes up. The existing flametongue weapon gets an upgrade of its own and now gives a spell damage bonus to the Shaman. There were also changes to the Windfury Totem, which Is now no longer a weapon enchant and has become a buff that grants melee haste.

New WotLK Shaman Talents

Over 20 new talents for the Shaman were introduced in all 3 talent tiers. Here’s a summarized list of them all:

• Elemental Oath
• Astral Shift
• Lava Flows
• Storm, Earth, and Fire
• Thunderstorm
• Improved Shields
• Mental Dexterity
• Improved Stormstrike
• Lava Lash
• Static Shock
• Earthen Power
• Maelstrom Weapon
• Feral Spirit
• Improved Water Shield
• Tidal Force
• Cleanse Spirit
• Blessing of the Eternals
• Ancestral Awakening
• Improved Earth Shield
• Tidal Waves
• Riptide

These improvements to the WotLK Shaman talents and abilities make them a lot more useful allies and dangerous opponents. This opens up a lot of possibilities in allowing new talent builds to form and turn the tides of battle.

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This is Quoted from: Ghostcrawler (Source)

There is definitely a lot of AE (area effect damage) going on in World of Warcraft dungeon runs at the moment. We’re not too worried about it for now – on the contrary it’s nice to see so many people doing the level-up dungeons on the way to level 80. If we find that AE tank + AE damage strategy (with no sheeping, sapping or other crowd control) is the only way people are running heroics and raids, then we’ll probably make some changes, but for now we’re content to just see what happens.

Having said all that, we feel like a few groups are being left out of the AE fun, which makes them of less utility in the 5-player dungeons. We aren’t able to provide a lot of details yet, but here are some upcoming changes we’re making.

Shaman – we are removing the threat component from Fire Nova Totem and Magma Totem and increasing the damage from Magma Totem. This should provide the Elemental shamans in particular with some formidable AE.

Rogue – we are removing the cooldown from Fan of Knives and adjusting the damage calculation slightly to make daggers more useful for this ability.

Druid – we are adding Swipe (Cat) as a baseline ability.

As is the case with most multi-target abilities, these three should be something you want to use when faced with groups, but never against single targets. Fan of Knives and Swipe, for example, don’t grant combo points so they should never be a core part of the rotation against single targets (like most bosses).

These changes will be available in the next minor content update, so keep an eye out for the next PTR push.

This is interesting news concerning WoW and WotLK.  Updating AoE will change many factors in wotlk world of warcraft including pvp and pve.  For tips on how to use aoe to level up fast check out Zygors Fastest Leveling Guide.