This week, Totem Talk is Matthew Rossi finds himself heading down nostalgia lane power leveling.

Before I explain who that fine orcish chap to the right is, I wanted to take a moment and share some things with you. These are some of the drops of interest from the level 80 Onyxia raid coming in patch 3.2.2, and I will just point out that these are all the 10 man iLevel 232 drops, meaning that for everything you are looking at, there will most likely be a 25 man iLevel 245 version to get power leveling.

Frankly, if you are an enhancement shaman (especially an orc) and you are not excited about the Empowered Deathbringer, I do not even know you anymore. With a 2.7 speed and a 628 dmg top end, it is hitting almost as hard as the Golden Saronite Dragon. Imagine how hard the 25 man version will hit? I will admit to being a little disappointed they did not leave the speed at 2.9, but even so great googly moogly is that not a hot little axe? Well, okay, a hot big axe.

If the 25 man version of Deathbringer keeps pace with the 25 man version of VisKag, we are looking at one of the best possible Main Hand/Off Hand combos for Enhancement. I do not think it is possible for me to explain how excited I am over this. I start twitching when I think about it, to be honest with you about power leveling.

Now that we have had this moment to geek out over upcoming loot, as is right and proper to do, what about this fine you lowbie horde you see before you?

Frankly, he is my window into what it is like to level a Shaman nowadays.

It is true: it is different to level a Shaman now than it was the last time we talked about it. This is the danger of playing a constantly updating MMO like World of Warcraft, and Patch 3.2 definitely added some new things to consider for anyone thinking about starting a new shaman about power leveling.