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Totem Talk, the column for shamans, finishes up its roundup/overview/update (it"s all these things and more!) of shaman leveling with a look at what you"ll be doing once you get off the boat to Northrend. Matthew Rossi is tired now, but would like to thank Steve again for the screenshot accompanying today"s article.

And so we arrive at Northrend, able to take the quests and explore the new zones. We"ve talked about faction rewards and instance gearing for shamans in Northrend before, and for the most part that still holds true. Here"s a look back at the posts about the various five man instances and zone rewards:

• Dragonblight and Azjol-Nerub
• Grizzly Hills, Zul"Drak, and the Troll instances
• CoT Stratholme and Halls of Stone/Lightning
• Utgarde Keep, the Oculus (spelled correctly, but really, if I misspelled it what"s Sacco gonna do, arm wrestle me? We all know how that would go) and the heroic versions of Utgarde Pinnacle/The Nexus.

The only real changes in terms of 5 man instances are the introduction of Trial of the Champion and Heroic TotC, and to my astonishment I"ve never done a gear list for shamans from TotC. That really is kind of astonishing. It"s possible I simply lost track since I was in the middle of a vast discussion of Ulduar gear when TotC was on the horizon, but it"s still a pretty big oversight. With another set of new five mans dropping alongside the Icecrown raid in patch 3.3, TotC/Heroic TotC 5 are instances any new 80 should be running to get geared up in anticipation of 3.3. So we"ll talk about that gear today.

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