Hi,
I recently just bought the game and have been playing it.
I picked Shaman as my first class. Is that a good choice?
I don’t know where to put my skills in. Could anyone recommend a build please for leveling.
Also can I reset my skills if I need to?
Thanks,
Heya,
There are tons and tons of guides to different builds. There are tons and tons of builds too. And yes you can re-spec your skill points & devotions (but not your attribute points and mastery points). So you can try skills and if they’re not your cup of tea, you can get them back and do something different. Mastery & attribute points however are permanent.
Shaman builds can be nearly anything. Depends on what you want to do long term. Depends on if you plan on using the Shaman for something specific or as a secondary mastery to something else, or vise verse.
What do you like about the Shaman? What skills are you using that you enjoy? Is it the summons? The lightning spells? The totems? What kind of character do you like playing in general (caster or fighter basically)?
A lot of “builds” revolve around general or specific gear.
When starting out, it’s great to focus on stuff that doesn’t really require a ton of gear so that you can use what you find as you find it just playing the game. In the early levels, these skills are Devouring Swarm (great early on for trash mobs), Grasping Vines (great for crowd control & trash mobs), and Briarthorn (a summon, he’s a good tank and does good damage early on in the game). From there, support to get would be the Wendigo Totem (massive healing for you and your summons/friends). Later you can always take those skill points back and put them elsewhere to do something else after you get an idea and some gear for what you really want to get into. At level 10 you can start into a 2nd mastery, but I would just build on your current Shaman mastery on the above. It will easily take you to level 40+ in Normal Veteran with no specific gear other than what drops as you play.
For early leveling, check out the Tsunami devotion, and apply it to an attack skill you use a lot, like Savagery (1 point is enough to just have it) or Grasping Vines.
An example (click the book icon lower left, and look at the Shaman skills there; you’ll note the mastery points and what skills to look at for a gear-less build with no real direction that will be able to take you through level 40 in Normal Veteran no problem and then re-spec later when you get gear and/or figure out what you want to do):
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/4ZDERpN7
That’s completed by level 24, which happens real fast, not even out of Act 1 yet and you’ll be that level and it will take you through the whole game. From there, you can start building into some other skills or work on a 2nd mastery if something else is interesting to you. I personally used it to move into Storm totem to build a tank Shaman that does lightning from wind devil & totems. But you could also use it to work into a melee build or into a 2nd mastery for something else, or a pet based build, etc. Lots of options. Just depends on what you enjoy and want to do.
Very best,
Early level you can leveling with Savagery or Devouring Swarm.
As your character progress, you can take Briarthorn, and you can also go with Primal Strike with Thunderous Strike.
Primal Strike requires Two Handed Weapon (melee/range).
Attach Primal Strike to your LMB (remove/refund Savagery if you use it before) --> Check Sahdina at Devil’s Crossing.
Sahdina is a Spirit Guide that can refund spent skill points.
You may need iron bits and aether crystals.
Try to collect some aether crystals, you’ll need a lot of it.
You can filter the type of loot (Common+, Magic+, Rare+, Epic+, Legendary+)
Sell your unused items if your inventory’s full.
Change the filter to Magic+, collect and sell items you don’t need for iron bits
For more information : http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15748
If you have enough Scrap, you can get Additional Bag by helping Barnabas with the water pump quest.
Also don’t forget the Blacksmith, you can learn receipes and crafting gear/weapon
Angrim or Duncan for your Blacksmith?
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23138
If using Primal Strike - Thunderous Strike on LMB button, pls don’t take Brute Force - Feral Hunger.
Feral Hunger activates off of default weapon attacks. In this case your Primal Strike can’t triggered Feral Hunger/Upheaval
Summon Briarthorn also good in early level (Normal/Veteran).
If you feel it die too fast, make it level higher (Put more points)
Don’t forget to take Wendigo Totem for healing.
When you already have enough Skill Points, take Storm Totem.
Storm Totem is nice and fun for leveling 
Later, please don’t forget to take Reckless Tempest and bound it to Storm Totem or Grasping Vines :
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/62aM9X24
press ‘S’, and see the devotion tab
You can get devotion skill points from Shrine, here’s the location (Spoiler Alert)
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26777(You may also get devotion skills from Crucible DLC)
Bound Reckless Tempest to Storm Totem, and later take Stormcaller’s Pact as your Exclusive Skill.
Our friend MalVeauX should finish his Normal/Veteran Shaman’s Leveling Guide for 1.0.1.1 first. So new Players can follow his guide immediately 
After Crate buff a lot of Skills for early levels, also buff the Storm Totem (it attack faster now), it makes Leveling Process kinda Fun.
Such we have new spirit for playing the new toon and leveling with Shaman.
For Occultist, our Friend Duck King make “Do not just “ignore” the raven” video that shows how helpfull Summon Familiar could be for leveling 
Pls check here --> https://youtu.be/MXvatXrL_E8
Hopes it can help you
Holy sh*t that raven lol. I believe in the raven now.
I disagree with Tz Tz on one thing: Primal Strike- without the modifier- is perfectly fine for leveling, and in fact I prefer it to Savagery. Savagery is better in the late game.
Other than that, I concur with his post.
lol
Yup Savagery is better in the late game, also good in early level for leveling.
Sure you can use Savagery on LMB and PS on RMB/Hotkey
I just make an example if you want PS as LMB default attack with Thundeorus Strike on early level as alternative for Briarthorn.
It’s fast for clearing trash, but is so-so for single target.
In early normal/veteran leveling, it’s fun while leveling with PS, Lightning everywhere
I ever saw a Hardcore player playing Warder with Primal Strike - Thunderous Strike until Ultimate, he even manage to defeat Ultimate Shar’zul on HC.
We also can play range with PS as default attack in early/late game, like using Raka’Jax weapon
Later when you feels it’s not good enough anymore, sure you can respect to Savagery, or other Skills like Storm Totem, etc
Haha, love seeing that Raven pew pew things. Works ok the first few levels. But it won’t carry you to level 40. Also, Raven isn’t an option for a new Shaman unless they’re committing to a Conjurer with Occultist at level 10+.
That said,
Raven begins at level 2 of your character as an Occultist, with 1 point in Mastery, 2 points in Raven. Level 7 you’re max Raven. No additional attacks, damage, etc, until mastery is level 25 (24 points, or 8 more levels, so level 15 at this point for the character just to add that extra attack option to the Raven).
I bet Raven at level 7 with a Tsunami devotion applied to it would be silly and take you quite far in the game. Hrm… might have to do it just for S&G.
Briarthorn happens for the Shaman at character level 5 (10 points in mastery, 2 points in Briarthorn). The Briarthorn is maxed by level 10 of the character. This skill alone can literally take the character through to about level 30 no problem with virtually nothing else in normal ventern.
But again, we’re talking about two separate masteries completely and the OP is using Shaman.
If you add even 1 point of Grasping Vines, it’s basically a build that will walk through to level 40. Briarthorn is actually too powerful for normal for what it is. Level 40+ and Elite, it shows its limits for sure. But then again, Raven won’t take you this far on its own.
Then again, Grasping Vines will take you through virtually all of Normal Veteran on its own, especially with a deovtion proc applied to it (Tsunami is my favorite and just too good for its level; you have it before the end of Act 1 for sure with 8 Devotion points in Act 1).
But, one of my favorite items is the epic book that gives a Revenent summon, that thing is nasty!
Very best,