Talent builds are a collection of how to distribute your talent points. Talent builds are based on a level 70 characters. These are builds that have worked for other shamans. They like how the build feels and goes with it. Some people will claim they have the best build. All builds need to be designed for the individual. The build really says who you are. Some people use combinations that other people never consider and come up with some powerful combinations this way. Use the below builds as rough sketches. You can go with exactly how they are set up or you can change them to your style.
Zeus
Description:
This talent build is to maximize your lightning bolt potential. This build also gives you the ability to back up heal for emergencies. This build goes in on raids and PvP as a ranged DPS build. You throw around Lightning Bolts, and Chain Lightning to do most of your damage. And if needed you can heal as a back up. This kind of shaman wants to maximize intellect and spell damage. MP5 is a must for long fights.
Usefulness:
Totem or Wrath makes this lean more to raiding than PvP. If you take the point spent on Totem of Wrath and put it in Nature’s Swiftness it will produce a better PvP build.
Talent Point distribution:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hE0zqcMsAotZE0x00x
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http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hE0zqcMsAoxZE0x00xo

The Rage Shaman
Description:
This talent build is for a Enhancement shaman who wants to augment their DPS with shocks. Normally very expensive, this shaman uses them after critically hitting and getting a good mana reduction and increased damage. This build only uses 59 talent points. This talent wants to focus on Agility, + to critical hit, Strength, Stamina, + to hit gear (until you hit the cap) and intelligence.
Usefulness:
Experimental due to this being based on patch 2.3 that recently came out. It is designed to be a good PvE grinding build. And also has potential for large burst damage in PvP. Last two points can be used in Improved Ghost Wolf if you do a lot of Warsong Gulch battlegrounds. In Improved weapon Totems if you are going to be grouping with other melee and using the associated totems. Or you can place them in Elemental Warding if you are doing PvP a lot and could use the extra resistance to spells.
Talent Point distribution:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hE00xZxVcdV0sAuqo
Helpful Warrior
Description:
This Talent build is about being an asset to the group with your totems and back up healing ability. This shaman lays the best totems down for the group and heals everyone but the main tank, who the primary healer is taking care of. A well played Helpful Warrior is commonly asked back into groups because of how useful he is. The equipment this shaman is looking for is stamina, intelligence, strength, + to healing gear is a nice addition.
Usefulness:
This build is very useful for PvE and PvP settings. The usefulness in a raid is smaller. The ability to be a strong melee type and still throw around some decent heals is very useful when teamed up with other melee types in PvP. Switching to Nature’s Swiftness instead of Shamanistic Rage will reduce your mana regeneration ability but will allow for instant heals.
Talent Point distribution
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hZxi0dVMsuuqoE0x0V or
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hZxi0dVMsuuqZE0x0V0o

Raid Healer
Description:
This shaman is in on raid a lot. His main roll is healing the whole raid. While a strong single target healer, his ability to heal a lot of the raid is very helpful. The equipment this shaman is looking for is + to healing gear, MP5, and intelligence.
Usefulness:
This is for shamans who want to be on the top of raid healing charts. The shamans is all about healing. This is a very focused shaman and he can also help out in PvP settings. The larger the group and more spread out the damage the better this shaman shines. Dropping healing totems and chain healing are his specialty.
Talent Point distribution:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hZhZEcxtAeoted
The Survivalist
Description:
This shaman is about staying alive. This shaman keeps himself alive foremost and his friends after. This shaman is a hard shaman to kill. The lack of DPS though makes this shaman slow to kill enemies though. This shaman is about patience. Slow and steady win the race. Equipment should focus on + to healing, intelligence, MP5, and stamina.
Usefulness:
This shaman is about PvE and PvP survival. They keep themselves and their party alive. This shaman should be played by those who are okay with doing low damage and being a support class. Leveling with this type of build will be slow. With this build you should be able to bore another player or get away from them in PvP.
Talent Point distribution:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hZx0bZEfxxVeotez