Anthilia

I will be maining a shaman which I plan to heal with. My girlfriend is going to play a warrior and wants to tank. We will be leveling together from the beginning and want to make it as smooth as possible. What spec would be ideal for her to play her warrior as when leveling so that we can kill fast and still be able to tank dungeons when necessary? Is it worth questing as the main way to level with her wanting to tank and me wanting to heal, or should we just go into dungeons as soon as possible and not look back? What level do you recommend she switches to prot from arms/fury if it is best for her to level as a dps spec? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. We will be on the pve server so world pvp is not something we need to be concerned about while leveling.

I am looking for a bit of advice on leveling as a shaman. I never played Shaman back in Classic WoW, the earliest I played a shaman was in cataclysm when dwarf was able to become a shaman. With that said I am looking for a little bit of advice on the best way to level my shaman. I will be constantly grouped with my girlfriend who is rolling a warrior. We like to do dungeons, and I like to heal so we will have tank/heals covered making grouping very easy for us. With that said I have a few questions that I would love if others could answer. 1.) I know people generally advice against leveling in dungeons unless you do it just the 1 time to complete quests, but I feel having a tank AND healer already will make this method of leveling a bit more viable than usual since the time to fill the group will be negligible since all we have to do is find DPS for the instance. Will this be a plausible leveling option? I am okay with it not being perfectly optimal and taking a bit longer but if it is say 3-5x longer than I will forego doing it and stick to just running dungeons a few times with quests. 2.) From my reading of several private server forums I have read that one of the fastest ways to level would be fast dagger + shield + flametongue for decent dps and being fairly sturdy with the shield. Since I will be leveling with a warrior I don't need to worry about being the sturdy one, nor do I need to be in melee at all. Does anyone have recommendations on what I should spec? Do I want to go elemental and chuck lightning bolts and throw a heal or two on the warrior to reduce downtime? Do I want to go resto and play heal bot to completely remove downtime all together? Should enhance still be a consideration? I do plan on healing dungeons so feel enhance is the worst choice I can make for spec but I am open to suggestions. 3.) If I do go elemental to help speed up kills at what level should is it recommended that I respec to Resto and start running dungeons full-time? mid-40's when ZF and ST become spammable? Upper 50s for BRD and similar dungeons? 58 for Scholo/Strat? Just quest all the way up and respec at 60? 4.) Not really a question but I know shaman is very different in classic than in cataclysm which is when I first got one above level 15 so if anyone has any pointers I am all ears! I have already read the stickies here and am itching to get into it! Also, we will be rolling on the PVE server so world pvp does not need to factor into the decision making process on spec.