Locations:

Head-Molten Core-Garr
Shoulders-Molten Core-Baron Geddon
Chest-Molten Core-Golemagg the Incinerator
Pants-Molten Core-Magmadar
Gloves-Molten Core-Gehennas
Boots-Molten Core-Lucifron
Belt-Molten Core-Trash Mobs
Bracers-Molten Core-Trash Mobs

The Earthfury Set is 100% geared towards healing...healing in Molten Core to be exact. It has all of the desired stats for a Shaman that's just getting into 40-man raiding. The fire and shadow resists make it nice for Molten Core and a viable way to start off Blackwing Lair.

Perfect for the newly-60 Shaman, but leaves a lot to be desired as you enter more advanced content.

Shouldn't really be used to PvP unless you're a restration Shaman.
The PvP reward gear is slightly better to PvP in (if you enjoy elemental) and is a bit easier to come by with the new 2.0 patch.

The 5 piece bonus is (was) the reason to get this set. It gives the user an 8.75% reduction overall when casting both LHW and HW.

Healing Wave (Rank 12) - 720 mana, 657 with set (63 mana saved per cast)

Lesser Healing Wave (Rank 7) - 440 mana, 401.5 with set (38.5 mana saved per cast)

Even if you were to only cast 15 LHWs per minute (only 22.5 seconds of casting per 60), you'd be regaining the mana equal to 48 / 5 regen. It's easy to see why this is such a hard set for some Shamans to give up.

I like to think that this set has some sort of historical significance in the development of the shaman's role in raids.

The Earthfury gives some indication of how Blizzard, once upon a time, intended raid healer mechanics to work. Note the high amounts of spirit as well as the subtle additions of spell crit. Before damage and healing were consolidated into spell power, some of the pieces offered only healing bonuses, while others offered both.

In BC, the available gear demonstrated that shaman healing mechanics should rely very little on spirit and non-healing bonuses, which had their budget reallocated almost ubiquitously to mp5. The evolution continues in WotLK, with crit and haste valued over mp5.

And let's not forget what Earthfury was <i>way</i> back when. I recall several of the pieces having +agility. =)

Does anyone know if the 3 set bonus stacks with the resto talent ?

It doesn't have the glows and moving parts of today's tier sets, but it was certainly one of the better looking tier 1 sets. Looked fantastic on Tauren.

Redesigned set made for BC instances. Just wanted to add this is here in case anyone wanted to go back and get the set but didn't want to do any pre-bc raids to get it. Good luck!

Head: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27993 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27993  Mask of Inner FIre, Black Morass
Shoulder: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27454 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27454  Volcanic Pauldrons, Ramps
Legs: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=28266 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=28266  Molten Earth Kilt, Mechanar
Chest: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=28391 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=28391  Worldfire Chestguard, Arcatraz
Gloves: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27793 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27793  Earth Mantle Handwraps, Steamvault
Boots: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27845 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27845  Magma Plume Boots, Crypts
Bracers: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27522 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27522  World's End Bracers, Blood Furnace
Belt: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27743 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=27743  Girdle of Living Flame, Underbog

As of 4.1, the 5-set bonus will now affect Healing Surge... it's pretty funny seeing Blizzard updates Tier 1 after all this time ;p

This is what I'm transmogrifying my gear to look like. The Chest, Shoulders, Gloves at least. One of my favorite shaman sets and very easily obtainable as well.

Need a matching cloak... any ideas? https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=18811"">(Item #18811) has an appropriate name and level but doesn't quite seem to match. A little purple would have been good. I like to display my cloak/back and it is an allowable mogging slot after all!

Fools Bane from Kara ,Corrupted Carapace from HoT Thrall dungeon, and Buru Skull from AQ all match this well i think.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=77096"">(Item #77096) matches it pretty well imo
And if you want to see your legs https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=31719"">(Item #31719) works well with it