Shaman specialization

Enhancement Shaman in WoW Forever

Weapons empowered by elemental magic.

  • Your role: Melee damage
  • Advice for every level to 60
  • Class notes checked

Tanking builds use the Enhancement talent tree. They are not a separate specialization.

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Level 15 · Damage in a group

How to play dungeons at level 15

Your combat loop

Press the first one that is ready.

Every Shaman plays this loop at level 15. Enhancement’s own loop starts at level 18.

Own loop from: Elemental level 14Enhancement level 18

Use Rockbiter Weapon. About even (within 3%): Flametongue Weapon.

Blizzard’s November 10 hotfixes cut Stormstrike to 100% weapon damage on an 8 sec cooldown, Mental Dexterity to 33/66/100% of Intellect and Maelstrom Weapon to 6 to 10 procs a minute. The game files do not hold these yet, so this page still ranks with the old values. It updates when they do. Blizzard’s notes

  1. Earth Shock Rank 3 Every 6 sec

    Use it whenever it is ready, every 6 sec.

    29% of your damage
  2. Searing Totem Rank 1 Totem

    Keep the totem down near the fight; it attacks by itself.

    10% of your damage
  3. Auto attack All the time

    Your weapon swings on its own. Stay in melee range.

    61% of your damage

The first 30 seconds

When to press each one from the pull. The blue line under a press is the global cooldown (1.5 sec) or cast it holds: nothing else on the global cooldown can go until it ends, so of two that are ready together the higher one goes first.

All the time
Searing TotemAuto attack

How MaxDPS works this out

Talents at level 15

6 points at level 15: the first at level 10, then one every level.

The MaxDPS build at this level, in the game’s talent frame. Click a talent to learn it and right click to unlearn it, as in the game.

Talents
Unspent Talents
Point order: when each point goes in
  1. Thundering Strikes 5/5 · levels 10–14 +2.3% damage
  2. Mental Dexterity 1/3 · level 15 +0.8% damage

Every Shaman talent

Preliminary item rankings · Dungeons

Enhancement Shaman gear rankings

Weapon damage, imbues and shocks · Level 15 · Calculated defaults

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Shoulders 4 items · Updating…

Where it comes from
Auction prices from

Key stats show the stats behind the three largest score contributions, as the game tooltip states them; open an item’s details for every value and source.

Shoulders items with imported stats, weighted scores and acquisition sources.
Rank Item Score (pts) Where to get it Actions
1 in this filtered list
Bashing Pauldrons Leather · iLvl 20 · Req. 15 · Other drop Key stats: 55 Armor
0.25
Haren SwifthoofNPC drop · 94% · Loch Modan
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 55 × 0.0046 = 0.25 pts

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Source

Haren SwifthoofNPC drop · 94% · Loch Modan
2 in this filtered list
Patched Leather Shoulderpads Leather · iLvl 20 · Req. 15 · Other drop Key stats: 52 Armor
0.24
Armor CrateObject loot · 3.8%
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 52 × 0.0046 = 0.24 pts

Poor

249 sources

Armor CrateObject loot · 3.8%
Kolkars' BootyObject loot · 2.4% · The Barrens
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 2.3% · The Barrens
Battered ChestObject loot · 1.2%
Stone WatcherNPC drop · 1.1% · Ruins of Lordaeron
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 1.1% · The Barrens
Riverpaw OverseerNPC drop · 1% · Westfall
Goblin ShipbuilderNPC drop · 0.9% · Deadmines
Deep WidowNPC drop · 0.9% · Ruins of Lordaeron
All 249 sources
3 in this filtered list
Canvas Shoulderpads Cloth · iLvl 20 · Req. 15 · Other drop Key stats: 23 Armor
0.11
Armor CrateObject loot · 3.4%
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 23 × 0.0046 = 0.11 pts

Poor

247 sources

Armor CrateObject loot · 3.4%
Kolkars' BootyObject loot · 2.5% · The Barrens
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 2% · The Barrens
Kolkar's BootyObject loot · 2% · The Barrens
Alliance ChestObject loot · 1.5%
Battered ChestObject loot · 1.4%
Haren SwifthoofNPC drop · 1.4% · Loch Modan
Mo'grosh BruteNPC drop · 1.1% · Loch Modan
All 247 sources
4 in this filtered list
Mantle of the Fire Festival Cloth · iLvl 1 · Req. 1 · Quest Key stats: 2 Armor
0.01

Score breakdown

  • Armor: 2 × 0.0046 = 0.01 pts

Common

Item stats from the WoW Forever game files; sources from data collected from the live game. Auction prices are the lowest buyout on the Americas · Normal auction houses, read from Blizzard every hour; pick another region or ruleset under Filters. Which house is which ruleset is matched by size and still being confirmed in game.

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