Enhancement Shaman DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Enhancement Shaman for Midnight! Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing an Enhancement Shaman, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more. For information on what's currently available in Midnight, check out our Midnight page!

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Enhancement Shaman

Overall Best-in-Slot Raid Best-in-Slot Mythic+ Best-in-Slot

2.1.

Enhancement Shaman BiS List in Season 1

The list below contains gear from all possible endgame sources, including Raids, Mythic+, Crafting, Delves and The Great Vault. It aims to provide the absolute best possible setup, but bear in mind that each individual item may not be the strongest in your particular gear setup at any given point.

Note that this gearset strikes a balance between secondaries, prioritizing Mastery while getting a suitable amount of Haste and Critical Strike to match the lower overall stats available in Season 1.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Clutchmates' Caress	Vaelgor and Ezzorak
Off Hand	Farstrider's Chopper	Blacksmithing
Helm	Locus of the Primal Core	Lightblinded Vanguard
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls
Shoulder	Tempests of the Primal Core	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Embrace of the Primal Core	Chimaerus
Bracers	Fallen King's Cuffs	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Gloves	Earthgrips of the Primal Core	Vorasius
Belt	Ceinture of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Legs	Eternal Flame Scaleguards	Belo'ren
Boots	Whipcoil Sabatons	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus
Trinket #2	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket Alt.	Radiant Plume Emberwing Feather Solarflare Prism Heart of Wind	Belo'ren Windrunner Spire Skyreach Windrunner Spire

2.2.

Enhancement Shaman Raid BiS List in Season 1

The gearset below is your raid Best-in-Slot list, using gear from only raid drops, as well as ideal tier set pieces and crafted items to activate Embellishment effects. Note that this is a list of the best items available within the Raid, not a strict list of what you should be using inside the raid.

FAQWhat Are My Top Items To Chase?

Enhancement has some extremely high value picks available from the three raids, with an exceptionally strong trinket alongside some unique jewellery with additional sockets. Big ticket drops you're looking for are:

1. Gaze of the Alnseer - Chimaerus
2. Clutchmates' Caress - Vaelgor and Ezzorak
3. Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn - Midnight Falls
4. Eye of Midnight - Midnight Falls

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Clutchmates' Caress	Vaelgor and Ezzorak
Off Hand	Farstrider's Chopper	Blacksmithing
Helm	Locus of the Primal Core	Lightblinded Vanguard
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls
Shoulder	Tempests of the Primal Core	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Embrace of the Primal Core	Chimaerus
Bracers	Fallen King's Cuffs	Fallen-King Salhadaar
Gloves	Earthgrips of the Primal Core	Vorasius
Belt	Ceinture of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Legs	Eternal Flame Scaleguards	Belo'ren
Boots	Sollerets of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls
Ring #2	Bond of Light	Lightblinded Vanguard
Trinket #1	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus
Trinket #2	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren

2.3.

Enhancement Shaman Mythic + BiS List in Season 1

The gearset below are the best items available from Mythic+, using gear only available from dungeons in the Season 1 pool, alongside your ideal Tier Set pieces and Crafted items for Embellishments. Note that this is a list of the best items available from Mythic+ dungeons, not a strict list of what you should be using in Mythic+ content.

FAQWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

Enhancement has a couple of key items worth farming early, in particular having a trinket that has no real alternative available from Raids. Alongside that, grabbing the ring 2-piece set is worthwhile if you're waiting for Raid options:

1. Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Algeth'ar Academy
2. Blazing Sunclaws - Skyreach
3. Occlusion of Void - Nexus-Point Xenas
4. Omission of Light - Nexus-Point Xenas
5. Solarflare Prism - Skyreach

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Main Hand	Blazing Sunclaws	Skyreach
Off Hand	Farstrider's Chopper	Blacksmithing
Helm	Locus of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Barbed Ymirheim Choker	Pit of Saron
Shoulder	Tempests of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Adherent's Silken Shroud	Tailoring
Chest	Embrace of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Amberfrond Bracers	Windrunner Spire
Gloves	Earthgrips of the Primal Core	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt	Pit of Saron
Legs	Greaves of the Divine Guile	Nexus-Point Xenas
Boots	Whipcoil Sabatons	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Occlusion of Void	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket #1	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket #2	Solarflare Prism	Skyreach

FAQWhich Tier Slots Should We Use?

In ideal gearing situations, Enhancement aims to use an off-piece in the Legs slot. This is to optimize the amount of Haste and Mastery gained on gear, and minimize how much of our low Season 1 stat budget is spent on Versatility. The ideal four piees are as follows:

• Locus of the Primal Core
• Tempests of the Primal Core
• Embrace of the Primal Core
• Earthgrips of the Primal Core

Always remember though, while this maybe the most optimal setup theoretically, it's much more important to get the 4-set bonus online before worrying about perfect itemization. This means there's nothing wrong with using the Legs ( Leggings of the Primal Core), just adjust some of your other setup to accommodate the stats present.

FAQDo I put my Highest Item Level Weapon in the Main or Off Hand?

Enhancement always puts its highest item-level weapon in the Main-Hand regardless of your Hero Tree choice. While Lava Lash only scales with your off-hand and some builds use it extensively, everything else gains more from your main-hand scaling.

Enhancement ideally wants to get one on-use trinket to pair with Doom Winds / Ascendance depending on build, and a strong passive trinket that ideally provides secondary stats.

Aim to pick up one trinket from each of these categories as a pair:

Trinkets to Hunt in Midnight

On-Use - Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
Passive - Gaze of the Alnseer or, alternatively, Radiant Plume

You can click below to open a ranking chart for other trinkets, in case you've picked something else up are are looking to check how it stacks up.

Click for Enhancement Season 1 Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Gaze of the Alnseer Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - Click for Details This is by far the best on-use option available in Season 1, so farming one early is a good idea. While the cast time is a little annoying, up-front Mastery on a burst heavy spec is strong. Make sure to cast this before beginning your Surging Totem / Ascendance window. Umbral Plume / Radiant Plume - Click for Details This should generally be set to Radiant Plume for additional Mastery procs.
A Tier	Emberwing Feather Solarflare Prism Heart of Wind
B Tier	Light Company Guidon - Click for Details Should be held for every other Surging Totem cast as Totemic, or for Ascendance as Stormbringer. Vessel of Tortured Souls Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Glorious Crusader's Keepsake Drum of Renewed Bonds - Click for Details Go to the Jan'alai altar in Zul'Aman to set this to Mastery for Totemic, or the Halazzi alatr to set this to Haste for Stormbringer. Darkmoon Dominion: Hunt Darkmoon Dominion: Blood Kroluk's Warbanner Crucible of Erratic Energies Withered Saptor's Paw Fiber of Living Agony
C Tier	Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Void-Reaper's Libram Darkmoon Dominion: Void Eye of the Drowning Void Latch's Crooked Hook Void Stalker's Contract
D Tier	Lost Idol of the Hash'ey Darkmoon Dominion: Rot Magister's Alchemist Stone Sylvan Wakrapuku Sealed Chaos Urn

Patch 12.0.5 introduces Midnight's take on two systems, intended to increase your access to big ticket items, and their maximum potential:

• Nebulous Voidcore - can be spent after completing endgame dungeons or defeating raid bosses, granting you an item at random from its respective loot table. Once an item has been received through Voidcore rolls, it cannot appear again. One Voidcore is used to roll on dungeon loot tables (providing loot equivalent to its Great Vault item level), while Two are used for Raid bosses.
• Ascendant Voidcore - can be used on fully upgraded Hero, Myth, and Radiance Crafted Weapons & Trinkets. This further increases their power (similar to Turbo Boost from The War Within), raising their item level by 10.

For more information on how to acquire these items, make sure to check out our dedicated guide below!

Which item you should target is strongly influenced by what pieces you've already acquired through Raids or the Great Vault up to this point in Season 1, but there's some specific pieces that are highly desirable. Since pieces are acquired through a process of elimination, in some cases it's also best to think about the best Overall table to roll on in case you aren't lucky as well. A recommended priority on locations to roll is:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Al'gethar Academy
   • Until you acquire Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
2. Chimaerus (Resto loot spec)
   • Until you acquire Gaze of the Alnseer
3. Skyreach
   • Until you acquire Blazing Sunclaws
4. Remaining BiS Locations

Similar to Dawncrest recommendations, your Ascendant Voidcore use should follow the same rules for upgrading your items:

Ascendant Voidcore Order

Main-Hand Weapon ➜ Algeth'ar Puzzle Box ➜ Gaze of the Alnseer ➜ Off-Hand Weapon

Always prioritize Myth track items over Hero track pieces if possible, unless you don't expect to ever acquire a higher item level version. For example, if you're not expecting to kill Mythic Chimaerus but have a Hero Gaze of the Alnseer, it's fine to invest a Voidcore.

Crafted gear provides one of the easiest ways to pick up high value items in a season, allowing you to target key pieces to fill out your gearset. With the release of Season 1, two crafts using four Spark of Radiance total are available, with an additional craft acquired every two weeks after.

Unless secondary stats are already assigned by the item, you should use either Thalassian Missive of the Feverflare for Haste and Mastery.

Enhancement Crafting Order

Farstrider's Chopper ➜ Adherent's Silken Shroud ➜ Optional Crafts

Crafting Notes:

• Craft a weapon first, as it has the biggest impact early. It doesn't matter if you craft an Axe, Mace or Fist Weapon, but make sure your choice comes with Agility. With Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, this should last into even endgame gear setups as your off-hand.
• Craft an Off-piece second - we recommend Adherent's Silken Shroud in the Cloak slot. Attach Arcanoweave Lining as your second embellishment.
• Following this, optional crafts are available. The 2-piece Root Warden's set is a good all-rounder, but requires heavy spark investment. Loa Worshiper's Band also performs similarly to an Arcanoweave Lining off-piece, but doesn't buff allies.

Once you have your two main Embellishment crafts, you should have a solid setup. Your priority if optimizing your gear setup should be toward crafting high item-level pieces to cover holes in your gear setup. High priority candidates are jewellery pieces, as while there are unique strong options available, they're extremely contested this season.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The Midnight Profession guide!

Early into the season, or if you have just started playing an alt, you will have limited access to upgrading-crests such as Myth Dawncrest. These can be used to upgrade gear to higher item levels. Since crests are limited each week, and every slot will cost 20 crests per upgrade regardless of the slot. Due to that, you should prioritize your usage of these on items you don't plan on replacing any time soon, or specific slots that offer larger stat benefits:

Enhancement Shaman Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon (Mainhand) ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

These are not the only items worth upgrading, of course. They simply offer the highest DPS gain early into the tier when your upgrade currency is limited. Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have additional procs attached to them.

While all Rings and Necklaces come with one socket by default, three additional sockets can be acquired on the Helmet, Belt and Bracer slots as a bonus when they drop. These can also be added manually using the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable, which can be purchased 6 Thalassian Token of Merit, the pity currency from The Great Vault.

When using these, it's always best to put them on pieces you don't expect to ever replace. This means Mythic items, or any crafted pieces in these slots, since they can't have them added in any other way. Due to them being a very limited currency, if you have these, it's best to plan long term before wasting any.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses offer the highest DPS upgrades to you. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from each of the items it drops. Linked below are two guides to help break down using these two features to get the most out of your gearing process: