Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide — Midnight Season 1

Due to the size of the changes we have broken it up into sections to make it easier to digest how Enhancement Shaman was tuned throughout Season 1.

• March 24th Class Tuning:
  
  • Crash Lightning damage increased by 80% in PvP combat. This also affects Crash Lightning (Unleashed).
  • Primordial Storm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Surging Elements now increases haste by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Totemic: Surging Bolt damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Totemic: Fixed an issue causing the tooltip of Primal Catalyst to not display that the Lava Lash casts at 50% effectiveness in PvP combat instead of 150%.
• For the Season 1 launch, Enhancement Shaman received a few changes that leads to higher burst with Primordial Storm.
  
  • All damage increased by 8%.
  • Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10%.
  • Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%.
  • Primordial Storm damage increased by 10%.
  • Damage from dispelling Flame Shock increased by 600%. This effect can no longer critically strike.

• Significantly simplified and smoother rotation.
• New Additions:
  • Storm Unleashed Apex Talents increase sustained and burst damage output.
  • Encasing Cold enabling more root crowd-control of the enemy team.
  • Totem of Wrath being linked to Sundering allows for burst rotation to include this for Tempest and other Maelstrom related abilities.
  • Voltaic Blaze new talent which can replace Flame Shock functionality. It instantly applies Flame Shock to multiple targets.
  • Thunder Capacitor giving the ability to refund Maelstrom is significant in helping keep offensive pressure.
• Removals:
  • Primordial Wave has been removed.
  • Stone Bulwark Totem and Totemic Recall have been removed.
  • Talents removed: Deeply Rooted Elements, Splintered Elements, among many others.
• Changes:
  • Rotation priorities have shifted with the removal of Primordial Wave and related talents.
  • Stormweaver PvP talent has now been included into Enhancement Shaman class, which means to be able to heal with instant casts, the Enhancement Shaman must spend Maelstrom first.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Enhancement Shaman getting Storm Unleashed, which increases the damage of Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities.