Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Season 4)

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

• Flurry talent has returned to Enhancement Shaman, increasing their passive damage and benefits from Windfury Totem, Windfury Weapon, and Flametongue Weapon.
• Totemic Surge decreases the cooldown of critical totems like Grounding Totem, Earthgrab Totem, among others.
• Planes Traveler gives a reduced cooldown for Astral Shift.
• Earthgrab Totem gives more crowd-control against double melee teams.
• Totemic Projection allows for moving Static Field Totem to move enemy team members to make them easier to hit or move them away.

• Elemental Blast does significant burst damage.
• Primordial Wave sets Enhancement Shaman to do big burst with Lightning Bolt and give a buff of Haste with Splintered Elements.
• Overflowing Maelstrom allows your spenders to benefit from ten stacks of Maelstrom Weapon, making spenders even more powerful.
• Elemental Assault allows for increased Maelstrom Weapon generation through Stormstrike. This makes the rotation of Enhancement Shaman feel more smooth.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.

Grounding Totem summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid member to itself. Will not redirect area of effect spells. It lasts 3 seconds. This is a crucial talent for both you and your teammates. You should use this to "ground" crowd control like Polymorph or Cyclone or large spells like Ebonbolt.

Static Field Totem has only around 5K HP, but can be an important factor when going for burst for a kill. This will allow you to get off your damage without being kited. This traps the enemy team within the circle. This can also be moved, dragging the enemy using Totemic Projection.

Ride the Lightning is a great passive damage PvP talent.

Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.

Shamanism is a great Haste buff for your and your teammate to benefit from Heroism/ Bloodlust.t.

Skyfury Totem can be a useful option if playing with a teammate who has high magic bursts. This totem only impacts abilities that are magic and not Physical damage critical hits. Some examples to use this talent with would be a Retribution Paladins, Balance Druids, and Destruction Warlocks. This can significantly increase their burst window damage.

Seasoned Winds provides 15% damage reduction against possibly multiple schools of magic when interrupting the enemy. This promotes the use of Wind Shear which is critical to the utility of the Enhancement Shaman. This is a very strong choice against any teams with casters. When interrupting some casts like a Chaos Bolt the Shaman will gain 15% damage reduction for all schools of magic which is a significant defensive to maintain throughout the match.

Shamanism reduces the cooldown of your Heroism/ Bloodlust to 60 seconds at the expense of only making it give 20% Haste and last only 10 seconds. Additionally, affected players will no longer receive the Exhaustion debuff.