Mists of Pandaria Classic Enhancement Shaman Guide

Enhancement has a ton of utility and is powerful area damage dealer, but is somewhat lackluster on single target, and is not the most intuitive class to play. It also has good off-healing capabilities with Maelstrom Weapon, Healing Tide Totem, and talents such as Ancestral Guidance.

While Enhancement has great area damage potential and decent single target damage, a major weakness is that Agility gear is useless for Restoration and Elemental, forcing completely different gear setups for off-speccing. Enhancement still brings the strong baseline Shaman utility kit, regardless, including some excellent off-healing tools new to Mists of Pandaria.

Strengths

• Excellent large scale area damage with Lava Lash spreading Flame Shock into massive Fire Novas;
• High mobility with Ghost Wolf and survivability with Astral Shift and Shamanistic Rage;
• Strong off-healing potential with Maelstrom Weapon procs, Ancestral Guidance, and Healing Tide Totem;
• Good support capabilities with powerful tools such as Stormlash Totem, and Bloodlust/ Heroism.

Weaknesses

• Average damage potential on low target counts;
• Using utility tools requires global cooldowns that are often needed for maximum DPS;
• No unique utility like Restoration and no important raid buffs like Elemental;
• Completely different gear than Restoration or Elemental makes off-speccing difficult.

Without going too deep into detail, Orc is still the best race for Horde Enhancement Shamans due to Axe Specialization, Blood Fury for more burst damage and Command for more Feral Spirit and Fire Elemental Totem damage. In PvP they will also benefit from Hardiness, one of the best PvP racials in the game!

Goblin is also alright if you need extra mobility due to their Rocket Jump, and you will also get 1% extra Haste while playing one.

Alliance Shamans benefit most from Draenei due to their free Hit from Heroic Presence and some free healing from Gift of the Naaru.

1. Engineering — Engineering is the best PvE profession in the game due to the extra burst DPS afforded by Synapse Springs, and mobility increase of Nitro Boosts.
2. Tailoring — Tailoring is also a great PvE profession due to Swordguard Embroidery which is less controllable than Synapse, but fairly predictable due to its internal cooldown, allowing you to stack its large Attack Power boost with your DPS cooldowns and Synapse.

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