Mists of Pandaria Classic Enhancement Shaman Spell Summary

Last updated on Jun 22, 2025 at 12:00 by Seksixeny

On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as a Enhancement Shaman in Mists of Pandaria Classic.

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Enhancement Shaman Spells, Cooldowns and Abilities

This page will list the relevant skills for an Enhancement Shaman, and explain what they do. It is recommended that you read through this page in order to have a basis for the various topics that are discussed throughout the rest of this guide.

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New abilities for Enhancement Shamans in Mists of Pandaria Classic

Stormlash Totem Icon Stormlash Totem is a new totem which will cause allies to deal additional Nature damage with their attacks for 10 seconds. This is a good raid damage increase, especially when used in coordination with raid cooldowns and Haste increasing abilities such as Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust.

Ascendance Icon Ascendance is a new DPS cooldown which causes Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike and white melee attacks to deal Nature damage for 15 seconds, making them deal more damage through ignoring the armor of the target.

Healing Tide Totem Icon Healing Tide Totem is a new off-healing cooldown which heals your raid group significantly over 10 seconds. As it is a totem, it does not require channeling and you can keep dealing damage while it is active.

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Damage Abilities for Enhancement Shamans

Dual Wield Icon Dual Wield allows Enhancement Shamans to dual wield, greatly increasing their DPS potential through auto-attacks and more Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon procs.

Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit is a powerful cooldown that summons wolves which pursue and stun enemies and heal you and themselves with their attacks.

Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock deals damage-over-time to its target. This has the added usefulness of preventing Rogues and Druids from staying in stealth while it is active.

Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova causes your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock debuffed targets to explode for damage around themselves. Since it has a very short 4-second cooldown, it can do massive area damage once enough Flame Shocks are spread by the Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash talent.

Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike deals high damage and increases your chance to critically hit the target with your spells for 15 seconds.

Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash is a straightforward rotational damage ability.

Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt deals damage to a single target from range. You will be using this spell often with Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon, which reduces its cast and allows your swing timer to continue if you finish the cast before your next swing.

Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning is similar to Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt in that you will want to cast it with Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks, but does area damage and has a small cooldown.

Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock deals damage and slows the melee attack speed of its target. Useful for its damage, which uses the Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike debuff, and against melee enemies if you cannot avoid their attacks.

Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock deals damage and slows its target by 50% for 8 seconds. This makes it useful when chasing or fleeing from enemies.

Unleash Elements Icon Unleash Elements has different effects depending on your active weapon imbues. Enhancement gets Unleash Wind Icon Unleash Wind from Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon on the main-hand and Unleash Flame Icon Unleash Flame from Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon on the off-hand.

Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst is excellent for caster Shamans, but not so much for Enhancement, making it only be used in niche situations.

Primal Strike Icon Primal Strike is used at low levels for extra melee damage.

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Healing Spells for Enhancement Shamans

Healing Rain Icon Healing Rain is an area heal which you can place on the ground for 10-seconds or up to 30 with a full Conductivity Icon Conductivity (post-nerf) extension. While it can do great healing, it does require 6 injured players to stand within it for the full duration, making it more situational than most area heals.

Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge casts very quickly and does decent healing but costs a huge amount of Mana, so make sure to only use it as an emergency heal or with Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.

Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal is one of the best area-of-effect heals in the game due to its high healing, lack of cooldown, and smart-heal properties, which will cause it to jump to the most injured targets in range, regardless of the group they are on. Due to its high cast time, try to use it with Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon, if needed.

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Totems for Enhancement Shamans

A Totem is instantly placed on the ground near you when you cast it, does not move, and generally has a single digit of health unless Glyph of Totemic Vigor Icon Glyph of Totemic Vigor is used, allowing it to be destroyed by your enemies with any single-target ability. Their effects only apply to your 5-player party, even when you are in a raid group.

Every Shaman Totem has a specific niche role to fill and a distinct ability. There are four types of Totems: Air, Earth, Water, and Fire, and you can have only one Totem of each element placed at a time, which will be replaced if you cast a new Totem of the same element unless you have the Totemic Persistence Icon Totemic Persistence talent.

Totemic Recall Icon Totemic Recall allows you to destroy your current totems in order to recover 25% of their Mana cost. You can use this to avoid pulling patrols with your totems, to recover some Mana when moving to a new place, and even just to recover some Mana for free when your totems are about to expire!

5.1.

Air Totems for Enhancement Shamans

Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem stuns enemies standing 8 yards around the totem for 5 seconds after a 5 seconds period from when it was dropped.

Grounding Totem Icon Grounding Totem will redirect to itself any harmful spell cast at a nearby party member which is great to handle problematic spells in PvP, such as Counterspell Icon Counterspell.

5.2.

Earth Totems for Enhancement Shamans

Earth Elemental Totem Icon Earth Elemental Totem creates an Earth Elemental that taunts and generates threat on nearby enemies. Due to its relatively high health, it can serve as an emergency tank for you and your group.

Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem removes Fear, Charm, and Sleep effects from your group for its 6 second duration. This makes it invaluable in fights with Fear effects or in PvP.

Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem slows nearby enemies, making it easier to flee or kite.

5.3.

Water Totems for Enhancement Shamans

Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem heals a single player (or two with the Rushing Streams Icon Rushing Streams talent) for a small amount every few seconds. Considering it also grants damage reduction when Glyph of Healing Stream Totem Icon Glyph of Healing Stream Totem is used, it is a great short cooldown to use whenever damage is happening.

5.4.

Fire Totems for Enhancement Shamans

Fire Elemental Totem Icon Fire Elemental Totem creates a Fire Elemental that scales with your Spell Power when cast (thus allowing for the use of pure Spell Power gear in a pre-pull min-max situation) and deals significant single-target and area-of-effect damage, making it great for contributing damage to your group or while soloing.

Magma Totem Icon Magma Totem deals small amounts of area-of-effect damage to nearby enemies very frequently. Since it has no cooldown, you can use it for extra damage, especially against multiple enemies.

Searing Totem Icon Searing Totem deals a small amount of single-target damage to nearby enemies. It deals less single-target damage than Magma Totem Icon Magma Totem but is also cheaper and available at a lower level.

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Utility Spells for Enhancement Shamans

Spirit Walk Icon Spirit Walk is now a baseline ability which increases movement speed and breaks slows and roots when used.

Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear interrupts your target for 3 seconds on a 12-second cooldown with a 25-yard range, making it one of the best interrupts in the game.

Hex Icon Hex is a crowd control spell similar to Polymorph Icon Polymorph but it does not heal the target or break instantly upon any damage, while also letting the target slowly move around. It is a Curse effect, making it harder to be dispelled by some classes.

Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust / Heroism Icon Heroism grant a huge amount of Haste for 40 seconds to the Shaman's raid group and can only also be brought by Mages, making it a strong reason to bring at least one Shaman to a group.

Shamanistic Rage Icon Shamanistic Rage doubles as a Mana and defensive cooldown, which gets better alongside your gear due to the Mana return being based on your Attack Power.

Water Shield Icon Water Shield creates a shield on yourself which provides passive Mana regeneration and extra bursts of Mana whenever you are hit. This is great in all types of content, but especially so if you are being consistently hit for the extra Mana returns while soloing and leveling.

Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield grants you a buff that causes damage to melee attackers when they hit you.

Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon is a weapon imbue that grants your melee abilities a 20% chance to activate three extra auto attacks with added attack power instantly. This is the best main-hand imbue in most scenarios.

Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon is a weapon imbue that increases your Spell Damage and causes each hit to deal additional Fire damage. This will be your off-hand imbue of choice.

Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf boosts your running speed by 40% but can only be used outdoors. You can learn it at an early level, making this is an important movement skill for leveling Shamans.

Reincarnation Icon Reincarnation allows you to return to life after dying, as long as its 30-minute cooldown is ready. You can use it to recover from mistakes.

Ancestral Spirit Icon Ancestral Spirit brings the target back to life, but can only be used while out of combat.

Ancestral Vision Icon Ancestral Vision can be used to resurrect all nearby allies with a single spell cast.

Purge Icon Purge removes two buffs from its (enemy) target. You will typically be using it to remove heals-over-time, shields, and buff effects.

Astral Recall Icon Astral Recall recalls you to your set Hearthstone Icon Hearthstone location, with a cooldown of 15 minutes. This is pretty handy for quickly traveling the world.

Water Walking Icon Water Walking allows you or another friendly player to move over water for 10 minutes. Taking any damage will cancel the effect, but you can still use it to quickly move through certain parts of the world.

Water Breathing Icon Water Breathing removes your or another friendly player's need for breathing while underwater for 10 minutes. This is generally useless, but can save you sometimes when doing underwater quests or gathering.

Far Sight Icon Far Sight grants you vision over an area, allowing you to detect enemy players without actually putting yourself in danger.

Bind Elemental Icon Bind Elemental is used to crowd control elemental enemies.