Mists of Pandaria Classic Enhancement Shaman Stat Priority

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

On this page, you will find out the optimal PvE stat priority for your Enhancement Shaman in Mists of Pandaria Classic. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations.

1.

Stat Priority for Enhancement Shaman

The stat priority for EnhancementEnhancement Shaman is as follows:

  1. Agility
  2. Hit Rating to cap (7.5%)
  3. Expertise Rating to Dodge cap (7.5%)
  4. Mastery
  5. Haste
  6. Critical Strike
1.1.

Agility

Agility is the primary stat you should be focusing on for increasing your damage. Because of how items are configured in Mists of Pandaria, you will naturally gain Agility as you equip higher item level gear, and it will also get multiplied by raid buffs such as Blessing of Kings Icon Blessing of Kings, making it even more important.

1.2.

Hit and Expertise

Hit and Expertise are critical to ensure you land your attacks and special abilities, as missing attacks wastes both resources and precious time.

Hitting 7.5% Hit ensures your attacks cannot miss, 7.5% Expertise ensures your attacks cannot be dodged, and 15% Expertise removes parries, but removing dodges is enough as you should be attacking from behind and parries can only attack when attacking from the front.

Enhancement also has to worry about the Spell Hit cap of 15% since it uses a lot of spells in its rotation, but this is naturally taken care of by having 7.5% Hit and 7.5% Expertise, as both count equally towards the Spell Hit cap.

1.3.

Mastery Rating

Enhancement Mastery is Mastery: Enhanced Elements Icon Mastery: Enhanced Elements, which is a powerful elemental damage increase. As much of your damage comes from elemental damage sources such as Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon-powered spells, this is a good DPS stat, especially for area damage where almost all of your damage sources are elemental damage, such as the damage from Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova.

1.4.

Haste Rating

Haste rating is good for Enhancement due to Flurry Icon Flurry making it scale harder and generating more attacks which cause extra Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon procs.

1.5.

Critical Strike Rating

Critical Strike is rather strong for Enhancement as it synergizes with Flurry Icon Flurry. On the other hand, it is not the best of stats because it takes a lot of rating to get 1% Crit, making it an inefficient stat to stack.