Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide for Mists of Pandaria Classic

Enhancement Shaman are, unfortunately, not a meta class in the Arena. This is mostly due to the lack of a Mortal Strike effect, but they do have strong baseline defensives with Shamanistic Rage, as well as extra passive defenses through the Nature's Guardian talent, and can instantly apply Hex with Maelstrom Weapon.

They can keep themselves and their team mobile with Windwalk Totem, which can be reused through Call of the Elements whenever needed.

Enhancements also have a lot of utility they can put to good use in the Arena, such as Purge, Grounding Totem, Hex, a low-cooldown ranged interrupt in Wind Shear, and many support totems capable of improving allies such as Stormlash Totem and Healing Tide Totem.

Strengths

• Excellent burst damage that can be applied at range with Ascendance, Feral Spirit and Maelstrom Weapon instant casts
• Good utility with Wind Shear interrupts, Hex hard CC and off-healing, all made instant cast by Maelstrom Weapon

Weaknesses

• Often focused in arenas as mobility and anti-stun options are relatively weak
• As a melee class, vulnerable to being focused fire by casters and forced to chase targets through the battlefield

• Glyph of Lightning Shield — reduces your damage taken by 10% whenever Lightning Shield is triggered, which is very useful in a PvP environment.
• Glyph of Hex — reduces the cooldown of Hex by 10 seconds, allowing you to use it more often.
• Glyph of Flame Shock — causes your Flame Shock to heal you for 30% of the damage dealt, which can have decent value for Enhancement due to spreading Flame Shock being one of your PvP priorities.
• Glyph of Healing Stream Totem — causes Healing Stream Totem to reduce the elemental damage taken by its targets by 10% for 6 seconds. This is a very strong glyph against teams that heavily use elemental damage, and should ideally be combined with the Rushing Streams talent for maximum benefit.

• Glyph of Totemic Encirclement — creates multiple decoy totems when you use your totems, making it harder to take down your important utility totems.

The rest of the minor glyphs have no impact on PvP gameplay.

If you have not already, we recommend reading the Spells Summary page first. Knowing how each spell and ability works in detail will greatly increase your understanding of the topics discussed on this section. In PvP you will need to react and adapt to different situations, meaning you will not always follow the recommended rotation below. Aim to do whatever allows you to stick on your target the most while dealing as much damage as possible.

1. Use and maintain the Flame Shock debuff;
2. Cast Stormstrike on cooldown;
3. Use Lava Lash on cooldown;
4. Cast Lightning Bolt when you hit 3+ Maelstrom Weapon stacks, making sure to finish casting it before your next auto-attack;
5. Use Unleash Elements on cooldown;
6. Use Earth Shock if nothing else applies.

When facing multiple players at Battlegrounds or wanting to cleave through multiple targets, follow the single-target rotation but swap Lightning Bolt for Chain Lightning. If facing 3 or more, use Fire Nova on cooldown once you have 3+ targets with Flame Shock, courtesy of Lava Lash spreading mechanic.

Feral Spirit is your main DPS cooldown and should be used on cooldown if it will be able to attack targets for its full duration. Try to also stack it with temporary buffs from trinket procs and on-use effects.

Shamanistic Rage is your main defensive, and also a way to instantly get rid of Magic debuffs with Glyph of Shamanistic Rage. Use it when focused to relieve some pressure, especially if you are being stunned by something like Hammer of Justice at the same time.

In addition to your main spells and cooldowns, you also have many utility spells that can be game-changing when used in the proper scenario. Make sure you understand each of the spells listed below to fully take advantage of your entire spellbook.

• Earthbind Totem to slow nearby enemies and remove snares on yourself and nearby allies with Windwalk Totem;
• Tremor Totem can be used while you are affected by Fear or other effects it can remove, making it an excellent button to break such effects instantly on yourself and your team;
• Grounding Totem should be used to nullify enemy CC and other important casts;
• Wind Shear can also be used to disrupt caster enemies, by interrupting their casts directly;
• Purge can be used to remove enemy buffs, such as Druid heals over time or Priest shields;
• Hex is a hard crowd control spell which can be used to disable an enemy for an extended duration. Take note that it is a Curse effect, making it harder to dispel for some classes, but easier for others.

If you are looking to maximize the potential of your Enhancement Shaman in Mists of Pandaria PvP, these are the recommended professions:

1. Blacksmithing — Gives you two additional sockets with Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves, enabling you to stack more Mastery in this season.
2. Jewelcrafting — Gives you three extra powerful gems, which can boost your Mastery even higher.

The list linked below includes the best possible gear setup for a Enhancement Shaman in PvP.

When it comes to evaluating Enhancement Shaman's place within the Arena, we have created a number of guides devoted to listing a variety of popular team compositions which you can find below.