Season of Discovery Enhancement Shaman DPS Stat Priority

Gear in WoW Classic tends to have useful stats mixed in with non-useful stats, making it hard to evaluate on a pure item level basis. Thus, while knowing about each stat is important, make sure to check our best in slot list as well in order to know about specific items!

1. Hit Chance (6% is the cap against Sunken Temple bosses which are treated as being your level +2);
2. Strength (1 Str = 2 Attack Power);
3. Raw Attack Power;
4. Agility (1 Agi grants a small amount of crit, dodge, and armor);
5. Critical Strike (200% on normal swings);
6. Intellect (more Mana to DPS with).

Hit allows your white swings, which are the majority of your damage, to land more often. Fortunately, Dual Wield Specialization will take care of your Hit and Spell Hit caps outright.

As an Enhancement Shaman, you get a large amount of Attack Power from Strength, making it a strong DPS increasing stat.

Most of your damage typically comes from white melee attacks, where your weapon DPS has a huge influence, making it very important to have as high of a DPS weapon as possible.

As a Shaman, Agility increases your dodge, your armor and your critical chance. The critical strike value is what makes it a decent stat for DPSing.

Critical Strike for Enhancement Shamans increases your damage and makes you attack faster through Flurry.

Typically a caster stat, the reason Intellect is listed at is because you will be using a lot of Mana with your spells and thus your Mana pool can be of use for DPSing more in long fights. Typically you will keep your Mana refilled with Shamanistic Rage, however.