Season of Discovery Enhancement Shaman Tank Talents and Runes

While you can also go with a Elemental Focus build, going deep into Enhancement is our preference, especially now that Stormstrike is reachable, and required for enabling the new rune Mental Dexterity.

You will always want to take Shield Specialization to add survivability and more Shield Mastery procs on tough encounters. Anticipation and Parry further add to that survivability buffer, and the bottom part of the tree helps make your threat generation even stronger!

With Maelstrom Weapon, taking Concussion is a small damage increase, and Elemental Warding is a nice survivability increase against most sources of magic damage.

The main floating talents for the build would be the totem-enhancing ones, as Enhancing Totems and Improved Weapon Totems can both be useful, as long as your group needs these totems. In that case, move points from Anticipation into them as necessary.

• Gloves — Lava Burst (ST) or Molten Blast (AoE)
• Pants — Way of Earth
• Chest — Shield Mastery
• Waist — Maelstrom Weapon
• Feet — Spirit of the Alpha (if not available from other Shaman) or Decoy Totem
• Head — Mental Dexterity
• Wrist — Overcharged

Way of Earth is your core tank Rune which provides all the defensive benefits of a tank in a single package, as long as you are using a shield.

Molten Blast is fantastic for burst in AoE scenarios, but use Lava Burst for maximum DPS, otherwise. Shield Mastery adds survivability and helps with Mana on large AoE pulls, and Maelstrom Weapon unlocks the usage of spells while tanking (whether for self-healing or added damage).

The Feet slot is quite straightforward: Spirit of the Alpha should always be taken if you do not have an alternative way to obtain this buff in your group, but if you will already be getting it from other Shaman in the group, just get Decoy Totem for the small defensive and movement benefits.

Finally, the new Mental Dexterity and Overcharged Runes are powerful passive effects which will increase your non-physical damage and increase your ability to scale with gear.

More engravings are likely to come out as we reach higher level caps so make sure to double check our Shaman Rune guide to know where to get the currently recommended Runes and learn about future Runes as they are made available.