Enhancement Shaman DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.0.5

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Enhancement Shaman, where we cover everything you need to know about your character's gearing process.

If you have a new piece of gear that you need gems and enchants advice for, you can find everything you need on our dedicated page below.

At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character, that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, Azerite traits, trinkets and combinations thereof in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon, and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

In Shadowlands Season 1, the majority of your gear will be coming from more focused activities such as Raiding, Mythic+, PvP, or your weekly Vault cache. However, you can still augment your choices with the following activities:

• Covenant Callings: these are daily emissary quests that can provide powerful gear pieces, and also grant Conduits when completed.
• Covenant Campaign: This will give you a full set of gear that can be upgraded with Anima up to 197, and when complete also gives a single 187 weapon token.
• The Maw: the Wrath of the Jailer events in The Maw have a chance to drop item level 183 gear once a week.
• Battlegrounds: you can exchange Honor points earned in PvP to upgrade PvP gear up to item level 197.
• Mythic dungeons: Regular Mythic dungeons can be done once per week with access to gear up to item level 184.
• Reputations: raising reputation with each zone's faction allows you to buy gear at Honored and Exalted.

While we heavily recommend simming yourself, you can find some of our general simulations on the dedicated page below.

Currently there is an ideal first-craft Legendary for Enhancement in Doom Winds. This is recommended to get early on, with the pattern dropping from Spires of Ascension.

For a more detailed explanation of Legendary picks worth looking at, and when you should consider crafting or using them, look at our dedicated Legendary page below:

1. Unruly Winds (from De Other Side)
2. Magma Fist (from Sanguine Depths)
3. Focused Lightning (from Spires of Ascension)

1. Refreshing Waters
2. Vital Accretion

For more details regarding each individual Conduit, you can look at our dedicated Covenant, Soulbind, and Conduits page linked below:

Due to how strong trinkets can sometimes be, and that they are not always easily accessible from Mythic+, raiding, and PvP sources, we recommend always using Raidbots' Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.

Bloodmallet.com also provides rankings for Shadowlands trinkets to give a general overview of relative power levels, and things to look out for:

Many people have a tendency to overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. For more stats information, please refer to our dedicated page.

This is a recommended set of gear available exclusively from Dungeon drops. This excludes open world drops because of how random it can sometimes be to acquire them, so these serve as items to slot in whenever you can. Trinkets are not listed, as they are covered in the dedicated section above.

Note that as of Patch 9.0.5 these items can also be upgraded all the way up to 220 item level via the new Valor system, so if possible, hunting these items and upgrading them to fill any gaps in your gear is ideal.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Nathrian Usurper's Mask	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Sin Stained Pendant	Halls of Atonement
Shoulder	Plagueborne Shoulderguards	Plaguefall
Cloak	Drape of Twisted Loyalties	Spires of Ascension
Chest	Harness of Twisted Whims	De Other Side
Wrists	Fallen Paragon's Armguards	Spires of Ascension
Gloves	Grips of Overwhelming Beatings	Theater of Pain
Belt	Executor's Prideful Girdle	Sanguine Depths
Legs	Lichbone Legguards	The Necrotic Wake
Boots	Spatial Rift Striders	De Other Side
Ring #1	Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet	The Necrotic Wake
Ring #2	Bloodoath Signet	Theater of Pain
Weapons	Stone General's Edge	Sanguine Depths
Alternative	Gorebound Predator's Gavel	Theater of Pain

This section contains the best gear to look for in the Castle Nathria raid. It does not include anything from outside sources, so with some drops you have access to you might have better choices.

Note that the weapons come from Venerated Anima Spherules that are tokens. These provide different weapons depending on your covenant, but all require this token to purchase.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Helm of Insatiable Appetite	Hungering Destroyer
Neck	Charm of Eternal Winter	Huntsman Altimor
Shoulder	Pauldrons of Fatal Finality	Sire Denathrius
Cloak	Crest of the Legionnaire General	Stone Legion Generals
Chest	Consumptive Chainmail Carapace	Hungering Destroyer
Wrists	Bangles of Errant Pride	Sun King's Salvation
Gloves	Oathsworn Soldier's Gauntlets	Stone Legion Generals
Belt	Load-Bearing Belt	Sludgefist
Legs	Memento-Laden Cuisses	Lady Inerva Darkvein
Boots	Legionnaire's Bloodstained Sabatons	Castle Nathria Trash
Ring #1	Most Regal Signet of Sire Denathrius	Sire Denathrius
Ring #2	Ritualist's Treasured Ring	Lady Inerva Darkvein
Weapons	Venerated Anima Spherule	Sire Denathrius
Alternative	Venerated Anima Spherule	Hungering Destroyer