Enhancement Shaman DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Enhancement Shaman for Midnight! Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing an Enhancement Shaman, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more. For information on what's currently available in Midnight, check out our Midnight page!

Pre-Season Disclaimer

This page is currently geared toward the Pre-Season of Midnight. This means it doesn't go over the absolute best long term gear pieces, and is more focused on building the best setup before endgame content releases. Check back closer to the Season 1 launch for full BiS recommendations!

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Enhancement Shaman

Midnight Pre-Season
Best-in-Slot List

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Enhancement Shaman Pre-Season BiS List

The list below only contains the Best-in-Slot gear available in the Midnight Pre-Season. This means no Raid or Mythic+ gear is included, instead it provides the best setup available from Midnight Dungeons and Delves. Crafting is not included due to how early in the expansion we are.

Note that this gearset aims to balance out stats evenly to avoid diminishing returns, so individual pieces may not suit your current gearset on their own.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapons	Hulking Handaxe	Voidscar Arena
Alternative	Soulblight Cleaver	Maisara Caverns
Helm	Vortex Visage	Magister's Terrace
Neck	Pendant of Malefic Fury	Murder Row
Shoulder	Spaulders of Arrow's Flight	Windrunner Spire
Cloak	Bloodthorn Burnous	The Blinding Vale
Chest	Decaying Cuirass	Maisara Caverns
Bracers	Amberfrond Bracers	Windrunner Spire
Gloves	Grips of Forgotten Honor	Windrunner Spire
Belt	Behemoth Waistband	Voidscar Arena
Legs	Greaves of the Divine Guile	Nexus-Point Xenas
Boots	Whipcoil Sabatons	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Bifurcation Band	Magister's Terrace
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Vessel of Tortured Souls	Maisara Caverns
Trinket #2	Void Execution Mandate	Voidscar Arena
Trinket Alt.	Emberwing Feather Heart of Wind Lightspire Core Kroluk's Warbanner	Windrunner Spire Windrunner Spire The Blinding Vale Windrunner Spire

FAQDo I put my Highest Item Level Weapon in the Main or Off Hand?

Enhancement always puts its highest item-level weapon in the Main-Hand regardless of your Hero Tree choice. While Lava Lash only scales with your off-hand and some builds use it extensively, everything else gains more from your main-hand scaling.

Due to there being less endgame content available in the Pre-Season alongside fewer gearing options, for now we'll be recommending the best trinkets to pick up before Season 1 begins. Enhancement ideally wants to get one on-use trinket to pair with Doom Winds / Ascendance depending on build, and a strong passive trinket that ideally provides secondary stats.

Aim to pick up one trinket from each of these categories as a pair:

Trinkets to Hunt in Pre-Season

On-Use - Void Execution Mandate or, alternatively, Emberwing Feather
Passive - Vessel of Tortured Souls or, alternatively, Heart of Wind

You can click below to open a ranking chart for other trinkets, in case you've picked something else up are are looking to check how it stacks up.

Click for Enhancement Pre-Season Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Vessel of Tortured Souls Emberwing Feather Void Execution Mandate - Click for Details While very strong, especially in the pre-season where most content is multi-target, the effect being tied to a debuff that fades when your target is killed limits its potential.
A Tier	Heart of Wind Lightspire Core - Click for Details While passive Mastery plus a proc is strong, the requirement to stay stationary near the pool stops this from being a go-to pick. Kroluk's Warbanner Sapling of the Dawnroot
B Tier	Withered Saptor's Paw Freightrunner's Flask Resonant Bellowstone
C Tier	Lost Idol of the Hash'ey Latch's Crooked Hook
D Tier	Sylvan Wakrapuku Eye of the Drowning Void Glorious Crusader's Keepsake Void-Reaper's Libram Sealed Chaos Urn

Crafting Disclaimer

During the Pre-Season there's no reason to rush to craft! While we provide recommendations for what is likely to be the best picks, things may change, so bear that in mind when you get your first Spark of Radiance.

Crafted gear provides one of the easiest ways to pick up high value items in a season, allowing you to target key pieces to fill out your gearset. Currently it is unknown exactly when sparks will be available, so we've provided a crafting order plan so you have a general idea of where you'll be spending your Spark of Radiance when the Season begins.

Unless secondary stats are already assigned by the item, you should use either Thalassian Missive of the Feverflare for Haste and Mastery.

Enhancement Crafting Order

Farstrider's Chopper ➜ Loa Worshiper's Band ➜ Optional Crafts

Crafting Notes:

• Craft a weapon first, as it has the biggest impact early. It doesn't matter if you craft an Axe, Mace or Fist Weapon, but make sure your choice comes with Agility. With Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt, this should last into even endgame gear setups as your off-hand.
• Craft Loa Worshiper's Band second. Use Flawless Masterful Peridot or Flawless Masterful Garnet in your sockets from now on for the Haste and Crit procs.
• Following this, optional crafts are available. The 2-piece Root Warden's set is a good all-rounder, but requires heavy spark investment. Arcanoweave Lining is another solid generalist Embellishment for off-pieces.

Following these two main crafts, you should have a solid setup, and can look to crafting high item-level pieces to fill out any empty slots in your gear setup. High priority candidates are Jewellery pieces due to being very contested among other classes.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The Midnight Profession guide!

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each individual gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer general gearing recommendations, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

As you complete endgame content in Midnight, you will gather upgrade crests such as Myth Dawncrest that can be used to upgrade your items. Once you have upgraded a slot to a particular item level, any other item in that slot can be upgraded without a Crest cost.

As Crests are a limited resource, ideally you want to obtain the highest item-level possible before committing any crests to upgrade it. If you are capable of completing higher Mythic+ dungeons, it is generally a good idea to wait until you have the slot maxed out with free upgrades first.

Below is a general slot priority you should upgrade your items in.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have additional procs attached to them. If you're looking to find out more about how the upgrade system has changed going into Midnight, you can check our Gear Upgrade System page.