Enhancement Shaman DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Enhancement Shaman, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within Pre-Patch.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Enhancement Shaman gems and enchants.
Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Enhancement Shaman
This section covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, potions, and phials to use with your character. Please visit our dedicated Stats page to get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Enhancement Shaman.
For all consumables excluding food in the lists below, you should utilize lower ranks of the same rank 3 options listed if you are looking for a cheaper alternative. The price difference is often significant for a small loss in stats gained.
Best Gems for Enhancement Shaman
It is highly recommended that you simulate your character for gems as individual gear pieces have a big impact on gem options. The below are very general picks if you are looking for a quick answer:
- Elementalist builds prioritize one
Skillful Illimited Diamond in your first socket, and
Keen Neltharite in all others.
- Storm builds prioritize one
Fierce Illimited Diamond in your first socket, and
Keen Ysemerald in all others.
Best Enchants for Enhancement Shaman
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The Incandescent Essence is acquired following a quest chain
that begins after defeating Gnarlroot within the Amirdrassil raid. This
grants the
Igira's Cruel Nightmare proc effect and can be re-used,
so use it as soon as you get one on your head.
Storm builds can opt to take Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste
instead for Rings.
Cloak, Bracer, and Boot enchants are personal preferences as they have no direct impact on performance, but we recommend Avoidance and Stamina for the extra survivability.
Consumables for Enhancement Shaman
Best Phials and Potions for Enhancement Shaman
There are two options for your Phial of choice depending on the situation:
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage — while we generally avoid Critical Strike, this provides more than any other option, especially due to us sacrificing it on most of our gear pieces. The downside of damage taken can be quite dangerous, but if you can handle it, this provides the greatest increase to throughput so long as uptime is not affected too much.
Phial of Tepid Versatility — Numerically weaker, but significantly more consistent and provides a little extra defense. This is generally your go-to option, especially in Mythic+, and has the advantage of being very cheap.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power (or the cheaper
Elemental Potion of Power
variant) is your recommended potion in all situations. These
potions can also be obtained from a
Potion Cauldron of Ultimate Power/
Potion Cauldron of Power.
Dreamwalker's Healing Potion is the healing potion of choice. Using
this has a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss
fight should it go on long enough. You can also use
Potion of Withering Dreams
in emergencies, but be wary of how much damage it deals after being used.
Additionally, Warlock's Healthstones do not share a
cooldown with other healing consumables. Remember to use it as well if
you are holding one!
Best Food for Enhancement Shaman
Ideally, we use Sizzling Seafood Medley at higher gear levels, however
other stat combinations can also work depending on your gear. Alternatively,
you can use feasts provided by your group (
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak,
for example).
Weapon Enhancement Consumables for Enhancement Shaman
Unfortunately, due to the Enhancement imbue system, we have no access
to the additional weapon rune consumables. This is because
Windfury Weapon and
Flametongue Weapon overwrite
them, so save some money and do not worry about these!
While it is technically possible to drop Windfury Weapon
and use double
Flametongue Weapon to activate
Elemental Weapons,
there are not any talents currently worth making this sacrifice for, so
is not recommended in any way currently.
Augment Runes for Enhancement Shaman
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable
runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Through the Patch 10.2 Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream Wardens
Faction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune, which is
permanent!
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5, shifted to recommendations for higher gear levels.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7, no changes necessary.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5 to strongly recommend against Annulet.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1 and new consumables.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Updated for Primordial Stones hotfixes.
- 22 Mar. 2023: Updated to account for Primordial Stones buff.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities. He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding in Echoes. You can also follow him on Twitter.
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