Enhancement Shaman DPS Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.0.5)
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Enhancement Shaman in World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.5).
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our TBC Shaman addons and macros.
Enhancement Shaman Macros
Welcome to our Addons and Macros page. Here we will cover some basic macros that can help enhance your gameplay, and recommend some addons that make playing Enhancement Shaman more comfortable.
Focus Cast Macros
We have several spells that can benefit from using a focus target, allowing you to still focus on your primary target with damaging attacks. Replace the Wind Shear in the macro below with any desired spell name:
- #showtooltip
- /cast [@focus,exists] Wind Shear
Good spells to use this with are Cleanse Spirit, Hex, Purge and Wind Shear.
Mouseover Macros
Similarly, mousing over a target and casting a spell without moving from your main target can be beneficial, especially with specific talent builds. Replace the Cleanse Spirit in the macro below with the spell name:
- #showtooltip
- /cast [target=mouseover] Cleanse Spirit
This has other uses if targets are more dynamic, removing an input needed to target someone. Cleanse Spirit benefits from this, and the ability to quickly apply Flame Shock can be very helpful. It also makes maintaining Lashing Flames less daunting.
Self-Cast Healing Surge
This will always prioritize yourself when casting Healing Surge for reliable self-healing:
- #showtooltip
- /cast [@player] Healing Surge
Totem Placement Macros
For any totem with a targeting circle, two macro options are available to drop it quicker. The first drops it immediately at your feet (replace the Surging Totem in the following macros with your desired totem name). This is especially useful when playing Totemic:
- #showtooltip
- /cast [@player] Surging Totem
Or at your current cursor location:
- #showtooltip
- /cast [@cursor] Surging Totem
This can be used for Wind Rush Totem, Earthgrab Totem or even Totemic Projection.
Totemic Projection on Cooldown Macro
To efficiently move our totems around with us, you can macro Totemic Projection into a rotational ability thanks to it being off the Global Cooldown. A common ability to tie it to is Stormstrike, but any button can be used with the following macro:
- #showtooltip Stormstrike
- /cast Totemic Projection
- /cast Stormstrike
This does have some downsides for utility totems, but especially for Totemic this makes playing around Surging Totem much easier.
Earth Elemental and Totem Cancel Macro
This macro requires you to grab this weakaura from wago.io, and you can shrink this down or reduce its alpha to hide it. The macro can then be used to cancel all active totems instantly.
- /click MyTotemFrame1
- /click MyTotemFrame2
- /click MyTotemFrame3
- /click MyTotemFrame4
All-in-One Imbues and Lightning Shield
This can be used to apply all of your imbues and Lightning Shield with a single button if pressed 3 times in a row, saving some bindings:
- #showtooltip
- /castsequence reset=10 Flametongue Weapon, Lightning Shield, Windfury Weapon
Enhancement Shaman Weakauras
While there are a lot of Weakaura packs available on Wago, ones linked here are recommended for specific purposes to add functionality to the spec that otherwise cannot be found with the base UI.
Tempest Tracker
This Weakaura Link will provide you with a tracker for Maelstrom Weapon spent and Awakening Storms stacks present to plan around your Tempest procs.
Thorim's Invocation Tracker
This Weakaura Link will show your current "priming" for the Thorim's Invocation talent between either Chain Lightning or Lightning Bolt.
Elemental Spirits Tracker
While not strictly necessary, The War Within has added in a lot of reasons to be aware of the current state of your Feral Spirit wolves. Either this link or Wago provide two options to track these.
Enhancement Shaman Addons
General Addons for Shamans
Weak Auras
WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.
It is also extremely important when playing with Stormbringer to have a Weakaura to track Tempest due to the lack of in-game UI support. This weakaura link can track your current Maelstrom Weapon stacks spent and how close you are to your next proc.
ElvUI
ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.
Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.
Details!
"Details!" Damage Meter is a real-time DPS/HPS meter with a lot of additional functionality such as being able to see cooldowns, buffs, debuffs, damage done to specific targets, and statistical analysis. In our opinion, it is superior to Skada in terms of functionality, although it is slightly more complicated to configure. We recommend Details! as your default damage meter, but if you prefer something easier, then Skada is still a good option.
GTFO
GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.
Hekili
Hekili is a visual rotation aid that gives a visual cue to help players better grasp the moment-to-moment gameplay that can sometimes be overwhelming. It is regularly updated to align with new simulation profiles as and when they are created, and we highly recommend it as a tool both to learn with and as a helping hand to steer you along the right path, even for experienced players.
Changelog
- 05 Nov. 2024: Added Weakauras Section.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5, added Earth Elemental cancel method.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2, no changes necessary.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7, no changes necessary.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5, no changes necessary.
- 29 Apr. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1, no changes necessary.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added more commonly used macros, and reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Reviewed 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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