Enhancement Shaman DPS Spell List and Glossary — Midnight (12.0.1)

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General Information

On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as an Enhancement Shaman in World of Warcraft — Midnight (12.0.1).

If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Enhancement Shaman Spell List and Glossary.

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Enhancement Shaman Spell Summary

Welcome to our Spell Summary page! If you are new to Enhancement, we recommend reading this page first to get a basic understanding of abilities you have access to. Here, we will cover all of the spells, passives, and talents available. This knowledge helps with understanding the rest of the guide, and can be used as a glossary to reference things mentioned elsewhere.

If you are leveling as Enhancement, you will only have access to some of these early in your journey. However, the dedicated leveling guide explains key concepts as you acquire them and how to use your toolkit.

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Main Resources for Enhancement Shaman

Unlike many conventional specs, Enhancement does not operate with a primary resource bar. Instead, Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks act as a pseudo-resource, empowering certain spells by allowing them to be cast instantly. Alongside this, we treat our rotational ability cooldowns as resources, as these don't have any strict cost. It therefore behaves similarly to some builder-spender specializations, but with an additional layer.

Additionally, you also have Mana as a secondary resource, which is used to cast most of our utility spells such as Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge and Purge Icon Purge. You can find some examples of helpful macros to use these more comfortably on our Macros page:

3.

Enhancement Shaman Apex Talent

New in Midnight, Apex Talents are single nodes with a 4-step increase located at the bottom of the specialization tree, granting unique effects with each point invested. For Enhancement, Storm Unleashed Icon Storm Unleashed is our Apex, focusing on Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning.

Ability Description/Effect
Storm Unleashed Icon Storm Unleashed 1 Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon spent has a 2% chance to cause your next cast of Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning to ignore its cooldown. Additionally, the weapon enhancement buff can now overlap.
Storm Unleashed Icon Storm Unleashed 2 & 3 Increases the damage of your Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon spenders by 7.5%/15%, and the damage of your weapon imbuements by 10/20%.
Storm Unleashed Icon Storm Unleashed 4 Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning casts leave behind a static pool, dealing 100% of the initial cast damage over 2 seconds. Additionally, the weapon enhancement buff increases auto-attack speed by 15% per stack while active.
4.

Enhancement Shaman Hero Talents

The two Enhancement Hero Talent Trees are Stormbringer and Totemic. In the boxes below, you can find a list of the effects available to each respective Hero Tree:

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Enhancement Shaman Hero Talents

Stormbringer Talents Totemic Talents
5.

Stormbringer Talents for Enhancement Shaman

These talents are available after selecting the Stormbringer tree from the Hero Talent selection, unlocked at Level 71. At level 90, you will have access to all talents (not including choice nodes):

Ability Description/Effect
Tempest Icon Tempest Every Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stack spent has a chance to trigger Tempest Icon Tempest. This is affected by all Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt multipliers and Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon. This deals massive Nature damage to your target, and a reduced amount to enemies within 8 yards of your target.
Unlimited Power Icon Unlimited Power Spending Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon grants you Haste for 15 seconds, stacking. New applications do not refresh the duration.
Stormcaller Icon Stormcaller Increases the Critical Strike chance of your Nature spells, and their Critical Strike damage bonus.
Electroshock Icon Electroshock Tempest Icon Tempest also increases your movement speed by 20% for 5 seconds.
Lightning Conduit Icon Lightning Conduit At any time, there is a chance for you to gain 50% movement speed for 5 seconds, increased to 100% when outdoors. Additionally, using Reincarnation Icon Reincarnation will also cast a Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm at your location.
Stormwell Icon Stormwell Increases all Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon damage dealt. Additionally, when Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning hits a single target, it will always trigger an additional Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon proc.
Supercharge Icon Supercharge Casting Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning has a chance to refund 2 Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks. This also currently affects Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast.
Storm Swell Icon Storm Swell Tempest Icon Tempest grants you bonus Mastery for 6 seconds.
Arc Discharge Icon Arc Discharge Casting Tempest Icon Tempest increases the damage of your next Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning by 20%, and causes it to cast one additional time. Can stack up to 2 times, but only ever consumes one at once. This can be consumed by Ride the Lightning Icon Ride the Lightning.
Rolling Thunder Icon Rolling Thunder Casting Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds spawns a Lightning imbued Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit for 12 seconds.
Natural Gift Icon Natural Gift Increases all Nature damage dealt by 2%.
Voltaic Surge Icon Voltaic Surge Increases the damage of Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning by 10%.
Conductive Energy Icon Conductive Energy Causes targets hit by your Tempest Icon Tempest, Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, and the primary target of yourChain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning casts to be affected by Lightning Rod Icon Lightning Rod. Targets affected take an additional 8% of all damage you deal with Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning and Tempest Icon Tempest casts. If your target is already affected when casting Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning, it will apply to another target it bounces to. This is also applied by Ride the Lightning Icon Ride the Lightning
Nature's Protection Icon Nature's Protection Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield reduces all damage taken by 3%.
Surging Currents Icon Surging Currents After casting Tempest Icon Tempest your next Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal or Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge heals for 16% more, stacking up to 5 times.
Descending Skies Icon Descending Skies Activating Ascendance Icon Ascendance through any means also grants a stack of Tempest Icon Tempest.
Awakening Storms Icon Awakening Storms Casting Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike has a small chance to grant a stack of Tempest Icon Tempest.
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Totemic Talents for Enhancement Shaman

These talents are available after selecting the Totemic tree from the Hero Talent selection, unlocked at Level 71. At level 90, you will have access to all talents (not including choice nodes):

Ability Description/Effect
Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem Summons a totem at the target location that casts a Tremor instantly, and every 6 seconds (reduced by Haste), dealing Flamestrike damage. Damage dealt is reduced beyond 5 targets, has a 25-second duration and a 1-minute cooldown.
Totemic Rebound Icon Totemic Rebound Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning have a high chance to fire a Surging Bolt at your active Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem, increasing its damage y 10% until it expires, stacking. The bolt then redirects to your target, dealing moderate Nature damage.
Amplification Core Icon Amplification Core Increases all damage and healing you deal by 3% while Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem is active.
Oversurge Icon Oversurge Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem deals 50% increased damage while Ascendance Icon Ascendance is active.
Lively Totems Icon Lively Totems Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash has a chance to summon a Searing Totem for 8 seconds that deals light Fire damage to your target every 2 seconds. Casting Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash or Voltaic Blaze Icon Voltaic Blaze causes all active Searing Totems to launch a Searing Volley at up to 5 nearby enemies.
Totemic Momentum Icon Totemic Momentum Increases Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash damage by 10%. Additionally, spending Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon extends the duration of an active Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand effect per stack consumed.
Oversized Totems Icon Oversized Totems Increases the size and radius of your totems by 15%, and their health by 30%.
Swift Recall Icon Swift Recall Successfully removing a harmful effect with Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem or Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem, or controlling an enemy with Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem or Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem reduces their respective cooldown by 5 seconds. This cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds per totem.
Wind Barrier Icon Wind Barrier Whenever you have a totem active, gain a small absorb shield for 30 seconds. Can only occur once every 30 seconds.
Splitstream Icon Splitstream Casting Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash with Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand active will trigger a Sundering Icon Sundering at 80% effectiveness.
Elemental Attunement Icon Elemental Attunement Increases your Mastery by 2%.
Imbuement Mastery Icon Imbuement Mastery Increases the chance for Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon to trigger by 5%, and the damage it deals by 8%. Additionally, Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon attacks triggered by Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon have a chance to deal bonus damage to all nearby enemies.
Pulse Capacitor Icon Pulse Capacitor Increases the damage of Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem by 18%.
Supportive Imbuements Icon Supportive Imbuements Increases the Critical Strike chance and Critical Strike damage of your Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon imbue.
Totemic Coordination Icon Totemic Coordination Increases the Critical Strike chance and Critical Strike damage of your Searing Totems spawned by Lively Totems Icon Lively Totems.
Earthsurge Icon Earthsurge Casting Sundering Icon Sundering or triggering Reactivity Icon Reactivity within 40 yards of your active Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem causes it to also Tremor at 125% effectiveness at the target area.
Primal Catalyst Icon Primal Catalyst Casting Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem causes your next Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash to echo a second time at increased effectiveness.
Whirling Elements Icon Whirling Elements Casting Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem spawns 3 Elemental motes that empower your next ability of the corresponding element:
  • Whirling Air Icon Whirling Air - Causes your next Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning cast to also launch 3 Totemic Rebound Icon Totemic Rebound bolts at your target.
  • Whirling Fire Icon Whirling Fire - Your next Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash cast grants Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand for 8 seconds, or extends an existing proc by the same amount.
  • Whirling Earth Icon Whirling Earth - Increases the direct damage of your next Sundering Icon Sundering cast by 300% on your current target, and spawns a Searing Totem.
5.

Baseline Enhancement Shaman Abilities

These abilities are available no matter your talent choice, and are the core of the specialization. Ordered alphabetically:

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Ancestral Spirit Icon Ancestral Spirit Res Brings a dead ally within 40 yards back to life, with a 10-second cast time. It cannot be used while in combat.
Astral Recall Icon Astral Recall - Teleports you to your current Hearthstone location with 10-minute cooldown, and a 10-second cast. This does not share a cooldown with your regular Hearthstone.
Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust / Heroism Icon Heroism BL / Lust Increases Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all party and raid members within 100 yards. This applies the Sated Icon Sated / Exhaustion Icon Exhaustion debuff to all allies affected, preventing them from benefitting from similar effects (Time Warp Icon Time Warp, Primal Rage Icon Primal Rage, Fury of the Aspects Icon Fury of the Aspects) for the next 10 minutes.
Dual Wield Icon Dual Wield DW Allows us to equip one-hand weapons in both hands. Primary melee attacks - Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike, Ice Strike Icon Ice Strike, and Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash - require you to have one-handed weapons equipped to use them.
Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem EBT Places a totem within 40 yards that slows the movement speed of nearby enemies within 10 yards of the totem by 50% for 5 seconds, refreshing while enemies remain nearby. Lasts for 20 seconds and has a 30-second cooldown.
Far Sight Icon Far Sight - Changes your in-game camera perspective to a targeted location for 1 minute. This can be recast from the new point of view to move it even further away.
Feral Lunge Icon Feral Lunge - An 8-25 yard range charge with a 30-second cooldown, causing you to leap to your target and deal minor Physical damage. Has a 0.5 second Global Cooldown.
Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock FlS Deals low Volcanic damage instantly to your target and applies a moderate Volcanic damage DoT effect for 18 seconds, with a 6-second cooldown and a 40-yard range.
Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf GW Toggled shapeshift that grants 30% additional movement speed and prevents you from being slowed below 100%. While transformed into a wolf, you cannot cast abilities.
Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge HS Heals your current target for within the 40-yard range with no cooldown,. This cast time can be reduced by Raging Maelstrom Icon Raging Maelstrom
Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt LB Deals Nature damage to your target with a 40-yard range. This has a 2-second cast, reduced by Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks.
Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield LS Self-buff with a 60-minute duration, causing you to deal Nature damage to enemies that strike you with melee attacks. These hits have a 50% chance to generate a stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon when it triggers.
Mastery: Enhanced Elements Icon Mastery: Enhanced Elements Ankh Enhancement Mastery, increasing all Fire, Frost and Nature damage dealt with Shaman spells. Additionally, each point increases the chance to trigger Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon and Stormsurge Icon Stormsurge.
Reincarnation Icon Reincarnation Ankh Allows you to resurrect yourself with 20% maximum Health and up to 20% Mana when you die, with a 30-minute cooldown. This ignores the Battle Resurrection limit in combat.
Skyfury Icon Skyfury - Grants your target and all allied party/raid members a 1-hour buff that provides 2 Mastery points, and a 20% chance to strike an additional time with melee auto attacks. This is the Shaman raid buff.
Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike SS Deals Physical damage to your target with both weapons, and has a 7.5-second cooldown, reduced by Haste.
Stormsurge Icon Stormsurge SB Proc with a 5% chance (increased by Mastery rating) that can trigger from Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike damage. When activated, it resets the cooldown of Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike.
Water Walking Icon Water Walking - Grants the targeted ally within 30 yards the ability to walk on water for 10 minutes. Taking damage cancels this effect.
6.

Enhancement Shaman Class Tree Talents

To help break this the talent trees into more manageable chunks, we have grouped abilities into active and passive effects and separated them into Class and Specialization tree offerings. If you would like to know more about which of these talents to select for your own Enhancement Shaman, refer to the builds and talents page of our guide.

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Enhancement Shaman Class Tree

Active Abilities Passive Effects
7.

Shaman Tree Active Abilities

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal CH Heals your current target, jumping to up to 3 nearby injured allies for 30% less per jump. This has a 40-yard range and no cooldown, has a 2.5-second cast time, and can be made instant with Raging Maelstrom Icon Raging Maelstrom stacks.
Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash LL Strikes your target with your off-hand weapon, dealing Fire damage with an 18-second cooldown (reduced by Haste). Damage is increased by 100% if you have Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon imbued.
Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning ChL Deals Nature damage to your target within 40-yards, and jumps to 2 additional nearby enemies. This has a 2-second cast, but can be made instant with Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks.
Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield ESh Applies a shield to your target for 10 minutes that has 9 charges, increasing all healing you do to them by 20% while active. Whenever the target takes damage, a charge is consumed and heals them for a small amount, with a short internal cooldown. This is exclusive with Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield unless you take Elemental Orbit Icon Elemental Orbit.
Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock FS Deals Frost damage to your target and slows them by 50% for 6 seconds. Has a 6-second cooldown and 40-yard range.
Spirit Walk Icon Spirit Walk Sprint Grants 60% movement speed for 8 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown, and removes all movement-impairing effects when cast. Any new applications after the cast will still slow you. This is off the Global Cooldown.
Gust of Wind Icon Gust of Wind - Causes you to leap forward a fixed distance, has a 20-second cooldown, and is on the Global Cooldown.
Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift AS Provides 40% damage reduction for 12 seconds with a 2-minute cooldown. Is off the Global Cooldown.
Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem HST Places a totem at your feet for 15 seconds that heals a nearby ally every 2 seconds. Has a 30-second cooldown and a 40-yard pulse range around the totem, and like all totems has a 1-second Global Cooldown.
Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear Kick Shaman interrupt tool, with a 12-second cooldown and 30-yard range. When you successfuly interrupt a target, it prevents spellcasting from the same school for 4 seconds.
Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem - Places a totem within 35-yards that lasts for 20 seconds, with a 30-second cooldown. This pulses every 2 seconds, rooting enemies within 8 yards of the totem for 8 seconds. Enemies that have previously been rooted will instead be slowed by 50% for 8 seconds. Replaces Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem.
Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem Cap Places a totem up to 40 yards away that will detonate after 2 seconds, stunning nearby targets within 8 yards for 3 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown.
Cleanse Spirit Icon Cleanse Spirit Decurse Removes all Curse effects from the targeted ally within 40 yards. Has an 8-second cooldown.
Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem WRT Places a totem within 40-yards that lasts for 15 seconds, creating a 10-yard circle around it that increases the movement speed of allies who enter it by 40% for 5 seconds. This refreshes so long as players remain in the area, and has a 2-minute cooldown.
Earth Elemental Icon Earth Elemental EE Summons an Elemental guardian for 30 seconds, with a 5-minute cooldown. This deals very low damage and attempts to taunt enemies nearby (unless they are currently engaged with a Tank specialization player).
Purge Icon Purge - Removes one beneficial effect from your current target within 30 yards. Has no cooldown.
Greater Purge Icon Greater Purge - Removes two beneficial effects from your current target within 30 yards. Has a 12-second cooldown.
Hex Icon Hex - Places a Curse effect on your target, silencing and incapacitating them. Targets can still move when Hexed, and this effect can break when damage is taken. Has a 1.7-second cast, a 30-second cooldown, 1-minute duration and can only be used on Humanoids and Beasts.
Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace SWG Allows you to cast Shaman spells while moving for 15 seconds on a 2-minute cooldown, and can be used while casting another ability.
Totemic Projection Icon Totemic Projection - Instantly relocates all your active totems to the target location within 40 yards. This has a 10-second cooldown and is off the Global Cooldown.
Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem - Places a totem at your feet for 10 seconds that will pulse every second. This has a 1-minute cooldown and each pulse will attempt to remove Charm, Fear and Sleep effects on allied party and raid members within 30 yards.
Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem PCT Places a totem for 6 seconds with a 2-minute cooldown. This pulses every 1.5 seconds, attempting to remove all Poison effects from a nearby party or raid member within 30 yards of the totem.
Nature's Swiftness Icon Nature's Swiftness NS Makes your next damaging or healing Shaman Nature spell instant cast and cost no mana with a 1-minute cooldown. Affected spells include Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning, Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge and Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt. Due to this not working with the Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon damage amplifier this is useless for Enhancement, and should never be taken.
7.

Shaman Tree Passive Effects

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Ancestral Wolf Affinity Icon Ancestral Wolf Affinity - Allows you to cast Cleanse Spirit Icon Cleanse Spirit, Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear, Purge Icon Purge, and your totems while in Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf form without canceling the effect.
Fire and Ice Icon Fire and Ice - Passively increases all Fire and Frost damage you deal with Shaman spells by 3%.
Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf SW While in Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf, you gain a buff each second that stacks up to 4 times, increasing movement speed by an additional 5% and reducing all damage taken by 5% per stack. All stacks are removed when you exit Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf.
Thunderous Paws Icon Thunderous Paws - When you enter Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf you gain an additional 25% movement speed for 3 seconds, and remove all snares affecting you. This effect can only trigger once every 20 seconds.
Elemental Orbit Icon Elemental Orbit - Allows you to have both Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield and Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield applied to yourself at the same time. It also allows you to apply Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield to yourself and another ally simultaneously.
Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian NG Instantly heal you for 40% of your maximum health whenever you fall below 35% Health. This effect has a 45-second internal cooldown.
Encasing Cold Icon Encasing Cold - Your Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock now roots your target in place for 4 seconds, but has a 15-second increased cooldown.
Arctic Snowstorm Icon Arctic Snowstorm - Enemies within 10 yards of your Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock target are slowed by 30%.
Winds of Al'Akir Icon Winds of Al'Akir - Increases your movement speed by 3/6%, and increases the movement speed provided by Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf by 5/10%.
Planes Traveler Icon Planes Traveler - Reduces the cooldown of Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift by 30 seconds.
Astral Bulwark Icon Astral Bulwark - Increases the damage reduction provided by Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift by 20%.
Brimming with Life Icon Brimming with Life - Grants 7.5/15% maximum Health at all times. Additionally, when Reincarnation Icon Reincarnationis on cooldown, it will recharge 50%/100% faster while you are at full health.
Elemental Resistance Icon Elemental Resistance - Causes allies healed by your Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem to take 6% reduced Fire, Frost and Nature damage for 3 seconds.
Spiritual Awakening Icon Spiritual Awakening - Increases your Mastery by 3%.
Enhanced Imbues Icon Enhanced Imbues - Increases the effect of your weapon imbue effects by 15%.
Windveil Icon Windveil - Successfully interrupting an enemy with Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear reduces all magic damage you take by 15% for 12 seconds.
Refreshing Waters Icon Refreshing Waters - Increases the healing done by your Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge casts when used on yourself by 25%.
Static Charge Icon Static Charge - Reduces the cooldown of Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem by 10/20 seconds.
Nature's Fury Icon Nature's Fury - Increases the Critical Strike chance of all Shaman Nature spells and abilities by 2/4%.
Ascending Air Icon Ascending Air - Reduces the cooldown of Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem by 30 seconds, and the duration of the movement speed buff granted is increased to 7 seconds.
Jet Stream Icon Jet Stream - Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem grants an additional 10% movement speed to allies, and whenever the buff is applied it will remove any snare effects present.
Primordial Bond Icon Primordial Bond - Your Earth Elemental Icon Earth Elemental no longer taunts targets, but you gain 15% increased maximum health while it's active.
Elemental Warding Icon Elemental Warding - Reduces all magic damage you take by 8%.
Totemic Focus Icon Totemic Focus - Increases the radius of all totem effects by 15%, increases the duration of Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem / Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem by 10 seconds, and increases the duration of Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem, Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem, Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem, and Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem by 3 seconds.
Graceful Spirit Icon Graceful Spirit - Reduces the cooldown of Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace by 30 seconds, and causes it to increase your movement speed by 20% when active.
Spiritwalker's Aegis Icon Spiritwalker's Aegis - Causes Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace to grant immunity to interrupt and silence effects for 5 seconds when activated.
Mana Spring Icon Mana Spring - Causes your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike casts to restore 37 Mana to you and your 4 closest allies. A player can only be affected by one Mana Spring Icon Mana Spring effect at a time, and the restoration effect will prioritize Healer specialization players.
Therazane's Resilience Icon Therazane's Resilience - Your Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield effect no longer loses charges, and is 115% more effective when it triggers.
Reactive Warding Icon Reactive Warding - When you refresh Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield on a target, they are healed a small amount for each stack missing. Additionally, the internal cooldown of consuming charges when hit is reduced by 1 second.
Voodoo Mastery Icon Voodoo Mastery - Reduces the cooldown of Hex Icon Hex by 15 seconds. Hex also slows targets affected by 70%, and for 6 seconds after it ends.
Totemic Surge Icon Totemic Surge - Reduces the cooldown of most totem abilities by 5 seconds. This does not affect Surging Totem Icon Surging Totem.
Instinctive Imbuements Icon Instinctive Imbuements - Casting Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield will also cast Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon, Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon and, if taken alongside Elemental Orbit Icon Elemental Orbit, Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield on yourself. Additionally, Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield increases your Agility by 3% when active.
7.

Enhancement Specialization Tree Talents

Similar to the class tree, we have broke Enhancement specific talents down into active and passive tools. These are much more important, and have a significant impact on the overall playstyle. If you would like recommendations on how to build your tree, refer to the builds on our talents page.

8.

Enhancement Shaman Spec Tree

Active Abilities Passive Effects
8.

Enhancement Tree Active Abilities

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon WF Imbues your main-hand weapon, granting a 15% chance (increased by Mastery) for each main-hand hit to strike two additional times as a special attack, dealing low damage and triggering any on-hit effects.
Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon FT Imbues your off-hand weapon, causing all melee hits to deal additional Fire damage to targets hit. Also increases the damage of Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 100% while applied.
Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning CL Deals Nature damage in a 120-degree cone in front of you, with a 12-second cooldown (reduced by Haste). When cast, will apply a buff for 12 seconds, causing your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike and Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash to deal additional Nature damage, split between up to 5 targets.
Voltaic Blaze Icon Voltaic Blaze VB Shocks your target and up to 5 enemies within 10 yards, dealing Nature damage and applying Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock. This always critically strikes, generates 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon, and has a 10-second cooldown. Replaces Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock.
Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds DW Summons a Tornado around you for 8 seconds, dealing moderate Stormstrike (Nature/Physical) damage to nearby enemies every second. When active, your chance to trigger Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon is doubled, and damage dealt by these procs is increased by 20%.
Sundering Icon Sundering - Deals Flamestrike (Fire/Physical) damage to targets in a short line in front of you, and can trigger weapon imbues on targets hit. Has a 30-second cooldown.
Ascendance Icon Ascendance Asc Replaces Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds. Transforms you into an air ascendant for 15 seconds, with a 3-minute cooldown, and triggers Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds. When in this form, your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike ability becomes Windstrike Icon Windstrike, which has a 60% reduced cooldown and causes it to ignore armor. This also transforms your auto-attacks into Windlash Icon Windlash, causing them to ignore armor and count as special attacks. These abilities both have a 30-yard range. Additionally, you have a 0.5% chance per Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon spent to trigger the Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds effect whenever Ascendance Icon Ascendance is not active.
Primordial Storm Icon Primordial Storm PStorm After casting Sundering Icon Sundering, gain access to one cast of Primordial Storm Icon Primordial Storm for 15 seconds as a combo follow-up, replacing the keybind. When cast, this deals 3 quick swings of Fire/Physical, Frost/Physical and Nature/Physical damage in succession to all nearby enemies, and can trigger weapon imbues on targets hit. Finishes with either an empowered Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning, depending on the number of enemies hit by the strikes. Finally, this consumes Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon to increase its damage.
8.

Enhancement Tree Passive Effects

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon MSW The primary resource for Enhancement. This has a 20% chance to trigger from any melee attack, increasing the damage dealt and reducing the cast time of your Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning and Tempest Icon Tempest spells by 20% per stack consumed. This stacks up to a maximum of 5, making spells instant.
Forceful Winds Icon Forceful Winds FFW Increases the chance for Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon to trigger by 10%, and its damage by 50%.
Molten Assault Icon Molten Assault - Reduces the cooldown of your Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 6 seconds. Additionally, if you cast Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash on a target affected by Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock, i will refresh the duration of the DoT and spread it to 5 enemies near the target.
Unruly Winds Icon Unruly Winds - Causes your Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon procs to trigger a third attack.
Raging Maelstrom Icon Raging Maelstrom - Allows your Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon to stack 5 additional times, up to a maximum of 10. Additionally, consuming Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon grants a stack of Raging Maelstrom Icon Raging Maelstrom, conferring 50% of the cast time reduction and increasing the healing done by Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge and Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal, based on stacks consumed.
Ashen Catalyst Icon Ashen Catalyst AC When Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash strikes a target affected by Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock, its cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds.
Stormblast Icon Stormblast - Your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike has an additional charge. Also causes your Stormsurge Icon Stormsurge-empowered Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike casts to deal 25% additional damage as Nature, stacking up to 2.
Overcharge Icon Overcharge - The Critical Strike damage of your Nature abilities is increased by 40% of your Critical Strike chance.
Overflowing Maelstrom Icon Overflowing Maelstrom - Allows you to consume up to 10 Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon stacks at once when spending the effect on spells.
Flurry Icon Flurry - Grants 15% increased attack speed for your next 3 auto-attacks after dealing a Critical Strike with a special ability.
Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand HH Grants a 5% chance to trigger the Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand effect when you auto-attack with Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon imbued. This grants an 8-second buff that reduces the cooldown of Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 25/50%, and increases its damage dealt by 20/40%.
Storm's Wrath Icon Storm's Wrath - Increases the Mastery bonus to the proc chance of Stormsurge Icon Stormsurge and Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon by 150%.
Elemental Tempo Icon Elemental Tempo ET Increases all Elemental damage you deal by 10%. Additionally, each stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon consumed reduces the cooldown of both Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike and Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 0.3 seconds.
Chaining Storms Icon Chaining Storms - Increases the damage dealt by your Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning spell, and causes it to jump to 2 additional targets.
Converging Storms Icon Converging Storms - Causes your Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning casts to increase the damage of your next Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike cast by 25% per target hit, stacking up to 6 times for a maximum bonus of 150%.
Stormflurry Icon Stormflurry - Gives Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike a 25% chance to strike your target an additional time for 40% of the damage dealt when cast. This effect can chain off itself, and can trigger on-hit effects such as the Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning buff.
Stormbind Icon Stormbind - Dealing a Critical Strike with a Nature ability reduces the target's movement speed by 60% for 5 seconds.
Elemental Weapons Icon Elemental Weapons EW Increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage you deal by 5% per active Weapon Imbue.
Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova FN Casting Voltaic Blaze Icon Voltaic Blaze has a 30% chance to trigger a Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova, causing your active Flame Shock Icon Flame Shocks to erupt. Each individual pulse deals Volcanic damage to enemies within 8 yards of the target, hitting up to 6 enemies. Additionally, Voltaic Blaze Icon Voltaic Blaze generates 2 extra stacks of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
Lashing Flames Icon Lashing Flames LF Your Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash and Sundering Icon Sundering casts leaves a debuff on targets hit for 20 seconds, increasing the direct and DoT damage dealt by your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock to them by 100%. This includes casts triggered by Splitstream Icon Splitstream for Totemic.
Ride the Lightning Icon Ride the Lightning RTL Your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike and Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash now also cast Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning on your target at 100% effectiveness, dealing 20% reduced damage per jump. These free casts do not consume Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon, nor are affected by the damage buff.
Lightning Strikes Icon Lightning Strikes - Consuming 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon at once increases the damage of your next Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike or Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 25%. When a stack is consumed, generate one stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
Elemental Assault Icon Elemental Assault EA Increases the damage of Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike by 20%. Additionally, your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike and Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash casts generate an additional stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
Static Accumulation Icon Static Accumulation - While Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds or Ascendance Icon Ascendance is active, generate 1/2 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon every second.
Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit Wolves Casting Sundering Icon Sundering spawns one Fire imbued Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit wolf, and casting Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds spawns one Lightning imbued Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit wolf, each lasting for 8 seconds. These guardians increase your Physical damage by 5%, and also increase damage you deal with their respective element by 5%.
Surging Elements Icon Surging Elements SE Casting Sundering Icon Sundering grants 15% Haste for 12 seconds, and additionally generates 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
Thunder Capacitor Icon Thunder Capacitor TC Increases the damage of Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning and Tempest Icon Tempest by 20%. Additionally, spending Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon has a 20% chance to refund all stacks spent.
Deeply Rooted Elements Icon Deeply Rooted Elements DRE Replaces Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds. Grants each stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon spent a 0.6% chance to activate Ascendance Icon Ascendance and Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds, lasting 6 and 8 seconds respectively (if you are already in this form, the effect is extended by the same amount instead). When transformed, your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike ability becomes Windstrike Icon Windstrike, which has a 60% reduced cooldown and causes it to ignore armor. This also transforms your uto-attacks into Windlash Icon Windlash, causing them to ignore armor and count as special attacks. These abilities both have a 30-yard range.
Thorim's Invocation Icon Thorim's Invocation TI While Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds or Ascendance Icon Ascendance are active, your Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike / Windstrike Icon Windstrike and Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning abilities will consume up to 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon to discharge a Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning or Tempest Icon Tempest. Which ability is cast is chosen based on your most recent cast. Additionally, increases the duration of Doom Winds Icon Doom Winds and Deeply Rooted Elements Icon Deeply Rooted Elements procs by 2 seconds, and reduces the cooldown of Ascendance Icon Ascendance by 1-minute.
8.

Further Reading

Since the majority of Enhancement's major abilities have direct interactions with each other, and there are so many in play, it can be overwhelming to work out how things are prioritized. Now you are equipped with the knowledge of what each thing does, our rotation page can explain the details on how to put these tools to use.

9.

Changelog

  • 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight release.
  • 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
  • 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
  • 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
  • 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
  • 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
  • 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
  • 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
  • 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
  • 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5 rework.
  • 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: Updated for Patch 10.2.5 spell school changes.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2 talent changes.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7, no changes necessary.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5 changes.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1 changes.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for new Patch 10.0.7 class tree.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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