Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide — 12.1

Patch 12.1 buffs Enhancement’s baseline damage outside cooldown windows while toning down Doom Winds Windfury generation, and also tunes shared Shaman control tools in PvP.

• Enhancement Shaman Impacting Changes:
  • Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning damage increased by 20%.
  • Lava Lash, Stormstrike, and melee damage increased by 15%.
  • Doom Winds now increases Windfury Weapon activation chance by 50% (was 100%).
  • Reactive Warding healing increased by 25%.
  • Healing Surge, Earth Shield, and Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 25%.
  • Stormbringer: Tempest main-target damage reduced by 10%; secondary-target damage reduced by 30%.
  • Totemic: Surging Totem Tremor damage reduced by 15%; Surging Bolt damage reduced by 10%.
  • Gladiator's Distinction (PvP trinket set bonus) now increases primary stat by 15% (was 12%) and Stamina by 5% (was 10%) for damage dealers.
  • Diminishing returns reset after 20 seconds (was 16 seconds).
  • Players under Fear or Disorient are no longer affected by knockbacks.
  • Earthbind Totem slow reduced to 30% (was 50%). Thunderstorm slow reduced to 30% (was 40%) in PvP combat.
  • Arctic Snowstorm slow reduced to 20% (was 30%). Enfeeblement slow reduced to 50% (was 70%) in PvP combat.

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2.2.

Midnight Season 1 Tuning

Due to the size of the changes we have broken it up into sections to make it easier to digest how Enhancement Shaman was tuned throughout Season 1.

• May 5th: All ability damage increased by 5%; auto-attack damage increased by 10%; Stormbringer Natural Gift and Voltaic Surge buffed; Thorim’s Invocation effectiveness bug fixed.
• May 26th: Bloodlust/Heroism from Shamanism haste reduced to 15% (was 20%) in PvP; fixed Thorim’s Invocation Maelstrom spenders dealing too much damage during Doom Winds.

• March 31st Class Tuning:
  
  • Lightning Lasso damage increased by 450% in PvP combat.
  • Electrocute damage increased by 35% in PvP combat.
  • Stormbringer: Tempest damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

• March 24th Class Tuning:
  
  • Crash Lightning damage increased by 80% in PvP combat. This also affects Crash Lightning (Unleashed).
  • Primordial Storm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Surging Elements now increases haste by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Totemic: Surging Bolt damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Totemic: Fixed an issue causing the tooltip of Primal Catalyst to not display that the Lava Lash casts at 50% effectiveness in PvP combat instead of 150%.
• For the Season 1 launch, Enhancement Shaman received a few changes that leads to higher burst with Primordial Storm.
  
  • All damage increased by 8%.
  • Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10%.
  • Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%.
  • Primordial Storm damage increased by 10%.
  • Damage from dispelling Flame Shock increased by 600%. This effect can no longer critically strike.

• Significantly simplified and smoother rotation.
• New Additions:
  • Storm Unleashed Apex Talents increase sustained and burst damage output.
  • Encasing Cold enabling more root crowd-control of the enemy team.
  • Totem of Wrath being linked to Sundering allows for burst rotation to include this for Tempest and other Maelstrom related abilities.
  • Voltaic Blaze new talent which can replace Flame Shock functionality. It instantly applies Flame Shock to multiple targets.
  • Thunder Capacitor giving the ability to refund Maelstrom is significant in helping keep offensive pressure.
• Removals:
  • Primordial Wave has been removed.
  • Stone Bulwark Totem and Totemic Recall have been removed.
  • Talents removed: Deeply Rooted Elements, Splintered Elements, among many others.
• Changes:
  • Rotation priorities have shifted with the removal of Primordial Wave and related talents.
  • Stormweaver PvP talent has now been included into Enhancement Shaman class, which means to be able to heal with instant casts, the Enhancement Shaman must spend Maelstrom first.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Enhancement Shaman getting Storm Unleashed, which increases the damage of Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities.