Enhancement Shaman PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

The Enhancement Shaman should focus on maximizing their damage as much as they can. With the Stormbringer build, your rotation centers around maximizing burst during active windows with Hot Hand-buffed Lava Lash, which is enhanced by Stormbringer talents. Maximizing damage and using instant utilities like Wind Shear and Grounding Totem will give windows where your team can do devastating damaging bursts.

Have a plan for who you will be mainly using your crowd control on. Although Enhancement Shaman do lack crowd control, they still have Hex.

If you are playing against a team that has the ability to fear your healer, you can use Tremor Totem. This is a great utility spell.

Set your focus target to the main enemy team member who will be likely using crowd control like Polymorph or Fear.This will allow you to know when to use Wind Shear and Grounding Totem to stop the crowd control.

Use Earth Shield on your teammate who will be focused, which is usually the Enhancement Shaman.

Use Flametongue, and Windfury Weapon on your weapons before the gates open. Buff yourself with Lightning Shield and Skyfury.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are not available. With the Stormbringer build, prioritize Lava Lash with Hot Hand buff, which is enhanced by Stormbringer talents.

1. Use and maintain Flame Shock on the enemy as you approach.
2. Use Lava Lash, generating Maelstrom Weapon. Prioritize this when Hot Hand buff is active, as Stormbringer talents enhance this interaction.
3. Use Stormstrike, generating Maelstrom Weapon.
4. Use Stormstrike when you get a Stormsurge proc.
5. Use Elemental Blast if you have more than 8 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon stacks available.
6. Use Lightning Bolt if you have more than 8 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon stacks available, while Elemental Blast is on cooldown.
7. If you cannot connect to your target use, Frost Shock, Flame Shock, or Lightning Bolt.
8. Use utility like Healing Stream Totem, Greater Purge, Purge, Earthbind Totem, Earthgrab Totem, or Earth Shield.
9. Use your burst rotation when cooldowns are available.

When you have the enemy healer in crowd control, and you are trying to kill an enemy, you use your burst damage. With the Stormbringer build, your burst windows are optimized around Hot Hand-buffed Lava Lash, which is significantly enhanced by Stormbringer talents. If you can, stun the kill target with Capacitor Totem or have your team stun the target so they cannot move or use defensives.

1. Build to 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon before starting your burst.
2. Use Feral Spirit for increased damage.
3. Use Static Field Totem on the kill target, if talented.
4. Use Elemental Blast to spend all Maelstrom for significant burst damage.
5. Use Sundering for AoE burst damage.
6. Use Lava Lash on cooldown, prioritizing when Hot Hand buff is active - this is especially powerful with Stormbringer talents, which enhance the LavaLash and HotHand interaction.
7. Use Lightning Bolt to spend Maelstrom stacks as they become available.
8. Use Stormstrike to generate more Maelstrom stacks.
9. Use Ice Strike to generate more Maelstrom stacks.
10. Continue cycling Lava Lash (with Hot Hand when available), Lightning Bolt, and Stormstrike to maintain pressure.
11. Use Frost Shock as filler when other abilities are on cooldown.

Astral Shift is the main and only defensive cooldown on a Enhancement Shaman. This cannot be used while stunned and reduces damage taken by 40% for 12 seconds.

Healing Stream Totem should be used to provide low amounts of passive Healing, further buffed by Swirling Currents. This is also increased through the 20% benefit if Earth Shield is on the target will provide significant side healing.

Healing Surge should only be used with 5 or more Maelstrom Weapon stacks to gain the benefit of the increased throughput. Try to only use Healing Surge on teammates with your Earth Shield, and after pressing Healing Stream Totem with the Swirling Currents buff active.

Spirit Walk will mostly be used to break root effects to keep on a target or to move to safety.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.