Enhancement Shaman PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight Season 1

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

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 Lightning Bolt if you have more than 8 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon stacks available.
6. If you cannot connect to your target use, Frost Shock, Flame Shock, or Lightning Bolt at range.
7. Use utility like Hex, Healing Stream Totem, Greater Purge, Purge, Earthbind Totem, Earthgrab Totem, or Earth Shield.
8. 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 Tempest and Hot Hand-buffed Lava Lash. With Totemic it is around Surging Totem, Sundering and Hot Hand. 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. Use Lightning Bolt with 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon for the Lightning Strikes buff.
2. Build to 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon before starting your burst.
3. Use Static Field Totem on the kill target, if talented.
4. Use Doom Winds for burst damage.
5. Use Sundering for burst damage, which will activate Totem of Wrath, if talented.
6. Use Primordial Storm for burst damage.
7. Use Tempest to spend Maelstrom stacks as they become available.
8. Use Lava Lash on cooldown, prioritizing when Hot Hand buff is active.
9. Use Stormstrike to generate more Maelstrom stacks.
10. Use Lightning Bolt to spend Maelstrom stacks once at 10.
11. Continue cycling Lava Lash (with Hot Hand when available), Lightning Bolt, and Stormstrike to maintain pressure.
12. Use Frost Shock as filler when other abilities are on cooldown.

1. Use Lightning Bolt with 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon for the Lightning Strikes buff.
2. Build to 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon before starting your burst.
3. Wait to have Hot Hand proc.
4. Use Static Field Totem on the kill target, if talented.
5. Use Surging Totem for burst damage.
6. Use Doom Winds for burst damage.
7. Use Sundering for burst damage, which will activate Totem of Wrath, if talented.
8. Use Primordial Storm for burst damage.
9. Use Lava Lash with Hot Hand buff.
10. Use Stormstrike to benefit from Doom Winds.
11. Use Lightning Bolt to spend Maelstrom stacks once at 10, for Lightning Strikes buff.
12. Use Stormstrike to benefit from Doom Winds.
13. Continue cycling Lava Lash (with Hot Hand when available), Lightning Bolt, and Stormstrike to maintain pressure.
14. Use Frost Shock as filler when other abilities are on cooldown.

Astral Shift is the main defensive for Enhancement Shaman, which is on a 1.5-minute cooldown. This ability decreases damage taken by 40% for 8 seconds and is not usable while stunned. It is best to communicate with your healer and use this cooldown at high health when your opponents are using their offensive cooldowns and your healer needs help keeping you alive.

Burrow an immunity, similar to Dispersion from a Shadow Priest. While under the ground, you can be healed and can move at full movement speed. This is particularly useful if your healer gets crowd-controlled and the Shaman does not have Astral Shift available.

Ghost Wolf is an underrated ability; it allows the Shaman to stay at 100% movement speed with any slowing debuff active. This is the way Enhancement Shaman can kite melee opponents and stay very mobile. If you are moving beyond a very short distance, Ghost Wolf is worth the global cooldown it incurs. Ghost wolf can be purged, which is one of the reasons why the Spirit Wolf talent is not as good as it could be.

Spirit Walk acts as a root break which can allow the Enhancement Shaman to maintain melee range to keep pressure and generating Maelstrom Weapon stacks.

Nature's Guardian gives you a tool to survive stuns, something that Restoration Shamans are normally weak at. If a team is able to make this go off, play extra defensively until you are able to use Nature's Guardian again.

Grounding Totem summon an Air Totem with 5 Health at the feet of the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid member to itself. It will not redirect area of effect spells and lasts 3 seconds. This talent is important to help you avoid incoming crowd control. You can also use this to stop some incoming spell damage.

Tremor Totem breaks friendly team members out of Fear or Mind Control effects.

Healing Stream Totem should be used on cooldown to provide moderate amounts of passive healing. This is also increased through the 20% benefit if Earth Shield is on the target and will provide significant side healing.

Healing Surge is a spammable heal that provides significant side-healing. This should be used if your healer is stunned or crowd-controlled.

Earth Shield maintain this on yourself and one teammate due to talent Elemental Orbit to provide side-healing to your team.

Hex is a curse 7-second crowd-control which can be broken by damage. In general, you do not want to damage a target that has been hexed. That player does still have control of their character to move out of line of sight. This is best used on the enemy team when they have used an offensive or defensive cooldown or the healer as part of a crowd-control chain.

Earthbind Totem/ Earthgrab Totem is a placed totem that roots or slows any enemies within the radius. This totem is incredibly useful and should be used on cooldown. This helps your team's positioning. This totem can also help you land Capacitor Totem.

Purge or Greater Purge can be used defensively to purge off your opponent's offensive cooldowns or Mana back cooldowns, which are purgeable. One very important use is during a Priest's Mind Control of your teammate. When a Priest does this, it is better to use purge on your Mind Controlled teammate and not use your Wind Shear interrupt. This is because purge has no cooldown, while Wind Shear is on a 12-second cooldown.

Capacitor Totem is placeable Totem, which can be relocated using Totemic Projection, and can AOE stun for 3 seconds. It does require 2-seconds to detonate so be thoughtful when placing the totem it won't be instantly killed.

Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, and move the enemy players trapped within the totem using Totemic Projection.