Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as an Enhancement Shaman and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Enhancement Shaman
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Talents Summary
Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Tempest Strikes adds Nature damage to each of the main rotation abilities including
Stormstrike,
Ice Strike,
Lava Lash.
Thorim's Invocation increases
Lightning Bolt damage by 20%.
Flurry talent has returned to Enhancement Shaman, increasing their passive damage and benefits from
Windfury Totem,
Windfury Weapon, and
Flametongue Weapon.
Totemic Surge decreases the cooldown of critical totems like
Grounding Totem,
Earthgrab Totem, among others.
Planes Traveler gives a reduced cooldown for
Astral Shift.
Earthgrab Totem gives more crowd-control against double melee teams.
Totemic Projection allows for moving
Static Field Totem to move enemy team members to make them easier to hit or move them away.
Enhancement Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Doom Winds will be your highest damaging cooldown in PvP.
Thorim's Invocation and
Static Accumulation will be significant burst when
Deeply Rooted Elements procs.
Legacy of the Frost Witch is a very powerful passive, which allows Enhancement Shaman's rotation to feel smooth. This also increases the damage of
Stormstrike, which is already buffed.
Overflowing Maelstrom allows your spenders to benefit from ten stacks of
Maelstrom Weapon, making spenders even more powerful.
Elemental Assault allows for increased
Maelstrom Weapon generation through
Stormstrike. This makes the rotation of Enhancement Shaman feel more smooth.
PvP Talents for Enhancement Shaman
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Grounding Totem summons 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. Will not redirect area of effect spells. It lasts 3 seconds.
This is a crucial talent for both you and your teammates. You should use this
to "ground" crowd control like
Polymorph or
Cyclone or large
spells like
Ebonbolt.
Static Field Totem has only around 5K HP, but can be an important
factor
when going for burst for a kill. This will allow you to get off
your
damage without being kited. This traps the enemy team within the circle.
This can also be moved, dragging the enemy using
Totemic Projection.
Ride the Lightning is a great passive damage PvP talent.
Situational PvP Talents
Shamanism is a great Haste buff for your and your teammate to benefit from
Heroism/
Bloodlust.t.
Skyfury Totem can be a useful option if playing with a teammate who
has high magic bursts. This totem only impacts abilities that are magic and
not
Physical damage critical hits. Some examples to use this talent with would be a
Retribution Paladins,
Balance Druids, and
Destruction Warlocks. This can
significantly increase their burst window damage.
Seasoned Winds provides 15% damage reduction against possibly
multiple
schools of magic when interrupting the enemy. This promotes the use of
Wind Shear
which is critical to the utility of the Enhancement Shaman. This is a very
strong
choice against any teams with casters. When interrupting some casts like a
Chaos Bolt the Shaman will gain 15% damage reduction for all schools of
magic
which is a significant defensive to maintain throughout the match.
Shamanism reduces the cooldown of your
Heroism/
Bloodlust to 60 seconds at the expense of only making
it give 20% Haste and last only 10 seconds. Additionally, affected players
will no longer receive the
Exhaustion debuff.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 23 May 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1 start of season.
- 06 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight post-launch.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands.
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated based on Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated in preparation for first PvP season of Shadowlands.
- 18 Oct. 2020: Updated for the 9.0.1 Pre-patch Shadowlands and new author.
- 12 Jul. 2020: Updated Tier 4 and 6 Regular Talents.
- 09 Mar. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 05 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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