Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.0.2)
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
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15 |
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25 |
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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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.
Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
Forceful Winds is the best choice as this provides the most
damage, even though it requires uptime to generate stacks of the damage
increasing buff. This also works well with our burst cooldown based on
our legendary
Doom Winds, which also increases
Windfury Weapon
damage.
Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents
Stormflurry is the best choice in this tier. This fits into the
overall rotation well since
Stormstrike is the key to our big damage
output.
Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents
Earth Shield is the best choice in this tier. This provides passive
healing to the Enhancement Shaman or their teammates. This does not replace
the weak defensives of the Enhancement Shaman but can help them withstand
damage, or help their teammates.
Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents
Elemental Assault is the best choice in this tier. This talent helps
further amplify the
Stormstrike ability, and further helps generate
Maelstrom Weapon stacks which is now critical for the Enhancement
Shaman's damage rotation.
Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents
Nature's Guardian is the best choice in this tier. This is a crucial
defensive cooldown to help your survivability. Enhancement Shaman are very weak
while stunned and this talent will help them survive.
Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents
Sundering is the best choice in this tier. This talent deals a
decent amount of damage and can also be used as an interrupt.
Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents
Ascendance is the best choice in this tier. This is a
very strong burst cooldown that will often result in you killing an enemy
player. This now does significant AoE damage when cast.
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
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, you affected players
will no longer receive the
Exhaustion debuff. This talent is a staple
PvP talent that increases you and your teammates burst very deadly.
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.
Swelling Waves is a great defensive pick if you expect to be
targeted. Since this talent only affects the heals you use on yourself this
talent is very situational. If you are against a class you know you will not
be able to kite using
Frost Shock or
Ghost Wolf, like Demon
Hunters or Windwalker Monks, then this is a good option to be able to
self-heal to help during stuns on your healers or stay self-sufficient.
Situational PvP Talents
Ethereal Form is very valuable as a defensive with the amount of
Physical damage only classes. This makes you immune to all Physical damage,
but unable to attack or cast spells and your movement speed is reduced by 50%.
It lasts 15 seconds. Use
Ethereal Form again to shift out. This can be
used as an immunity against high burst classes such as
Subtlety Rogues,
Arms Warriors, and
Windwalker Monks.
Purifying Waters is another great defensive talent that should be
used versus healers with multiple buffs that can be
Purged. Because you
will normally need extra healing, this will allow you to heal yourself when your
healer is stuck in crowd control.
Changelog
- 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.
This guide has been written by Tiqqle, a PvP enthusiast who has repeatedly achieved 2400 rating. You can watch his stream on Twitch, and you can also check out his YouTube channel.
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