Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.0.5)

Level	Choices
15	✘ Lashing Flames	✔ Forceful Winds	✘ Elemental Blast
25	✔ Stormflurry	✘ Hot Hand	✘ Ice Strike
30	✘ Spirit Wolf	✔ Earth Shield	✘ Static Charge
35	✔ Elemental Assault	? Hailstorm	✘ Fire Nova
40	✔ Nature's Guardian	✘ Feral Lunge	✘ Wind Rush Totem
45	✘ Crashing Storm	✘ Stormkeeper	✔ Sundering
50	✘ Elemental Spirits	? Earthen Spike	✔ Ascendance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sundering is the best choice in this tier. This talent deals a decent amount of damage and can also be used as an interrupt.

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.

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.

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.

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.