Enhancement Shaman Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Prepatch Season 3 Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 6%
• (4) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 10%.

Tier sets have essentially been disabled during Midnight prepatch. Make sure you wear yours, as the damage bonus is quite significant.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Enhancement Shaman, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

When playing Enhancement, generally you are looking for on-use trinkets to pair with your burst and passive stat sticks, because we scale very well with them and we don’t amplify damage effects tied to items, like some other specs would.

Manaforge Omega comes with a wide set of trinkets once again, and two of them stand out among the rest for us.

Araz's Ritual Forge provides a massive amount of primary stat for 30 seconds on a 2 minute cooldown, which naturally syncs up with Ascendance. The effect being a bit longer than trinkets of its kind are, is generally quite nice for Enhancement, as it will buff you while you still have a lot of lingering lightning wolves at the end of your burst.

Astral Antenna provides you with random procs of crit and is a solid passive trinket.

The best dungeon trinkets from season 2 stay available for season 3, old favorites from season 1 are making a comeback, and there is even a strong candidate from the new dungeon, leaving us with a stacked pool of dungeon trinkets:

Signet Of The Priory and Lily Of The Eternal Weave are great on-use trinkets to be paired with your burst and you will want one active trinket. Macro it with Doom Winds or Primordial Wave when playing Totemic and with Ascendance when playing Stormkeeper.

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker is a slightly unconventional passive trinket, providing you a very short, strong surge of Crit like an on-use trinket would. If fight timers allow you to keep your cooldowns synced to it, this trinket is fantastic. However, if you are forced to desync your cooldowns from it, then other passive options will probably be better.

Alternatively, Ara-Kara Sacbrood, So'leah's Secret Technique and Empowering Crystal Of Anub'ikkaj are strong passive stat sticks and much more easily obtained than the Seaforium Pacemaker, since they are usable by many more classes.

Lastly, Mechano-Core Amplifier, Suspicious Energy Drink, Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife, Quickwick Candlestick, and Spelunker's Waning Candle are great options from Delves, but since they are not available in higher item levels they will eventually fall behind.

Right now the only Embellishments of note are the Darkmoon Sigils, which can only be put on weapons.

As such, you will want to craft a weapon and put Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on it.

For your second embellishment craft a low stat budget armor item such as bracers with Writhing Armor Banding.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Chronomantic Fiber (Haste).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Which item you should buy with your Puzzling Cartel Chips depends on your current gear, so I would advise using a Raidbots Droptimizer to find your biggest upgrade. Good options to buy are:

• Interloper's Chain Boots
• Astral Antenna
• Araz's Ritual Forge

Should you not have access to the Myth track versions of these items because you haven’t progressed the raid far enough, you could instead buy:

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
• Lily Of The Eternal Weave
• So'leah's Secret Technique
• Signet Of The Priory