Enhancement Shaman Playstyle and Rotation Guide

Enhancements rotation may look daunting as we have a lot of buttons. However, it boils down to a few core principles:

• Keep Flame Shock active; especially when using the fire build with Lashing Flames; it makes up a sizeable portion of your damage. You will usually cast one initial Flame Shock or Primordial Wave and maintain it via Lava Lash after
• You never want to waste Maelstrom Weapon. Our spenders were massively buffed in Dragonflight, and the value of Maelstrom Weapon is very high because of this
• Aim to always keep your strongest abilities on cooldown. This is either Lava Lash or Stormstrike depending on your build, and Frost Shocks buffed by Ice Strike and Hailstorm.
• React to Stormbringer and Hot Hand procs as quickly as possible. If Stormbringer is not consumed you cannot profit off of repeat procs, and if you don’t immediately react to Hot Hand, you will only be able to buff 3 instead of 4 Lava Lashes.
• Don’t sit on Primordial Wave or Feral Spirit. These are very short cooldowns and you are wasting the cooldown reduction from Witch Doctor’s Ancestry and T31 4pc if you leave them unused for prolonged periods.

General Rotation:

1. Windfury Totem if missing
2. Primordial Wave with T31 4pc
3. Feral Spirit
4. Windstrike
5. Lava Lash with Hot Hand active or 6+ Ashen Catalyst stacks
6. Stormstrike with Doom Winds active
7. Ice Strike with Doom Winds active
8. Crash Lightning with Doom Winds active
9. Sundering with T30 2pc or Doom Winds active
10. Primordial Wave without T31 4pc
11. Flame Shock if missing
12. Lightning Bolt at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon with Primordial Wave
13. Elemental Blast at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon with Elemental Spirits active
14. Lava Burst at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon with Fire Elemental Spirits active
15. Sundering with Legacy of the Frost Witch or regular Feral Spirits active
16. Ice Strike
17. Frost Shock with Hailstorm active
18. Lava Lash with less than 5.4 seconds on Flame Shock
19. Stormstrike with Stormbringer active
20. Elemental Blast at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon and both charges off cooldown
21. Lava Burst at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon
22. Lightning Bolt at 10 Maelstrom Weapon
23. Stormstrike
24. Lava Lash
25. Lightning Bolt at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon
26. Sundering
27. Frost Shock
28. Crash Lightning
29. Fire Nova
30. Flame Shock

Opener:

1. (pre-cast) Windfury Totem
2. Flame Shock / Primordial Wave if talented
3. Feral Spirit

Multi Target:

1. Windfury Totem if missing
2. Primordial Wave
3. Feral Spirit
4. Lava Lash to spread Flame Shock if not at maximum
5. Lightning Bolt at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon and Primordial Wave active
6. Chain Lightning at 10 Maelstrom Weapon
7. Crash Lightning with Doom Winds active
8. Sundering with T30 2pc or Doom Winds active
9. Fire Nova at 6 targets
10. Sundering with Legacy of the Frost Witch active or regular Feral Spirits active
11. Crash Lightning to maintain the buff
12. Ice Strike
13. Frost Shock with Hailstorm active
14. Windstrike (if talented into Thorim’s Invocation)
15. Flame Shock if missing
16. Windstrike (if talented into Deeply Rooted Elements)
17. Stormstrike (if talented into Deeply Rooted Elements)
18. Lava Lash to apply Lashing Flames
19. Crash Lightning if buffed by Chain Lightning
20. Sundering
21. Fire Nova at 4+ targets
22. Elemental Blast at 5 Maelstrom Weapon with Elemental Spirits active
23. Windstrike
24. Stormstrike
25. Crash Lightning
26. Fire Nova at 2+ targets
27. Chain Lightning at 5+ Maelstrom Weapon
28. Frost Shock

Playstyle

When using both Elemental Blast and Elemental Spirits, make sure you pool Elemental Blast charges before Feral Spirit, so you can always get two inside the window. Elemental Blast gets buffed by all wolves, which stack multiplicatively for massive damage. In 10.1 this is even more important as you want your Elemental Blasts buffed by the massive Mastery increase from the T30 2pc too.

When using both Primordial Wave and Overflowing Maelstrom, you ideally want to spend 10 Maelstrom Weapon on the Lightning Bolt. This is made a lot easier through Primal Maelstrom
Primordial Wave and Doom Winds should be saved for add spawns if possible, as their value increases drastically with extra targets.

During Doom Winds you want to focus on using as many main hand attack as possible as only those can trigger Windfury Weapon. This includes Stormstrike, Ice Strike, Crash Lightning, and Sundering. If used in AoE, you want to reduce Crash Lightnings cooldown by using Chain Lightning and get as many into the window as possible, as it can trigger Windfury Weapon on every target hit.

When using Ascendance, you now need to make sure to prime Thorim’s Invocation with the correct Maelstrom Weapon spender. You always want Lightning Bolt in single target and Chain Lightning in AoE. Because of the T30 4pc making you use Chain Lightning in single target you will have to pay more attention to this now.

When using Alpha Wolf, remember to activate it by using Crash Lightning or Chain Lightning every 8 seconds after casting Feral Spirit. Activating it is even worth in single target as the wolves just begin to cast Spirit Bomb on top of their normal damage.