Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide
Hello guys, lately some people have been asking me a lot of different things about this specialization, so I decided to make a simple and understandable guide for it. Happy reading!
Table of Contents
1. Talents and glyphs
2. Stats
3. Gear
4. Enchants and imbues
5. Gems
6. Rotation and totems
7. Macros
8. Addons
9. Tips and tricks
10. Beastcleave guide (Coming soon!)
1. Talents and glyphs
Most common build with 3/3 “Anticipation”, 2/5 “Toughness” and 5/5 “Reverberation”.
https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#hVM...GzoRuio:NjfVcm
This build is with less survivability, but more damage with 3/3 “Static Shock” and 4/5 “Reverberation”.
https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#hVM...GzsRuio:NjfVcm
“Lightning Shield” build by Forshizzlex. Without “Anticipation”, “Lava Lash” and “Reverberation”, with 3/3 “Improved Shields” 5/5 “Elemental Fury”. If you use this build, then keep in mind that you might have to enchant your off-hand weapon with “Titanium Weapon Chain” since you don’t have “Anticipation”. Also, this build has a different 3rd glyph – “Glyph of Lightning Shield”.
https://wotlk.evowow.com/?talent#hVM...GzsMuio:NjdVcm
F.Y.I you can use “Glyph of Windfury” or “Glyph of Shocking” instead of “Glyph of Stormstrike”, it’s just my personal preference, but the first two glyphs are foundation.
2. Stats
First of all, make sure you have these stats capped before anything, because you don't want to miss your spells.
Hit Rating: 4-5% or a bit more
Spell Penetration: 60-130 [Personal preference]
After that you should prefer following stats:
Attack Power (For more powerful auto attacks and "Feral Spirit" if glyphed)
Critical Strike Rating (Who doesn't like crits?)
Haste (For quicker auto attacks/spell casting, so there's a chance that "Windfury Weapon" will proc more often, also for getting stacks of "Maelstrom Weapon" sooner, quicker purging, reduction of GCD.
Armor Penetration (It's pretty decent against plate classes)
These are my stats at the moment if someone is wondering:
Attack Power: 5651
Hit Rating: 181 (5.52%)
Spell Penetration: 98
Critical Strike Rating: 41.49%
Haste Rating: 171 (5.22%)
Resilience: 1254 (1375 with shield)
Armor Penetration: 163 (11.65%)
3. Gear
Head: Wrathful Gladiator's Linked Helm
Neck:
Wrathful Gladiator's Pendant of Victory
Wrathful Gladiator's Pendant of Triumph (If hit rating is capped)
Precious's Putrid Collar
Shoulders:
Wrathful Gladiator's Linked Spaulders
Relentless Gladiator's Linked Spaulers
Titan-Forged Shoulders of Triumph (If hit rating is not capped)
Dual-Bladed Pauldrons
Cloak:
Wrathful Gladiator's Cloak of Victory
Wrathful Gladiator's Cloak of Triumph (if hit rating is capped)
Shadowvault Slayer's Cloak (if hit rating is capped)
Chest:
Wrathful Gladiator's Linked Armor
Wrist:
Wrathful Gladiator's Wristguards of Triumph
Hands:
Wrathful Gladiator's Linked Gauntlets
Waist:
Wrathful Gladiator's Waistguard of Triumph
Legs:
Wrathful Gladiator's Linked Leggings
Feet:
Wrathful Gladiator's Sabatons of Triumph
Ring #1:
Ashen Band of Endless Vengeance
Ring #2:
Wrathful Gladiator's Band of Triumph
Band of the Bone Colossus
Signet of Twilight
Trinket #1:
Medallion of the Alliance
Trinket #2:
Sharpened Twilight Scale
Deathbringer's Will
Whispering Fanged Skull
Death's Verdict
Herkuml War Token
Battlemaster's Rage
Comet's Trail
Relic:
Totem of the Avalanche
Main Hand weapon:
Havoc's Call, Blade of Lordaeron Kings
Wrathful Gladiator's Handaxe
Wrathful Gladiator's Cleaver
Off-Hand weapon:
Havoc's Call, Blade of Lordaeron Kings
Wrathful Gladiator's Splitter
Wrathful Gladiator's Chopper
4. Enchants and imbues
Head:
+50 attack power and +20 resilience rating
Shoulders:
+40 attack power and +15 resilience rating
Cloak:
+35 spell penetration
Chest:
+20 resilience rating
+10 to all stats (if your resilience is enough)
Wrist:
+50 attack power
Hands:
+44 attack power
Waist:
+additional socket
Legs:
+75 attack power and +22 critical strike rating
+44 resilience rating and +28 stamina (if lacking resilience)
Feet:
+32 attack power
+15 stamina and minor movement speed increase
Main Hand weapon:
+400 attack power proc
Off-Hand weapon:
+400 attack power proc
+250 spell haste proc
+50% reduction of disarm effects and +28 hit rating (if you don't have points on “Anticipation” talent)
Speaking about weapons imbues, use "Windfury Weapon" on your main hand weapon and "Frostbrand Weapon" on your off-hand, because in arenas you're probably going to get kited a lot and "Frostbrand Weapon" slow is UNDISPELLABLE. You can use double "Windfury Weapon" in battlegrounds for some fun.
5. Gems
Red:
● +40 attack power
● +68 attack power (get 3 of them if you have 450 jewelcrafting)
Yellow:
● +20 attack power and +10 resilience rating
● +20 attack power and +10 haste rating (if your resilience is enough)
● +20 resilience rating (if you're lacking resilience)
Blue:
● +25 spell penetration
● +10 haste rating and +13 spell penetration
Prismatic:
● +10 to all stats (make sure you have it in one of the blue sockets)
Meta:
● +42 attack power and stun duration reduced by 10% (greatly stacks with orc racial)
● +21 agility and 3% increased critical strike damage
6. Rotation and totems
1. Drop your totems within 30 yards from you
2. Feral Spirit
3. Stormstrike
4. Shock
5. Lava Lash (You can use it as 3rd ability instead of shock and vice versa, if you want to get "Windfury Weapon" proc sooner.
6. Lightning Bolt if you have 4-5 stacks of "Maelstrom Weapon"
7. If everything is on cooldown, use "Purge" or either "Fire Nova"
What main totems I should use against certain arena compositions? Let's find out!
1. Use Tremor Totem versus every composition that has a class with fear ability (warrior, warlock, priest) and make sure to replace it if it gets destroyed.
2. Use Strength of Earth Totem, Stoneskin Totem or Earthbind Totem versus every composition that doesn't have a class with fear ability.
3. Use Flametongue Totem as your main fire totem. Don't use Magma Totem or Searing Totem because it can break your CC, unless you're left in 1v1.
4. Use Cleansing Totem versus every composition that has a rogue, shadow priest (sometimes you can use it even if it's discipline priest), hunter, death knight, feral druid.
5. Use Windfury Totem as your main air totem.
7. Macros
"Stormstrike + start attack"
#showtooltip Stormstrike
/cast stormstrike
/startattack
"Frost Shock focus"
#showtooltip Frost Shock
/cast [target=focus] Frost Shock
#showtooltip Frost Shock
/cast [nomod, @target] Frost Shock; [mod:Control, @focus] Frost Shock
"Lava Lash + start attack"
#showtooltip Lava Lash
/startattack
/cast lava lash
"Feral Spirit + pet attack"
#showtooltip Feral Spirit
/cast Feral Spirit
/petattack
"Spirit Walk"
#showtooltip Spirit Walk
/cast Spirit Walk
"Bash"
#showtooltip Bash
/cast Bash
"Wind Shear focus"
#showtooltip Wind Shear
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus] Wind Shear
#showtooltip Wind Shear
/stopcasting
/cast [nomod, @target] Wind Shear; [mod:shift, @focus] Wind Shear
"Wind Shear arena 1-3"
#showtooltip Wind Shear
/stopcasting
/cast [target=arena1-3] Wind Shear
"Hex focus"
#showtooltip Hex
/cast [target=focus] Hex
#showtooltip Hex
/cast [nomod, @target] Hex; [mod:shift, @focus] Hex
"Hex arena 1-3"
#showtooltip Hex
/cast [target=arena1-3] Hex
"Purge focus"
#showtooltip Purge
/cast [target=focus] Purge
#showtooltip Purge
/cast [nomod, @target] Purge; [mod:shift, @focus] Purge
"Healing Wave on a party member"
#showtooltip Healing Wave
/cast [target=party1-3] Healing Wave
"Gift of the Naaru on a party member without targetting"
#showtooltip Gift of the Naaru
/cast Gift of the Naaru; [mod:shift, @party1] Gift of the Naaru
"Equip shield"
#showtooltip Wrathful Gladiator's Shield Wall
/equipslot 16 Wrathful Gladiator's Cleaver
/equipslot 17 Wrathful Gladiator's Shield Wall
"Equip weapons"
#showtooltip Wrathful Gladiator's Cleaver
/equipslot 16 Wrathful Gladiator's Cleaver
/equipslot 17 Wrathful Gladiator's Chopper
"Target party members"
/target party1-2
"Target arena enemies"
/target arena1-3
8. Addons
For keeping track of your "Maelstrom Weapon" stacks and shields etc. You can also use "PowerAuras" instead of this, but I prefer this one.
ShockAndAwe
For easier targeting and focusing in arenas.
Gladius
To know when a certain ability comes off cooldown.
DoomCooldownPulse
Replaces "Blizzard" cooldown timers.
OmniCC
9. Tips and tricks
1. You can use "Stormstrike", "Lava Lash" and totems while silenced.
2. You can use "Shamanistic Rage" while stunned, also use it when you know you're going to get bursted, not in the last seconds, for example a shadow priest and rogue opens on you.
3. Use "Grounding Totem" to avoid CC like "Polymorph", "Hex", "Cyclone", "Freezing Trap", "Repentance", "Hammer of Justice". Also use it when you're low HP to absorb any harmful spell. It may save your life.
4. Use "Water Walking" to buff yourself and your partners, it will be a bit harder for your enemies to dispel beneficial buffs from you, or just use it to get into a combat.
5. Try to fake your spells to avoid interrupts/reflects.
6. Equip shield versus certain classes and arena compositions to boost up your survivability.
7. Don't always wait for 5 stacks of "Maelstrom Weapon" to cast a spell.
8. Use "Earthbind Totem" to remove slow effects, even works for "Hamstring".
9. If druid tries to "Cyclone" you and you don't have anything to avoid it, then you can cast "Hex" on him.