Introduction
I want to begin by saying that enhance is one of my favourite specs to play. The complexity of the rotations makes it very rewarding and challenging. With this guide I’ll touch up briefly on most aspects of enhancement but I am going to focus primarily on the rotation and the setup I use to maximize damage. I’ll also include whatever tips I can think of to help all players new and old. I’d like this to be an open discussion and welcome concerns and additions in the comments.
I am aware of many of the theory craft sham builds but what I am going to explore here is the standard method.
Let’s take a look at what Enhance has to offer.
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Talents and Glyphs
Typical Endgame build:
Some aspects of your build will change depending on your group and items. For example; Improved Winfury totem can be dropped if there is always going to be a frost DK in your raid providing Icy Talons. The two spells do not stack.
If you are lower gear and struggle with mana you can opt to use some mana talents like Elemental Focus, Shamanistic Focus, and Improved Stormstrike.
Glyphs:
Glyph of Lightning Bolt,
Glyph of Stormstrike
Glyph of Windfury Weapon.
The third Glyph is changeable, I prefer this one but you may want to play around with a few others. You can try Glyph of Lightning Shield, If you get T9 set bonus, or Glyph of Feral Spirit But it did not seem to work last time I checked.
Rotation
Before I spit out a priority I want you to understand that enhancement is a lot more than just a simple priority. I’ll go into more detail below. As one of the toughest rotations in the game you’ll have to spend time perfecting it. It may take some time before you see some positive results.
Single Target Damage
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AOE Damage
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Additional Abilities
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I included a couple screenshots of some recount damage breakdowns from a couple fights. Use these to compare your damage make up.
VoA Frost boss:
https://imgur.com/FfFqF34
Rotface Heroic
https://imgur.com/RrKTCAj
Stats and Gearing
Stat priority:
Hit
Expertise
Haste
Attack Power
Critical
Armour Penetration
Agility/intellect/strength
Exploring Your Stats
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Gemming and Enchanting
Follow the stat priority to make sure that expertise and hit are capped. Use one +10 stats in a blue socket to activate the Relentless Meta helm. Be selective on which blue socket to activate to get the the most from a socket bonus. Gem all other blue sockets with Haste. Gem all yellow sockets with haste, and gem red sockets with Attack Power + Haste if the socket bonus is worth it.
Prioritize Haste and Attack power with enchants too. Use Black Magic on Main-hand and Beserking on Off-hand (they can both proc at the same time making it better than 2x Beserking which does not.)* Engineers will enchant hands with hyperspeed and macro it with Shamanistic rage since they share the same CD. It is important to get your hit and expertise caps. If it is not already provided through gear, then you'll need to gem for it.
Tips and Tricks
Enhancement can be overwhelming to play at times. There are many things to track at once: Maelstrom, Stormstrike Debuff, Flameshock Debuff, Totem Timer and location, lightning Shield and other CDs you may use. I highly suggest getting addons to help you do this. I use IceHUD for most of my tracking needs. You can move important features where ever you please but can take some fiddling time to get it right. Other players may have other addons they find useful for this purpose and I encourage them to add them into the comments. Proxie will track your Maelstromx5.
Since a lot of your damage and procs come from melee attacks, one of the first things I would do is macro /startattack to any move that doesn’t already trigger auto attacks. Relatively simple macros but I’ll still include them in the macro section.
Lastly, if you are really struggling, there is what I like to call “Training Wheels” addons. Two that I know of are EhnPrio and ShockAndAwe. I believe they work for warmane and EhnPrio is close enough to the correct rotation where you should be able to do some decent numbers. I am not Sure about ShockAndAwe though, but I know it use to work for retail Wrath. These would get you into the right habits and close to the numbers you should do until you feel comfortable enough.
Practice. You aren’t going to do amazing numbers right away and you’ll have to work at it. You’ll probably tweak your UI several times before you find the right setup.
Macros
Here’s the start attack macros:
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Also make an "iWin" macro That uses your CDs, You'll use this at the start of the fight or when the strategy calls for it. Most of the Enhancement CDs Trigger GCD so you are limited to what you can macro.
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