[Guide] Enhancement Shaman PvP
Enhancement Shaman
5.4.2
Grevious Season
Introduction
I've seen many Enhancement Shamans ask me basic questions and since I didn't have anything to do this afternoon I've decided to write down this guide. This guide will cover pretty much everything I can tell about Enh Shamans and hopefully it will help others who need help. I am Whatisatotem (Totem for short) and I play on Frostwolf some of you might know me but the vast majority of you most probably don't really care. I've had a lot of experience playing mainly Enh Shaman and Feral Druid on retail on the server of Outland, but since I'm not planning to tell anyone on a private server who I am on retail it's pointless to say what I've managed to do, nobody won't believe anyone without proof, I wouldn't either. All I'm going to say is that I've had enough rating to not care anymore, my goal has been achieved. I'm playing here to relive the old days of MoP mainly because Enh had better days before WoD happened. I'd rather not say how old I am but that doesn't matter, it's still the same game after all. I live in Sweden but I was never born there. And I will be more than happy to see other Enh Shamans on this server.
Enhancement is an extremely fun spec to play, it has giant burst, a lot of survivability and is quite mobile. First of all Enhancement is a hybrid melee caster support spec, which means the following: Enhancement Shamans are fighting in close distance with the ability to cast spells at range and if need comes to be they can even heal injured allies and support them with totems, slows and hexes. They can do pretty much everything and they work best in groups, they can of course work playing solo but you most likely would want an ally with you at all times just like any other hybrid.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Table of Contents
Spells
Passives
Talents
Glyphs
Stat Priorities
Gems
Enchants
Professions
Macros
Rotation
Burst
Crowd Control
Strengths
Weaknesses
Strategies
Spells
I'm going to explain every spell and on some of them I'm going to explain how I feel about them. You can ignore this wall of text if you feel like you know how all of the spells work.
Stormstrike: A spamable melee attack with an 8s cooldown, it applies a 25% critical chance bonus to your target with Lightning Shield, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Earth Shock and Elemental Blast. Use it whenever it is off cooldown on your attack target.
Lava Lash: A spamable melee attack with an 10s cooldown, it spreads your Fire Shock(DoT) on up to 4 targets around you. Damage is increased by 40% if Flametongue Weapon is applied on your off hand. Searing Totem gives you stacks of Searing Flame which increases the damage dealt by Lava Lash by 20% for each stack up to 100% extra damage. Use it whenever it is off cooldown on your main attack target or the target which has Fire Shock(DoT) applied depending on the situation.
Frost Shock: An instant cast spell with 25yd (30yd with PvP gloves) with a 6s cooldown (4s if glyphed). It applies a 50% slow for 8s and 5s root if talented into Frozen Power.
Earth Shock: An instant cast spell with 25yd (30yd with PvP gloves) with a 6s cooldown. it applies Weakened Blows which in turn reduces Physical damage dealt by 10% by your target.
Fire Shock: An instant cast spell with 25yd (30yd with PvP gloves) with a 6s cooldown. it applies a 30s long DoT.
Fire Nova: Instantly makes all targets affected by Fire Shock(DoT) explode dealing damage to everyone around them including themselves with a 4s cooldown. Used whenever you don't have anything else to cast.
Ancestral Spirit: Resurrection that drains your entire mana pool.
Lightning Bolt: A 2,5s spell which deals little to no damage, can be used while moving. Use only if you desperately need to kill someone on range while chasing.
Water Shield: A shield effect which gains mana on damage taken
Lightning Shield: A shield effect which deals damage to attackers
Hex: An 8s long polymorph effect which can be dispelled, it has a very long 45s cooldown (can be glyphed down to 35s)
Cleanse Spirit: Removes all Curse effects from targeted friendly players on a 6s cooldown. Use whenever you can dispell anything important
Purge: Dispells one magical buff off of your enemy without a cooldown.
Bind Elemental: Banishes an elemental for 8s. Use on Water Elementals and talented Earth and Fire Elementals
Chain Lightning: Use when two or more of your enemies have extremely low hp and they're far away. 3s cooldown, you mostly won't ever feel the cooldown
Chain Heal: Use when two or more of your allies are 90% hp and nobody has below 80% hp.
Healing Surge: Use whenever you have free Maelstrom Stacks on people with low hp.
Healing Rain: I never use this ability
Heroism: Use when in big fights in BGs or wPvP
Feral Spirit: Use when attacking your enemy, use whenever on cooldown since they're not that important to save and have a 2min cooldown.
Ghost Wolf: Instantly increases your speed by 30%, all spells remove this effect
Spirit Walk: Instantly increases your speed by 60% for 15s on a 60s cooldown, can be used during Ghost Wolf. Use whenever chasing or escaping, works well with Ghost Wolf and/or Windwalk Totem.
Spiritwalker's Grace: Causes all of your spells to be castable during movement for 15s on a 2 minute cooldown, works perfectly with spirit walk.
Ascendance: Ascends killing everyone on the entire server. Causes your melee attacks to have 30yd range, fully ignore armor and be increased by your mastery, also causes your Stormstrike to become Stormblast and be a 30yd long spell which also fully ignores armor and is increased by your mastery.
Shamanistic Rage: Reduces all damage taken by 30% and all of your offensive spells become free to cast for 15s on 1min cooldown
Totemic Recall: Destroys your totems and gives you back mana, I rarely use this
Water Walking: Allows you to walk on water
Wind Shear: Interrupts your enemy spell cast and locks the school of magic for 3 seconds, has a 12s cooldown.
Far Sight: 'Nuff said.
Searing Totem: A totem which attacks a nearby enemy every second, every hit grants you a stack of Searing Flames which increases damage done by Lava Lash up to 100%.
Magma Totem: Attacks everyone around the totem every second, good for defending flags and taking people out of stealth.
Fire Elemental Totem: Summons a giant Fire Elemental which attacks your enemies and grants you stacks of Searing Flames which increase damage done by Lava Lash up to 100%. Use whenever you're trying to deal as much damage as possible.
Earth Elemental Totem: Summons a giant Earth Elemental that will taunt everything around you, Briefly taunts pets, good when hunters use Stampede.
Earthbind Totem: Slows down everyone around the totem by 50%, lasts 20s, good for kiting.
Tremor Totem: Removes all Charm and Fear effects from you and everyone around the totem every second for 10s. 1min cooldown, use on AoE fears if in group, use on whatever you want when solo.
Grounding Totem: "Eats" the next spell casted around the totem (can be glyphed to reflect the spell). Use on big spells like and Chaos Bolt.
Capacitor Totem: After a 5s (3s if glyphed) delay stuns everyone around the totem for 5s. A good but unreliable stun on 45s cooldown.
Stormlash Totem: Causes every ally around you to deal a lot of damage every time they damage their enemies. Insane burst if used correctly but it sadly has a 5min cooldown.
Healing Stream Totem: A totem which heals injured allies, on a 30s cooldown, lasts 15s. Use on cooldown.
Healing Tide Totem: A totem which heals 5 most injured allies on a 3min cooldown, lasts 10s. Use when taking a lot of damage
Windfury Weapon: Has a chance to deal 3 extra melee hits with 8550 extra attack power instantly. Unleashing this will cause your 6 next attacks to be faster. You want to have this on your Main Hand.
Flametongue Weapon: Increases spell damage by 5% and deals damage on attack. Also increases damage from Lava Lash by 40% if used on your off hand. Unleashing this will cause you to deal 30% extra damage with your next fire spell. You want to have this on your Off Hand.
Frostbrand Weapon: Slows your enemy by 50% and deals damage on attacks. Unleashing this inflicts the slow on your enemy, if the enemy already has the slow on him the slow is going to be stronger
Rockbiter Weapon: Reduces damage taken by 5% Unleashing this works as a taunt, very crucial in PvP
Unleash Elements: Unleashes Elements, 'nuff said.
Passives
A lot of players miss their passive abilities, it's good to point them out
Burning Wrath: Increases Spell Power by 10%
Dual Wield: You can use two one-handed weapons at the same time and you can parry with them
Flurry: Your melee critical hits increase your melee haste by 15% and your haste from items is increased by 50% for 15s or until you hit 5 times.
Grace of Air: Increases Mastery by 3000
Maelstrom Weapon: Melee hits have a chance to decrease your next spell cast time and mana cost by up 20% each stack up to 100%
Mail Specialization: If you have only mail armor your Agility is increased by 5%
Mastery: Enhanced Elements: Increases the damage dealt by Fire, Nature and Frost spells.
Mental Quickness: 65% of your Attack Power is also Spell Power, also makes all of your spells very cheap (Except Healing surge). Has a 40% chance on melee hits to gain 5% mana.
Reincarnation: Resurrects yourself every one hour, good in BGs when people leave and you can steal the point or something.
Searing Flames: Searing Totem and Fire Elemental hits increase damage by Flametongue Weapon by 8% each hit up to 5 stacks, lasts 15s. You can spend these stacks to increase damage dealt by Lava Lash by 20% from each stack up to 100% extra damage dealt.
Static Shock: Stormstrike and Lava Lash spells have a chance to proc your Lightning Shield on your enemy
Unleashed Rage: Increases Attack Power by 10%
Talents
I'm going to sit here and put down another wall of text (the third one already? geez I should start talking about interesting stuff) I'm going to explain why I pick some talents over the other ones. Talents are of course personal preference, don't forget that.
15
Nature's Guardian: Basically a built-in Rallying Cry, I'd say this is the best option since it's passive and it gives you free HP on a 1min ICD.
Stone Bulwark Totem: A totem that grants you a shield that can easily be dispelled and the totem dies very fast either way. not the best but it has its moments
Astral Shift: The worst option, the cooldown is too long and the duration is too short.
30
Frozen Power: I'd say this one is my favorite since Frost Shock deals more damage than Fire Shock and it isn't worth using more than once, that's where Earth Shock and Frost Shock comes in.
Earthgrab Totem: It's good but the root can be removed and the cooldown on this thing is quite long. This is mainly used due to the fact it's bugged and you can root the same target more than once.
Windwalk Totem: It's good and it's even better once you combine Spirit Walk with it, a very strong option.
45
Call of the Elements: Good for using Capacitor Totem twice, not in my taste though.
Totemic Persistence: I personally don't like this talent but if you want it, sure take it.
Totemic Projection: Very good because you can throw your Capacitor Totem at your enemy and have a pretty much guaranteed stun.
60
Elemental Mastery: This is best in PvE, in PvP I never use it not even with Ascendance.
Ancestral Swiftness: Has it's moments and if you want it feel free to take it.
Echo of the Elements: I love this talent, you can get TWO critical Healing Surges at the same time both affected by Glyph of Healing Storm, the healing can potentially be insane same goes for eventual damage. Enhancement has 30% proc chance unlike other specs which only got 6%. I'd suggest picking this one
75
Rushing Totems: It's mainly a Resto talent
Ancestral Guidance: The more damage you deal, the more you heal, just my style. The healing this can grant is insane. I'd suggest using this one
Conductivity: You will never want to use Healing Rain so it's kind of worthless.
90
Unleashed Fury: It has it's moments, mainly with Rockbiter Weapon, it basically gives you Astral Shift whenever you unleash elements.
Primal Elementalist: Can be good but I personally don't like it.
Elemental Blast: This is what defines Enh Shamans, The highest crit I've ever got was 200k and the enemy made a new lvl 1 character to whisper me and call me a hacker, ahh the sweet good times. My strongest suggestion is to use this talent without even looking into other talent options.
What I'm using is Nature's Guardian, Frozen Power, Totemic Projection, Echo of the Elements, Ancestral Guidance and finally Elemental Blast. I just love all of the talents and I've been using this set long enough to recommend it to others.
Glyphs
And here comes the fourth wall of text, let's break right through it (bad puns are bad (I should really find friends)). There are some good glyphs, two of them are bound in stone and the thrid one is situational.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Shamanistic Rage: A good glyph which removes all dispellable magical effects from you, including Hammer of Justice and Deep Freeze. Very good usually what I'm using unless i need something else
Glyph of Purging: A very good glyph if you need to dispell someone a lot, works good vs druid and priest healers.
Glyph of Purge: A good glyph that helps you dispell someone more efficiently .
Glyph of Frost Shock: Good because it let's you spam Frost Shock, it is even better if you have Frozen Power, very stitutional in my opinion.
Glyph of Lightning Shield: I'd say this is a must 10% less damage taken with pretty much 100% uptime is just too good to pass up on.
Glyph of Healing Storm: This is definetly a must, you really don't want to pass up on 100% extra healing on your instant cast Healing Surges
Glyph of Capacitor Totem: This is quite situational, it's good if you need to stun someone and you can't spare 2 seconds.
Glyph of Hex If you really need the extra CC, reduces the cooldown of hex by 10, down to 35 from 45.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Lakestrider: Grants you Water Walking when casting Ghost Wolf, saves you one GCD.
Glyph of Lava Lash: Doesn't Spread Fire Shock(DoT), this is good when you and do arenas with a Mage/Hunter/Rogue and you really don't want to break CC.
Glyph of Totemic Encirclement: This is good to confuse the enemy, there is a chance they will attack the wrong totem. This glyph is better the worse the enemy is.
These are the only minor glyphs that actually affect your PvP experience, all of the others aren't going to help you in any way.
I'm personally using Glyph of Shamanistic Rage, Lightning Shield, Healing Storm, Totemic Encirclement, Lakestrider and Spectral Wolf(Changes the model of your Ghost Wolf). I like how Shamanistic Rage can be used as an extra 'trinket' when playing against Paladins and Mages
Stat Priorities
Here I'm going to talk about things that people actually 'care' about (that's something new)
The Enhancement specialization for Shamans uses Agility as their primary stat, all of the other stats are more or less worthless.
Mastery is the best secondary stat you can get, critical chance isn't necessary because you get all the critical chance you need from items and Stormstrike debuff. Haste is the second best secondary stat since it gives you shorter global cooldowns, faster hits, more procs, more Maelstrom stacks, more everything. Haste is also better because it's increased by 50% during Flurry (it has somewhere close to 75% uptime).
You also want to have at least 3% hit and expertise, not much more than that though (unless rogues really get on your nerves)
The ideal Stat priority would look somewhat like this:
3% Hit=3% Expertise>Mastery>Haste>Critical Chance
I didn't put PvP Power there because it's good to have but it's completely worthless to gem for, the gain is too low to justify using it. All you get from items and the Glorious Tyranny enchant worth 1000 conquest points (600 PvP Power and 50% shorter disarm duration) is enough.
Gems
Let's hope someone won't threaten to kill me after reading this part (if they do, send money to Suicidestreet 123).
What you want to gem for is of course Agility since it's your main stat, Mastery since it's your second main stat and then it gets a bit tricky. If you don't have enough hit, go for hit rating combined with agility purples, if you don't the only real options you have left is either Agility/PvP Power and Agility/Stamina and since PvP Power is terribad in my opinion (I'd rather pick intellect over it) I'm using Agility/Stamina and I'd recommend you to do the same
What I'm using is:
Red Gem - Delicate Primordial Ruby (160 Agility)
Blue Gem - Shifting Imperial Amethyst (80 Agility/120 Stamina)
Yellow Gem - Adept Vermillion Onyx (80 Agility/160 Mastery)
Meta Gem - Agile Primal Diamond (216 Agility/3% increased Critical effect)
Enchants
Let's hope you will find this more interesting than everything else I put my blood, tears and sweat into (You won't? Ah, okay then, I'll call this project "at least I tried" from now on).
The Enchants you actually will use are going to differ depending on your profession and your economical standing point.
Shoulders: This enchant comes from scribes and gives 200 Agility and 100 Critical Chance. Tiger Claw Inscription
Cloak: This enchant gives 200 Stamina, and it's the best choice because 180 Critical Chance is a bit worthless and you can of course use the 180 Hit rating one if you really need it. Tailors want to use their own enchants and Engineers tend to use Goblin Glider. Greater Protection
Chest: 80 to all stats is the best you'll find for chests. Glorious Stats
Wrists: This enchant gives 180 Agility and is the best you'll find unless you have Leatherworking because you can get a 500 Agility Fur Lining. Greater Agility
Gloves: This gives only 170 Mastery but you won't find anything better unless you're an Engineer, in that case you want to have Synapse Springs which give you 1920 Agility for 10s on a 1min cooldown. Superior Mastery
Belt: This is the only option you have really, it might be a bit expensive but it's good to have. Living Steel Belt Buckle(160 Agility Gem)
Legs: This gives 285 Agility and 165 Critical Chance, this is the only thing you can get. Shadowleather Leg Armor (If you have problems with money you can always use the cheaper version "Sha-Touched Leg Armor"
Boots: These increase your Agility by 180 and give you extra 8% movement speed. Blurred Speed
Rings: If you're an Enchanter you want to use these ring enchants which give you 160 Agility for each ring. Greater Agility
Main Hand: Dancing Steel is hands down the best enchant because they give you a buff which in turn gives you 1650 Agility. Dancing Steel (If you're short on money you can buy Windsong)
Off Hand: You just need to have this or Living Steel Weapon Chain which is slightly worse, you just need to have 50% disarm reduction. Glorious Tyranny (If you don't have the money you can always run with Elemental Force)
Professions
Okay I have a slight feeling it's going to backfire a lot if I keep on with my silly talk (talking with myself, what am I? Insane or something).
Professions are pretty much whatever you want to have they all got their ups and downs.
Engineering is good for BGs because of the tinkers.
Tailoring gives you a nice back enchant.
Blacksmiths get extra gem sockets.
The list goes on, pick whatever you want it's not a big deal, personally I'm using Leatherworking and Enchanting and I'm perfectly fine with it, it's not like I'm min/maxing for 10 extra agility.
Don't take me wrong, it's always good to have First Aid, healing is always appreciated
Macros
Calm down, one beautiful day the voices are going to stop, it's going to be alright, don't you worry about that *maniacal laugh*
The only macros I really use are [target=focus] macros, except of that I'm using the macro for Unleash Elements to avoid using it without a target and that isn't any longer than 2 lines
#showtooltip Unleash Elements
/cast [harm,nodead] Unleash Elements
If you wish to create a Swafty oneshot macro feel free to do it, I personally prefer to use all of my spells one by one.
Rotation
There isn't a real rotation set in stone, there are priorities, first of all you want to always have your Fire Shock on your enemy, that's always good to have because it's mindless damage. If your enemy already has Fire Shock(DoT)you should use Earth Shock for the 10% damage reduction and Frost Shock for the slow/root. Second of all you need to have Searing Totem up (unless you have Fire Elemental Totem up) because it gives you stacks of Searing Flame (increases damage dealt by your next Lava Lash by 20% from each stack up to a total of 100%). Once you've learned how to use your shocks and flame totems it's time to use damaging attacks. You always want to have Stormstrike debuff on your enemy (25% extra critical chance to a lot of damaging spells) always use it on cooldown when you can. You also want to use Lava Lash on cooldown even if you don't have 5 stacks of Searing Flames, it's not worth waiting for them and if you use your fire totems properly you should've enough stacks to deal a lot of damage. You never want to use Lightning bolt, you want to use Lightning Bolts big brother, Elemental Blast. In most cases you don't want to use Elemental Blast on cooldown even if it deals a lot of damage (unless your enemy is very close to death of course), what you want to do is wait for Unleash Elements (increases damage of your next fire spell by 30%) and use it before using Elemental Blast, this maximizes your damage output. When you need to fill in a GCD and all of your damaging spells are on cooldown you can feel free to use Fire Nova, it's a ranged attack which deals damage to your target and everyone around it. It might feel like it's completely useless but it's still 10k damage you normally wouldn't deal. If you had a 'rotation' it would look like this:
(Searing Totem) -> Shock -> Stormstrike -> Lava Lash -> (Searing Totem/Fire Nova) -> Unleash Elements -> Elemental Blast -> Shock -> Stormstrike -> Fire Nova -> Lava Lash -> whatever pops up first
You can use Searing totem on two different occasions and it all depends on if you need to use Frost Shock or not.
Your opener is more or less going to look like your 'rotation' and don't forget that Frost Shock is in most cases better to start with than other shocks because of the slow.
I'd like to point out the priorities:
Elemental Blast(UE)>Lava Lash(5)>Stormstrike>Elemental Blast>Lava Lash>Unleash Elements>Shock>Fire Nova
These priorities are of course for damaging spells, you always want to have totems up and spend the majority of your instant casts on heals.
Burst
This is the part that makes Enhancement the funniest spec in the game.
Your burst is unbelievable because of Ascendance, it is just unbelievably broken. It makes all of your weapon attacks and stormstrike become ranged, bypass 100% armor and be affected by your mastery.
You want to always use your Stormstrike right before Ascendance unless your enemy is too far away and is very close to dying.
(Shock) -> Feral Spirit -> Fire Elemental Totem -> (Heroism/Bloodlust) -> Stormlash Totem -> Unleash Elements -> Stormstrike -> Ascendance -> Stormblast -> Elemental Blast -> Lava Lash
This burst sequence is very lethal and can definitely /delete someone with 50% hp, that's why Enhancement Shamans can force cooldowns just by passing by.
One thing to keep in mind is that Feral Spirit deals only 500 damage and you don't need to use them because of it but it's still a kind of "fire and forget" spell, you use it once and it does it's work all by itself for 30s plus it gives you mindless heals.
Crowd Control
Shamans do lack a lot of CC mostly because we got only three of them and two of them have a long cooldown timer.
Hex: This is a 8s long Polymorph effect with a 45s long cooldown(35s if glyphed) and unlike Polymorph, it is a curse effect that can be dispelled. You might be thinking that this is a 3x worse version of Polymorph, well if you do then you're wrong. Hex let's your enemy move freely, that's a clear downside but you need to remember that it doesn't break instantly. That opens the possibility to use it offensively, it takes 2-3 seconds of constant damage on your target for it to break and since you can't cast during the duration of the curse you can treat it as a situational silence.
Capacitor Totem: This is a 5s long stun after a 5s delay(3s if glyphed) in an 8yd wide radius on a 45s cooldown , this combined with Totemic Projection can grant you a 48yd long range stun that you can 'snipe' people with. This totem has a great use when chained right after Hex to prolong the CC chain, to do that you want to use Cap Totem 2-3s after casting Hex and then once the delay slowly ends you can throw the totem at your enemy and stun him for another 5s of CC.
Wind Shear: This is the longest melee Interrupt, it has a 30yd range and interrupts your enemies spell cast and locks out the magic school for 3s, this has only a 12s cooldown. If you want to CC a healer you can use Wind Shear, count to 2-3, Hex him, wait 2-3s put down Cap Totem, wait 3-4s and throw the totem at your enemy and once the stun ends your Wind Shear cooldown reset and you can interrupt his cast one more time, unless he removes the CC early with a PvP Trinket.
Like I mentioned earlier, this combo can potentially ruin your enemy healers day if he doesn't have a way to get rid of your CC.
Wind Shear -> Hex -> Capacitor Totem -> Wind Shear
Talented Roots
Earthgrab Totem: This roots everyone around your totem for 5s only once (it is currently bugged and overused because it roots the same target multiple times) and the totem has a fairly long cooldown and like other totems, dies fast.
Frost Shock: This is a 5s root on your Frost Shock target which has a very low cooldown compared to Earthgrab totem and it can have an even shorter cooldown if you use the glyph of frost shock.
Strengths
Now that you guys know what to do it's a good time to start talking about what you can do. I'd love to call this part of the guide "the bragging section".
Enhancements Shamans have a lot of healing, you need to use that to your advantage, don't use your Maelstrom stacks on Lightning Bolts and on Elemental Blasts without Unleash Elements unless your enemy is low HP, you're much better off by using them to heal with Healing Surge.
This means that you want to play defensively, you might be wondering how can you play defensively and get Maelstrom stacks, well it's simple, Enh Shamans follow this rule: Offense is the best Defense. This means that the more damage you deal the more you're going to heal, Ancestral Guidance is literally making your damage done become healing done, with it, you can really turn a fight around. Using Healing Surge with 5 Maelstrom stacks (with Healing Storm glyph of course) together with the talent Echo of the Elements during Ancestral Guidance can get you from 0 to 100 if stars align with one single instant cast, this has happened to me countless times. You also need to take advantage of your burst, a 180k Stormblast followed by a 160k Elemental Blast does hurt A LOT, and that is in one second. Enhancement Shamans are good in 3v3 not because of Ascendance, they're good because of the fear of Ascendance, when was the last time you saw a Druid use Might of Ursoc with Survival Instincts with 50% HP?, that does happen a lot at higher ratings. I've played countless 2v2 with double Enh and we literally /delete one of our enemies and then fight a 'fair' 2v1.
You have to use your totems to their full potential, if you're trying to run away from someone, try using earthbind, a lot of people forget about this poor totem. I've seen people who don't use their cap totem because it's unreliable, just pick up Totemic Projection and there you go, you can even place it between two enemies and get even more value out of your little unreliable cap totem. If you use them better you're going to have an easier time killing people. Think of ascendance burst, op right? now think about it during a stun. Cap totem is also a stun on 48yd range if used with Totemic Projection, you have a much easier time controlling your enemies than others. You can use that together with a healing totem to save your allies. Using Grounding totem with Totemic Projection saved people from a nasty Chaos Bolt multiple times in my life without me even being near the warlock.
Weaknesses
You might be thinking this *they're op*, well they are but they're vulnerable to stuns, even if they have Tremor Totem, Glyphed Shamanistic Rage and the regular PvP Trinket they're still going to die in one kidney shot if they can't remove it. Shamans are very weak against slows, they have one Windwalk Totem every minute but that's talented and you can't be sure if the shaman you're kiting has it or not, Spirit Walk is only available each minute, if you root him right after he gets rid of it, that shaman is going to sit the entire duration. If he's going to sit the duration he's going to lose hp without being able to retaliate and the kiter is going to gain distance on him. The worst thing you can do vs an Enh Shaman is to slow him, just slow him all day and he's going to ragequit that's just how it is, a slowed shaman is an unhappy shaman.
Strategies
There are things you need to think about when playing Enh shaman, first of all you need to always have Lightning Shield up, second of all you need to always have Windfury on your mainhand and Flametongue on your off hand. Always try to keep a searing totem on the ground, it's always mindless dps you don't need to care about PLUS you're going to get a very big Lava Lash if you get enough stacks. Use Healing Stream Totem whenever it's off cooldown and someone is taking damage next to you. Comboing Spirit Walk with Spiritwalker's grace is pretty much free healing surges and easier elemental blasts, it's especially effective if kiting a pillar, escaping and healing at the same time is always good. In BGs you want to use your Spirit Beast and Fire Elemental Totem BEFORE using Heroism, they're going to get affected by it. Wind Shear has a 30yd range, you can interrupt a healer on the other side of the map while continuing to kill a DPS in arenas. Don't forget your racials, Stoneform is perfect against ferals, Gift of the Naaru is always good to have on you when taking damage, Berserking and Blood Fury is always good to have during your burst. It's better to use Chain Heal if you and your allies have lost a bit of their hp not too much, its better having three of you at 95% instead of one at 100% and the other two at 85%. While defending points, always keep Magma Totem up. When a rogue opens on you, it's wise to use Shamanistic Rage, it's pretty much a better Barkskin without the glyphed Crit Resistance. Don't underrate Bind Elemental, a FMage without his pet active can't really freeze you from behind a pillar. Try to always use Elemental Blast with Unleash Elements. Purge, Purge a lot, Purge like you've never Purged before. If you already have Fire Shock(DoT) on your enemy it's better to use Earth Shock (10% Physical damage reduction) and Frost Shock (slow/root) + they're dealing more damage on impact than Fire Shock. Enhancement is really doing good with other DPS because they can sustain them just like a healer does, I've outhealed healers multiple times in BGs because I focused more on healing than mindlessly spamming Lightning Bolt like some people tend to do, It's better to have allies alive than an enemy lying dead right next to your teammates. Another thing to think about is using Cleanse Spirit, you don't want 10 stack Agony ticking on you nor any of your allies, a lot of people look down on their cleanse abilities. Don't forget that Fire Nova does deal damage, for me it's 10k, it's not much but it can fill up an empty GCD and put people in combat if they're trying to escape, plus damage is always damage, this is another spell people look down on.
I'd like to point out that this was the first guide I ever wrote in my entire life and I'm more than sure I've messed something up somewhere, helpful tips are always appreciated, they'll help to create better guides in the future and in process make this particular guide better.
