WoW Classic: Burning Crusade Enhancement Shaman PvE Guide (Talents, Gems, Rotation, Enchants) | TBC

greetings everyone and welcome to the

tbc

classic enhancement shaman pve guide in

this guide we'll go over everything to

making an effective and knowledgeable

enhancement shaman in tbc

classic from a pve perspective this

guide was written by evan a member of

the classic shaman discord and will

serve as your instructor

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start moving the table of contents for

this guide we'll be covering a lot

everything from race selection

enhancement spells and totems

talents weapon imbues rotation and spell

priority totem twisting

threat stats and gearing gemming

enchants consumes

professions items that are still

powerful in tbc classic from vanilla

classic

bis lists group composition and finally

add-ons and ui

again use the timestamps in the pin

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that you're interested in before we get

started i want to introduce your

instructor for this guide evan evan is

the developer of the tbc enhancement

shaman ep

sheet which we'll be referencing heavily

in this guide the link will be in the

description below make sure you go to

that it's a lot of work and it really

makes gearing a lot easier

for your shaman going into tbc classic

if you're playing enhancement he's

cleared all content on vanilla on tvc

private servers and in tbc as an

enhancement shaman he's currently a top

100 warrior parser in classic wow

and the gm of the classic wild guild too

high on blumo he plays enhancement

shaman at a competitive level in retail

well

and of course he is a shaman trainer on

the classic shaman discord so make sure

you stop in and say hello or thank him

for making this amazing guide all right

evan without further ado

let's get started hey thanks meldaron

eben here

i appreciate the introduction really

excited to be joining the shaman

community

i play a lot of warrior in classic

vanilla i would choose shaman but we all

know it's not the

most exciting spec in vanilla but it

should be a lot more fun going into tbc

and hopefully wrath beyond that so we'll

start off with

race selection first off we have orcs

which are undoubtedly

going to be your strongest choice they

have blood fury which is a very potent

cooldown

on a two-minute timer as opposed to

classic vanilla it adds both melee

attack power and spell power kind of

double dipping there on our damage

profile while most of enhancement damage

i'd say about

70 is physical the rest is affected by

spell power we also have

axe specialization which provides five

percent

expertise with axes so that may sound

similar to what we have in vanilla

but it's a little different weapon skill

as mostly powerful

in addition to the reduction in parry

and dodge it

improves your damage through reducing

glancing blows

but that's not the case in tbc expertise

is just straight up parry

lock and dodge as a melee dps especially

on bosses you know you generally want to

be standing behind the boss so it's just

dodge that you're worried about and

that's what expertise helps with

they're really the only race here that

offers that perk for the pvpers out

there additional stone resistance from

hardiness which is nerfed compared to

vanilla but

still good to have next up we have

trolls and their cooldown is berserking

which is

on a three minute cooldown as opposed to

blood fury's two minutes

which doesn't quite sync up as well with

your other cooldowns unlike

two minutes on haste potion two minutes

on shamanistic rage

those type of things pair really well

with blood fury berserking three minute

cooldowns still strong

pace is actually a great stat in tbc but

just a little less powerful than blood

fury also they have regeneration

which might help save yourself because

there's a lot of unavoidable raid damage

in tbc

so much so that on private servers like

endless kind of acts as a

gear check or stat check if you don't

have x amount of health you're probably

dead but if you're generating some of it

a little bit extra

you might survive not something to

really worry about next up are taurens

one of my personal favorite races but

they're not quite so strong in pve

unlike their orc and troll counterparts

they have war stomp which

pvpeers know to be very strong but

minimal usage and raid settings

you generally don't need to do a cc on

an aoe pack

usually that's already taken care of but

the five percent bonus health from their

endurance passive

might allow you to opt for that piece of

gear that has no health on it at all and

go for a little more damage

it'll kind of depend on the difficulty

of the boss fights and the encounters

in classic tbc last couple racials not

really impactful in pve we got

cultivation for herbalism but

we're pretty profession locked as

enhancement shaman which we'll talk

about later

probably doesn't factor in and nature

resistance might have its use

on the odd boss but not very useful or

pve damage next up

dranai the only race we can choose on

alliance side

their benefits for enhancement are

honestly kind of non-existent and i'll

explain why in tbc

unlike in wrath which is probably the

version everyone remembers

the inspiring presence passive only

affects

spell hit so we get one percent spell

hit for you and your party so five

people

sounds great it's okay personally for us

as enhancement shamans because we do

have

shocks that affects our shock dps and

our interrupt ability but it doesn't aid

the people in our group right so

enhancement shaman we

do decent damage definitely a lot more

than vanilla but a lot of our value

comes from

supporting the other damage dealers in

our party right we have wind fury

strength of earth grace of air all these

great tools to help our party out but

this one since you'll usually be

either in a melee party or some kind of

tank hybrid party or hunter group it

doesn't help any of them the heroic

presence which

other classes in the draenei race

receive which is melee and ranged hit

something that we don't receive so if

you find yourself in the odd

caster group for whatever reason i don't

know if you're in some kind of truly

mid-max guild and we end up with very

difficult forms of content and you can't

really bring much melee sometimes you

might find yourself in a group with a

couple casters and it'll help out but

for the most part not the best

gift of the nuru three-minute cooldown

heal scales with your level but

also not that strong i would honestly

rather have something like

the tauren's five percent bonus health

gem cutting passive is cool

a lot of us might opt to go with

jewelcrafting just because it's the

newest profession in tbc

but the personal bonuses of that

profession which we'll get into later

just aren't really

that strong especially in the beginning

they pick up towards the very end of the

game

so this five percent bonus may not see

much use and then

sort of kind of just like the tauren we

have 10 bonus shadow resistance

also neither here nor there next up new

universal shaman spells so these are all

the

cool flavorful and mostly useful

editions we receive in tbc

biggest one that it's on everyone's mind

is heroism and bloodlust if you've ever

played

any iteration of world of warcraft

beyond vanilla this is

one of the most potent tools in a

shaman's arsenal so on tbc heroism and

bloodlust

are party specific so a shaman and a

party of five

pop that ability give all five party

members 30

bonus ace for 40 seconds really strong

right so

if you have five shaman in your raid one

in each group your whole raid can get 30

bonus haste really good for damage

dealing for tank threat

or increased healing output during boss

encounters with high incoming damage

additionally tpc has some unique

interactions with

these haste buffs you can strategize and

cycle shamans into different groups to

prolong

each party members haste buff for

example hunter group usually one of your

biggest damage dealing groups

probably looks something like three bm

hunters a feral druid and you or another

resto shaman something like that let's

say you start the fight off and you pop

heroism or bloodlust 40 seconds 30

haste and then the buff falls off unlike

future iterations of the game there's no

debuff that you incur

from that ability so you can actually

swap groups with another shaman

give those other four players bloodlust

again you can keep cycling if you'd like

and allow your party to have permanent

heroism for the duration of a fight if

you so choose so there's a lot of

different

strategies that come into play here

sometimes you might want to

make sure that your healers get extra

healing output on certain difficult

encounters

sometimes a warlock might have a better

damage profile

for the raid encounter than a hunter so

you might want to cycle shamans through

their group or

you might just want to stick with

bloodlusting your entire raid all right

next

up really good for enhancement shaman is

water shield

reading the tool tip you might think

this seems more like a

caster or healer ability we have

lightning shield which does damage and

we want more damage right

wrong especially in raid encounters

pve scenarios you're generally not

getting hit by the boss right

so water shield's passive effect so it

makes it really strong now we get

extra mp5 and we use mana throughout our

rotation and

especially intensively if you're totem

twisting which we will go over later but

water shield

costs nothing to cast gives you extra

mana just makes your

damage a lot more sustainable through a

fight next new shaman spell

totemic call you can click a button and

just recall all four of your totems

really useful because it helps you with

the mana conservation

you get 25 of the mana back that you

spent to place the totems

sometimes you might have a open gcd in

your rotation

and one tone is about to fall off if you

want to just claim some mana back hit

the button also

we all know totems can pull aggro in

sticky situations easy to recall it back

i know you could always

right click but at least this gives you

an extra bit of utility for

recalling those totems next we have fire

elemental totem it's a

very strong damage cooldown a little sad

that it's

20 minutes but when you pop it it does

aoe fire damage

and is much stronger than say searing

totem on a boss

or magma totem on a boss use it wisely

that long cooldown means it's probably

not up for very many bosses in a raid

but still

very strong earth elemental totem

usually really good for

you know solo questing five band

dungeons

where it can save your life or save the

life of your group by

aggroing all the mobs that are causing

you trouble in a raid environment

it's usually not tanky enough to take

too many hits but can still be thrown

down in a pinch

not recommended to be using it

willy-nilly though definitely use it as

a

emergency ability finally wrath of era

totem doesn't seem like something

we as enhancement would use very often

but does have its uses so rather very

totem is really good for

paladin tanks because most of their

threat generation

comes from spell damage holy attacks

it's kind of why you'll see them walking

around with caster one-handers

if you for whatever reason find yourself

in a party with them this is definitely

better than

dropping wind fury or dropping grace

affair next let's go

over enhancement specific talents we got

a lot of nice

new things in tbc that really help our

personal damage

and make us a lot more than just a buff

bot first off tool building you're no

longer

swinging around a big two-hander in pve

or raid scenarios

you're going to opt for a slow main hand

and a slow off hand

for that winfurion view additionally we

get a little bit of extra hit

through the dual wield specialization

talent enhancement shaman

just in their talents alone gets either

very close to

or they reach their special attack hit

cap so it makes gearing a lot easier

next we have mental quickness this

talent allows

some spell damage scaling to come from

your melee dps stats so 30 of your

attack power

gets converted to spell damage really

useful for increasing the damage of your

shocks

we have two talents that operate based

off melee critical hits

that are unleash rage and shamanistic

focus

unleash rage is a really potent group

buff that increases your party's melee

attack power by six percent

and with approximately tier four levels

of gear you're pretty much

always going to have 100 of time on

unleash rage

as long as you yourself have high up

time on the boss you're hitting

shamanistic focus

just helps with that mana conservation

every time you land a melee crit

your next shock costs 60 less you'll

notice

this talent's effectiveness when you're

totem twisting for sure

last new talent that's really important

shamanistic rage shamanistic rage is a

on-use ability with a two-minute

cooldown that reduces the damage you

take

by 30 which in pv situations might not

be used very often

could be a nice reaction to pulling

threat but this ability is more useful

for

the mana regeneration shamanistic rage

is a

integral part of your dps rotation

because

there are times where you will run out

of mana you pop this ability gives your

melee attacks a chance on hit to

regenerate mana and if you are smart

about its usage

combine it with a haste potion on the

same cooldown or use it during a heroism

window

if you can manage it before you go loom

then you'll see your mana bar shoot back

up and this is the most

important ability to keep your totem

twisting

alive we have spirit weapons which

reduces the threat you generate by

thirty percent

extremely useful one of the most

important times

in the whole tree because as enhancement

shaman you generally are

quite threat cat especially in the

beginning of a boss fight

or just sustained throughout your threat

without this talent will

just be too much for most tanks to

handle additionally spirit weapons

activates your chance to parry attacks

now if you're pvping or

fighting mobs where you have aggro could

help save your life and

lastly for the important talents we have

enhancing totems which increases the

strength and agility bonus from your

strength of earth totem

and gray severe totems by 15 really

powerful because it's useful

not only for yourself but for the rest

of your group and that 15

bonus equates to about 13 strength and

12 agility from your totems very strong

and with the tier four set bonus

this talent further improves your tier

four so we've gone over all the

important talents already

here on screen is what your base

enhancement spec will look like

45 points in enhancement and then we got

a couple options for

restoration or elemental the recommended

subspec is restoration

it's recommended because it has the most

utility

of the two options without really any

downside you gain three percent hit

which is not just

melee but also spells so that increases

your shock dps

and your ability to land interrupts as

well and with this talent

in addition to your dual build

specialization you reach your

nine percent special attack hit cap so

that means

storm strike won't miss additionally we

have increased range to your totems

which makes it a lot easier to manage

whether or not your

party is receiving the benefit of your

totems which is a huge part of shamans

as you all know

and we also have some mana conservation

talents that enable totem twisting which

we'll talk about later but

is highly impactful in increasing your

raids dps the other option

aside from restoration is the elemental

subspec

that's 16 points in elemental generally

this spec will come out on top early

game

where hit is really plentiful on gear

reaching your special attack hit cap

just from talents

is not really that important we get a

five second shot cooldown

instead of six extra damage from those

shocks you get extra

damage on your fire totems but in

general you'll notice

as you get beyond early game the

personal dps from the two specs

will generally stay about the same so

you're giving up quite a bit of utility

to go for the spec maybe not receiving

too much in return

shaman and tbc have four different

weapon and views at their disposal win

fury flame tongue

rock biter and frost brand but only wind

fury and flame tongue

are relevant dps options wind fury

weapon favors

slow hard hitting weapons and is most

likely to be

our only option in tbc for both main

hand

and offhand flame tongue weapon is only

really an option

early game if you happen to receive a

very strong fast weapon to be used in

your off hand compared to

whatever weaker weapon you got while

leveling it in that case you would imbue

that offhand with flame tongue

and still win for your weapon on the

main hand something i like to add about

wind fury weapon in view is that in tbc

unlike vanilla classic there is a three

second internal cooldown for this in

view what that means is you cannot proc

with infuriating more than once in a

three second window so what that means

is in plain english is if your weapons

swings

are shorter than three seconds that

weapon cannot proc win fury more than

once in a three second window

is this something to keep in mind

there's no way to get around this in

very early tbc in live tbc you could put

multiple ranks of winfury and bu

to circumvent this icd that was fixed

very very quickly in tbc's lifetime

also people may think that since the

windfury totem itself doesn't have an

icd you can imbue your main hand with

windfury totem to circumvent the icd but

remember

windfury totem only provides one extra

attack with less bonus attack power

despite that wind fury icd

double win figurine view will produce

the most dps

throughout tbc classic and should be

used in all pve settings

i say this just so you know coming in

from vanilla if you weren't aware of the

icd that it does exist in tbc

all right now let's get into our

rotation and spell priority first off

you want to make sure that you maintain

up time on all your totems for earth we

got strength of earth that's plus

strength to your group air

depending on your group composition that

could be wind fury

that could be grace of air or it could

be wrath of air or you might even totem

twist

for water you're almost always using

mana spring totem even though the

other members in your party usually

won't have mana bars except for maybe a

red paladin this is really important for

helping your mana sustain and fire totem

steering totem on single target magma

totem on aoe situations

pretty easy but in general you just want

to make sure these don't fall off

especially those buff ones next up after

totems we have flame shock wanna make

sure that damage over time effect is

always on your target

if you're in a situation where it's aoe

you want to make sure that flame shock

dot is up on multiple targets for the

most damage output then you want to make

sure that you storm strike on cooldown

and in single target situations you'll

earth shock on cooldown to fill in gaps

where your flame shock is still up or

like mentioned earlier

flame shock and aoe situations

shamanistic reach comes last that's when

you'll

be looking to regenerate mana if you're

close to going um or you find a really

good situation for it with that spell

priority in mind

let's say you're engaging a boss now

ideally you want to have all your totems

set

up before the fight starts so before

that combat timer ticks you should have

earth air and water down at least might

not always be possible depending on

the speed of your raid but it helps to

get those global cooldowns out of the

way before you start fighting now as

you're running in towards the boss

you want to use that gcd on flame shock

once you reach the boss gcd should be up

storm strike comes first always then

your next shock usually single target or

shock or if you've got some cleave

situation flame shock the off target and

keep that up through the whole fight if

totems start to fail in duration

you can refresh if you're moving you can

use totemic call pull those totems up

and as long as your shock is already on

cooldown

start placing totems for the next

position let's talk about totem twisting

now which we've alluded to a few times

already this is a shaman's ability

to keep the buffs of two air totems up

at the same time for the most part totem

twisting will require that you

opted for that restoration subspec or

you just won't be able to meet the

mana requirements that totem twisting

demands now totem twisting is pretty

heavy on

your mana smart use of shamanistic rage

will usually

cover what you need to continue twisting

there will be times where

you might have really bad rng and not

get much mana back

and it is always a raid dps

boost to continue twisting and just drop

shocks from your rotation

until you can get your mana back under

control totem twisting will

in all situations lower your personal

dps firstly

through non-permanent uptime of your

grace of air totem but you can minimize

the impact on your shock dps

by skilled play so totem twisting

involves

combining the effects of your windfury

totem with either

race of air or tranquil air totems when

fury totem

imbues party members main hand weapons

for nine seconds

so you'll start with that you'll drop

the totem and then when you drop grace

of air

the weapon imbue on your party is still

in effect so you'll drop wind fury totem

weapon first

and then gray severe totem or tranquil

air totem immediately after the gray

severe totem has to be

up for its effect to take place but the

windfury mb will still be on your party

members weapons so essentially you'll

have both effects at the same time the

only downside for

you as enhancement shaman is that the

wind fury totem effect does not stack

with your own wind fury weapon imbue

so you'll lose a little bit of uptime on

grace affair because that's the only

totem that affects your personal damage

but everyone else in your party

will gain a lot from having the effect

of both totems at once

now this may make your rotation feel

a lot more challenging because of all

the extra global cooldowns you'll need

to use

and it can clip some of your shock

cooldown a lot of the skill and totem

twisting will be

in using available empty gcd windows

on totem twisting maybe in advance so

you can make sure that your next shock

comes right off cooldown so the specific

benefits of twisting grace of air in

with wind fury are that

baseline not including kings and

enhancing totems warriors

paladins jewish and shaman all gain

around three percent melee crit rogues

and hunters around two percent crit

rogues jewish and hunters just under 80

attack power

and warriors rogues and more importantly

hunters

just over 150 attack power now we've

already talked a little bit about this

but

threat is an issue for enhancing shaman

enhancement shaman

played well are generally one of the

most threat-capped dps you'll have in

your raid a lot of this comes from the

rng and bursty nature of wind fury

especially

in the beginning of a fight if your tank

has only gotten a couple swings in on

the boss

and your first attack prox winfury it's

going to be a lot of burst threat coming

your way

fortunately we have a couple ways to

mitigate this threat one of them

is blessing of salvation that should be

the paladin blessing you prioritize

the most of course we get that 30 threat

reduction from our talents

which helps even with the two of these

things you still may need to be careful

at the start of a boss fight in addition

the threat from our sustained dps

can be quite high you may notice

yourself riding right under the tank

and as the fight goes on your threat

slowly creeps up towards him and so in

these situations where

you feel thread cap the first thing you

should do is drop shocks from your

rotation once threat gets under control

add the shocks back in

alright let's get into stats next first

off those primary attributes one

strength converts into two ap

pretty easy 25 agility equals one

percent melee crit that means one

agility

equals 0.04 percent melee crit intellect

will give you some minor amount of spell

crit but the ratio is

not favorable and so usually that effect

on your dps isn't really considered when

looking at gear pieces

expertise is one of our new stats in tbc

we talked about it a little bit earlier

but

it's different from weapon skill it has

nothing to do with glancing blows

it does reduce your chance to be dodged

parried and blocked but of course the

melee dps you're

opting for standing behind the boss so

that your attacks can't be

period or blocked so expertise pretty

much just means

dodge reduction from your melee hits it

functions differently from all the other

secondary stats in that partial

expertise

skill does nothing for you so on gear

pieces you'll find

expertise rating which converts to

expertise skill

and if your expertise skill is 5.3

or 5.8 that means your effective

expertise in combat will just round down

to 5.

22.4 expertise skill would be required

to remove

all chance to be dodged this is what we

refer to as our expertise cap but like i

said

only whole points are considered so you

need to reach

23 expertise that expertise cap would be

converted to

requiring 91 expertise rating from gear

so in tbc we still have hit rating 15.8

hit rating converts to one percent melee

hit we talked about your

nine percent melee hit soft cap for your

special attacks like storm strike and of

course since we're duel wielding

we have that extra chance to miss with

our white auto attacks

that hard hit cap is 28 so

we also spoke about the talents already

but with the restoration subspec

you reach the melee soft hit cap just

through your talents

with the elemental subspec you'll be

three percent hit

short of your melee soft kitkat which

makes

those initial points of hit from your

gear more beneficial for the rest of

subspec

users you would need to have 19

hit from gear converted to 300 hit

rating to reach that auto attacked hard

hit cap for

elemental subspec users you'll need a

little bit more 22 percent hit to reach

the hard

cap so the 28 hard hit cap is not really

something that you need to concern

yourself with

it just means that hit rating from gear

will continue to be useful

after you pass the soft hit cap but it

won't be

your most useful stats spell hit cap

functions a little differently you won't

find spell

hit rating on any of your enhancement

gear because you'll only be wearing

gear with physical stats on them but

this doesn't affect us in a way so

boss mobs who are always three levels

higher than you will have a

17 chance for you to miss them with

spells so your shocks

will always have a significant chance to

miss you do receive three percent spell

hit

in addition to melee hit from the

nature's guidance talent in the

restoration subspec but that still means

your shocks will have a

14 chance to miss the boss so that means

your

shock dps will be a little bit lower

than your melee hit chance would suggest

that also means you're a little less

reliable on interrupting a boss

than the elemental shamans in your raid

so now while three percent

spell hit might not seem like a lot it's

actually a significant portion

of the remaining chance to miss a boss

next we have

crit which functions the same as it

always has and you'll need

22.1 crit rating for every one percent

crit chance so another new stat in tbc

is

haste for melee users haste will give us

faster

white auto attacks by quickening the

speed of our weapons

and 15.8 haste rating converts to one

percent haste

last new stat in tbc armor penetration

you won't see this stat

until tier 6 and later but it's unique

and that every extra point of armor

penetration makes the previous points

more powerful the more you have

this stat the stronger it gets so now

we've talked about all these

different stats but how do we as

enhancement shaman prioritize

them and this is where we'll get into

something called ep values

ep stands for generally equivalency

points

an ep system is a system of equivalency

points

where we are able to weight stats so we

can better understand

how valuable they are a disclaimer for

eps your ep

values will differ from someone else

with different gear on so for example as

you gain crit

your personal ep value for hit may

increase compared to someone else's

but the way we have them set up here ep

values were generally

calculated with a best set of gear per

tier

so you know how to gear up in that tier

you'll notice in this table here

that one ap equates to one ep so you can

generally get an idea for how much ap

each other secondary stat is worth and

we lay out all the tiers here for you

so tier four would be the rough ep

values for someone in cara

gruel and meg theradon gear tier v

getting into

serpent shrine cavern and tempest keep

tier six

we're looking at here from mount hyjal

black temple

and zulaman and then sun will at the end

you'll notice also

that strength listed here has a lower

value in tier 4 compared to all the

other tiers and that's just the

difference in

the king's buff we'll talk about the

priority of paladin blessings later in

the guide but

in tier 4 content which is mostly 10 man

you usually won't be able to rely on

having kings

in all the future patches where all the

content is 25 man

except for zulaman you can generally

expect you'll have kings in the near

future

when we have access to better sims

or maybe updated information that wasn't

known or taken into consideration before

these ep values might change if these ep

values change in the future

or you have a different set of ep values

for your gear set that you want to use

i'll have a enhancement gear sheet that

we'll go over later in the guide that

you can

edit and adjust for yourself now that

we've established these ep values

let's get into how we use them we'll use

an example

from tier 5. you'll want to go down that

tier 5 column and make sure you use the

values listed there and here we've

chosen leggings of murderous intent

versus skulker's greaves with leggings

and murders in 10 we'll take that 45

agility

and multiply it by the 2ep value from

the tier 5 column and we'll apply that

same method with all the stats on the

legs and end up with a total ep value of

256.

now these skullcruise greaves are a

little different because they have

sockets and we haven't talked about gems

yet but don't let it scare you

sockets are worth a certain amount of

primary or secondary stat which means we

can still apply

our ep values to them so for skulker's

grieves we would choose

three strength gems and in tier five

those cap out at eight strength apiece

so that's 24 strength multiplied by that

2.2

strength ep value in addition to all the

other sets in the gear we'll end up with

a total of 220 ep so in our comparison

leggings of murderous intent went out

even though they lack those coveted gem

sockets

that exist on the skulker's grease so we

talked about gems a little bit but let's

go

into greater depth now gem sockets can

be

three different primary colors red

yellow and blue

gems of those colors will only come with

one stat

but there are also gem colors that blend

the primary colors

and result in multiple stats in the same

gym for example

orange gems are a combination of red and

yellow gems

and can therefore activate the gem

socket for both red and yellow we also

have purple gems

which combine red and blue and green

gems which combine

yellow and blue for enhancement shaman

our most powerful gem color

is red because they come with strength

yellow gems

for enhancement shaman will generally be

for crit rating but because

strength point for point is generally

more valuable

than crit rating for us in our yellow

sockets we will use

orange gems for the most part and those

orange gems will include both

strength and crit rating same thing

applies for blue blue gems are generally

defensive stats

for us we would offer stamina so in our

blue sockets we would put purple gems

with

strength and stamina now while sockets

do have colors

you do not always need to match the

color of the sockets that means a red

gem

our most important one can actually go

in the socket of

any color but in order to activate an

item's socket bonus

you do need to match the colors this

brings up the question when should i

care about socket bonuses

when should i ignore them now looking

back at the example from before

skulker's greaves we see two red sockets

one blue sockets

and a socket bonus with plus four dodge

rating plus 4 dodge rating

is not going to contribute towards your

dps so in this case you'd opt for using

three red gems and ignore the socket

bonus now there will be times where

you want to activate a metagem which has

a requirement for

a number of color gems throughout your

gear there may be cases where you would

sacrifice a little bit of dps

through a gem slot in order to gain some

dps from a metagem

but usually you'll want to opt for

soccer bonuses that actually contribute

to your dps so another piece of gear

with maybe

a plus four crit rating bonus would be a

better option

to activate compared to the one on these

skulkers greaves now meta sockets you'll

find only in helmets

and not in all of them meta sockets can

be filled with

meta gems that often have more

interesting

bonuses than just raw stats the two

best metagems for us as enhancement

shaman are

the relentless or storm diamond and the

thundering skyfire diamond but the

former is one you'll use for most of tbc

the relentless earthstorm diamond

requires three red gems two yellow gems

and two blue gems to be socketed

throughout your gear in order to

activate and when it's activated you'll

gain

12 agility and three percent bonus

critical damage

the thundering skyfire diamond requires

two red

two yellow and two blue gems to activate

and has a proc

for 240 haste for six seconds now

the relentless earthstone diamond is

generally considered your

best option it will surely be your best

option once you get past that

pre-raid bisque gearing phase the three

percent bonus critical damage

scales with your gear and so this meta

gem gets more powerful as the expansion

goes on however

it will not be available immediately on

launch because

the design in order to cut a relentless

earthstorm diamond

cannot be acquired until someone reaches

exalted with the consortium rotation

which means when we first start in tbc

classic you should offer the thundering

skyfire diamond it is generally better

than the relentless earthstorm diamond

in those pre-raid abyss gearing phases

because our critical hit chance is not

very high and also is readily available

we've included

a chart with all the relevant gem

options for enhancement shaman you'll

want to apply the same ep values we use

for gearing

to gems and in some cases ap gems may

win out over strength gems but it's very

rare

a lot of those gems with ap that are

worth using will be unique to equip

which means you can only slot

one of them into your gear and are only

marginally better

special exception would be the crimson

sun gem

which is for jewel crafters only and

provides 24 ap

which is better than all of the other

strength gems available in the game

next let's talk about enchants here

we've listed all the optimum chance

to use on your gear for weapons our best

enchant

is mongoose in both the main and offhand

it provides a

proc for 120 agility and 2

haste for 15 seconds our second best

weapon enchant would be crusader which

provides

60 strength for 15 seconds which is down

from the 100 strength at level 60

players received in

classic vanilla later in the game

executioner which provides

120 critical strike rating for 15

seconds

becomes better in our main hand but only

when we get around

600 armor penetration from our gear so

we're talking

in sunwell for the most part in the

majority of the game you'll be running

that mongoose enchant on both weapons

for our helm the best enchant is glyph

ferocity for 34 ap and 16 hit rating so

our best

shoulder enchant is actually from

vanilla max rammus shopping off of

safiron and that's the might of the

scourge which provides 26 ap

and 14 crit rating however the

difference is not

large so for the most part at least on

non-missed pieces of gear you can opt

for

the alder and squire shoulder enchants

the auto provides us with

greater inscription of vengeance for 30

ap and 10 quid rating and the squires

provide us

with greater inscription of the blade

for 20 ap and 15 crit rating now based

on those ep values we showed above

the aldor enchant is almost always

better except for in tier 5 and

generally scales the best with gear for

our cloak we want to use the greater

agility enchant for 12 agility or

more likely the subtlety enchant from

classic vanilla that reduces our thread

by two percent for chest

exceptional stats which is plus six

stats all around for the bracers

brawn for 12 strength gloves major

strength for 15 strength

legs nether cobra leg armor for 50 ap

and 12 crit

boots cat swiftness for eight percent

movement speed and six agility which

is essentially six agility plus the

enchant boots minor speed

from vanilla and if you're an enchanter

feel free to slap four stats on those

rings

now we have consumables they function a

little differently

than they did in vanilla specifically

how our elixirs work there is now a

designation between

battle and guardian elixirs and you may

only have

one of each active on you at any one

time now on the slide we've listed

all of your best options for each

consumable slot for flash and battle

elixirs

your general use best option will be the

flask of loneliness assault for 120 ap

and just like in vanilla it persists

through death however

in situations where you're fighting

demons the elixir of demon slang

providing

265 ap is obviously better but it does

only last for five minutes

going back and forth between elixir of

demon slang

and flask of relentless assault may be

expensive

so it's up to you how you want to min

max your

flask and elixir usage for food we have

the

roasted cleft hoof which provides 20

strength and 20 spirit for 30 minutes

better than all the other available food

buffs for your potion cool down we will

be using

haste potions quite often and these

potions are generally your biggest cost

when it comes to consumables

some fights are long and there are many

fights in a raid

and you essentially want to be using

these liberally as a dps cooldown

because they provide 400 haste for 15

seconds and sync up

really nicely with something like

shamanistic reach

and the final consumable category are

drums

which are a new consume introduced in

tbc that require leather working to

craft and use there are a few different

kinds but the one

most relevant to us as enhancement

shaman are the drums of battle which

provide 80 bonus haste for 30 seconds

now in classic tbc i think we're

all hoping for a nerf to these drums

so that they don't become another

engineering like profession where it's

required for the sweatiest of rays

because it is possible without that nerf

to

chain four separate jumps of battle

together

for a permanent 100 uptime of that 80

haste rating bonus

now even in the absence of a drum nerf

not

every single member of a raid will need

to be

leatherworking only four drums are

required for permanent uptime which

means

four out of five members of a party

would want leatherwork

that means in a 25-man raid five players

can get away without it

drums lead us nicely into professions

i did mention earlier that as an

enhancement shaman you can

feel profession locked and that's mostly

because of blacksmithing and

leatherworking if

tinnitus which was originally introduced

in wrath of the lich king as a nerf to

drums

is not present in classic tvc most

shaman will want to be leatherworking

because obviously we care about dps

and drums are a great boon to that but

also as shaman we can craft some strong

binon pickup leather and male pieces but

even more important than leatherworking

for us

is blacksmithing crafted blacksmithing

weapons

are extremely powerful and will usually

last you

until sunwell which is the last ray tier

for all of tbc so that means the weapons

that you can begin

crafting at launch and then upgrade

as you progress through the tiers are

powerful enough that

every enhancement shaman should opt for

blacksmithing next we have engineering

which is

mostly notable for the crafted helms

that are available

it's unknown whether we'll have these

available

at launch in classic tbc but if so the

surestrike goggles version 2.0 are

extremely strong and will last you at

least until

tier 5. that same helmet can be upgraded

later on in tier 6 and is equally as

powerful

compared to other options in that tier

enchanting we've touched on a little bit

already the personal bonus enchanting

provides comes in the form of

plus four stat enchants two rings means

an enchanter gets a bonus

plus eight to all stats jewelcrafting is

probably the least valuable in terms of

personal stat bonuses until much later

in the game the crafted trinkets you can

create early are not very competitive

with five man in raid drops

and jewelcrafter only gems won't come

into a later patch

however when we do get to sunwell

content there are some very powerful

bonuses from jewelcrafting that

most hardcore players will pick up most

notable of which

are the hard corium ban which is very

competitive with other bis options in

the ring slot and the hard corneum

choker which is the best neck available

in the entire game so now that's just an

overview on professions

now what should you personally choose

blacksmithing 100

you should pick up from the beginning of

the game and potentially not drop until

sunwell leatherworking

if tinnitus is in the game nerfing the

effect of drums

is still strong especially early but

falls off late game so it might be a

good pick up

to craft pre-raid bis pieces of gear but

in the future you would almost certainly

drop that profession if tinnitus is not

in the game leatherworking

essentially becomes mandatory for any

hardcore raid environment enchanting

is unique in that you can enchant rings

with plus four stats drop the profession

and still have

the enchant active on your gear which

means you may see players

with lots of wealth picking up and

dropping and chanting throughout the

expansion

so let's say you're trying to maximize

your

damage output throughout the entire

expansion in the beginning

you would offer blacksmithing and

leatherworking if tinnitus is

not in the game if tinnitus isn't a game

you would most likely

go for a blacksmithing and engineer now

enchanting is unique in that you can

enchant your rings drop the profession

and still have that enchant

active which means you might opt for

going blacksmithing and chanting in the

beginning

until you get your biss rings 4 tier 4

tier 5 depending on how they

roll out the content patches enchant

your best rings drop enchanting

and pick up something like engineering

and then when we get closer to the end

of the game

when you are able to replace your

blacksmithing weapons which essentially

happens only in sunwell you can drop

blacksmithing and pick up jewelcrafting

for the then bis options for rings

and neck so now let's get into hearing

options

meldon has provided a link to my 2.4.3

enhancement ep sheet which ranks pretty

much every item from the beginning of

the game to the end of tier 5 in

addition to

some items from classic vanilla some of

those strong

vanilla classic items are listed here

the ones that

are the best for the longest amount of

time

are might of the scourge which we've

talked about being

stronger than the alder and squire

shoulder enchant options

and mark of the champion which is a

quest reward from the phylactery of

kel'thuzad

from naxxramus this trinket is

extremely powerful and will be used

essentially throughout

all of tbc classic for any of those

fights where you're against undead or

demon enemies

there are some other strong gear options

i've listed here but

none of them quite match up to mark of

the champion

as far as tbc longevity goes if you're

on the horde side

definitely look through this list and

try to pick up as many pieces as you can

going into tvc because at the very least

they'll greatly improve your leveling

speed if you opt to go enhancement while

leveling and

in some cases won't be replaced until

the middle of karazhan

here is a pre-rate business for

enhancement shaman and tbc classic

all of this information is available

through my spreadsheet but feel free to

pause the video

if you need more time browsing here we

also have this list for

tier 4 and tier 5 but again all of this

information is available through my

spreadsheet link in the description

now what should we do for this list

beyond tier 5. as we mentioned earlier

your ep values will change

drastically as your gear changes by tier

six

we should have a functional and

hopefully sophisticated simulator for

enhancement shaman dps

and that will without a doubt provide

better information for your gearing

options

than an ep sheet could once a good

enhancement dps simulator

does come melron will be sure to update

you guys about it now we have group

composition and raid buffs

we touched on this a little bit earlier

but there are some cool

synergies that we didn't get into that

i'll talk about now

enhancement we know provides great

utility to the raid so you might wonder

which group is best for us enhancement

shamans provide the most benefit

to melee groups first and foremost that

melee group will likely include at least

one warrior tank

sometimes too but in general enhancement

shaman should be

primarily in the groups that benefit the

most from wind fury

so warrior tanks combat sword rogues

fury and arms warriors retribution

paladins they all benefit greatly from

my wind fury totem

and of course our totem twisting hunters

also gain a lot of benefit from

enhancement shamans

just not quite as much as melee do the

optimal hunter group is generally

three hunters at least two of which are

beast mastery but

usually they'll be three-piece mastery

at least until end game in addition to

one feral druid generally a tank and an

enhancement shaman hunters of course

gain a lot of benefit from our gray

severe totem which is improved

compared to other types of shaman as

well as our unleashed rage talent which

provides

melee attack power to their pets now for

enhancement personal dps

now for enhancement personal damage we

receive a bit more benefit from that

same hunter group

as opposed to the melee group beast

mastery hunters provide ferocious

inspiration which is a talent

that gives three percent increased

damage

when their pet lands a critical hit this

affects stacks

so that when you have three bm hunters

in one group you receive

plus nine percent damage of course the

feral druid contributes

leader of the pack which is five percent

melee quick chance these combined

effects

are more potent than a warrior's

battleship which talented provides 381

attack power and finally we have paladin

blessings

the optimal 25 man raid comp will likely

only have three paladins

but if you do end up with four here's

the priority system you should follow

salvation is our first and foremost as

we mentioned earlier

threat is a big issue you always want to

prioritize salvation next up

mites will always provide more dps than

kings

even in laking finally wisdom is nothing

to scoff at as it makes your mana

management

more bearable well that's it thanks for

listening to my guide feel free to hit

me up on the shaman discord at any time

and definitely be sure to check out that

enhancement ep sheet

i'll be adding more and more to it as

time goes on

thanks so much evan this was an amazing

guide and i really appreciate the hard

work and dedication that you put into

this guide we're going to wrap this

guide up talking about user interface

add-ons and weak cars a shaman's ui

is crucial in adapting quickly to a

fluid raid environment this is a picture

of an elemental shaman

egregious in magtheridon's lair as you

can see here

raid frames are centered and below the

character frame all relevant information

health mana totems are in the direct

plane of view in the center of the

screen as well as the boss's health

and the action bar is minimized on the

bottom of the screen leaving it plain in

an unobstructed view of the entire

encounter i highly recommend this type

of user interface

for shaman playing in pve it's important

to see where people are standing where

the boss is and any mechanics that may

be coming your way

important things like cooldowns totems

and raid frames should be in your direct

plane of vision and not in your

peripherals having a good ui

is just as important as having high

skill if you have high skill and a poor

ui you can significantly decrease your

rate effectiveness with a poor ui as it

can severely decrease your reaction time

now it kind of goes hand in hand with ui

or add-ons and weak arrows

by this point unless you're new to

shaman you should know the importance of

the following add-ons

a clear and concise raid frames as we've

discussed in the previous slide totem

timers to track your totem uptime weapon

rebuff reminders enhancement shaman this

is very important

you don't want your weapon buffs or

imbues to fall off in the middle of a

fight make sure they are imbued before

the fight

since they last 30 minutes in tbc they

should not fall off dps

or hps add-ons now dps add-on or hps

add-on is great for of course for

bragging rights but you can learn a lot

from the encounter by looking at these

types of outputs

why is your dps so low compared to

someone else are you missing something

it's important to look at this type of

information as your rating

of course dvm and bigwigs are required

for any type of raid setting

letting you know when important

mechanics are happening so you can time

cooldowns or

other abilities a threat add-on as evan

said enhancement shaman have a danger of

being threat capped knowing when you're

going to pull off a tank or when you're

close to pulling off a tank could

save your raid from a white very very

important to know where you are on the

threat table at any moment

in combat item racks can be fights that

require you to switch trinkets or switch

other pieces of gear

using an add-on to do that

instantaneously instead of dragging

pieces back and forth

is much better a swing timer for

enhancement even though you really don't

have to

time your storm strikes for wind fury

procs it's important to know when you're

gonna be swinging your weapons and

especially in pvp this is also important

so always have a swinging time if you're

playing a melee class

and a windfury totem buff tracker so

this is not

your totem timer of the wind fury totem

but knowing that everybody in your group

has windfury now there already is a weak

r for this it's called wind fury now

i use it as a resto shaman currently in

vanilla classic it lets me know that the

melee in my group have win fury and are

within range of the totem it requires

those players to also have the weak aura

but if you're playing enhancement this

is definitely something you should have

everyone in your group install so you

know that they have win fury however tbc

itself brings some new mechanics to the

table that should be tracked with an

add-on or recorder that weren't in

vanilla classic

now totem twisting did exist in vanilla

but it's not as popular as will be

in tbc especially for enhancement shaman

there are weak auras that tell you

exactly when to put down your ace of air

and

replace your wind fury totem to keep

your totem twisting up in an efficient

manner

i highly recommend getting a weak war

that tracks this and lets you know when

to swap your totems

a watershield uptime tracker water

shield as i've been stated

is imperative to have on at all times on

your enhancement shaman so you can

be more mana efficient and keep your

totem twisting up

a cool down reminder that will let you

know when your storm strike pops up your

shocks your shamanistic rage bloodlust

and heroism or your potion cooldown you

should be tracking these types of things

during the course of combat

doom cooldown pulse is one option but

there are many other options

including weak horse and tell me when

and finally a windfury internal cooldown

timer there is eternal cooldown for

windfury weapon enhancement that is 3

seconds in tbc classic because of this

you may want to know

when your wind fury's on cooldown and

when it'll come off cooldown so you can

potentially time a storm strike if it

lines up with that cooldown if it

doesn't just use stormstreak on cooldown

but it's still

very helpful to know when you're on

windfury cooldown alright we've done it

we've gotten to the end of the guide

thank you so much for listening

and watching this guide there are many

other shaman resources that i highly

highly recommend

checking out including the classic

shaman discord of course which we talked

about in the beginning of the guide

however if you missed that part

the classy shaman discord is a

multi-disciplined collaborative home for

all classic wild shaman regardless of

expansion vanilla or tbc

if you click in the link in the

description below you'll be invited to

the discord and you'll see the readme

channel where you can react to the first

post

and see the type of content you want to

see if you just want to see vanilla

classic you react to the first emoji if

you want to see

tbc you react to the second and we even

have a wrath of the lich king button

if you click multiple you can see

multiple parts of the discord so i

highly recommend going there

and learning more about shaman and tbc

from our very talented and very

knowledgeable shaman trainers and

moderators

also i have a lot of shaman guides that

i've made in the past over the years

the newest one is the tbc classic

advanced shaman guide where i go through

many many other things for all specs in

classic wow restoration

elemental and enhancement it's more of a

theorycraft guide but if you're still

new to shaman i highly recommend

checking that guide out i also have

older guides from classic vanilla if you

want to learn more about where shaman

came from and where they're going

and we didn't talk about this in the

simming section but there is

a very early sim that is available for

tbc

that currently supports enhancement

shaman and warriors it's called tbc sim

so again it's in its infancy you cannot

upload gear yet but that's coming very

very soon i would keep an eye on that

there will be a link to that

sim in the description below and as evan

said sims are much

better at telling you what potential

upgrades are going to be than just raw

ep values because ep values change

depending on the gear you're currently

wearing

a tbc sim will let you input your gear

and tell you what the most relevant

upgrades will be for you

so again keep an eye on this sim as time

progresses when we get the tbc

classic and the developer's goal is to

have it ready for launch

so definitely check that out well thank

you so much for watching this guide

and if you have any questions of course

you hit me up on the shaman discord hit

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