Enhancement Shaman Melee DPS Guide & Best Runes – Phase 4 Season of Discovery (SoD)

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Welcome to the SoD Phase 4 Enhancement Shaman Melee DPS Guide!

This guide focuses exclusively on the Enhancement specialization, exploring key components such as Runes, Talent Trees, Stat Priorities, Rotations & Abilities, Best Professions, BiS (Best in Slot) items, and Race Choices. The new Rune System introduced in the Season of Discovery has added a huge versatility to how Enhancement Shaman plays, offering multiple unique effects that offer a new flavor to the specialization. Whether you choose to play an Enhancement Shaman that focuses on Dual Wielding and throwing wave after wave of lightning or on heavy Two-Handed elementally-imbued weapons and empowered shock spells, you’ll now have many ways of enjoying Enhancement Shaman DPS in the Season of Discovery.

Talents

Runes

Stat Priority

  1. Hit Chance
  2. Critical Strike Chance
  3. Strength
  4. Intellect
  5. Agility
  6. Attack Power
  7. Spell Damage
  8. Stamina

Rotations & Abilities

Single-Target Rotation

  1. Cast Windfury Weapon and maintain it
  2. Cast Lightning Shield and maintain it
  3. Place Totems and prioritize Searing Totem, Windfury Totem, and Strength of Earth Totem
  4. If you choose the Feral Spirit rune
  5. Cast Stormstrike or Lava Lash to trigger Mental Dexterity as soon as possible
  6. Cast Flame Shock and aim to upkeep it as much as possible
  7. Cast Lightning Bolt on 5 x stacks of Maelstrom Weapon
  8. If you choose the Rolling Thunder rune
  9. Cast Stormstrike on cooldown
  10. Cast Lava Lash on cooldown
  11. Cast Shamanistic Rage to regenerate mana

AoE Rotation

  1. Cast Windfury Weapon and maintain it
  2. Cast Lightning Shield and maintain it
  3. Cast Stormstrike or Lava Lash to trigger Mental Dexterity as soon as possible
  4. Place Fire Nova Totem on cooldown
  5. Place Magma Totem after Fire Nova Totem expires
  6. Cast Chain Lightning on 5 x stacks of Maelstrom Weapon
  7. Cast Stormstrike on cooldown
  8. Cast Lava Lash on cooldown
  9. Spread Flame Shock on as many targets as possible

Best Professions

Leatherworking

Leatherworking is among the top professions for a class such as Shaman, providing the ability to craft Leather Armor and Mail Armor. Moreover, Leatherworking provides access to special epic recipes in the Season of Discovery, granting Enhancement Shaman powerful equipment that will greatly increase overall performance.

Engineering

Being known as one of the top professions in both PvE and PvP in the Classic Era, Engineering’s reputation remains true in the Season of Discovery as well. It grants access to powerful bombs, various gadgets, and even specially crafted equipment that can be used to enhance your overall performance.

Enchanting

Enchanting grants the ability to imbue equipment with special effects while also allowing you to disenchant any item into magical essences. In the Season of Discovery, Enchanting grants access to powerful sigils which can be used to gain a large amount of Spell Power and Attack Power.

Skinning

Skinning is a viable alternative for both gold and material generation in case you pick Leatherworking. This profession is one of the easiest to grind as all you have to do is kill mobs in the world and skin their pelts.

Best Races

The Shaman Class can only be picked by the Horde faction, being available for 3 specific races. The best possible option is a pick between Orc and Troll with both races offering strong racial effects. Blood Fury is slightly better than Berserking for the Enhancement Melee DPS Shaman making it the stronger option. Berserking would only be better if you picked the Spellhance version of the build.

Orc

Undead

Troll

 

About the Author

Nevermore

Hey there folks, I am Nevermore and have been deeply passionate about WoW for more than a decade. Whether we talk about the hidden mysteries of Azeroth or the otherworldly Outland, my journey brought me here to share the things that I have experienced with you all.
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BobbyKotick
BobbyKotick
9 months ago

maybe you should add a stat priority and bis list

Last edited 9 months ago by BobbyKotick
Obsek
Obsek
Reply to  BobbyKotick
9 months ago

Stat prio would be useful

Zia
Zia
10 months ago

Rockbiter or FT for Enh DW?

Passion
Reply to  Zia
10 months ago

Flametongue
Double Rockbiter is the way to go currently.

Last edited 9 months ago by Passion
bonk
bonk
10 months ago

why are you telling people to play fast mh? less dps than syncing same speed weps and only eating one flurry charge per swing because of removal icd.

Rellen
Rellen
Reply to  bonk
10 months ago

There’s absolutely zero chance you find two weapons at level 25 worth using with the same speed to take advantage of a singular point in Flurry.

Ponto223
Ponto223
Reply to  Rellen
9 months ago

I use both Bite of Serra’kis and Meteor shard as a enhance cow, which deals a significant amount of dmg and I don’t feel like it’s a waste of a Flurry skill point. I do feel tho, that having a slower OH might be the play in terms of how Lava Lash works.

Passion
Reply to  Ponto223
9 months ago

Yeah you’re likely losing quite a lot of Lava Lash damage, especially after the buff it recently received.

Darvish
Darvish
9 months ago

I think flurry don’t proc with lava burst =( can anyone confirm?

Passion
Reply to  Darvish
9 months ago

Unfortunately you are correct it seems. The tooltip implies it can, but no such luck. We will adjust appropriately.

robin
robin
10 months ago

how way of earth rune isnt listed for legs? i think it might be better than shamanistic rage and ancestral guidance while leveling. Beside its survivability, the desyncronised CD for earth shock might be valuable for more dps especially if you play with lava burst. What do you think?

Passion
Reply to  robin
10 months ago

This isn’t a leveling guide, and Way of the Earth is effectively useless as a DPS, as you absolutely do not want to be taunting mobs as a DPS.

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