Enhancement Shaman Mythic+ Guide

• Surging Totem
  • Summons a totem that pulses a large amount of damage every 5 sec, reduced by Haste.
• Whirling Elements
  • After summoning your Surging Totem your next:
    • Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, or Elemental Blast unleashes 3 Surging Bolts at your Surging Totem.
    • Direct damage of your next Flame Shock is increased by 300%
    • Your next Lava Lash or Fire Nova grants you Hot Hand for 8 sec.
• Lively Totems
  • Lava Lash has a chance to summon a Searing Totem that shoots Searing Bolts at a nearby enemy
    • Frost Shock empowered by Hailstorm, Lava Lash and Fire Nova makes your Searing Totem shoot a Searing Volley at 5 nearby enemies.
• The rest of this is passsive and doest not affect your gameplay much.
  • Totemic Rebound
    • Stormstrike has a chance to empower your totem and deal extra damage.
  • Imbuement Mastery
    • Increases the chance of Windfury Weapon to be to be triggered by 10%, and its damage by 15%.
    • When Flametongue Weapon triggers from Windfury Weapon attacks, it has a chance to trigger a whirl of flame around the target, dealing damage to all nearby enemies 3 additional times.
  • Amplification Core or Oversurge
    • Amplification Core
      • While Surging Totem is active, you deal 3% increased damage and healing.
    • Oversurge
      • Surging Totem deals 150% more damage during Ascendance.
  • Totemic Coordination or Earthsurge.
    • Totemic Coordination
      • Increases your Searing Totems critical strike chance by 15%, and its critical strike damage by 30%.
    • Earthsurge
      • Casting Sundering causes your Surging Totem to create a tremor at 200% effectiveness.
  • Pulse Capacitor
    • Increases the damage of your Surging Totem by 25%.

Boss Tips

Orator Krix'vizk

• Use your Wind Rush Totem during Vociferous Indoctrination.
• Use Astral Shift if you are targetted by Shadows of Doubt.

Fangs of the Queen

• Watch out for Knife Throw. Use defensives if you're targeted by this ability.
• You can cleanse Ice Sickles by using Spirit Walk or Thunderous Paws. If you are specced into Jet Stream you can also use Wind Rush Totem.

The Coaglamation

• Use your defensives for Dark Pulse. This happens at 100 boss energy.
• When you soak a Viscous Darkness it spawns a pool so try to soak it close to other pools.

Izo, the Grand Splicer

• Make sure you hit atleast 2 targets with Crash Lightning whenever Ravenous Scarabs spawn to get the buff.
• Use your defensives for Splice since it's the highest damage event during this fight.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Web Bolt from Sureki Silkbinder.
  • Grimweave Blast from Covert Webmancer.
  • Mending Web from Covert Webmancer.
  • Twist Thoughts from Herald of Anurek.
  • Void Wave from Sureki Unnaturaler.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

E.D.N.A.

• Always stack up to spawn Volatile Spikes close together to ensure you can detonate them all with 1 Refracting Beam.
• Use Astral Shift or Stone Bulwark Totem for Earth Shatterer.

Skarmorak

• Try to hit atleast 2 targets with Crash Lightning when the Crystal Shards spawn.
  • Be wary of Crystalline Eruption.
• Use your defensive before Unstable Crash happens or while you have multiple stacks of Unstable Energy.

Master Machinists Brokk and Dorlita

• Make sure you keep Flame Shock on both bosses.
• Use your defensive during Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.

Void Speaker Eirich

• Make sure you drop Entropy from Entropic Reckoning in good postitions or you will run out of room during this fight.
• Use your defensive on Entropic Reckoning.

Trash Tips

• Focus down Earth Burst Totem from Cursedforge Stoneshaper. They have a low amount of health but are not affected by AoE abilities.
• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Howling Fear from Ghastly Voidsoul.
  • Censoring Gear from Turned Speaker.
  • Piercing Wail from Void Bound Howler.
  • Restoring Metals from Forgebound Mender and Cursedforge Mender.
  • Arcing Void from Cursedheart Invader.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

Speaker Shadowcrown

• Consider using a defensive if you're affected by Collapsing Night. Getting out of this quickly is important since it deals a lot of damage every 0.5 seconds.
• You can cleanse Burning Shadows by using Spirit Walk or Thunderous Paws. If you are specced into Jet Stream you can also use Wind Rush Totem.

Anub'ikkaj

• Stun Animate Shadows with Capacitor Totem.
• Use defensives for the Dark Orb and Shadowy Decay. If you use Astral Shift very late before the Dark Orb hits a wall, it can cover some of the Shadowy Decay aswell, this depends on how far the orb travels.

Rasha'nan

• Be aware of Erosive Spray. It applies Lingering Erosion which is dangerous when combined with other damage events.
• During Phase 2 you can mitigate some damage by using Feral Lunge after dropping your Spinneret's Strands.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Night Bolt from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Tormenting Beam from Nightfall Darkcaster.
  • Umbral Barrier from Nightfall Darkcaster.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

Ingra Maloch

• Interrupt Spirit Bolt every time a non-tank player is targeted. Due to Wind Shear short CD you should be interrupting majority of the casts.
• Use Tremor Totem whenever Repulsive Visage is being cast.
• Try to line up your cooldowns with Droman Oulfarran's Droman's Wrath to gain a huge DPS boost. This happens when Droman Oulfarran reaches 20% health.
• Use a Crash Lightning just before the boss gets the damage increase for extra Maelstrom Weapon during the damage increase.

Mistcaller

• You can use Earthbind Totem to slow the Illusionary Vulpins. You can also specc Hex but there are a lot of good talents in this dungeon so it could be hard to get.
• Use your defensives during the Guessing Game.

Tred'ova

• Stay far away from your team to quickly break Mind Link.
• Don't over move on the Acid Expulsion as the boss remembers your movement for the next Acid Expulsion and spawns swirlies in the direction you moved previously.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Spirit Bolt from Drust Harvester.
  • Harvest Essence from Drust Harvester.
  • Nourish the Forest from Mistveil Tender.
  • Bramblethorn Coat from Mistveil Shaper.
  • Stimulate Regeneration from Spinemaw Staghorn.
  • Stimulate Resistance from Spinemaw Staghorn.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

Blightbone

• Use Astral Shift or Stone Bulwark Totem if you're targeted by Heaving Retch.
• You can use Earthbind Totem and Capacitor Totem to control the Carrion Worms.

Amarth, The Harvester

• Make sure you Wind Shear the Reanimated Mages instantly.
• If any adds are still alive during Final Harvest, try to time a Capacitor Totem. With them crowd-controlled the adds don’t explode and wipe the group despite being alive.

Surgeon Stitchflesh

• Try to bait Embalming Ichor on the sides of the room to make it easier to kite the boss later during Morbid Fixation.
• Be ready to aim Meat Hooks towards the boss to pull him down.

Nalthor the Rimebinder

• Be positioned on the outside of the room so you can instantly get dispelled on Frozen Binds. If you are playing Spirit Walk you can cleanse it yourself.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Drain Fluids from Corpse Harvester and Corpse Collector.
  • Necrotic Bolt from Zolramus Sorceror & Zolarmus Necromancer.
  • Rasping Scream from Skeletal Marauder.
  • Frostbolt Volley from Reanimted Mage.
  • Goresplatter from Corpse Collector.
  • Repair Flesh from Flesh Crafter.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

Chopper Redhook

• Be ready for when the boss walks through bombs as it give him Heavy Ordnance, which increases his damage taken.

Dread Captain Lockwood

• Focus down the Ashvane Cannoneer during the phase change to quickly use Unstable Ordnance to get the boss down from the ship.
• If the boss is slowed or rooted she wont cast Evasive. Keep Earthbind Totem down on the boss if your group doesn't have any constant passive slow.

Hadal Darkfathom

• Use defensives on Break Water.
• Stay way from the center of the room to bait Break Water far away. This way you can have the center free for when Tidal Surge comes.

Viq'Goth

• Focus down the Demolishing Terror first on each platform.
• You can look if the boss shoots a Putrid Waters towards you and press Stone Bulwark Totem if you see it coming towards you.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Brackish Bolt from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Watertight Shell from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Water Bolt from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Choking Waters from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Bolstering Shout from Ashvane Commander.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

Boss Tips

General Umbriss

• Use Wind Rush Totem to help dodge Shadowflame Breath from Commanding Roar.
• Use Astral Shift before Commanding Roar.

Forgemaster Throngus

• Use Astral Shift during Blistering Heat.
• Drop the Molten Pool on good locations to use the space well.

Drahga Shadowburner

• Use Astral Shift during Twilight Buffet.
• Use Cleanse Spirit to dispell Curse of Entropy.

Erudax, the Duke of Below

• Use defensives during Abyssal Corruption and Void Surge.
• You can use Mutated Hatchlings as a funnel for more boss damage! But make sure you kill them at a proper time as they make you take increased shadow damage when they die.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Earth Bolt from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Mass Tremor from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Shadowflame Bolt from Twilight Beguiler.
  • Sear Mind from Twilight Beguiler.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Ascendance and Feral Spirit before the key to generate Maelstrom Weapon which you can spend on Healing Surge to pre-stack Tempest.

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