Enhancement Shaman Raid Guide

Totemic Projection -- Casts Totemic Projection on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Totemic Projection

Wind Rush Totem -- Casts Wind Rush Totem on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Wind Rush Totem

Primordial Wave -- Casts Primordial Wave on your mouseover or target.

#showtooltip Primordial Wave
/cast [@mouseover, exists] Primordial Wave; Primordial Wave

Flame Shock -- Casts Flame Shock on your mouseover target.

#showtooltip Flame Shock
/cast [@mouseover, exists] Flame Shock; Flame Shock

Focus Mouseover -- Puts whatever you mouseover on focus

/focus mouseover

Hex -- Casts Hex on your mouseover or target.

#showtooltip Hex
/cast [@mouseover, exists] Hex; Hex

Healing Surge -- Casts Healing Surge quickly on an ally by mouseovering or targeting.

#showtooltip Healing surge
/cast [@mouseover, exists] Healing surge; Healing surge

• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.
• Bartender4 -- Action bar addon
  • Bartender4 gives you more customizable action bars.

• Enhancement
  • Developers' notes: Enhancement Shaman currently have Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities that potentially do very high damage, while their melee abilities are not hitting as hard as we would like them to be. We're redistributing some of your overall damage to be less weighted towards Maelstrom Weapon spenders and more damage towards your melee abilities, and making some buffs like Feral Spirits always grant bonuses to your physical damage abilities regardless of what talent options you have chosen.
  • New Talent: Primordial Storm – Primordial Wave transforms into a single use Primordial Storm for 15 seconds after it is cast. Devastate nearby enemies with a Primordial Storm dealing Flamestrike, Froststrike, Stormstrike damage, and unleashing a Lightning Bolt or a Chain Lightning at 150% effectiveness (100% in PvP combat). Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Consumes all Maelstrom Weapon for increased damage.
  • Molten Thunder has been updated – Sundering has a 40% chance to reset its own cooldown, increased by 12% for up to 5 targets. Each consecutive reset reduces these chances by half.
    • Developers' notes: Molten Thunder proc rates were a bit too unpredictable, causing significant shifts in damage output, especially with the Totemic hero talent tree. We're making adjustments to make it more predictable while preserving its functionality. Additionally, we're transferring some power away from Tremor and Earthsurge into other abilities alongside the proc trigger adjustments.
  • Elemental Spirits has been updated – Your Feral Spirits are now imbued with Fire, Frost, or Lightning, increasing your damage dealt with that element by 10%, but now only increase your Physical damage dealt by 10%.
  • Voltaic Blaze has been updated – Tempest, Lightning Bolt, and Chain Lightning have a high chance to make your next Flame Shock become Voltaic Blaze.
    • Developers' notes: With this change, we're aiming to make Voltaic Blaze procs more consistent, allowing them to align better with the Enhancement Shaman rotation.
  • Voltaic Blaze damage now scales with Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
  • Voltaic Blaze chance to trigger has been slightly reduced.
  • Lashing Flames has been updated – Lava Lash and Sundering increases the damage of Flame Shock on its target by 100% for 20 seconds.
  • Primordial Wave has been updated – Now deals a high amount of damage to all targets affected by your Flame Shock.
    • Developers' notes: Primordial Wave is a complicated spell to manage and get optimal use out of. We're adjusting it to be more of a big damage impact upon activating the ability rather than priming your next Lightning Bolt to hit many targets.
  • Primordial Wave generates 5 Maelstrom Weapon stacks.
  • Primordial Wave is now disabled and enabled on the action bar depending on the availability of Flame Shock targets.
  • Stormstrike is now learned at level 10 (was a talent).
    • Developers' notes: The primary resource system, Maelstrom Weapon, was not very noticeable as a passive in the spell book. To address this, we're making Stormstrike the introductory ability for those choosing the Enhancement specialization and replacing its spot on the talent tree with Maelstrom Weapon. Alongside this update, we're allowing Stormstrike to be cast without an offhand weapon for the new player experience.
  • Stormstrike can now be used without an offhand weapon, dealing only its main hand weapon damage.
  • Maelstrom Weapon passive is now the first node on the talent tree.
  • Stormstrike damage increased by 50%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Ice Strike damage increased by 100%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Lava Lash damage increased by 60%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Chain Lightning damage reduced by 15%.
  • Windfury Attack damage reduced by 10%.
  • Crash Lightning initial damage increased by 200%.
  • Elemental Blast damage increased by 20%.
  • Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 100%.
  • Flametongue Attack now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  • Molten Assault now spreads Flame Shock up to 5 nearby enemies (was 4).
  • Ashen Catalyst now increases the damage of Lava Lash by 8% per stack (was 12%).
  • Chain Lightning now increases the damage of next Crash Lighting by 10% per target struck (was 20%).
  • Electrostatic Wager now increases the damage of Crash Lightning by 15% per stack (was 18%).
  • Hot Hands duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
  • Ice Strike now generates 1 Maelstrom Weapon.
  • Swirling Maelstrom no longer causes Ice Strike to generate Maelstrom Weapon.
  • Deeply Rooted Elements is now a small percent chance per Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed, rather than being a flat chance per Maelstrom Weapon stack consumer.
    • Developers' notes: This change should no longer make it seem advantageous to always try to cast as many spells as possible while at exactly 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon. Any amount of Maelstrom Weapon stacks consumed grant the same linear chance towards getting an Ascendance activation.
  • Maelstrom Weapon no longer highlights spenders when they become instant cast at 5 stacks.
    • Developers' notes: The constant highlighting of Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities has become a hindrance in understanding how to play Enhancement Shaman, causing too much information overload that is often inaccurate. Our goal here is to let the fundamental design of the specialization speak for itself, similar to our other specializations, and be more deliberate with procs that require immediate actions. Moving into Undermine(d), we will be rolling back most of the highlights on the main resource system, and start relying on UI overlays (Top) and personal resource display to show the current state of Maelstrom Weapon. We do not take these changes lightly, and realize there will be an adjustment period. We are excited for you to experience Enhancement Shaman in this new way and look forward to hearing your feedback.
  • Maelstrom Weapon will display a UI overlay at the top for when it reaches 10 stacks, overriding the 5-stack display (was at the bottom).
  • Maelstrom Weapon will not be highlighting Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning and Elemental blast at 10 stacks.
    • Developers' notes: After the user experience improvements in the 20th Anniversary Update, which dedicated the UI overlay space exclusively to Maelstrom Weapon, we no longer believe that highlighting your baseline spender abilities is necessary. The initial five stacks for Maelstrom Weapon will be displayed at the top as usual. Upon reaching ten stacks, another visual will override the five-stack display, utilizing the visual previously used for the mastery reset on Stormstrike's cooldown.
  • Maelstrom Weapon highlights Tempest when it is at 10 stacks.
  • Maelstrom Weapon will highlight Primordial Storm when it is at 10 stacks.
  • Maelstrom Weapon and Stormweaver spender abilities will now indicate in their tooltip that they consume Maelstrom Weapon or Stormweaver to increase cast speed, as well as damage or healing if talented into.
  • Static Accumulation will highlights Maelstrom Weapon spenders for a short duration when the refund effect triggers.
  • Arc Discharge will highlights Maelstrom Weapon spenders while its active.
  • Forceful Winds now increases the damage of Windfury Weapon by 15% per stack (was 20%).
  • Legacy of the Frost Witch duration is increased to 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • Rank 1 of Legacy of the Frost Witch talent now grants 15% increased Physical and Frost damage.
    • Developers' notes: After the Maelstrom Weapon economy pace adjustments and the increased access to Stormstrike, Legacy of the Frost Witch has significantly fallen in power compared to other 3rd gate talents. We're adjusting the value gained from investing 1 talent point into it.
  • Ice Strike now highlights Frost Shock.
  • Ice Strike buff is no longer on the personal resource display.
  • Lava Lash now consumes Whirling Earth if it activates Molten Assault.
  • Crash Lightning's visual, animation and sound has been completely revamped.
  • Fire Nova spell visual updated.
  • Lightning Rod's visual has been updated.
  • Ice Strike empowered Frost Shock visual and sound updated.
  • Ice Strike impact sound updated.
  • Glyph of Spirit Raptors now function with Flowing Spirits.
  • Doom Winds damage now scales with Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
  • Doom Winds now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  • Doom Winds is no longer on personal resource display.
  • Hot Hands is now on personal resource display.
  • Fixed an issue causing Hot Hands to grant 50% increased damage to Lava Lash through Whirling Elements when not talented into Hot Hands.
  • Fixed an issue causing Hot Hands to display 0% value on its aura tooltip.
  • Some talents have moved locations.
  • Splintered Elements is now a 2-point talent and moved to Primal Maelstrom's location.
  • Some talent icons have been updated.
  • Primal Maelstrom has been removed.
  • Stormbringer
    • Tempest damage increased by 15%.
    • Tempest secondary target damage reduced by 15%.
    • Awakening Storms damage increased by 20%.
    • Awakening Storms will now grant Tempest every 4 times it occurs (was 3).
    • Arc Discharge now stacks up to 2 times (was 1).
    • Conductive Energy now causes Primordial Wave to apply Lightning Rod to its targets.
    • When Conductive Energy is talented, Chain Lightning will apply Lightning Rod to one of the secondary targets if the main target is already affected by Lightning Rod. If all secondary targets are already affected, the duration of Lightning Rod on the main target will be refreshed.
    • Voltaic Surge now increases the damage of Crash Lightning and Chain Lightning by 10% (was 15%).
    • Lightning Rod now deals 8% of the damage dealt by Maelstrom Weapon spenders (was 10%).
  • Totemic
    • Searing Bolt damage increased by 40%.
    • Searing Volley damage increased by 12%.
    • Surging Totem Tremor damage reduced by 32%.
    • Imbuement Mastery now increases the chance for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 5% (was 10%).
    • Imbuement Mastery now increases the damage of Windfury Weapon 8% (was 15%).
    • Oversurge now increases Surging Totem damage during Ascendance by 50% (was 150%).
    • While active, Surging Totem is replaced with a relocation spell that summons your Surging Totem nearby. This spell has a 6-second cooldown and does not trigger the global cooldown.
    • Sundering from Lava Lash Reactivity procs now trigger Earthsurge at 50% effectiveness.
    • Earthsurge now causes a Tremor at the target area at 100% effectiveness (was 200%).
    • An issue causing Reactivity Sundering not to trigger Windfury Weapon has been resolved.
    • Pulse Capacitor now increases the damage of Surging Totem Tremor by 18% (was 25%).

A: It shines on fights where you have short AoE burst windows, such as Rasha'nan and Broodtwister Ovi'nax. If you time a Sundering on each add wave you will see a massive spike in damage due to Earthsurge.

Keep in mind that Earthsurge triggers where you cast Sundering and not where the totem is.