Enhancement Shaman guide

Melee DPS. Enhancement is a melee shaman with Windfury Weapon, Flurry and Stormstrike, backed by powerful group totems. Forever builds the tree around Intellect: Mental Dexterity turns Intellect into attack power, Shamanistic Focus takes 45% off the Mana cost of shocks and Lightning Shield, Stormstrike moves up to tier 4, and Maelstrom Weapon and Rage of the Farseer sit at the bottom. Call of the Elements drops up to four preset totems, such as Windfury, Strength of Earth, Mana Spring and a fire totem, in one 3 sec cast.

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Stat priority

1. Hit (to cap)
2. Strength
3. Agility
4. Critical Strike
5. Attack Power
6. Weapon DPS
7. Intellect

Opener

1. Windfury Weapon: On your two-hander
2. Lightning Shield: Keep up
3. Call of the Elements: Windfury Totem, Strength of Earth, Mana Spring and a fire totem at once
4. Stormstrike: First global in melee

Single target

1. Stormstrike: On cooldown, boosts your next Earth Shock
2. Earth Shock: After Stormstrike for the 20% bonus
3. Flame Shock: When Earth Shock is not needed and mana allows
4. Searing Totem: Reapply when it expires

Several targets

1. Magma Totem: AoE fire damage around you
2. Fire Nova: Detonate at the fire totem
3. Chain Lightning: Only if mana is plentiful

Cooldowns

1. Totemic Recall: Recall totems after pulls to refund mana
2. Call of the Ancestors: Second totem preset, e.g. Grace of Air and Tremor
3. Purge: Remove enemy buffs

Key talents

• Stormstrike
• Improved Stormstrike
• Flurry
• Mental Dexterity
• Elemental Weapons
• Maelstrom Weapon
• Rage of the Farseer
• Shamanistic Focus
• Thundering Strikes
• Mental Quickness
• Ancestral Knowledge

What Forever changed

Mental Dexterity, Shamanistic Focus, Improved Stormstrike, Maelstrom Weapon and Rage of the Farseer (30% attack speed for 25 sec) are Enhancement talents, Stormstrike moved up to tier 4 (level 25), and Weapon Mastery, Enhancing Totems, Improved Weapon Totems and the Two-Handed Axes and Maces talent are gone from the tree. Call of the Elements, Ancestors and Spirits turn a four-global totem setup into one cast, and Totemic Recall refunds mana from totems.

Tips

• Use a slow weapon for bigger Windfury and Stormstrike hits.
• Build different Call presets for bosses, trash and PvP.
• Earth Shock right after Stormstrike is your strongest global.
• Mental Dexterity turns all of your Intellect into attack power at 3/3, so Intellect on gear raises your melee damage.

Other Shaman specs: Elemental, Restoration

Data from the WoW Forever client, build 1.60.1.70938, extracted 2026-11-13.