Enhancement Shaman Midnight 12.1 Guide

This guide is maintained by Weber, moderator for the Shaman Class Discord and long-time Shaman player. I have been maining Shaman since Siege of Orgrimmar, and I currently raid with Deposit Coin on Stormscale (EU), where we have managed to get Hall of Fame on a two day schedule over the last few raid tiers. You can catch me streaming my raids on Twitch, or contact me on Discord if you have any questions about the spec.

Enhancement is a dynamic, proc-based melee spec that rewards you for quickly reacting to random resource generation, random procs, and carrying momentum by minimizing downtime. You generate Maelstrom Weapon stacks through melee abilities like Crash Lightning, Stormstrike, and Lava Lash and consume them to empower your spells like Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, which also partially refund the cooldowns of your strikes via Elemental Tempo to keep the cycle going.

Patch 12.1 Changes for Enhancement Shaman

Enhancement received some minor tuning changes this patch with the goal of moving damage out of our cooldowns. They did not really accomplish what they set out to do, Stormbringer’s Ascendance is largely unaffected, while Totemic’s Surging Totem got slightly nerfed. The changes resulted in a slight overall buff for Stormbringer. Our healing was not buffed, as the 25% increase just reflects the increased health pools this season.

• Melee damage increased by 15%.
• Lightning Bolt damage increased by 20%.
• Chain Lightning damage increased by 20%.
• Lava Lash damage increased by 15%.
• Stormstrike damage increased by 15%.
• Doom Winds now increases the chance of Windfury Weapon activating by 50% (was 100%).
• Healing Surge healing increased by 25%.
• Earth Shield healing increased by 25%.
• Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 25%.
• Fixed an issue causing the Elemental Tempo to incorrectly increase the damage of Stormstrike and Windstrike.

Stormbringer

• Tempest main target damage reduced by 10%.
• Tempest secondary target damage reduced by 30%.
• Fixed an issue where a single Arc Discharge effect could increase the damage of multiple Chain Lightning spell casts, such as from Thorim's Invocation and Ride The Lightning.

Totemic

• Surging Totem Tremor damage reduced by 15%.
• Surging Totem Surging Bolt damage reduced by 10%.
• Fixed an issue where Surging Bolts from Surging Totem that were created from casting Chain Lightning were all sent to the last target hit by Chain Lightning, rather than the primary target of Chain Lightning.