The Best Enhancement Shaman PvE/Raids DPS build [BFA 8.2] (2024)

1. Haste -Reduces your Global Cooldown, increases Auto Attack speed and decreases the base Cooldown of Flametongue, Crash Lightning, and Stormstrike.

2. Critical Strike -Makes your abilities sometimes land a Critical Hit for double Damage.Critical Strike is equal to Versatilityin value.

3. Versatility -Straight up Incoming Damage Decrease and Damage Done Increase. Versatility is equal to Critical Strike in value.

4. Mastery - EnhancementShaman's Mastery: Enhanced Elements increases all Nature, Fire, and Frost Damage doneand improves your chance to trigger Windfury and Stormbringer. Mastery greatly increases in value during AoE engagements.

5. Agility -Increases your total Attack Power and through that Damage Done by your Auto Attacks and Abilities.

Boulderfist increases Damage done by the Rockbiter by 35% and reduces its recharge time by 15%. This Talent complicates your priority list and does not offer enough to compensate for that fact unless you combine it with the Strenght of Earth Azerite power.

Hot Hand causes your melee attacks made when your Flametongue is active to sometimes reduce the Maelstrom cost of the Lava Lash to 0 and increase its damage by 100%. This provides a solid Damage increase, but conflicts with your other procs. When combined with the Primal Primer Azerite power, it becomes a very solid option.

Landslide causes your Rockbiter to, 40% of the time, increase Damage of your next Stormstrike by 100%. This complicates your rotation and is focused mostly on Single-Target Damage, and as such can be picked for purely Single-Target engagements.

Totem Mastery summons 4 Totems for 2 minutes. Each of the totems provides a different buff, Storm Totem - Damage of your Stormstrike is increased by 10%, Resonance Totem - 1 Maelstrom is generated every second, Tailwind Totem - Windfury's trigger chance is increased by 2%, Ember Totem - Damage of your Lava Lash is increased by 10%. This Talent gives you good passive buffs, but it limits your mobility and forces you to spend first Global Cooldown after relocating on theTotem Mastery. You can swapForceful Winds with it for static engagements, or when you havePrimal Primer Azerite Powers selected.

Earth Shieldhas too low of an impact to put it on a tankand finds its uses mostly in Solo play, where that extra heal may prove to be helpful.

Static Charge improves your Capacitor Totem by reducing its Cooldown by 5s for each stunned enemy (for a maximum of 20s CD reduction). Pick this only if you need some extra crowd control potential (during Mythic+ progression, for example).

Hailstorm causes all your melee attacks to deal extra Frost Damage when your Frostbrand is active. This requires refreshing every 16 seconds, which complicates your priority list, and eats up resources, and is a poor choice because of that. However, it can be picked for AoE-heavy engagements if you have Natural HarmonyAzerite traits selected.

Overcharge gives your Lightning Bolt a 9-second Cooldown, and causes it to consume up to 40 Maelstrom charges, and deal up to 1200% increased Damage. This Talent, whilestrong on paper, is very tricky to use, as it can disrupt your rotation when used at the wrong time, which makes itquitea bad choice.

Feral Lunge makes you jump to your Target and deal minor Damage; It has a 25yd range and 30-second Cooldown. This Talent provides you with some extra mobility during Multi-Target engagements with a lot of Target-swapping and should be picked when an encounter requires you to have that extra gap-closing ability.

Wind Rush Totem provides a 60% movement speed buff for 5s to everybody who passes within 10yd of it; The Totem lasts for 15 seconds and has a 2-minute Cooldown. It has some uses in movement and kite-heavy encounters where you put it in a predesignated location to help with mob-kiting or passing through an area quickly. This helps in dealing with a lot of Raid and Mythic+ mechanics and should be picked over Nature's Guardianif needed.

Crashing Storm causes your Crash Lightning to leave an energy field,that damages all Targets within it over 6 seconds, on the ground. This Talent excels in fights that require you to switch between Single-Target and AoE DPS on a regular basis and should be picked if the Cooldown of theSunderingis too long to keep up with the AoE phases of an engagement.

Fury of Air is an aura-type spell thatdeals rather low AoE Damage to all enemies within 8 yards around you and slows them by 30% for 3 seconds; It costs 3 Maelstrom to activateand another three every second. The amount of Maelstrom required for the maintenance of this spell is not worth it unless you desperately need some additional sustained AoE damage.

Elemental Spirits imbues your Feral Spirits with Lightning, Frost,or Fire which enhances your abilities, and reduces the cooldown of your Feral Spirit ability by 30 seconds. This gives you two out of three buffs when Feral Spirits are active: Crackling Surge - increases the Damage of your Windfury hits and Stormstrike by 35%, Icy Edge - all attacks slow hit Targets by 30% for 2 seconds and deal additional Frost Damage, Molten Weapon - Lava Lash deals additional 35% Damage over 4 seconds, and all Fire Damage done is increased by 20%. This provides you with burst windows that are more frequent, but less reliable than those provided by theAscendance, and with an RNG factor attached. This Talent increases in value if you have the Primal Primer Azerite traits active, and should be picked accordingly.

Earthen Spike impales your Target on an Earthen Spike, dealing Physical Damage and increasing your Nature and Physical Damage dealt to the Target by 20% for 10 seconds; It has a 20-second Cooldown and a 10yd range. This provides you with the least amount of burst Damage but can be activated frequently, giving you some extra priority-target Damage boost without any Cooldown-related punishment. Earthen Spikeis a very flexible option and should be picked if that extra flexibility is needed.

1. Windstrikeif the Ascendance is active

2. Maintain Flametongue buff

3. Feral Spiriton Cooldown

4. Ascendanceon Cooldown, unless there is a Burst Damage phase coming up

5. Stormstrike

6. Flametongueto trigger Searing Assault

7. Sunderingon Cooldown,unless there is an AoE phase coming up in the next 30 seconds

8. Rockbiterwhen about to reach 2 charges and under 70 Maelstrom

9. Lava Lashwhen above 40 Maelstrom

10. Rockbiterto avoid downtime

1. Crash Lightningwhen at least 2 Targets are in range and the buff is not active

2. Windstrikeif the Ascendance is active

3. Maintain Flametongue buff

4. Feral Spiriton Cooldown

5. Ascendanceon Cooldown

6. Stormstrike

7. Crash Lightningwhen at least 3 Targets are in range

8. Flametongueto trigger Searing Assault

9. Sunderingon Cooldown

10. Rockbiterwhen about to reach 2 charges and under 70 Maelstrom

11. Crash Lightningwhen at least 2 Targets are in range.

12. Lava Lashwhen above 40 Maelstrom

13. Rockbiterto avoid downtime

1. Manage your resources. Always try to balance your Maelstrom generation and expenditure, and avoid overcapping Maelstrom at any cost (but do not use it recklessly either).

2. Optimize your Global Cooldowns. Think ahead, and always try to have the next two Global Cooldown usages sorted out. This may take a lot of practice and will require a Priority List memorization.

3. Do not waste your procs. There are some add-ons that will help you react to your proc gains quicker, by displaying them on your screen in a more visible way.

4. Try to maintain your Flametongue at all times. The 100% uptime is your ultimate goal.

5. Always analyze and try to improve upon your mistakes, because practice makes perfect.