Enhancement Shaman DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.1

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The recommended choices for all content are:

• Use Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in your first socket.
  • Use Flawless Quick Amethyst in other sockets.
• With 5+ Sockets, switch to Powerful Eversong Diamond.
  • Use one of each colour to maximize the bonus - Flawless Quick Amethyst, Flawless Masterful Peridot, Flawless Masterful Garnet, and Flawless Masterful Lapis.

Depending on your stat balance, you will likely find that sockets are the best place to balance out your secondaries. Since Mastery, Haste, and Critical Strike are all competitive, we recommend simming your character to see which stat is worth prioritizing in your gem slots.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Unfortunately, due to the Enhancement imbue system, we have no access to the additional weapon rune consumables. This is because Windfury Weapon and Flametongue Weapon overwrite them, so save some money and don't worry about these!

Due to the current tuning of Eyes of the Eagle, it outclasses all of the raw stat enchants, so is always used.

Helm, Shoulder and Boot enchants are up to personal preference as they have no direct impact on performance, but we recommend Avoidance for the extra survivability.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

In Season 2, Flask picks aren't as cut and dry – they're instead used to balance out your secondaries as Stormbringer:

• Flask of the Blood Knights – if your Mastery is higher than Critical Strike.
• Flask of the Magisters – if your Critical Strike is higher than Mastery.
• Flask of the Blood Knights – if you have less than 15% Haste.

Your goal as Stormbringer is to keep Critical Strike and Mastery as close to each other as possible, while keeping a solid floor of Haste to allow for resource cycling. That means flasks are used to "fix" the stat you're currently lacking the most of, rather than doubling down on the strongest. As Totemic however, always play with Flask of the Magisters.

You can also obtain a flask of your choice from Cauldron of Sin'dorei Flasks, provided by Alchemists.

In Season 2, Potions are also much more complicated, and there are three different options with different use cases:

• Liquid Luster – Stormbringer pre-pots this in single-target.
• Potion of Recklessness – In AoE, as Totemic, or with optimized gear.
• Light's Potential – if you want a simpler on-demand potion.

Since your current gear can severely impact the effectiveness of Potion of Recklessness following gear changes, both other options are now very relevant, and have different rotational considerations when using them. You can check our Rotation page for an explanation on using each.

You can also obtain fleeting versions of each of these potions from a Voidlight Potion Cauldron provided by Alchemists.

A note on Draught of Rampant Abandon is that, while it's technically stronger, the void zones it spawns pacify you. It only takes 1-2 GCDs inside this to wipe out the extra value, so using the potion isn't generally worth it unless you're extremely comfortable with the downside.

Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion is the current best healing potion. Using this has a 5-minute cooldown, but multiple can be consumed in an extended boss fight should it go on long enough. Additionally, Warlock's Healthstones do not share a cooldown with other healing consumables. Remember to use it as well if you are holding one!

Agility remains the strongest stat in Season 2, so you should be eating a Silvermoon Parade or other primary stat Feast if possible. If this isn't provided by your group, stick to Royal Roast personal food instead.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. These can be obtained through the weekly housing quest, but remember: Augment Runes are expensive and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

Alongside standard buff consumables, there are a handful of other items worth keeping hold of - especially in Mythic+:

• Gateway Control Shard — allows you to auto-interact with nearby Warlock Demonic Gateways.
• Emergency Soul Link — can be used as a combat resurrection on your target, and does not require Engineering. This is especially useful since we can always use Reincarnation to get back up ourselves.
• Void-Shrouded Tincture — Midnight's invisibility potion, which can be used to skip certain trash pulls in Mythic+. Bear in mind this does share a cooldown with your offensive potion Light's Potential.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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Guide Author

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This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities. He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding in Echoes. You can follow him on Twitter.

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