Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.0.7)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as an Enhancement Shaman and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Enhancement Shaman PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Enhancement Shaman
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Talents Summary
Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Stone Bulwark Totem provides a defensive absorption shield.
Lightning Lasso is available without using a PvP Talent.
Totemic Projection is critical for the use with
Static Field Totem and repositioning enemies, mainly melee teams.
Thunderous Paws,
Winds of Al'Akir, and
Gust of Wind gives mobility to reposition or get away.
Planes Traveler gives a reduced cooldown for
Astral Shift.
- Increased passive healing through
Healing Stream Totem.
Enhancement Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Elemental Blast does significant burst damage.
Primordial Wave sets Enhancement Shaman to do big burst with
Lightning Bolt and give a buff of Haste with
Splintered Elements.
Overflowing Maelstrom allows your spenders to benefit from ten stacks of
Maelstrom Weapon, making spenders even more powerful.
Elemental Assault allows for increased
Maelstrom Weapon generation through
Stormstrike. This makes the rotation of Enhancement Shaman feel more smooth.
Enhancement Shaman Hero Tree Talent Highlights
The Stormbringer specialization for Enhancement Shaman focuses on
using Surging Totem to deal consistent damage, along with
providing secondary effects for based on other Enhance Shaman abilities.
Surging Totem: pulses every 6 secs with damage, which can be increased by certain abilities.
Overall, the Totemic Hero talents for Enhancement Shaman are very offensive, and increases the overall Enhancement Shaman's damaging abilities.
PvP Talents for Enhancement Shaman
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Grounding Totem summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of
the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid
member to itself. Will not redirect area of effect spells. It lasts 3 seconds.
This is a crucial talent for both you and your teammates. You should use this
to "ground" crowd control like
Polymorph or
Cyclone or large
spells like
Ebonbolt.
Static Field Totem has only around 5K HP, but can be an important
factor
when going for burst for a kill. This will allow you to get off
your
damage without being kited. This traps the enemy team within the circle.
This can also be moved, dragging the enemy using
Totemic Projection.


Situational PvP Talents
Ride the Lightning is a great passive damage PvP talent.
Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.
Shamanism is a great Haste buff for your and your teammate to benefit from
Heroism/
Bloodlust.t.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for TWW Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for TWW pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.6.
- 24 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5, talent page.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 23 May 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1 start of season.
- 06 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight post-launch.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands.
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated based on Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated in preparation for first PvP season of Shadowlands.
- 18 Oct. 2020: Updated for the 9.0.1 Pre-patch Shadowlands and new author.
- 12 Jul. 2020: Updated Tier 4 and 6 Regular Talents.
- 09 Mar. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 05 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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