![]() Combined, these changes make Lava Lash-focused builds much less reliant on random (and randomly aligned) procs and fire spirit summons in order to deal damage. The base Lava Lash ability has been buffed significantly, the potency of the Hot Hand talent has been reduced, and Molten Weapon’s rolling damage over time effect applied by Lava Lash is active (previously granted by Elemental Spirits's Fire spirits) has been removed.The redesigned Doom Winds and massively buffed Sundering - both with better talented support via Feral Spirit and Legacy of the Frost Witch - give us at least some ability to react to uncapped AOE situations whereas previously we had effectively no recognizable scaling past 6 targets.Converging Storms has been significantly buffed, now increasing the damage of Stormstrike by 25% increase per target hit by Crash Lightning, giving Stormstrike focused builds an option to deal increased single target damage similar to Lava Lash focused builds with Ashen Catalyst.The addition of Storm's Wrath, Stormblast, and a redesigned Doom Winds allows more physical-oriented builds to highly value the mastery stat, historically a poor stat choice for physical builds.Feral Spirit and the redesigned Legacy of the Frost Witch greatly increase the damage done by all of our physical abilities, encouraging diversity within talent choices.Additionally, Chain Lightning can be enhanced with Crashing Storms to jump to 5 targets, up from 3, improving the value of weaving in Crash Lightning and Chain Lightning casts and greatly improving our 2-6 target cleave performance. Crash Lightning casts now have reduced damage past 6 targets instead of immediately and hits significantly harder than before.Additionally, the Overflowing Maelstrom talent allows us to set up powerful combos either via Primordial Wave or when aligning Elemental Blast charges with Elemental Spirits windows. Spells enhanced by Maelstrom Weapon spenders now hit significantly harder, giving value to carefully managing your Maelstrom Weapon stacks.How Different Does Enhancement Shaman Feel in the Dragonflight Pre-PatchĪlthough Enhancement’s playstyle is very similar between Dragonflight and Shadowlands, almost every aspect of it has been improved significantly. Although generally used as a defensive cooldown, Earth Elemental can also be used to temporarily delay enemies in dungeons when your tank runs into trouble however, it is important to recognize the limitations in its simplistic AI to avoid making things worse (for example, it tends to like to remain stationary and will happily tank enemies in the middle of Sanguine Ichor puddles in Mythic+). In addition to CC however, other abilities can also be incredibly powerful whenever their niche use cases demand their presence such as Cleanse Spirit, Purge, Tremor Totem, or Poison Cleansing Totem. The most generally useful of these abilities include a strong off-healing cooldown in Ancestral Guidance, group movement speed with Wind Rush Totem, and area denial or crowd control abilities such as Capacitor Totem + Guardian's Cudgel, Thunderstorm + Thundershock, Sundering, Earthgrab Totem, and (in PvP) Static Field Totem. In addition to dealing damage, Enhancement also brings an extensive repertoire of utility that can be highly desired in group content. ![]() This results in a sort of "feedback loops within feedback loops" style of gameplay - where intricate mechanics and abilities all combine together to form a play style that is truly greater than the sum of its individual parts. Although we won’t dive into the specifics here, as a general rule of thumb abilities and effects from a given spell school will combo off of or enhance each other. Consequently, the dance you’ll perform while playing Enhancement will center around avoiding overcapping your Maelstrom Weapon stacks while still keeping as many of your abilities on cooldown as often as you can.Īnother important part of the Enhancement Shaman gameplay lies in recognizing the high degree of interactivity between our spells and abilities, many of which enhance each other in ways that are thematic to each spell school. Your Maelstrom Weapon spenders ( Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst or Elemental Blast) will be your hardest-hitting abilities, and your melee attacks ( Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Ice Strike, Crash Lightning, Sundering, Windfury Weapon) have a chance to generate Maelstrom Weapon stacks every time they deal damage. In Dragonflight, Enhancement Shaman gameplay focuses on carefully managing two resources: Maelstrom Weapon and ability cooldowns. How to Play Enhancement Shaman in Dragonflight Pre-Patch ![]()
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