I know quite a few were pretty unhappy with the Enhancement Shaman changes, myself included. However, Ive quickly figured out where I was screwing up, & what was throwing off the whole feel of the rotation… Lightning Bolt/Chain Lightning…
I kept reading that they were a big part of the rotation, saw some people even claiming you need to keep them on CD as much as possible. Which lead to down time waiting on casting, and it just throws the whole spec out of wack. It just feels really bad from the smooth & brutally fast melee beast we’re used to from BFA…
Well, whoever was pushing that advice, was full of crap. You ONLY hit them when they proc for instant cast or when you need a ranged spell. You hit which ever one you need, chain lightning for AoE and lightning bolt for single target. Otherwise, you stay away from them.
When you play like this, the rotation feels just as smooth as it did in BFA.
As far as the rotation… doesnt really matter, I dont suppose, just make sure you’re talents are correct(Icy veins is a good place to look), And it doesnt hurt to get in the habit of throwing down Windfury totem first thing.
Anyways, I havent got to play with it a whole lot yet, but this was the difference between me hating it and potentially loving it just as much as I always have. Thought I’d share.
Not gonna lie though, I’m still gonna miss being able to insta-tag stuff with lightning bolt.
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Once you’ve built up momentum, LB/CL are just like Rockbiter in the rotation, there is an exception. If you’ve taken hailstorm, you try to use it just before a frost shock and try not to double up between frost shocks. Since CL buffs CrL and CrL buffs SS, you also need to consider these when casting. Honestly, the spec can be a lot to track now, but it really hasn’t changed all that much. Flametongue has been replaced by a combination of shock spells and Lava Lash, I think.
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i love new enh rotation so much. but i also think we need something low dmg to tag or kil totems or dk zombies
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I mean i’m not sure what you’re getting at here. Are you saying Enhance isn’t as bad as you thought it was because you realize hard casting LB / CL outside of maelstrom was a bad idea? Not to be toxic but it’s pretty weird that you thought that was something you were supposed to do.
Enhance is missing a button or two in it’s current iteration. I like the changes they made to playstyle but the results are really bad currently (esp on single target). It does upper mid of the pack on AoE packs but is just too slow and boring on single target. It’s missing a filler button that would make it feel a bit better. Frost Shock and Flame shock not sharing a CD would be a good place to start, as hailstorm feels best by far in M+, but you get awkward moments on single target where you want to keep flame shock up but are having to dump the shock CD on empowered frost shocks.
The spec is definitely way too slow on single target. It’s legit boring. Most of the time i’m auto attacking. It’s not even the abysmal single target damage that bothers me so much as the playstyle of the spec on bosses literally puts me to sleep.
Maybe add primal strike as a filler button when you have nothing else to press.
That’s literally defeating the point of the rework.
It’s a cooldown based spec, a no-cooldown based filler isn’t supposed to exist for it.
It doesn’t need one.
If you’re getting excessive amounts of downtime in single target either you’re extremely unlucky, not ST talents, or you’re not hitting your priority list properly.
Splitting Frost/Flame would be super cool tho, should def happen.
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I used to tag with purge on ele, could work for enhance, though not sure it’s viable now with the mana costs on everything.
You actually only want to hit them when you are at or above 7 maelstrom stack to avoid overcap. This seems to be the highest dps.
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Number one thing that needs to happen is split the cd for shocks, once that happens that class will play smooth like butter. I’ve seen people try to make the argument that it’s a “decision” spec so that’s why they share a cd. This is not a good way to look at it to me. Enhancement is a priority based spec instead of a proper rotational spec, that’s what makes it fun, but shocks sharing a cd is counter intuitive to this mentality.
Make the change blizzard, please and thank you. You’re clearly not above trying with enhance seeing as you just majorly buffed WF on the beta baseline.
Mana regeneration is significantly more important as it currently double punishes us for using heals or utility.
Shocks sharing a cooldown are fine and create some of the only choice enhance has:. Dot or snare. There is a reason the hailstorm buff lasts longer than 6 seconds, or that we got a talent that effectively serves to unlink the shocks if you want that.
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The thing is a mana generation talent wouldn’t make much sense for that row as it’s an output row and mana regen on enhance is for pure survivability purposes. I don’t think a talent detaching the CD would be worthwhile though as it’s not a performance issue it’s purely a QoL issue with the priority rotation. Agree to disagree on that one.
Not asking for a talent…Mana regen needs to be baked into the class before things like unlinked shock cooldowns.
Maelstrom weapons historically had Mana regen compensation
Wotlk- primal wisdom
Cata/MoP - primal wisdom rolled into Mental quickness
WoD - mana regen increased by 100% after losing mental quickness (200% baseline regen)
Without it we are double punished. Once to use stacks on heals, and again when oom trying to use our primary survival tactic by being unable to dps (Mana costs on abilities).
Ice strike already exists and is effectively an unlinked shock. It resets cds on shocks, so you can go flame shock, ice strike, frost shock. It’s already there if you want it.
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Oh yeah that’s definitely true but why not both 
Because it’s there with ice strike. Just like ice strike isn’t as good as frostbrand imbue, it’s “unlinked shocks” by resetting cd at cost of 1 gcd.
Thinking slightly ahead solves that issue.
Also, hailstorm isn’t currently the highest throughput ST talent on that row, it’s elemental assault.
I feel like if they removed the sharded CD between FrS and FS, then FrS would serve as a filler purpose like it does for ELE. If they did that they could buff LB and the spec would feel a lot better. I like the current iteration as well, but there are some QoL changes that could occur.
Also a damage buff to LL and LB/CL, and survivabilty buff to HS/CH, DCD, and passive mitigation. Something we have been asking for 2 xpacs now ffs.
Or no cd frost shock like ele 
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The problem is that if you spec AoE you’re severly hindering your single target and vis versa. Enhance has this issue way more than other melee and thats sort of the point. Of couser some builds revolve more around single target or AoE but it shouldn’t be as much of a difference as it currently stands.
Not to mention the single target spec is literally just BFA enhance plus maelstrom lightning bolts. I think most people prefer playing hailstorm as it adds an extra element to the rotation that is engaging but clearly an underwhelming choice for single ttarget (though vastly superior in aoe).