Ive been doing bgs since patch last nite. Why did you destroy the squishy spec in the game ? Ive spent more time in the GY since I can remember. Ive been playing this spec since 2008. I have never seen such a mess ever. We have no defensive anymore We cant use healing surge anymore useless. No totem no defensive no damage . Im completely mind blown whats going. Oh its pre patch / No never has it been this bad. No fun anymore. Ele bad too. Rogue dk hunter xpac mw healers . NJ btw 
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This is a very weird take on enhancement right now. Have you not played it in a while? Do you have decent pvp gear? Are you using the right talents? A lot of rated people are playing regular BGs right now and tons of premades are running, so you might have gotten rolled for those reasons, not for playing enhancement, it is by no means nearly as bad as you say.
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Did u armory me before you came to this conclusion ? You might wanna just saying
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I did. Your gear is a bit lacking. No wonder you’re getting rolled.
Bad trolls will always be bad trolls or you work for blizz either way you have no clue.
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Your entire thread is full of untrue things.
Now you’re going to accuse me of being both a troll and a Blizz shill?
You must be new here.
Try replacing that 106 neck with something good, then get back to us on how you’re doing.
LMAO u dont even PVP . I agree to disagree. You have no PVP ACH no kills no nothing. Post on ur main or Have A Wonderful Day
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Enhance is prob the squishiest spec in the game atm, definitely the squishiest melee. It was actually not bad defensively until they gutted our healing a couple weeks ago. 50% nerf to Raging Maelstrom, 20% nerf to healing surge, 4% nerf to Surging Currents and their compensation for that was a 100% buff to Chain Heal, an expensive ability enh will never press and it still does less ST healing than 1 healing surge (which means we will not use it).
Keep in mind they nerfed the healing because of PvE, but in PvP there is dampening and Mortal Strike effects which already nerf healing naturally, so those nerfs really hurt Enhance a lot in pvp.
Lost Stone Bulwark, lost 5% DR from Prim bond, no compensation for losing those either. Cant use any of our defensives (Astral Shift or burrow if you take that) in CC. Lightning Lasso went to pvp talents so now the choice is between Lasso or Burrow which sucks because both of them are used to survive (lasso can be used to stop enemy damage during cds, create distance between you and a melee while you are in danger, etc) and we had both of them in TWW, so losing one or the other is quite bad.
So yes, it is a very squishy spec atm. You can still live on it you just have to be very good at kiting and using earthgrab, taking advantage of stormbind, lining damage, etc but you have to try a lot harder to live than other specs (aside from maybe ele since thats also squishy) and there is no reward for doing so, our damage is not higher than other specs.
However it is definitely too squishy and needs some defensive updates, nothing crazy but Astral Shift 1.5m baseline so we can make it a 1 min wall or strong 1.5m wall and some %DR to Earth Shield for the shaman only would be enough.
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balance is traditionally completely out the window in pre-patch, so while you may not like it this is legitimately a reason things may seem more out of tune
that being said, yes the shaman specs are in dire need of a defensive bolstering given the insane decision to remove the other defensive totem. You can still instant surge after spending 10x msw and while this no longer consumes what you would normally use for damage it doesn’t feel as great.
they need to add in something of defensive value but I doubt that’s in the pipeline this far into development. all you might see is a surge buff, but that’s been getting nerfed/buffed a bunch lately, so who knows.