Where currently do enhance shamans stand in pvp? I have not played SOD and i am just curious. I seen a lot of posts with people complaining about them but i also heard Melee Hunters, Mages and Spriest’s are also very dominant classes. Is there a website that provides real data? I don’t want to look at people opinions because people will always complain about something but anything data driven can give you a better idea where the class stands. I think i would be interested more in PVP than pve.
Enhance has more burst than a melee hunter and also has instant heals.
Hunters also have a history of getting nerfed hard but enhance doesn’t.
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God tier in tanking dps. Healing
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Enhancement are glass cannons.
If you catch us off guard and/or CC us, we crumple. If you don’t you’re probably going to die.
We do a LOT of damage, and as long as we’re able to hit something consistently, we have some very good self healing. (But if we’re out of range and being kited… it’s a bad day.)
Enhance in SoD is a Diety compared to enhance in vanilla.
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You didn’t read the P3 patch notes… lol
Shaman deal 300 dps just by existing and pressing no buttons to each target in melee range as aoe.
Thanks for the info. Not trying to stir the pot. There is just a ton of complaining without giving any reason why. I only remember the vanilla days where 2h shamans would 1-2 shot people with windfury proc. It did not always happen but when it did it would be some crazy NRG stuff and you just had no idea.
For example, Hunter in P2 was nerfed for over a month before receiving a rune in P3 that compensated that nerf (somewhat, it’s meant to affect PvE without PvP so much), but Shaman was “nerfed” for a few days during the patch period between P2 and P3 before reciving their compensation runes that brought them right back up (debateably even higher than before) to dominance.
Point being, the dev handling of these classes is completely different, and melee hunter cannot burst as hard due to the ramping nature of their compensation rune.
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Are you referring to Lightning shield? I don’t think they ever have been a easy class to play, maybe it changed but totem management was a pain and that was what discouraged me the most to play one. I never would think shaman is a class that is a 1 button press.
I mean, I saw the totems in classic era pvp. Now? They don’t need those totems for their burst. I’m sure they would be nice, but it is not the same show it was back then. I see them farm/tank 6~ level 52 sayrs at the same time without a single totem up, full healing all the while. (This is being nerfed somewhat tomorrow I think, but we’ll see how that pans out.)
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shamans are broken man. broken to the extent that a large majority of the alliance stopped running bgs because you’re facing teams that are 50% shaman which blizzard has made into a cringe level of easy broken class to play so all the derpy noobs who are bad at the game hop on the cheese band wagon
Shaman got nerfed hard. Any more and its a dead meme spec.
The fact is, it has no cc. A rogue can always win 1v1 just by stunlock and you cant do anything.
Same with spriests.
Your only chance as enhance is hope you can stick on target and burst them down before they kill you. If only shamans had some sort of stun immunity.
I play tank shaman so i dont have these problems. Still running way of earth for pvp and still doing melee.
If they breath on you you die
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A lot of people talking but zero evidence supported by any data. If shamans are so strong and op why they are not top dog on dps? Why melee hunter has
such a dps advantage? Are majority of shaman trashtalking people are saying these numbers are made up? https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/season-of-discovery-phase-3-dps-rankings-sunken-temple-opening-week-338595
They’re literally 3rd my guy 
This is every class.
This is starting to look less like a genuine question.
Enhance Shaman is a pretty cool spec.
Eh kills Alliance and doesn’t afraid of anything.
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Well, it depends on whether you are looking at PvE or PvP. Shamans still bring a lot of DPS to PvE content as well as a lot utility (such as Shammy Rage and Poison Cleansing Totem), which Rogues and Hunters do not.
PvP, Shamans bring a lot of burst and a great toolkit. But there are certainly other classes with more burst and less utility (cough cough Mages doing 4k damage in one GCDG using Arcane Surge and Arcane Blast cough)
Shamans are in a really good place but they’re not walking gods as others would have you believe. There are still gaps in their toolkit which good players exploit very easily.
They’re not.
Enhancement is the tankiest melee DPS. Only thing that’s more tanky is a druid in bear form or a lock with soul link, and a paladin for 10 seconds every 5 minutes.
Getting deleted in PvP is a universal constant, shaman are less likely to get deleted because decoy and grounding are a thing, shamanistic rage is a low CD defensive, you can swap to a shield when focused and still do decent damage unlike warrior or paladin, yada yada.
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