So I recently decided to level up a shaman to be my new main for Shadowlands and I’m currently really liking enhancement plus I plan on going necrolord for the armour set but looking at the ability it looks really terrible for enhancement so I was wondering if anyones tried it with enhancement and tell me if it’s any good at all
The necro lord ability doesn’t mesh well with enh, currently your best enh option is chain harvest from venthyr, or managing the kyrian totem if you enjoy their aesthetic more. I cannot even remember what the night fae one does.
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Damn guess I’ll just go necrolord and hope they tweak it at least the shield will be good for solo play
Thing is they buffed enh healing significantly, so in solo play the shield just slows you down. Meanwhile, venthyr’s literal first soulbind ability is a second bloodlust. And your given added movement with door of shadows.
Problem with the main maldraxus ability is that applying flame shocks to aoe is not only clunky, but your main aoe build uses frost shock which is put on CD by using flame shock. It’s just all around not well thought out for enh.
Yeah lol I just want that armour and I’m not a fan of venthyr at all
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The good news about the Necro ability is the buff it gives you (15 secs?) that duplicates your next LB on every enemy with Flame Shock on it… and it works in single target. It’s not amazing but getting a double LB crit off of one MSW cast is at least decent.
It’s definitely numerically the worst, but if you like the aesthetic just take it anyways. The only place for it to go is up.
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I’ve been using it and don’t find it clunky. You get a soulbind with a chance for no cool down.
Personally, I find the Flame Shock addition helpful as it lets you keep your dot for Lashing Flames up, then you can Hailstorm. Much smaller cool down also.
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i play all 3 specs, and i’ve found necrolord’s to be a great all arounder. the shield’s nice for some survivability. the class trait is better suited for ele and resto… when in enh, i just use it for the additional damage with lightning bolt.
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The necro ability does apply a flame shock but does not apply a cool down. In fact necro ability resets all your shocks cooldowns so if u chain lighting, frost shock, proc a chain lighting, necro ability, you can add another frost shock to your roto with a free flamehsock
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So your praying for good rng as you’ll be running a lower maelstrom generation build, and still end up doing less than chain harvest? I don’t see the appeal. Also chain covers your parties mistakes, if everyone dips low not only will chain harvest top the meter on aoe, but will top your party members, thing crit heals 16k atm.
I will give you that fact that necro is a shorter CD, but that’s about all it’s got going for it.
I felt like the Venthyr portal wasn’t much use to Enh shaman as. I looked at both skills to help make my decision. While chain is amazing, I didn’t see the use for us with a short portal
They need to buff the shield and then it will be useful. The main ability is just another way to cast flame shock (which can help if you accidentally click on another frost shock and flame is on cool down)
I’m also not going with an ideal covenant as my shaman is night fae, the added blink is really nice and I seem to still top damage with my fae transfusion because if the high single damage nuke wish I can cash on the go but it is what it is
The venthyr teleport disorient and hex don’t DR, teleport onto a healer and hex for free. Also interrupting a pack of mobs in mythics with this can be helpful as well. Also helps with “move to x spot on the floor” you get longer up time before having to simply teleport to safety.
Necro shield? Sit channel a shield do no dps, maybe after fleshcraft comes to make you immune to CC it will help alittle, but till than you already heal a crap ton, that a channeled lockable shield is not gonna help.
Yeah looking at venthyr it definitely has the best ability but the armour looks hideous, the teleport doesn’t seem useful and from experience with my warlock the world quests are just terrible thinking I’ll go necrolord and just hope that they rework necrolord to make it actually usable with enhancement
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If you are dead set on playing necrolord, look into using ice strike and fire nova for your aoe.
It’s subpar but it will get you in the habit of spreading flame shocks for your primordial wave.
Example
- Primordial wave target 1 to get up flame shock
- Flame shock target 2, ice strike to reset
- Flame shock target 3
- Fire Nova or instant LB those 3 targets
Flesh craft is a good defensive…and primordial wave isn’t bad. But there are better options. Still, it’s not useless it just requires a bit different playstyle.
The fluidity of hailstorm turns most people off flame shock management.
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