Playing an alt enhance after being prot warrior forever. I love stormstrike spamming, such a satisfying ability. Maybe i am just used to taking no damage as prot warr but are enhance really squishy when soloing? 640 ilvl doing solo content i feel i need to constantly weave healing surge in or dmg reduction. Is this the norm?
Enhance are in a terrible spot right now. Take a lot damage and dont dish out what they should considering we have no MS ability. They need to fix our defensives, mobility and either give us more damage or give us a MS before we can move out of C tier sadly. It still one of the most fun and diverse specs out there but its frustrating so buckle up!
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The OP is talking about pve, not pvp. You don’t need an MS ability in pve.
To the OP, you’re meant to weave in those surges, use totem, and earth shield. You’re also kind of undergeared depending on what you’re doing. Fully geared, enhance flies through mobs solo unless we’re talking elites.
I was using Enhance a bit in Delves. It is the biggest glass cannon I have ever seen in my life.
It’ll be better with gear though. When you’re under geared you don’t have enough stamina to kill stuff before it kill you, but you definitely can kill it, the damage is actually insane and it doesn’t seem complicated to play at all. Just put Lightning Bolt on your bar if you’re Stormbringer. Not a huge fan of Crash Lightning though, It’d be cool if it was off the GCD, would just feel way better.
Ah my bad. PvE it feels alright once you have gear but its still not where it should be for how much damage most 3 button specs do now.
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Enhance is EXTREMELY squishy, t11 delves are easy though even with how squishy it is.
Rock elemental is garbage, does not hold threat
Surge costs maelstrom, EW
Surge is garbage, it does not heal unless it crits
Surge costs maelstrom, EW
Healing between pulls is ruined by the maelstrom consumption preventing you from properly carrying resources between pulls.
Surge costs maelstrom, EW
If you do not kill things before they nuke your health then you get stuck in a cycle of spending all your maelstrom to heal and doing no damage because of it, VERY VERY stinky self sustain misery.
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I don’t think having to use Healing Surge means you’re squishy, because Healing Surge is part of your kit and you should be OK with using it. A 10 (or even 5) maelstrom HS with Earth Shield is insane and makes you unstoppable in solo content, especially with enh’s cleave and burst.
You can go even further and spec into Refreshing Waters. At this point you have the healing from Earth Shield itself along with its 20% boost to healing plus the +100-200% boost to HS from maelstrom, and then another 25% from Refreshing Waters. Unless you’re fighting something that can kill you in the time that it takes to build 5 maelstrom then you’re unlikely to die at all. Picking up Refreshing Waters also includes Elemental Orbit so you’ll still have Lightning Shield for its extra maelstrom generation.
Unless you need some CC from elsewhere in the Shaman tree I’d personally probably just roll with this for everything. The quality of life improvement is huge.