How I would save Enhancement - Make Enhancement Great again!

Remove maelstrom as a resource for Enhancement. Maelstrom should only be an elemental thing.

Remove lightning bolt procs as part of the spec, make it instant and on CD. The animation should be weapon goes forward and lightning arcs from it.

Make stormstrike 20 yard range. Shoots lightning bolt out on swing.

*There are too many competing procs right now. Storm strikes and maelstrom procs

Make elemental blast core and instant cast to the spec. When you send it out you gain the usual stat increases but you gain massively increased white damage on auto attacks. This would tie into windfury. Animation of your weapons staticy with lightning around them. This doesn’t have to be tied to elemental blast and a new ability could be made entirely to make it. Enhancement should be about enhancing your weapons to do more damage!

Crash Lighting should always be core to enhancement. This ability is fun to use and has a great animation everyone loves. Make it automatically do a small chainlightining through talents.

Make earth elemental more of a defensive cool down in which your earth elemental absorbs some of the damage you take. Like a sort of blessing of sacrifice and maybe increased damage reduction. Play with cooldown… This should be for all shamans to help with survivability.

A new defensive that is also offensive for elemental and enhancement. You turn into a ball of lighning and shoot bolts out exactly like the MOP remix meta gem but its like a pseudo dispersion with no heath restore. Remove Burrow from PVP talents.

Closing thoughts: Enhancements identity is hurt due to trying to homogenize systems between elemental and itself. Remove those tie ins and focus on making enhance less convuluted with procs, more survivable, and more about their weapons and ENHANCING them. Thanks!

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Enhancement shaman is extremely fun the way it is, honestly.

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Fun? Sure.

Viable? Absolutely not.

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lol, AA damage in 2024.

I think the core of your idea is right here, just not the execution. But the reverse is true. Enhancement is enhancing it’s elemental spells via the power of its abilities through things like SS and LL etc.

But you’re advocating the reverse, enhance its weapon abilities.

So you would still need some sort of builder spender, and you’re saying the reverse should be the case?

Interesting, just think your approach needs to be flushed out.

I personally just think the casino play style is not good philosophically in modern wow, but there sure are people who love it for some reason.

People are afraid of change.

One side of the tree is fun.

The other is completely rng and non viable.

Doomwinds should be a shorter cooldown and maybe work like pillar of frost windows.
DRE should probably be completely reworked or removed.

Ascendance should be a 2 minute cooldown with 20-30 second duration.

The fact that I can drop a 30 second Atro every 2 minutes is wild. Why is ascendance so dang short. No one runs 3 minute ascendance because 3 minute windows are wonky and even worse for a 15 sec button.