Hello! I just started playing WoW recently and chose Shaman as I like Mages in MMOs but also like being up in the middle of the chaos like a Battle Mage. I was playing Elemental and decided to switch to Enhancement around lvl 31. I’m now lvl 38 and still confused about my skills and rotation. I’ve watched a few videos and understand the basics, build Maelstrom stacks and use them, but it feels like I’m not doing it right? Idk, was looking for someone who plays Enhancement and would be willing to help me out and be patient, if that’s you please let me know! My in game name is Gruuakii.
Thanks!
Im probably not the one to help, but you should check out some rotational guides on WoWhead. Most of the abilities you wont even have yet though so I wouldn’t worry about it too much while leveling.
This is one of the harder specs to play in the game, and as someone thats played the game for 19 years I find it a bit overwhelming myself at max level in raids…so it will take a bit of practice to figure out for sure.
If you find it too difficult, theres also ret paladin which uses magic and is melee and is much easier, and also Death Knights use magic and are melee too and are typically easier than enhance…neither are the same theme of magic though.
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After playing this game in my adult life for 7 years, raiding at mythic level and climbing m+ into the 3000s, my advice is:
Don’t read a guide at t=0 like everyone says. Sit down and read your own spells and talents. Read all of them and memorize all the synergies in there. Over the years I’ve been absolutely flabbergasted by the number of players who have no idea what their spells do and instead just use a robot addon that tells them what buttons to press. The reality is that you need to learn your class and not be told your class. After you already know what you’re doing, then go read a guide in case you missed anything.
Also make sure to set up key binds early. I’ve tried to work with players who click their spells, but the reality is that it’s objectively half as efficient. Set up a key bind map early otherwise you’ll have a bad habit to break. For enhancement, I fell in love with storm strike on scroll wheel up and scroll wheel down on builds that use storm strike a lot. Else I used to use a mouse with a “forward” and “back” button on the right thumb and I put lava lash and storm strike there. Mouse buttons are the most ergonomic, and you have shift, alt, shift+alt, and if your hand is big enough Ctrl and Ctrl+ combinations as well for modifiers. After mouse buttons are used, there’s 1 2 3 4 q e r f c x z and even spacebar and caps lock that people overlook.
After reading and getting muscle memory of which finger does what action, you should be good until max level. But then at max level you should have a damage meter addon and go hit the target dummy. Then check which spells do the most damage by experiment. It’s a lot more profound to physically see “oh look elemental blast does this much damage, but frost shock does this much…” Rather than read someone say “prioritize using elemental blast”.
Dont let the previous comment scare you…its far more hard core than you have to play…although key binding all of your abilities is a good suggestion. Looking at a guide early on is perfectly fine and will get you by with 95% of the content in the game.
I don’t think it is conventional advice and I am far from an expert on the particular spec, but I will say that if you haven’t already, a mouse with additional keys was a god send for enhancement, at least for me 
There are so many procs and such rolling in, so many spells that you actually use rather than just taking up space on your bar. It feels so frenetic, and that feels a whole lot more comfortable to just have it on a mouse.
Also, a good UI helps a ton. I’m a bit meh on the native UI and cd manager. Especially for enhancement. It’s super easy to get the weakauras add on and just grab an already made class weak aura set. I think Luxthos makes some pretty clean readily customizable weak auras. It should really help in managing MW stacks and being able to visually keep up with your procs!
So, Shamans are all about weaving the elements. Enhancement has 3x “loops” that you should be aware of although they’re not always chosen at the same time via talents:
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Crash Lightning → Stormstrike → Chain Lightning; Crash Lightning allows you to cleave, Stormstrike is great for generating Maelstrom Weapon stacks and Chain Lightning reduces the CD on Crash Lightning, allowing you to minimize downtime.
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Flame Shock → Lava Lash → Fire Nova; Lava Lash will spread Flame Shock and you can have Flame Shock on 6x targets total. Fire Nova erupts from every target that has a Flame Shock and deals AoE dmg.
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Ice Strike → any Maelstrom Weapon spender (Hailstorm talented) → Frost Shock; Both Ice Strike and Hailstorm will buff Frost Shock which can be used for ST and AoE.
Outside of these rules/principles, you’re basically given a choice of which spender to use every time you build Maelstrom Weapon stacks. These include Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Burst, Elemental Blast, Healing Surge, Chain Heal or Primordial Storm (and Tempest if Stormbringer) - these all have their place but are often affected by the current seasonal builds.
This is generically how the spec operates. If you balance these kinds of things, you’ll find that you have less downtime.
Regarding hero spec choice/complexity, Totemic is more straightforward, less punishing and is more consistent (due to a 30sec dmg profile). It often utilizes more keybinds than Stormbringer and you’ll need to manage Surging Totem for the max benefit. Stormbringer typically utilizes fewer keybinds and is less movement restrictive but it’s mandatory that you track and bank Tempest procs for specific damage windows - this will keep your rotation flowing where it’s important but is also more punishing if played improperly.
I would say dont sweat it too much. You are still early in your leveling experience and enhancement feels a little clunky until it comes online at higher levels. You have a few very distinct build paths later that dramatically change how you play the class and your burst cycles. So for now, until you start looking at what kind of build you want to play I say just read your skills, learn what they do and how they interact with each other then worry about rotation and build once you get to a higher level.
Just so you know, enhance is not the most concerned with rotation compared to other classes. Enhance has a lot of procs baked into it, so you spend a lot of time fishing for that and spending maelstrom which feeds back into fishing for procs.
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