I’ve been raiding as Enhancement for the first time the past few weeks (I’ve raided resto for most of my raid life). It’s definitely been a change. I go enhancement when doing world quests and the like, but raiding is a different animal.
I feel like I’m underperforming, and when I looked at some comparison logs my Windfury Attack damage is way, way less than some others, even though I have Doom Winds and trying to utilize that as much as possible. I read recently that there was a bug that allowed Windfury to be put on both weapons, but I don’t know if that’s what is causing the discrepancy or if I’m doing something else wrong. Is there a way you can maximize Windfury Attack?
Windfury only works on main-hand.
If you do the weapon swap, it won’t work when on both weapons.
Take Forceful Winds talent, which should help boost your windfury damage. Also the conduit that gives % chance for an additional attack.
This is what I was referring to:
https://www.wowhead.com/news=320314/analysis-of-shadowlands-dps-after-week-4-of-castle-nathria-third-week-of-mythic
Enhancement shot to the top of the statistics this week (specifically in the high percentile brackets) due to a “bug” that was originally found & reported on the 19th of December, but wasn’t fixed until last week after it began to spread. This allowed players to get Windfury Weapon on both weapons through a macro, which massively boosted the strength of the Doom Winds legendary window. With the nature of Nathria having a lot of burst windows and downtime, this turned an already strong cooldown into an explosion of extra damage every minute for basically no cost. The improvement this granted was anywhere between 15-30% damage increase depending on encounter, and raised the spec to an absolute powerhouse in single target when executed correctly.
This has since been fixed however and the logs left over have been flagged so should (I assume) stop messing with the overall stats after a bit of time has passed, so don’t expect to see the trend continue. The nature of the fix is also fairly amusing, anyone trying to use it now will simply get no Windfury procs at all, killing a lot of your burst and damage in the process - so stick with the tried and true Windfury/Flametongue combination now like usual.
When doom winds is up you want to pop doom winds your prio should be
SS or WS > ascendance > Sundering > Crash lightning for single target
Then crash crash lightning > sundering > chain lightning > SS or WS > ascendance for aoe
Only use 1 chain lightning per crash cd reduction should be able to get 3 crashes per doom winds proc
Just putting in the only really important abilities for Doom winds.