Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Best Talents for Enhancement Shaman in PvP in Dragonflight 10.2.6
In this article, we will go over the biggest change that came with Dragonflight – talent system. We will cover the best talents for Enhancement Shaman in PvP, including the Class tree, the Spec tree, as well as PvP talents themselves.
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Enhancement Shaman Talents Overview
Since the talent system received a huge revamp going into Dragonflight, we will cover both the class and the spec tree. They both have some mandatory and some optional talents.
Shaman Class Talents
The Shaman class tree includes some hardlocked choices, including Earth Shield and the new Elemental Orbit talent, which allows you to have two shields on at once.
Right next to it we have both Healing Stream Totem and Swirling Currents. Along with Earth Shield, Healing Stream Totem represents the a large percentage of your healing, making these combined talents essential for your survivability inside of arena.
As far as dual-talent choices are concerned, we’ve made Planes Traveler default, since it always has value. You could swap this for Astral Bulwark against Ret Paladins for instance. This is because their Avenging Wrath is on a 1-minute cooldown, which means it won’t directly line up with Astral Shift when Planes Traveler is selected. Therefore, you can safely trade Avenging Wrath into every other Wings CD, and have a more powerful wall with Astral Bulwark.
On the right side of the tree you might be surprised to see Greater Purge as the default choice. This is because you are relatively GCD capped as a Shaman and have very limited opportunities to spam dispel. This simply gives you more value on a filler ability that you won’t frequently press. The only time you might consider playing normal Purge is into Preservation Evokers in order to remove Nullifying Shroud, but this is a very niche use case.
We’ve also selected Earth Grab Totem as the default pick in its dual talent slot. This gives us a very reliable AoE root effect, which is enormously valuable for dealing with enemy melee.
For the dual talent choice below Hex, we’ve gone with Enfeeblement instead of Voodoo Mastery. As an Enhancement Shaman, you have very few opportunities to cast Hex anyway, so the reduced cooldown is not that valuable.
On the right side of the tree we’ve also gone with Spirit Walk. The root break effect on this ability is super important, as having high uptime is key as an Enhancement Shaman.
Near the bottom of the tree, we’ve made Totemic Surge baseline, but a point here can be removed for Cleanse Spirit if a curse dispel is needed against Shamans and Warlocks.
Finally, we’ve made Totemic Projection default, though this is a flexible point and mostly gets value from playing with the Static Field Totem PvP talent, which enables a unique interaction of being able to displace enemy players within its radius. If you aren’t playing Static Field Totem, you can drop this talent for something else.
Enhancement Spec Talents
Due to the nerfs to the Stormstrike build, the Lava Lash build has seen a resurgence in popularity. There are not many flexible talent points in this build due to their interactions.
Enhancement Shaman PvP Talents
Enhancement Shaman is one of the few specs without any true hardlocked PvP talents. The only thing that comes close to being hardlocked is Static Field Totem, which is super versatile in every matchup. Generally speaking, this is a safe talent to play, since it gives you an important zoning tool which you can use to kite or even as a way to keep enemy players in place while bursting.
Every other slot is situational, even including Grounding Totem. You should only select this in matchups where you will get value with this ability. If there are no spells to actively immune, which is sometimes the case into melee cleaves, you can generally play without this talent.
After this, we have some neutral picks, including Shamanism, which is more burst focused. Despite being incredibly powerful, Bloodlust requires a lot of mana to use, which can make it a bit awkward to fit into your burst sequences. For this reason, Thundercharge can be a more appealing PvP talent to pick for damage, since it doesn’t have a mana cost and helps ramp up your damage.
Burrow is a new addition to 10.1. This is a solid defensive option into Rogue + Mage and where you are likely to be the kill target especially Melee Cleaves as that tends to be Shaman’s weak point.
Finally, you can play with Ride the Lightning as a damage pick.
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