Classic WoW WINhancement Shaman Guide

Heyo friendos,
I’m High Warlord Holderhek.
I raided all of vanilla as an enhancement shaman, every single tier of content from MC to Naxx. As this "meme spec" I frequently topped the DPS meters above other “pure” damage dealers.
I was able to do this because I used the shaman as a DPS class and not some sort of glorified buff bot. If speced/geared/played correctly the enhancement shaman can output exceedingly competitive DPS.
I’m going to show you how.
Check out my follow up video for updated stats and values!
WINhancement II: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
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Buffs: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
Phase 1 Gearset: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
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Phase 3/4 Gearset: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
Phase 3/4 Damage: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
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Phase 6 RAID BUFFED Damage: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
Outro: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
Credits: • Classic WoW WINhanceme...
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::Video Links::
Complete Buff Guide:
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UPDATED! Phase 1 Gearset: sixtyupgrades.com/set/9GFSC8U...
UPDATED! Phase 3/4 Gearset: sixtyupgrades.com/set/8MuG1sA...
UPDATED! 6% HIT Phase 6: sixtyupgrades.com/set/aZy9w2m...
UPDATED! 9% HIT Phase 6: sixtyupgrades.com/set/mXdzGsi...
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Class damage in MC: • Class DPS/HPS Rankings...
Class damage in BWL: • Class DPS/HPS Rankings...
Class damage in Naxx: • Class DPS/HPS Rankings...
:::Contact Me:::
Discord: Holderhek#7777
Enhance Shaman Discord: / discord
Twitch: / theholderhek
WoW: Fairbanks, Holderkek

[@hinkhall1186]

4:51 - 5:20 This is the most beautiful thing I needed to hear, thank you holder.

[@MrVice_mk1]

Stormstrike argumentation is brilliant. Simply genious o7

[@guidoromani4009]

I laughed a lot. Long live for enhan shaman! I will definitely play it!

[@Kingmaster64]

That stormstrike bit made me almost spit out my water :D love it

[@makstedi]

instant sub mate, love this stuff, im rolling tauren shaman and using your guides

[@carlmcclatchie2122]

Hi, thanks for the insight, last time out I was an alliance druid, this time I am going shaman, lots of people have been poo pooing enhance shaman builds, glad to see some actual well formulated data showing their use end game in PVE. I will certainly be going enchantment end game after seeing this. They look great in PVP too.

[@Holderhek]

Carl McClatchie basically if you’re not playing a fury warrior people are gonna get mad that you exist as melee. Have them eat your debuff slot and go about your day.

[@highwon]

When people ask me to join their guild; "I demand my birthright!" Love it!

[@chancetrace4532]

you probably dont care but does any of you know a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the account password. I would love any assistance you can give me

[@golvellius6855]

Zug zug you got the ba.. honor to play this me.. amazing spec! I am also going again the tide and playing enhance

[@cactohippie]

Loved your guide! Ty so much!

[@AristeidisKypriotis]

Used to play Enh shaman since, roughly, patch 1.8. Was considering playing again in classic but honestly was discouraged by all the naysayers and people putting down Enh as a meme spec. I can't even begin to explain what a breath of fresh air your videos are! Suffice to say that I just rolled a fresh Orc shaman thanks to your content. Thank you and may the Elements guide you

[@user-hm7wd8mb8q]

Absolutely right!

[@Ash4eTo]

Love your cadence, your witty humor, and it seems you ACTUALLY know what you're talking about. For all this, I thank you :) Looking forward to your videos.

[@Holderhek]

Ash4eTo thank you!

[@jkm52399]

Love this bro👌🏼

[@Falomiut]

Nice job! Greetings from Paraguay!

[@andresvaldevit3692]

Best enhacement shaman guide for classic WoW period. Why have I stumbled on it just now? I lost my laptop just at the start of classic and I'm still waiting for the new one to come in the mail. I've had around 9 months to think over what class to play in classic and I coming back to the idea of the enhancement shaman again. With this guide I really might settle for a shaman.

[@Holderhek]

Check out our discord listed in my info on the video for a huge knowdleg base of shaman bros

[@andresvaldevit3692]

@@Holderhek Hey btw. I've been looking for info on TBC Shaman. What's your opinion on Dragonstrike. Is it worth it at the end all the effort to grow BS just for this craft...and maybe a stormherald for pvp?

[@rcalabre23]

I would rather wear a ball gag and a leather G-String, than Totem Twist. Please tell me that Classic is no longer hard, and after all these years we can actually raid and play.

[@Holderhek]

@@rcalabre23 classic isn't hard and I only twist when it ups MY DPS

[@Holderhek]

@@andresvaldevit3692 from everything I'm reading blacksmithing is the way to go for max DPS

[@user-hm7wd8mb8q]

Thank you very much bro!

[@Jackaroo.]

Shaman is the ultimate class.

[@mariusjebeleanu2865]

I have my first Enhancement Shaman (lvl 46), and my friend told me that after Lvl 60, I would become a 'Resto Shaman'. Now I can prove him wrong. Thanks, man, awesome content!

[@Holderhek]

Resto is terrible. The most you'd ever need in resto is 21 points.

[@cooltron]

I played WoW since closed beta and on release until about 2008 as well. I hit HWL on my Shammy and Grand Marshal on my Paladin. Enhancement is the best spec for vanilla/classic.

[@cooltron]

I just realized you're on my server too Fairbanks hahaha. Crazy.

[@cooltron]

@Holderhek - Can you join my discord later today in a bit ? Wanted to talk about some talents ?

[@Holderhek]

I'm traveling right now so my ability to talk on disc is somewhat limited. I might be able to tho hit me up in discord @ Holderhek#7777

[@cooltron]

@@Holderhek When do you get back?

[@Holderhek]

@@cooltron December 13th

[@jslaughter95]

this is a super chill remix of the FF theme

[@nikgervae]

Your video is making me want to play again, and to give Enhancement a try. I was a Demonology Warlock back in vanilla (and managed to do much better than your parses show, tyvm), but I think I would like to try something new.

[@Holderhek]

Nik Gervae hahaha prove everyone wrong my guy. I fully support it.

[@petterkjrnet9075]

You are OP lad.

[@flankyfranky3600]

man i love this intro so funny :D

[@Jstandshere]

Just wanted to say, I was just about to watch yet another 'advanced' shaman guide. Less than 5 minutes in I'm told that our jobs as enhancement is to apply the weapon debuffs. That 15% magic damage one............as soon as I saw that I clicked off the vid. Anything after that would literally not matter since they obviously weren't taking the spec seriously as a viable dps. It would appear that we (the ones watching this 'actual' guide), are going to have a lot of fun shocking people who can't think beyond a narrative fed to them by the very people they look to for guidance. I can't wait. I didn't raid in Vanilla, just got to lvl 48 when BC dropped, and haven't played psers...so I have no preconceived notions about what I can and can't do. I plan on raising some eyebrows and turning heads. That means I'm not listening to someone tell me to use a shit weapon and prop up the trash ass warrior whose on the top of recount anyway. Fuck that

[@Holderhek]

That's exactly how I feel man. These kids have no scope of reality and have never played without every buff in the game stacked ontop of every debuff in the game skewing everything. Enhance can compete and do well if played to a high level. We will show them this in Classic.

[@Jerppa95]

Thanks a lot for your videos! I love them a lot. I hope that all these gear stuff (like Drakefang Talisman) are realistic. I know it's theoretical BiS at some point, but is it also something enha shamans absolutely get? I will be going shaman and wish to play enhance in endgame. Also, are there any gold farms for enhance shamans (aside from the regular rune/felcloth etc. world farms)?

[@Holderhek]

Getting those items relies solely on your charisma stat. I believe in you. The only thing I'm gonna be farming endgame is demonic runes.

[@repptorr]

Love and Sub to you

[@Lars_lml]

21/30 is better after phase 2, but you have to switch to sp gear which is a pain. Great vid for AP Enh though! Liked and subbed

[@Holderhek]

Thank you!

[@angelmusicvideos]

Love how you joined in a month ago and I am so happy you have, couldn't help but to wonder how long you been working on these data sheets and information you point out?

[@Holderhek]

Angel AMVs as long as it takes and as information updates so will these guides.

[@angelmusicvideos]

@@Holderhek cool bro well your info hits where it crits and to the point where you action out performances what has been told so I am happy to come accross your sector.

[@angelmusicvideos]

@@Holderhek wondering my friend do you have a video or will be making one on stat priority when looking for gear upgrades. My stat in line will go str-agil-Intel and this is my grind to level 1-60 then after that I will be filling that hit cap gap but other then that I am clueless on what I should prioritize.

[@knightofwhale2834]

Lots of great advice here. I originally considered playing elemental but I think you've convinced me to roll enhancement. I guess the only question I have for you is: How did you ride a raptor as a tauren? I thought they couldn't in classic.... they are just so damn cool.

[@Holderhek]

You can do anything with the power of a private server. In classic you just need to turn in a bunch of runecloth to the appropriate horde cloth quartermaster. The mount I have in this video is the og vanilla epic raptor and it's available in classic sadly BUT you can ride a raptor.

[@knightofwhale2834]

@@Holderhek oh I think they restrict taurens from riding them as well as the skeletal horses

[@heho1279]

i Can t believe you can pull 450 dps in MC with pre raid gear as an enhancement shaman. Very Impressive!!!

[@Jackaroo.]

For real! I think enhancement shaman get a bad rep in Vanilla because of the general lack of knowledge among the average player, and the scarcity of healers, requiring most classes that could heal to heal. Now that people have theorycrafted, tested, and played with a more comprehensive understanding of the game, it's clear enhancement shaman are competitive as dps.

[@IndustryOfMagic]

0:29 I am the other one of these 3 ppl being rank14 and fully engulfed in all 3 major raids during vanilla. High Warlord Voilak from Bloodhoof EU

[@Drebin]

Do you manage to get raid spots? how hard is to gear enhance over the melee specs? Cause after watching this I am seriously considering playing enhance over rogue. also awesome video loved the sarcastic tone rofl.

[@Holderhek]

I mean rogue/warrior is always gonna have an easier time doing damage/getting a raid spot/getting gear from randoms than enhance. There is too much baggage associated with the spec that even if you pulled double the DPS of anyone in the raid they might not invite you because "lol enhance lol" -- that being said, find some friends to roll with and work as hard as you can and Enhance can absolutely surprise everyone with it's damage potential.

[@williamflores9779]

Hey I watched the video and can you tell me how often and at least how many dark tunes and mana pots I should be bringing?

[@Holderhek]

William Flores i like to roll with a little over 10 demonic runes + 2 stacks of mana pots for raids.

[@Nirvash64]

Hey!! I really enjoy your video. Thanks for all 😘 Got a question : the hitcap is 9 or 8%? And if it's 8 and I play orc with axe and hit talent I need only 2%? Thanks!

[@Holderhek]

Amaëlle the hitcap is 9% if you’re not an orc or an orc using anything but an axe. Nature’s guidance only gives us 2% hit with 3 points, 1% hit with 2 points and 0% hit with 1 point. You’d want 6% hit from gear as an orc with an axe and 7% for all other situations.

[@Nirvash64]

@@Holderhek OK thanks! But on your screen of blue topic they said : gear and talent. So if my talent provide 3%, why I need 7% from the gear? In all that give me 10% and we want 9% with the blue post no? I'm sorry I'm literally a new in enha sham and vanilla

[@Nirvash64]

Dunno how give the racial axe hit

[@Holderhek]

Amaëlle lvl 63 mobs reduce your chance to hit, with 305 weapon skill you’re essentially attacking as a level 61 vs a 63 so you need less +hit

[@Nirvash64]

@@Holderhek thanks a lot. 👍👌

[@j-sin3344]

Great video. I would like to know if you have key binding / macro videos? Id also like to know what mouse you use, kbd too, not that its a big deal, but my main question is how do you setup spell/totem/pots/etc so they are accessible when needed. In pvp where each class, for the most part, we need different spell/totem/pots/etc c, so how is your hardware setup to be able to access everything you have as quick as possible? I know most people are not mouse clicking on half of the abilities, at least not high end. Im still lvling so once I get to 60 ill have a better setup but just wondering. Thanks and keep up the great work! Regards, Viscerator Faerlina sham

[@Holderhek]

I use a logitech g600 mmo mouse and have a lot of things bound to it and shift+mouse. I could do a video about that for sure. I have something like 39 binds.

[@j-sin3344]

@@Holderhek Nice thanks, I have an antique 2 button mouse FTloss, doesnt even have a scroll wheel, heh, but Im just trying to get a good layout for each pvp and pve obviously making things I need literally 1 click away. I hadn't even thought (or even knew) about the shift w/ mouse, I use it on the kbd. Great Vids I appreciate all you've done here. Keep it up!

[@defaultdaniel]

Yo holder, love the videos, but have one question. I play all 3 specs on Herod, horde side. Just got more into enhancement. I can't find a straight answer for something so basic: Does 1 Str = 2 AP? I've read its been changed to 1Str = 1 AP, but no one says when. Thank you.

[@Holderhek]

1str is 2ap. 20 agi is 1 crit.

[@defaultdaniel]

to answer my own question, yes 1str = 2 ap. Changing cloaks around revealed this as the rag cloak w 9 str added 18 power.

[@tylerm6080]

Hey planning on playing enhancement in classic and curious if it's worth going for nightfall if I'm just trying to dps and totem twist, would it be worth it to get or would that just turn me into more of a buff bot

[@Holderhek]

Tyler M if you’re looking to totem twist your individual dps is going to suffer a great deal. You won’t have mana to do much else unless you stack int/MP5 gear and then you’re gonna hit for nothing. So totem twisting IS a buff bot. There really isn’t anyway to do it + maximize your damage.

[@make1722]

GJ.

[@shizunne]

I know you probably have a guild, but on the off chance that you don't, we'd love to recruit you. We're an 18+ competent raiding guild in the EST time zone. We need 3 enhancement shamans for our raid, and so far have none because of all the misinformation about how well they perform in raids.

[@Holderhek]

Cows_n_Muffins I do already have a guild but I fully support your raid comp. How many people do you have so far? We’re looking to run two raids. If you’d like to come talk to us about a possible joint venture into Classic our disc is: www.discord.gg/XBhyUxc

[@shizunne]

That invite has expired because I was asleep at the time. The raid comp we're going for is this, just append it to the classic wowhead website. raid-composition#0ggypshhFjthhFjthvFmtcddqscddxswyynswyyns

[@sku440]

I played enhancement back in the day, but just when I got Nightfall. Until then I was a healer. Switching to melee was fun. So you dont like to use Nightfall? What us your take on that weapon?

[@Holderhek]

Nightfall is a curse and should not be forced on us. It's an offtank or hunter weapon. They have instant attacks we do not have. Their uptime is better.

[@MrCooljeppe]

i'd like to rewiev your parses on my own, would it be possible for you to post them?

[@Holderhek]

I have a follow up video I’m working on with the parses in it.

[@rojofish504]

Playing SoM? Would love an updated guide for Enh

[@Dantehhhhh]

So regarding Elemental Devastation, is at any time preferable to get spell crit instead of physical crit to get to a certain threshold? (like 12% spell crit or so). Or is it always physical crit all the way even if you have ED?

[@Holderhek]

Dani Castro always physical crit unless the piece has both. ED is a raid talent only really utilized via a mages 10% frost crit buff + dragonslayer + songflower. Otherwise, nature’s guidance is better.

[@Dantehhhhh]

Holderhek for PVP? I agree that Nature’s Guidance is great in general but I think putting all those talents in really crappy resto ones like reduce heal mana etc as enhancement is quite dubious... enh/elemental seems much better, even without ED right

[@Holderhek]

Dani Castro natures guidance is just that good of a talent, as well as reducing totem costs. For PvP talents are a whole different story as stormstrike isn’t great at all and you’d want Natures Swiftness or Elemental Mastery. In my experience anyway.

[@BigBoiClimbs]

So to clarify, does Stormstrike get deprioritized over all other debuffs and get pushed out? Does it not push something else out when you apply it?

[@Holderhek]

Seto Guyba it pushes off low priority debuffs like corruption. It’s really not an issue at all unless you’re trying for some sort of speed clear. It’s not an “optimized” debuff but it can be fit in easily.

[@Thargwin]

Can you make a video about the classicwowbis website it seems off for enhance shaman i am really curious about your take on it

[@Holderhek]

I'll give that a look and report back.

[@giffeswe]

Hello great video! I have questions about stormstrike. Doesnt it block a debuff slot and therefore isnt allowed in raid setting? What talent would you use instead? Nature damage = bad i’ve heard due to high nature resist on early Bosses, frost shock amazing dmg due to curse and icy chill!

[@Holderhek]

William Bruzelius Storm strike is fine. There are about 8 debuffs that NEED to be on the boss. They are: Curse of Shadow Curse of Elements Curse of Recklessness Winter’s Chill (Until AQ) Ignite (Naxx) Sunder Armor Nightfall Faerie Fire Improved Shadow Bolt These are the best for just straight raid damage. From here you cycle in mitigation debuffs; Thunder Clap Demoralizing Shout Curse of Weakness Now you can add in situational debuffs given your raid makeup: Scorch depending on Mage count and raiding tier. Hunter’s Mark / Tier armor reduction. Annihilator Proc (for melee heavy raids) Thunderfury Shadow Priest utilization for 1 or 2 debuffs. Gift of Arthas Arcanite Dragonling (quicker fights with Fire Mage heavy groups) Stormstrike Flame Shock Hemo Corruption And there is consideration for taunts as well, which will overlap. Adjust to your raid / favorite flavor palate. So yes, you can totally use Stormstrike. It’s not going to be an issue.

[@andreaslechler4698]

Does Stormstrike drop every debuff or just certain ones? Might habve missed it.

[@Holderhek]

It drops off low priority debuffs and shuffles around medium priority debufs.

[@Kite]

Looks like the gearset links in the description are dead. :(

[@Holderhek]

Fixed and updated.

[@Keilink]

Heya! Since I didn't raid at Vanilla I'm wondering: what's the average demonic rune count you need for one raid session ?

[@Holderhek]

Keilink it all depends on how efficient you guild is on kills. Could be as few as 1-2 per boss. I’d say one stack per raid is fine. That + mana pots.

[@Keilink]

@@Holderhek Okay thanks! :D

[@Innojin]

Frost mages add a debuff that increases the crit chance of frost spells on the target by 10%. What do you think about using Frost Shock instead of Earth Shock for the Elemental Devastation spec?

[@Holderhek]

Inn0c You absolutely would use frost shock in a raid instead of earth shock. The damage bonus you would get from curse of elements would be equitable to the damage bonus earths shock gets from storm strike. Essentially these damage numbers would be interchangeable without you having to spam a high threat ability.

[@Innojin]

@@Holderhek awesome. Thx for your answer

[@redic3408]

Lot of guides say 6/9% hit if your orc and apparently there's also a crit cap.. please make a video on this, trying to better my dps in raids and need some guidance

[@Holderhek]

Crit cap is astronomical. It's like 52.7% or something. Hit cap is orc with axe is 6%, anything else it's 9%. When I made this video months ago I didn’t have the info we have now.

[@zinofwin]

Cool video. Are you gonna be a tauren or do some min-max on races with orc or troll?

[@Holderhek]

zinofwin I want to play a Tauren. I may end up playing an orc. It’s a toss up right now between feels and reals.

[@zinofwin]

@@Holderhek Tough choice indeed :/

[@ymotstens]

What is stat prio for enha shamans in classic PVP?

[@Holderhek]

In pvp? Stam > Crit > Str > Agi > Spell Crit > Int

[@wazamasa]

Nice vid! UPDATED! 6% HIT Phase 6 and UPDATED! 9% HIT Phase 6 links doesn't work.

[@Holderhek]

wad uup thanks dude I’ll fix that today

[@LovanRoyen]

Yo Holder, what about the windfury vs GOA totem? I assume windfury brings alot more to the raid, or are you just straight up ignoring that and going for your own damage only?

[@Holderhek]

Aapje I’ll definitely be dropping WF in raid. This was just to show max potential solo DPS self buffed. In a raid situation you have other class buffs to make up for not using GOA or totem twisting it in.

[@Uttarayan]

At what point did you switched from all agi enchants to all AP(force) enchants ? I m a bit confused watching this vid since i always thought PA was to priorise over crit, and you priorise AP in later videos too (mostly with force enchants for all). Can you give me an explanation please ? come on please, i m confused ! Thanks for the videos and defending our cause. (btw the way i made sure to get the fuckin eye is to gather all the fckin materials for sulfuras by myself, since you cant trust people respecting birthrights those days) heart-heart

[@Holderhek]

I made that video before classic released and I've gotten better data as time passed, basically.

[@kirgan1000]

Intresting that a enhancement Shaman can keep ut, wounder what more "conventional wisdom" what will be broken in classic....

[@Holderhek]

It's a 15 year old game. Now is the time to try new stuff imo.

[@Mezer_PoE]

already got DW Fury tanks from the private servers.

[@I_Am_Veks]

Does twisting actually make it so that we can't use any other abilities? Or is it not that bad? I hope it isn't that bad, because I think the only way I get to raid on my enhance is if I twist :(

[@Holderhek]

It's not awful if you use rank 1 windfury but even then it eats your Mana pretty fast

[@I_Am_Veks]

@@Holderhek dang. Is that still an issue in TBC?

[@Holderhek]

@@I_Am_Veks enhancement can still twist but they have literally no Mana problems

[@I_Am_Veks]

@@Holderhek so no reason not to do it at that point then? Sounds good to me! :P

[@I_Am_Veks]

@@Holderhek or is it still more personal dps to not twist in tbc?

[@v33ntrix]

One interesting thing about this, its recorded on a private server. What patch is it on. does it still use the "infinite windfury proc" or does it use the 1.12 nerfed version of windfury.

[@Holderhek]

1.12 server on training dummy with approximate raid debuffed armor levels.

[@v33ntrix]

@@Holderhek Love your conetent as a fellow Enhancement shaman you make me feel good. Thank you for your reply =)

[@immunglobuling8777]

Can you show us your rotation pls?

[@Holderhek]

Immunglobulin G made a whole video about it . Check my other uploads. 🤝

[@FedbergRoland]

Are you sure you didn't compare overall MC DPS to you standing on a dummy hitting it like a raid boss? On top of that, did you make sure to not include obvious tank DPS rankins, such as Warrior tanks, which is going to further pull down the average DPS?

[@Holderhek]

FedbergRoland initial DPS numbers are the average of the top 30 parses from each class, in each raid, without the use of world buffs. None of these parses are from tanks.

[@FedbergRoland]

@@Holderhek Thanks. But are the parses from the entire MC or from specific bosses only? If from bosses, which ones? The number seem VERY low, which is why I suspect they're from an entier MC run, and not from individual bosses.

[@Holderhek]

FedbergRoland This is what your dps looks like if you don’t use world buffs. I tested it against parses on the same dummy using different classes and they parsed similar to the chart data.

[@kade2748]

Now do a video like this for Shadow Priest.

[@ChristianTaylor3]

Great guide to prove the elitists, conformists, and whoever else thinks shamans fit one role wrong

[@NoZignature]

How is farming gold for enha shaman?

[@Holderhek]

Definitely not the best but you can utilize farsight to your advantage with mining, herbing and fishing very well.

[@Kingmaster64]

can demonic runes be farmed solo?

[@Holderhek]

Yup. Non-elite demons in felwood.

[@Holderhek]

Yup. Non-elite demons in felwood.

[@Kingmaster64]

@@Holderhek went arsenal today for the weapon and it was pain in the ass running around with only mana for 1 or 2 totems all the time while the warriors went in tanking as arms and swimming in rage

[@Holderhek]

Yeah you aren't gonna keep up with the AOE cleave of a warrior. It's just not gonna happen. Single target you'll do the same or more than warriors/rogues tho. Live for those single target moments, buff their cleave in the meantime.

[@TheGargalon]

how do you trick your guild to give you eye of rag?

[@JamesLee-xk6dk]

I just asked for mine.

[@Holderhek]

who else are they gonna give it to?

[@stephenbunai3439]

Hell yea fucking chadhance shaman

[@Caperfin]

hi @Holderhek WoW I'd luv to talk with you about shaman dps, let me know if you are available.

[@Holderhek]

Absolutely my dude. Join my discord discord.gg/ZBhyUxc

[@secondsleft8924]

orc only needs 3% hit with axe spec. :)

[@secondsleft8924]

also since glancing blows cannot crit so you theoretically need more than 33% to have 100% uptime on flurry. its something like 51% crit buffed which is obtainable around aq40.

[@secondsleft8924]

also also, training dummies do not have the same stats as a 63 raid boss. resistances and armor values are not the same. That being said, as long as you baseline other classes on the same dummy then you can compare without issue.

[@Holderhek]

Joe Reichel thanks for all the input and info! I did have other classes, specifically warriors and rogues test on these dummies. They got similar results to the raid parses so I was happy to post the numbers.

[@sickduck3268]

i do not agree with flask of the titans i would get a supreme power or a wisdom

[@Holderhek]

Yeah distilled wisdom is gonna be the play in AQ and beyond

[@patrickoryan3125]

Bruh i told my guild about my "ass slot" after they were shit talking storm strike and i got g kicked :(

[@Holderhek]

Sounds like a great opportunity to find a better guild.

[@stevebrule3526]

isn't 9% the hit cap rather than 8%?

[@Holderhek]

Yep I corrected that in the follow up video.

[@stevebrule3526]

Holderhek true, great videos I main enh

[@gerrieherwijnen1088]

But orcs Whit axe need 6% right??

[@Holderhek]

Orc using an axe is 6% yep

[@gerrieherwijnen1088]

@@Holderhek and whats that addon mate that Scrolls wf hit and crits hit

[@Holderhek]

@@gerrieherwijnen1088 I use miks scrolling battle text in classic. Honestly can't remember what I was using in this video 10 months ago is too long for my addled brain.

[@gerrieherwijnen1088]

@@Holderhek thnx bro im enh elemental now davastation ,🔥

[@WarsunGames]

I want to point out.If you have no intellect on your gear. You are doing it wrong. Also If you need to have Spirit to recover health and Mana quickly. By the way. The reason you do not take Storm Strike is. That nature damage debuff anyone can use. So you end up wasting it an allowing someone else to get a powerful hit.

[@Holderhek]

Stormstrike is another chance to proc windfury, so you would still take it. The nature debuff is not the reason at all.

[@bikespj22]

I love all these hype videos for meme specs before classic came out. Turns out everyone was right, not like all the data that enhance was garbo wasn't already out or anything

[@Holderhek]

Enhance is the best spec in the game stay salty

[@joeyp978]

I just dont believe how you are pretty much saying with raid buffs enhance shamans are top dps... I have a full bis shaman with hand of rag in my guild. I have to scroll down to see him on the meter....

[@Holderhek]

Bruh I made this video using target dummies and a test server eight months ago. Other classes, like warriors and rogues just scale better with world buffs. Enhance can still parse around 90th-95th percentile fury though and If your Shaman is having trouble dpsing you should send him to my channel.

[@MethosChannel]

Yeah, right now our horde warriors are pulling 1200 dps+ on 70% of MC bosses.

[@Holderhek]

not on single target

[@MethosChannel]

@@Holderhek classic.warcraftlogs.com/character/id/40635367?mode=detailed&zone=1000#metric=dps #1 first warrior classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/1000#class=Warrior&spec=Fury # Rest of the warriors Look at warcraftlogs mate, takes u less then 5 seconds.

[@MethosChannel]

@@Holderhek Ragnaros a fight melees need to run in and out and cant dps for maybe 1/3 of the fight is at 800 dps.

[@Holderhek]

Methos the dps I list in these videos are minus world buffs

[@MethosChannel]

@@Holderhek Oh, so people in ur list dont use anything at all? They just slack on consums and buffs? Got it.

[@danizrp5155]

Are u green jesus?

[@Holderhek]

Dani Zrp orc shaman so yea

[@Foscko]

"One f three people on the planet." Bullshit, alot of people did.

[@ki1631]

lol one of three dude there have been more then 20mill people playing you really think there were like only 3 xDDD lmao

[@Holderhek]

venom 🧂

[@mards2479]

You’ve GITTEN?

[@Holderhek]

Been got

[@josephdemyanovich2772]

You actually were playing a Paladin when you started because you and I quote "want to solo play the game". Don't lie to these people.

[@Holderhek]

I mean you're not wrong but I only played that paladin for like a week.

[@josephdemyanovich2772]

@@Holderhek YOU CAN THANK ME FOR TELLING YOU ABOUT SHAMAN AND THE HORDE

[@Holderhek]

The world thanks you.

[@sulos4646]

My Guild gave it to a warrier ;;(

[@Holderhek]

Rip

[@TheRealBlackfyre]

As did mine. 3x now... Might be looking to switch guilds. I'm also on Fairbanks.

[@sulos4646]

@@TheRealBlackfyreThey said, the next will be mine, we will see.

[@sulos4646]

I can't believe it, i got it!!

[@TheRealBlackfyre]

@@sulos4646 gratz

[@ThorDog81]

you can take stormstrike but if you are in a guild that is any good or watching debuffs and you use it gg on not getting in raids again.

[@williamcricket7931]

This video isn't phone friendly ;(

[@Holderhek]

Sorry my guy. Gotta watch it on the PC.

[@WarsunGames]

That is a very different spec from normal. Good thing you don't PvP or Tank like that. Or you will get screamed.

[@Holderhek]

Yeah it's a pve dps build.

[@dulkansilberaxt]

A bit of criticism: First problem: You only go for 8% hit, the hit cap in classic is 9%. I do like, that you fight for enhancement, way to go. But honestly, the numbers you pull are bogus. All you get out of such a video is people being excited for nehancement and then disappointed, when they don't even pull half the dps you show here. Buffing offspecs up with bad parses is jsut as bad as trying to put offspecs with bad parses. Your dmg parses are way over the top on both crits and windfury procs. If I'd look at any of your parses, I'd rate it extremely lucky. If this was truly the average parse, your server must be completely out of whack. Which I think is likely, because you never ever got dodged! Bosses have 6.5% dodge chance, you should have several dodges each parse. The highest dps of an enhancement shaman recorded on pservers was 450dps fully buffed in naxx. you claim to do this much dps unbuffed in prebis (and completely blow every other class out of the water with that). Don't you think somebody would have noticed over the many years of pservers how good enhance is, if your numbers were the norm? In your phase 1 parse you have an expected critchance vs bosses of 19% (actually 17%, but pservers are missing 1.8% crit suppression), your parse has 30%. Windfury wise, I assume in your favor and give 100% flurry uptime. You should have gotten 10 procs and got 12. Keep in mind, that 100% flurry uptime is very unlikely with this low critchance. Your phase 3 is very egregious. Crit chance is 27%, you had 39% crits. You should have gotten 9-10 windfury procs and got 16-17. This combined with no dodges makes your "average dps" easily more than twice as high as you would have realistically gotten. Your bis test. Oh dear. Crit is actually reasonable. 30% is expected and you only had 26%. But the windfury procs, oh my. 87 auto attacks in 2min with MoM? You are expected to get 9 windfury procs at 100% flurry uptime, that's 60 autoattacks in 2min. 87 means, you got an additional 18.5 windfury procs, i.e. TRIPLE the number of windfury procs you sohuld have gotten (27-28 out of 41 autoattacks + 6 stormstrikes). And your buffed test. Same deal. 43% crit fully world buffed with the gear is reasonable, but 98 autoattacks in 2:30 is almost as massive a windfury procrate as before.

[@Holderhek]

dulkansilberaxt I addressed some of the weapon-speed/hit issues you brought up in my second video, there actually is a weapon speed bug that I fixed later on after finding it out. As per crits and crit suppression you may be right on that, I have no way to adjust my crit down given new bluepost info however I’m also not player crit buffed (beyond my grace of air which gives me another 4%), player ap buffed, haste buffed or any of the sort. The target dummy is also not affected by any debuff beyond sunders. As per 450 dps in Naxx being the "world record" parse...I was pulling 700+ back in vanilla retail in gear that was not nearly as good as my BiS test. This damage is entirely attainable, and even beyond this damage with world buffs etc. I stand by it and I will replicate it on classic.

[@Holderhek]

I retested speced out of flurry for better accuracy. imgur.com/gallery/4mZpvBX

[@davidpopovics2347]

@@Holderhek Can you respond to his comment on dodges? What server is this being tested on? The only way you can get an apples to apples comparison is to run parses for the specs you are comparing with as well. Just comparing your parses to private server stats of other specs is silly. I know for a fact there were very serious tryhard enh raiders on Elysium/LH and they didn't pull off anything close to the numbers you are touting.

[@Holderhek]

Ran parses on the other classes and they got data very similar to that in my spreadsheets. Dodge would lower overall DPS by 6.5%.

[@gigglesthecat7216]

stormstrike fine for dungeons and pvp but why you wasting a debuff slot on storm strike in raids? that just being selfish to boost your own dmg only at the sacrifice of over-all raid dmg. like this build is insanely selfish only use it in raids if you pugging and don't plan to raid with that group again also unless you are the gm or friends with the gm good luck being given sulfuras. if you want to be in raids all the time go with a hybrid enhance/resto build focusing on applying either annihilator or nightfall debuff while totem twisting. with a supporter setup your own dps aint going to be chart topper but the amount of dps you adding to the entire raid is much higher than having a high dps on the meters. (you literally sacrificing 2-3 extra players worth of dps in a raid to not even beat out a warrior's dps) p.s. lol tauren shaman? if you supposedly about min maxing you should be troll or orc their racial much better for adding dps as well as having higher base strength and int over tauren

[@tdot8280]

sounds like mimi :P Why Enhancers should if they can pull the same dps as rogues?

[@shiftystab5072]

Ill ShOw eVeRyoNe mUh SuPerIoR DamAGE you will be clapped in dmg muh friend or not even inv to a raid unless your rolling with GOF XD

[@propatzis]

this spec is glancing.exe which is solved if u jst go spell dmg int for twisting and elemental fury brother, rely on AP of world buffs and tell ur guild u are going to off heal using annihilator and nightfall. no reason to meme steal painweaver cape and other rogue warr loot. show selflessness and guild effort. never hold ur melee guildies back cause u wanna meme unless u wanna get bad reputation and end up in a trash PTR server hitting a dummy until aq. At least good for u going for titans instead of mana flask

[@GROWL211]

my abandoned lvl 60 pre-raid gear fury warrior does around 200 dps on lvl 50-54 on mobs in burning steppes (with +8% hit). alongside with standard parries and dodges, there are tons of misses and little to none rage being generated (thats why i freaked out and abandoned my warr -- in a real raid situation dps becomes even worse hence targets levels are much higher). my lvl 54 stormstrike-nature guidance shaman does around 220-250 dps without any totems (depending on wf procs), on these same mobs that are same level as the character. what kind of magic makes fury warriors best dps' in late game content is beyond my comprehension also, leveling shaman feels like a breeze after playing as warrior