Not Perfect, But Very Close! - Enhancement Shaman : Shadowlands

[@dipstick9707]

Please god upvote this so it gets some traction, Please god can we get updated animations for Enhancement so that they cast with their weapons like dk's do? It doesn't feel right to put away your weapons every cast, especially if the shocks are now filler

[@Spinexus]

Hell, yes!

[@robertrubas2634]

I like having shamans cast with their hands, it also make more sense.

[@ventneverdied]

@@robertrubas2634 I agree, I for one like the battle-mage aesthetic, so casting spells and having melee abilities seperate is cool to me.

[@TMKXL]

Yes please!

[@RaduStancu]

maybe add some glyphs, seeing as some people like the hand casting

[@hdoddema]

"Preach plays alpha" is one of my favorite phases of a new WoW expansion. Good stuff.

[@modernkennnern]

Probably *is* my favourite part of WoW

[@beckhamsonny9994]

InstaBlaster

[@ZuglyRed]

We want the old windfury animation back!!!

[@johnswilley6400]

Slikk Talk FACTS

[@krasikisyov2600]

PLEASE

[@leonirgang]

TRUUUUUU

[@TheRockNinja1]

This is the main change I want!

[@iSouleyx]

I really would like a glyph of some sort to change animations

[@kalleanka2796]

Windfury still looks terrible/barely even visible. Bring back the old WF animation/effect or make a new one more inspired by the old one.

[@austinfowles2365]

He said they have it. It just wasn't working properly

[@JL-dt1si]

If you think wind fury looks terrible, what about lighting bolt

[@Flirt136]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if it's wrong.

[@nathancasey7712]

Just bring back the whole spec from pre wod

[@ZuglyRed]

We want the old windfury animation back!

[@baklazan777]

This reminds me of WotLK enh shaman, one of my favourite versions of it, where you'd have to juggle mini-cooldowns and work via a priority system that changed depending on a few variables, there was a specific addon called shock and awe that was pretty popular

[@Oriontrollsftw2]

Sounds like ww monk

[@dracoon92]

WotLK enh shaman was a joke. Between playing the spec perfectly and just pressing random dps buttons was almost no noticeable difference.

[@marcusdarkwa2055]

wow this brings back memories i played enh from start of wotlk, had so much fun, shock and awe made the spec a doozy

[@OoguhBooguh]

@@dracoon92 Well I mained enh in WotLK. And the other enh in the guild in better gear eventually was kicked because of how much he was underperforming compared to myself. About 40%-50% of your damage was from autos so sure thats pretty high, but there was a significant difference between a good and bad enh shaman in WotLK.

[@leonirspaz540]

@@OoguhBooguh played shaman for 15 years from raiding vanilla content to mythic raiding. Wotlk enha shaman was nothing complicated. nearly 60% of your dmg was auto attacks and the only 3 things you had to manage was: searing every 30 seconds or so. flame shock every 18 seconds. resto of the time earth shock and do LB on 5 stacks. a monkey could do heroic entry level dps as enha.

[@vahidfarahani5142]

Also if they could do something for its squishiness, that would be perfect.

[@eventowy]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas bro; It doesn't feel like a melee mail character. Shammy with its heal should be much more sustainable

[@Rileynjudkins]

I'd love to see even an elemental armor passive that that reduces incoming magic damage by 75% of your armor value reduction since most classes are magical and those that don't have some way to reduce armor heavily or bypass it

[@september7374]

Yes! It does feel like a cloth-class for some reason

[@TrueKingOfTheWolves]

Yup. The problem remains that being the least survivable character in the game comes with no boons. These changes without either damage increases or as least some more survivability is still insufficient. Either normal damage and staying power like other melee or high risk-reward. Nothing shy of this will get me to even consider shadowlands, after so many expansions of garbage that now IDGAF about ‘almost’ perfect.

[@AFSKID]

I highly doubt Blizz will do anything to boost Enhance survivability as they literally haven’t done a single thing related to it since Astral Shift was put in the game. Everyone agrees enhance is squishy af but Blizz is too proud to admit there’s a problem there.

[@NiklasAdv]

love it, as an enhance/resto sham this expac will be awesome

[@Nullsparta2]

Finally that was my first main during wod and legion and I miss playing it so much

[@TheCreakydoors]

I really respect your insight. You are easy to understand and your thoughts flow well without leaving me thinking "get on with it" like I do with other creators. I'm really looking forward to playing this 'new'(I first played WoW in Legion) enhancement because I love melee/ranged hybrids like Red Mages.

[@goosebottleYT]

thank the lord. Enhancement is such an amazing spec

[@Mordarim]

Make windfury visible again!

[@theflawlessflaw23]

Enhancement main here: a little scared but definitely interested

[@parafan4ever]

as an enhancement main. I really like these changes. as I find the BFA version really boring to play, compared to all the other versions we have had with the specs

[@Spinbassflipbassfly]

looks like they need to revert the change to Stormstrike (no cooldown on proc). This seems to remove too much of the spamminess and speed of the spec, and no, it's not gear. Slamming SS after SS is what makes the spec SO MUCH FUN at the moment, and they've already removed the bad parts (Flametongue and Frostbrand) that slow it down on live.

[@Ryo06150]

Exactly thoses changes are pretty bad

[@shade3385]

It gets really repetitive pressing one button all the time tho. And there's literally no skill involved with the spec. Just make you press the button and LL on occasion to keep your rage.. oops I mean, maelstrom in check.

[@Valefolken]

I remember when WIndfury used to proc and deal more than triple damage. A regular hit would be like 600, and then you see a tornado animation with 2 850 damages each. Internal cooldown, if you didn't get it on your autoattack you'd use stormstrike in an attempt to force it. So good. Big two-hander, I'd go around fishing for one hit kills in BGs. Sigh.

[@Sachnix]

"Fire Nova is back"... i instantly came.

[@793Force]

Blizzard heard the cry of the "MoP #1 Expansion people" including mine. I am so exited, enhancement main it is!

[@aeroblizz1987]

Fire nova is fun, but wish lava lash spreads flame shock like back in the days. Manually adding flame shocks on all targets feels like a pain I think. Or is there some spread mechanic which I didn't see?

[@OokamiKuma225]

@@aeroblizz1987 I know there is a talent that makes it easier to spread but I agree that something should spread it. If it was even chain lightning or crash lightning that did because you picked this talent specifically I think could add a lot of fun flow and choices in how you play

[@tesladrew2608]

Bruhhhhhh all we need is fire shock spread and lava lash resets. 6.2 enh best enh

[@swadow1497]

@@tesladrew2608 TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. I still miss wod enh shammy

[@chill9871]

this is good. but not gonna lie, pretty much every class could use this type of overhaul.

[@astrealove1]

Many classes are actually quite fine, like for instance Warrior, Demon Hunter, Death Knight & Paladin. Some classes could use a minor buff, for instance Mistweaver Monks, Feral Druids & Survival Hunters. The specs that really need a major overhaul are Shadow Priests, Fire Mages & Demonology Warlocks, they're in a quite bad state with how they're currently working in Shadowlands.

[@XAn0nymousX0]

@@astrealove1 you can't honestly look at warrior and think it's fine. Gtfo. You actually don't play warrior if you think that

[@Toinou307]

@@XAn0nymousX0 what specifically do you find wrong with each warrior spec?

[@deltadeevo371]

@@XAn0nymousX0 when you say that, you have to give an example of how he is wrong. So please enlighten us on how warriors need changing. What needs to change? I havent looked at warriors yet, so I dont know.

[@highvoltage988]

True, as a shaman main I'm very happy (and may play enh over ele for the first time ever) but still feel wary about SL if other classes aren't gonna feel as good.

[@lacunarikain2]

Enhance finally feel like spellcasters with weapons again instead of basically a warrior.

[@Nexx1414]

Soo excited. I've always liked shamans as a class in general and have mained one in almost every X-Pac for at least 1 to 2 raid tiers but these changes sound fantastic. Should make them just feel so much nicer over all to play and stick with haha.

[@jeremiahbrownlee2299]

I'm looking forward to returning to enhance from elemental, I've always loved the feel of it, but had to switch for the damnable meta.

[@jhbringh]

LOVE the changes, just one issue: The one positive about rockbiter, flametoungue, and frostbrand is that they have a 20 yard range. I actually really love the feel of an almost melee/range hybrid. It gives me needed flexibility to avoid mechanics, given our low survivability. You mentioned in earlier alpha it feeling almost a bit like a battle mage. I LOVE THAT! Is that completely gone now? Or can you still function at least a little at short range?

[@shade3385]

The range/melee hyrbid is still there. This type of Enh shaman is much like the iteration of MoP before Legion changed it the builder/spender spec it is today. You have your ranged spells such as lightning bolt, chain lightning, as well as the shock spells. Especially since Lightning bolt will finally do good damage without the need of a talent in order to do so.

[@naywils]

I hope the game play is more active than it seems, the reason I still played enhance in bfa was because you always had something to press and do.

[@shade3385]

Right. Such as just spamming two buttons and pressing an occasional button every now and then. Very fun.

[@larssteffen5873]

@@shade3385 Isn’t that every spec ? Just with slight variations and different names for the same fucking spells a different class has since classic? The whole game is not complex

[@twoabove]

I'm interested whether they will make demonology warlock more fun, or it will be "the other spec" for 3 expansions in a row?

[@Uko980]

Demo was freaking amazing fun in bfa beta but it took a severe bludgeoning of the nerf bat right before launch and its been pretty bad since.

[@jakewright1932]

We can only hope

[@amethonys2798]

Demo is fun, the issue is it has the highest skill ceiling of the 3 with mediocre results for it.

[@Ty-oe4dr]

Amethonys i could probably agree with that in BFA, aff has a pretty high skill ceiling now though in SL

[@yeyeande]

Nice this was one of my planned main specs. Now they just need to fix feral druid!

[@MrD4nY3L]

Boost wolves damage(good they have interaction, but they bite like small puppy) make wolves attack heal the shaman; Shamanistic rage on top of astral shift , dh has more powerfull defensive on lower cooldown. The windfury animation now, isn't it a small 0,5 ft circle? The windfury proc from wrath ! That's how it should look like at least. I have a dream where enhacement is meta spec.

[@hmmhmm3452]

God I've been so locked in to swapping to UH DK for a while, finally moving off of my shaman after 4 expacs, but these enh changes have me feelin a way. Seems like some novel talents in particular that make for a whole bunch of fun new minigames. Really can't wait to test them either in the beta or prepatch. Either way shaman will be my first alt I level if I end up sticking DK.

[@TaIathar]

My biggest gripe about new Enhancement Shaman is that it doesn't feel like "Enhancement" anymore. It feels like "Elemental". 0:50 "you're on this whack-a-mole, priority spec. It ALWAYS had something to do." Yeah, that's kinda the point. It's meant to be a fast-hitting, decent-damage spec. The "new" version just feels like elemental shaman. I think the thing I liked about enhancement the most was that I could run through old raids for xmog runs and just mash rockbiter, flametongue, and frostbrand against any target without having to slow down. With the new changes, I get 1 flame shock/frost shock and then I have to wait 5 seconds to do something I could've done 4 times already? I have to stop moving to cast chain lightning or lightning bolt on one-off mobs? I have to run directly through several packs that don't have aggro range on me since I'm overleveled and eventually just group them all up to press sunder or crash lightning? Don't even have Fury of Air anymore to walk through mobs and have them die without me touching them? All the cool parts of Enhancement just got replace with shitty Elemental Shaman basic spells that Enhancement never wanted. Does Blizzard even realize they're being contradictory when they say "There's too much class diversity between specs so we're trying to done down the unique-ness and make each class feel like a singular class and the specs are just flavor" "We're creating covenants to make your class and spec choices feel more unique" What's next? Ice mages casting pyroblast? Give me a break. Either allow specs to be completely different or remove specs entirely and let each class be all specs at once, but the player chooses which abilities to put on their hotbar. Fuck it, just merge every class into 1 superclass and give it every class' abilities so you can pick and choose the abilities you like. On a completely separate note: I thought your bit about Enhancement Shaman battling carpal tunnel was actually quite funny for a few reasons. 1. It's true to a point. 2. It proves that the spec actually takes skill to play. 3. It diversifies the spec to a point where you can tell if a player is good at the game if they can play the spec properly vs if they can't. Summary: Downtime is bad for a class that's meant to hit things quickly. I don't know what class I'll be rerolling to yet, but I definitely won't be playing Enhancement in Shadowlands if it goes live like this.

[@critonian1071]

In BFA and Legion there were ability's that increase the proc chance of Windfury ( Thunderaan's Fury and Doom Winds) it would be really good to see something like this in Shadow lands

[@PoopFeast9001]

I honestly really enjoyed the priority whack-a-mole enhance playstyle. Something about having extreme highs when you get to spam stormstrike every gcd during ascendance with lust and just popping off felt really good. I'm a bit concerned that with this shift to a more cooldown based priority system you wont have those highs anymore where you just really feel blessed by RNG. The AoE rotation on enh seems to be looking to have fulfilling ups and downs but to not be concerned that this move to a more "press these buttons in this order" is just one more step towards homogenization is potentially ignoring an alarming direction. With enhancement the problem is the single target rotation. I think that anyone who plays enhance and has at any point since MoP has come to love the spec for its "melee dps, but also with the flair of a shaman" is going to be slightly disappointed when it comes to the single target. What I see here is a great improvement to how enhance plays AoE, and i love the shift away from "weapon buffs up, manage maelstrom, use stormstrike with crash buff" to a more exciting rotation, but what the removal of reliance on stormstrike does for the single target is something that I really dont see how they can fix. As an enhancement shaman I do not want to be using lightning bolt or that shit, I would've played ele if i wanted to play a spellcasting shaman. So I guess the TL;DR here is as follows: Aoe rotation looks great, very exciting changes. How does the downplayed reliance on stormstrike affect the single target rotation? Clearly in a negative way in comparison to live, but how are they fixing it? I think its also fair to be concerned about the direction they are taking this spec. I personally appreciated it for the "fly by the seat of your pants" playstyle where procs dictate how you play, but with the changes to stormbringer I don't see how we can find that class identity again. I really hope that this move to a more spell based rotation is only seen so heavily in the AoE and the single target remains similar to its current "im in a semi truck being chauffered by a blind man" type playstyle.

[@Limeandy]

This guy definitley knows what is going on in the wow scene, you should make some more wow vids!!!!

[@Ziploc_Wonder]

Basically feels like going back to how it felt in Wrath, still gonna play around with it and the Unholy DK some more. Not sure which I'll main. :/

[@Besaw54]

Love the changes but how about bringing back some other totems like strength of earth, grace of air, etc, and getting rid of totem mastery and letting us pick what 4 totems we want to drop all at once! Bring searing back and let it be apart of the 4 totems, along with fire nova totem. Fixes the problem of feeling like you have to set up before pulling, and using a lot gcds while other classes are blasting away.

[@Bylethdev]

The downtimes are part player issue and part scaling issue right now

[@masonpawnsall]

could you please reccomend them old survival as a 4th spec?

[@MrGrey-zc2cy]

10:20 Sounded ok until you confirmed my fears here. Enhancement is a friggin _Ret Paladin._ Big clunky windows until you can get haste out the ass.

[@brazda123]

Yeah, i belive this is the worst downside you can posibly have on spec. Ima kinda disappointed.

[@SirCodysseus]

Any ideas if they will allow Enhancement Shamans to wield 2h weapons? Currently certain spells and abilities can only be used if you are dual wielding. Thanks.

[@AlexSxntana]

Definitely going to be leveling a shaman now. Cheers for the review bro👍🏽

[@lucaly1409]

i'm just wondering why they dont give Stormstrike 2 charges as it used to, the talent that reduces the stormstrike Cd. seems to just make you feel awfull, were you overcap on stormstrikes. and waisting casts never feels good :/ and why didnt they make lava lash spread Flame shock, when Fire nova came back. i'm just confused, as this used to be my favorit spec in the game for years, until they changed it in wod pre patch

[@nahsti8869]

Ahh yes they're almost ready for Ench Shaman phase 4.. Return to 2h.

[@Oberronn83]

I see you are also a man of culture.

[@nahsti8869]

@@Oberronn83 Yes indeed my good sir!

[@nathans9764]

I've seen a lot of people asking for 2h back. I'd rather see them wield a single 1h weapon, hand and a half style. 1h for autoattacks and lava lash, 2h swing for stormstrike. Cast spells with off hand. That would really give the battlemage feel.

[@TMKXL]

Cycle of the Elements could synergize well with Lashing Flames (and Hot Hand) for 2/3 target council fights, making it a good cleave talent. Hailstorm is then a good medium/normal AoE talent and lastly Fire Nova for really big pulls (8+ targets or something). Cycle of the Elements might seem bland at first but i think it will have it's place.

[@goteamaj6426]

“Enhancement players probably just creamed themselves” why yes, yes we did

[@bonfied43]

Watch them do all this greatness and then reduce our dmg by 30% just cause we aren't able to be good

[@jonmcpherson1755]

Cries in Demo lock

[@OG_Fireflare]

I kinda liked going crazy with one Stormstrike after another but I'm not unhappy about this

[@BuzzzdLightyear]

This looks really fun. I got into shaman a little bit for this first time ever in BfA, good to see it may still be an option for SL.

[@6105boe]

Honestly never expected to hear Kubbi play on a Preach video, or anywhere really. Awesome!

[@southerncomfort3543]

Fire nova may be back, but until you can spread flame shock with lava lash it won’t be truly awesome. Hopefully they’ll get to that. Either way it’s looking really good

[@Nicolas-fo8qd]

I hope it stays as it is right now. The only thing I would want is the old WF animation back and maybe lava lash spreading flame shock to a 2nd target or something like that?

[@brandonboss6868]

Would be interesting if lightning shield would be a 30 second cd and allowed allowed all your attacks to deal 5% additional damage as nature damage for 8 seconds.

[@mishabegni]

Its nice to have hopeful preach back! Welcome back! I hope you stay a while.

[@quieteyes881]

Getting more and more excited for Shadowlands. Enhancement was my favorite thing to play LK to MoP

[@louie7582]

I hope they make Frost DK's core rotation more interesting.

[@jakewright1932]

^

[@GustavoAraujo-uv4sr]

Hey preach, how is it going? Are u going to update us in regards of shadow priest changes? I main a priest since the begining of cataclysm and im considering not playing shadowlands if that class stays as bad as already is.

[@Toinou307]

spec*

[@AdrasAdraki]

@Not Drunk James Classes are tge medium through which you experience the game. I think hes/shes justified in their opinion.

[@GustavoAraujo-uv4sr]

@Not Drunk James i have a alt for every class in the game but the only one that i have/had the most fun in 10 years playing wow is priest. There is nothing i can do about it, its 10 years of my life were i managed to be a top dps/healer with a priest even when nobody was playing it. I hope you can understand why im so consened.

[@GustavoAraujo-uv4sr]

@Not Drunk James ok sir ;)

[@skiddop3428]

issue with the spec is that the spenders, LB and CL still hit like a noodle, no longer wet but noodle nontheless. Hailstorm talent is a move in the right direction at least but it feels so right it should of been baseline, same with echo of the elements for elemental

[@russellmedeiros7927]

Good the see Enhance is solid. I mained one in Legion, but during BFA is felt really gutted so I switched over to Ele.

[@Sott96]

God this looks good. Seriously considering going back to shaman for shadowlands. Either this, ele, or DK. damnnn

[@Malleuss]

You made my week. Excited for my Shaman again.

[@njavrg.9100]

Hey Preach, can we somehow get so,e changes to Demonology? It’s the most fun class fantasy spec in all my years of the game and I really want to see it shine. I would love to use it in arenas or raids but as it stands it’s not worth while, please help spread that message for a dying spec that’s a blast fantasy wise..

[@Milog14]

We need MORE defensives... i can not understand how we only have ONE at this point....

[@MiguelCMC28]

We need our Shamanistic Rage back.

[@utherlichtbringer7681]

Animations still suck and no little WW around the Char with Windfury proc. Meh

[@JSWarcrimes]

... while DH has 3, disregarding blade dance/meta 1s immunity

[@livebythews]

@@JSWarcrimes blade dance immunity is getting removed

[@vitsavicky]

I personally like the shared CD on shocks. If only for nostalgia reasons. I remember it providing opportunities for interesting decisions back in Vanilla.

[@Kokkenbollz]

One question, can you technacly play with daggers? And use stormstrike (pls say yes🙏)

[@alexdarby8885]

would you be able to cove shaman again, currently feels like it isn't the best compare to other class's unless other class's get major nurfs to the damage I don't see how enh will be viable

[@alancode2147]

I feel like I'm always setting up for a bit hit that never comes. What exactly are you calling a big hit? I also find myself hitting crash lightning on single target because there's 3-5 seconds of deadspace constantly. If I'm being honest, this is one of the slowest playing specs on alpha right now. I think it'd be okay if they hadn't removed the stormbringer's effect on your next stormstrike's cd. Their aoe seems pretty good, but single target just feels so slow.

[@spencersoutherland365]

MAKE TOTEMS MEAN MORE: They took away searing totem because it--like most of the offensive totems--felt like just another button to push. Imagine searing totem being a talent you can choose, instead. When you drop searing totem, it will flame shock a target every X seconds until it expires, with a CD of 30 seconds. It adds to the synergy of the new rotation and priority they're trying to build, which I agree, sounds AMAZING.

[@RendMaim]

I just want exactly MoP enhancement shaman no other version will quite do but this is a step in the right direction.

[@parafan4ever]

as someone who has mained enhancement shaman through all the expansions. i am very happy with these changes. as the way enhancement is here in BFA is just boring I don't enjoy playing it. and that is the first time i have felt that. even at the start of WoD where we were under tuned it was more enjoyable to play it.

[@nathancasey7712]

God it looks so slow though. I remember playing it in mop and you had to prioritize a lot of stuff and ramp up damage.

[@Martinezz94]

They are still missing legendaries and soulbinds. Also their gear is like a fresh lvl max. Get raid gear with more haste as he said and it will be better.

[@JazzyGaming]

IM confused about the feral spirits comments/change. To me that seems worse. The dogs dont just do damage on live- they give 5 maelstrom each time they attack.

[@Ty-oe4dr]

5 maelstrom in live is much less significant than the maelstrom weapon stacks they give in SL. in total you get 6 stacks rn

[@dammpe2]

Windfury totem could just be a passive aura around the shaman

[@jaymzOG]

Just as a personal opinion, a little down time in your rotation is fine; doesn't even need to be fixed with gear. Not every spec needs to be Fury Warrior. I love playing Fury but sometimes I need to lay off the Adderall.

[@momentofenlightenment6004]

2:32 "overstuffed" . i disagree i'd rather have everything i had prior to wod than this. 9:58 downtime for melee specs isn't necessarily bad, it actually makes your uptime feel like an uptime, like the older expansion class designs.

[@TheFrambler]

The more abilities the better if u ask me

[@alexis1156]

I definitely do not like downtime. Especially when there is a lot. But in this case it seems fine.

[@momentofenlightenment6004]

@@alexis1156 well having no downtime feels like smashing my key on the keyboard, imagine having to press a key bind for your auto-attack, now give auto-attack a name, say stormstrike

[@TWISTED915]

Thank you for the preview and content, been watching your videos since you've started making them. Hope you have a good day.

[@samb.6579]

Just that title makes me very very happy as a shaman main

[@scottycheesecake]

So what is the verdict on Shadowlands so far? Will it be safe to go back to WoW then?

[@Apoxiosis]

is there a way to spread flame shock like there was in wod? thatd be pretty nice

[@necrobale]

Thank god enhance is going back to the way it was before Legion. Praise the return of fire nova and the new hailstorm looks sick. Struggling between my unholy dk and my enhancement shaman for shadowlands.

[@erichall090909]

Most specs just need to go back to mists play style. The peak of class design

[@djryat4591]

Nice, I can finally commit to which char I want to main in Shadowlands.

[@corsaircarl9582]

So we should weave between Hailstorm and Fire Nova or is it an either/or situation?

[@Nazzers]

So if Enhancement isn't going to have the whack a mole playstyle anymore, are there any other classes that have it? The proc based gameplay was the main reason I switched to a Shaman in the first place.

[@Sanguivore]

From what little I’ve played of Frost DK, it’s vaguely Whack-a-Mole-y (though I have no idea what it’s gonna look like in Shadowlands).

[@TheBirdtaco]

maybe you would like fury war

[@butterflysrage]

Does the windfury totem procs get credited to the shaman for the dps, or the person it proced on?

[@Gr_ywind]

Alright.. Two handed mushroom man got me.

[@astrealove1]

This looks great and I'm actually tempted to roll Shaman in Shadowlands... or at least it's in my top 5, DK, DH, Pala & Monk are still above it.

[@fafafak6]

I wish rhey will change they way crash lightning. Make it light chain lighting where when you struck an enemy it zaps enemies around him.

[@thanyou]

Kinda upset they ditched the whole maelstrom system entirely, but I can appreciate a departure from the whack a mole style it is currently. Maelstrom Weapon returning and filling a similar purpose but also being far easier to manage is going to be incredible to return to. Makes me remember fond WoD days, but back then we were only OP for AOE, hopefully the numbers work out for em, I'm excited to try this mesh of the old CD playstyle with the energetic procs of the new style.

[@bluhfer1445]

3 things I would like to see.. 1. They need to bring back the old windfury animation and even when you try windfury totem, give your allies the Present windfury animation . 2. All Covenant abilities feel like they benefit ele and resto alot more leaving enhancement to fail. Give enhancement covenant ability like a Defensive ability or more nuke buttons like increase the windfury damage & proc chance based on your maelstrom stacks lasts 15 - 20sec 1min 30sec cd.( when using this ability it Consumes your current maelstrom stacks.) Gg 3. Even tho its not Optimal.. let enhancement shammys use a 2 hander with their abilities again. I would still love to see those windfury crits.. and if they do.. i need a druid friend to give me a 2 hander agility mace 😉. If they did all of this.. i would only play enhancement shammy the rest of my life. Great Video Take Care Be Safe Stay Safe

[@GyrotexGaming]

Cooldowns and synergy is the way to go. I've said the same thing in my Horrific Vision clear Enh review - Maelstrom+Mana+Cooldowns just feels like too much for a casual player to enjoy. Glad to hear they are changing it, and thanks for the video as always mate!

[@Keyboardturner]

Very glad that things are looking better. Of course, alpha is alpha and things are not final but it's refreshing to see good news.

[@Flatunello]

Will these be the new specs for WoW or are some of the effects Shadowlands specific?

[@vulkandrache1928]

Downtime in a spec is not a problem, unless we are talking 10+ seconds. Its one of the big reasons why i always come back to the Rogue because of the energy mechanic. Having a spec be naturaly gcd locked is awful for extended playing.

[@GRIMREAPER2646]

I used to main enh from cata to wod and ever since they went to the whole builder spending crap I have hated it. This video had me giddy like a school girl because these changes were all that I wanted. Actually so hype for shadowlands omg

[@17th_Colossus]

Ima go shammy in SL, im just not sure wether i should go ally or horde this time.

[@tomgingell8347]

Horde all the way class fantasy just screams Horde I can’t get on board with Alliance shamans besides Dwarfs

[@Snagprophet]

I cant wait to play shaman in Shadowlands. This news is making it easier to commit to a main

[@betahumanx]

Werent there huge Shamans changes just like a day ago?

[@hibiscus779]

I started in Wrath with an enhancement shaman, operating under the mistaken assumption that classes were equal and you picked it for rp value. It was a ... struggle. This looks good, but ... squishy, oh so squishy, I feel.

[@shade3385]

Enhancement shaman has and always will be squishy.

[@AndrewBeniston]

Can anyone tell me what combat text addon is being used here, I noticed it kind of sprays to the sides!

[@Zarod89]

After playing enhance on the beta for about 30ish hours. Lavalash feels really weak and useless unless you fully spec into it(lashing+hothand+hailstorm). For some odd reason double windfury weapon feels better than flametongue and more fun. Combined with a active earthen spike+sundering build you can completely remove lavalash from the rotation as it deal less than auto attack damage without flametongue..Ofc this(fun) is probably not intended so they'll disable double windfury and force us back into lava lash. A main attack should not require 3 talents to feel useful. Besides that, chain lightning feels like aoe clutter. It makes the aoe rotation too busy. As it seems stormstrike+crash lightning buff makes maelstrom proc more, which leads to either spamming chains every 3rd gcd while stormstrike is also off cd half the time and gets wasted. And that's without hailstorm or fire nova in the rotation. Imo, they should give us the option to choose between wf+wf or wf+ft or ft+ft builds for pure single target, cleave, aoe situations. This would make things much more interesting. Remove chain lightning and buff crash lightning.

[@besnik8916]

How does it feel to play with Windfury Totem? Is it like Totem Mastery?

[@panzerkin9097]

Would totem twisting be a thing in shadowlands?

[@davidkim7859]

You missed a significant nerf to enhancement shaman. Now that we don’t have two charges of storm strike, we lose the super cool second storm strike animation where our characters do an awesome 360 spinning strike 😢

[@ashwilliams5855]

Hello thanks for the content, would you recommend this class to a newer player is the rotation difficult?? I believe the bfa shaman is hard???

[@shade3385]

Rotation is not difficult at all! Essentially you always want to apply Flame shock and maintain it's DoT damage over the course of the fight, then use SS and Lava lash when they come off cool down followed by lightning bolt to fill the gaps (and you want to ideally use lightning bolt with 5 stacks of maelstrom weapon.). And assuming that Frost shock does decent damage, you can use that instead of Flame shock if the DoT damage isn't in need of refreshing the target. The really cool thing about this Legion/MoP infused Enh Shaman is that storm bringer is a thing that also helps with slow periods of the spec and allows for quick maelstrom stacks. Also with chain lightning and crash lightning going hand in hand with one another, AoE for the spec will be absolute bonkers due to the high synergy! Not to mention the talents which will provide ways to play the spec differently!

[@cyborgolias]

I want to hit, lightning strikes, not cast magic with Enhancement Shaman, AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[@Dragonfire2505]

True

[@shade3385]

You still have crash lightning? And lightning bolt is actually useful again. And you are also given chain lightning back lmao.

[@TaIathar]

@@shade3385 The entire point is not to use lightning bolt and chain lightning because those are considered "casting magic". Enhancement Shaman is about empowering your weapons with strong effects and smashing things with your mace/fist/axes/whatever. Not about pretending to be elemental shaman for half the fight.

[@jeffstockert7942]

I would like to see an AoE talent called Elemental Shock that integrates all the shocks into 1 spell and has an 8yard splash effect that applies the DoTs

[@grick7379]

Oh my god THANK YOU for saying more specs need 2 stacks of their main spell baseline. I was an Ele main in Legion and a Spriest in BFA and boy howdy let me tell you how frustrating it is to have completely manditory talents because your spec feels incomplete without it.