Stormbringer Enhancement Shaman Guide for TWW Mythic+

[@PhrozenOrb]

Hey is this build still viable? Thanks for the information but the video is 1 month old now.

[@zorthas4114]

yes it is i have been playing it all week it's all good. only outdated info is that now you will not be able to overlap wolves however the base abilities have been buffed to counteract that

[@ThePlainsWalkerClark]

Can confirm build slaps.

[@ThePlainsWalkerClark]

I just got a new PC, can didn't save my stuff, nor can I find the weapon maelstrom counter, could you link it?

[@gennosukekoga01]

What would be an optimal raid build? Thank you for this build.

[@zorthas4114]

@@gennosukekoga01 www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/38#class=Shaman&spec=Enhancement logs best place to find raid builds, sort to heroic for last few bosses

[@n0rthc0repwns]

I wish every guides were made like this one.. straight to the point, no BS, no 40 min video, explains the nuances without going over basic stuffs like explaining what flameshock is.. thank you sir 🙏

[@reubencole1146]

I’ve watched probably 15 enhancement guides but yours is the perfect balance between what’s important and how to execute. You’re doing gods work my man and please update once 11.0.5 rolls around as we need this kind of explanation

[@Mrggjones1280]

Amazing guide. Extremely clear and your presentation with on screen prompts made it easy to follow. I wish every guide was this great.

[@Evrgreens11]

Ive been blasting p hard as shaman and this is the guide to follow. This is the best collection of everything you need to know. Amazing guide

[@mattvitalis789]

Probably the best wow guide I have watched in a long time.

[@rhysdando6333]

Great guide, answered a lot of niche questions that most guides do not cover. Appreciate it!

[@jookapaiva8205]

Finally good guide, saw so many dogwater guides that dont know most of the mechanics you are explaining here

[@Aratal-]

I watched multiple video guides and read icyveins/wowhead guides but i had a lof of nieche question left...your guide answered them all...great work...prob the best class guide i ever saw for an mmo

[@Mittenoutdoors269]

I hope this guys channel gets the credit he deserves, what a foookin guide man thanks!!

[@Facilitator913]

Finally! I came across this build during my testing on beta and haven’t seen anyone else playing it or talking about it. Going all in on lightning with fire as a close support. Ignoring wind fury and stormstrike enhancements. Stormstrike is simply a maelstrom builder behind fire nova and lava lash. Primordial wave amplifying tempest procs is the “chef’s kiss.” Ascendance over DRE because of the window you described and because you simply are not hitting stormstrike that often. I’ve seen people talking about using stormstrike as much as they can. Resetting stormstrike as much as they can so that they can use it again in hopes to proc DRE more. The problem is your damage is not in stormstrike. And the rng of DRE usually procs at inopportune times. If you haven’t tried this build, you need to. It pumps and sustains and has great flow.

[@hasforth9]

Really great video! Been maining Shaman on-off since Vanilla. Its always the class I come back to. Keep it up, you deserve more views.

[@biznismilan]

I've been playing Enha on and off for years... but never really got into it properly till Dragonflight. Got hooked to it in Season 3 when it was up there and watched countless videos to master the most important aspects of the spec, but this video is above all else. Love when it's straight to the point. You deserve a lot more subs :) here's +1 to that.

[@trentnolan8982]

Thanks for pointing out what is and isnt important in this video. I've been in love with the idea of enh shaman (since they over simplified elemental...) but also intimidated by the guides on common sites. Having someone point out stuff i can ignore or stuff that is not all that impactful will help me to get a hang of this awesome looking spec!

[@itzclutch5377]

Thanks for this, not sure if still relevant post nerf but def helped me a ton. Tried to learn through the wow head guide but it felt like rocket science. You pushed the important points and pointed out the things that were very minmax that isnt necessary which really let me focus in on the core gameplay.

[@zorthas4114]

nerf was pretty minimal see pinned message

[@Roman_Octavius]

This is by far the best explanation for enhance, thank you! Now I just need to figure out the ST build :p

[@paullin306]

Such a clean guide that takes almost no effort to understand. Thanks for the amazing work.

[@kowaboonga4170]

Enhance has reach another level on the rocket science scale. Thanks for explaining it this clearly, still hard to master it. Awesome work !

[@zorthas4114]

30/08 balance update: - 4% aura nerf is fine, spec was a bit ahead - tempest soft-cap is cringe but it's a buff for 2-8 target. Tempest will do 35% less damage on 20 targets. Significant nerf for necrotic wake first pull but probably fine everywhere else - totemic is probably still far behind in mythic+

[@JBCD47]

i saw people are using sundering over ice strike, is this just purely for utility?

[@zorthas4114]

@@JBCD47 yeah i think ice strike is slightly higher damage. can play sundering if you want to

[@JBCD47]

@@zorthas4114 I wanna play what is mathematically the most DPS possible until I get told by the push group to take utility haha

[@brianhardy2404]

ive watched like 3 other enhance guides, and this one has the best explanations by far! 👏👏👏

[@Kevmoeman]

I was missing a lot of lightning rod damage, nobody else talked about this in their guides, now i do big dam, thanks!

[@user-kp2hb5yr3g]

this was brilliant. need more from this guy! got yourself a sub.

[@MrErwinator]

finally to-the-point not a 5 min rambling about stuff. THANK YOU make more vids :D

[@thesteinberg]

This video is super helpful and awesome. Thank you for making it!

[@Thundercloud1969]

My friend, you do know your stuff. Thank you for this great video, unfortunely for me atm i think i need to get better into this spec. I find it a bit confusing/difficult. Thank you

[@couds1330]

Amazing guide my dude, i like how you explained on what to really focus in the rotation and what is not so important at first (like tabbing targets all the time) Looking forward to what changes on the next patch. What horde race would you recommend? (Cuz i dont like being an ally dwarf)

[@zorthas4114]

horde racials are w/e play whatever looks best

[@AlexSxntana]

Straight to the point, my guy!🔥

[@Swayricochet]

this guide is phenomenal. well done.

[@santinozicchi6187]

Best guide for enhance. Please keep these coming if anything changes

[@ateam108]

Top guide mate. Keen to hear your thoughts on the balance changes

[@achraftamerabet2616]

Best guide ever thank you so much bro

[@michalnovotny6716]

Great guide. I am thinking about main enha. This helps a lot. Thx 🙂

[@xZiReTaCTiCzZ]

Very nice guide ! Thanks and keep up the good work

[@Frankenllama]

I'd like to see this kind of guide but with the storm build. Elemental build is nice, but i love the simplicity and spay-ness of the playstyle

[@zorthas4114]

11.0.5 balance update (PATCH NOT OUT TILL NOVEMBER, this guide is still 100% valid until then): - CDR on wolves is halved. means you will very rarely overlap casts of feral spirits and uptime will be a lot lower. this is a pretty big nerf - lots of other compensatory buffs, 2min ascendance, 1 extra talent point, changes in stormbringer tree, new talents - totemic heavily buffed and now has a lot of synergy with the enhance kit that it didn't before I can't say how these changes actually affect enhance's damage, there are too many changes both positive and negative. Entirely possible the build will change. If there is a new build that is good or the gameplay changes I will make another video or an amendment video to this one.

[@alissonmanetti121]

what about the tier changes ? All ability damage increased by 2%. Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 2-piece - Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Ice Strike, and Crash Lightning deal 6% increased damage (was 15%).

[@zorthas4114]

@@alissonmanetti121 this is a 1% buff

[@Fiwren99]

Soo for now we stay with that build in video. When new better one will be avial u will post a new guide ye?

[@spencerrex7531]

@@zorthas4114 Have you tested out weapon enchants? What one(s) would you recommend? Thanks for all the info, awesome guide btw! :D

[@eternalfear88]

I had quick question that is kind of irrelevant with the changes coming in November, but in the section of the video with feral spirits, how do you have so many dogs out at once? Tempest summons a lightning dog, and FS does 2 random elements, but they don't seem to overlap. If you FS, then FS again in the 15 sec duration, the first pair disappear. Am I missing something?

[@christmasham4312]

very good information i had no idea about some of this stuff!

[@zorthas4114]

13/09 balance update: - wolf nerf is very big nerf, however the spec was buffed 3 times since beta so it's probably still fine. I don't think the build will change but you might be able to use wolves more sparingly. dunno how m+ damage will look but I think it will be fine and 11.0.5 will come soon

[@Wickidz]

Thanks for the update, I am still personally still struggling with single target in raid, would love to see u do an in depth guide with raid builds since u explain stuff so well!

[@Coldblood4win]

Would also LOVE an raid build , for pure single target and with some bosses that have tons of ads keep the good work my guy ❤

[@demiballs2396]

thanks for the update.

[@christopherjones2179]

Best guide. Please do keep us updated. Enhance 4 life.

[@swyxe]

thanks for this guide, straight to essential. Is there a chance for an advanced guide for minmaxing ? just to know where to look at for improving.

[@Nickball97]

Cannot stress enough how important it is to have a tempest ready to go at the start of every pull. It is as you said, if you have it you're pumping, if you don't you're doing no damage.

[@SinclairTTV]

i played this on repeat like 7 times while smashing a dummy, now im no longer a dummy, thanks for the guide

[@neoklistsioupros7109]

Hey thanks for the video,has helped me a lot getting into the spec.Questions,would you change something with 4piece set available,like elemental blast? and if yes,how we fit it in. Thanks in advance :)

[@TaderMader]

This took my dps up by 130k.... Thanks so much

[@lunarpuppet2227]

this was so so good, will you be posting one for raid too? going to be referring back to this guide alot!

[@zorthas4114]

not planning on posting one for raid atm because I think it's a simpler playstyle and I'll be busy in prog. There will be plenty of logs to look at though

[@konyuycreh5436]

Nice video! I'm bad in English but it's still very easy to understand, thanks bro

[@Hawke89]

i need to watch this video about 95 times to learn everything

[@maxencemontet9033]

Best guide ever !! Can you share all you WA ? Look so smooth and usefull ! Thanks mate

[@tayfunbuyukodabasi6219]

nice vid brother. is a new one coming now because of the patch?

[@zorthas4114]

probably tomorrow

[@robertdassaev5647]

Wow, thx for the guide. Leveling a shammy to be mu enhance.

[@Voidemperor69]

Amazing guide, i changed my ui a lot and it helps a ton. Now, does the Tempest changes affect anything?

[@wecoolwecoolbounce5191]

Insanely arduous rotation. Still crushing meters with clean stormbringer

[@oChaoticBlitzx]

Nuking a pack of mobs with Tempest is something else man.

[@qq.m4bu]

yow bro awesome video and explaining !! rly nice thx !!! i got an other question you got an standart enhancement shamen weakaura too that you prefer that you can share with us maybe ? would be awesome !other 4 weakauras that you linked downloaded and installed :p

[@zorthas4114]

wago.io/M0yWHnkbV disclaimer: my weakauras are very disorganized some things might be missing and some things might not work

[@qq.m4bu]

Okey thx

[@shallyselchami]

Love your guide, in raid how many ice/fire dogs do i need to have to priorize eb over lb?

[@zorthas4114]

i believe it is only 1 however it might change after the nerf not entirely sure about that

[@gaganjain4669]

It looks like this build is still pumping! But when do you use ele blast?

[@Mdfkrjones]

Hey! Thank you for the guide! I do have a suggestion, since most of the people will use Lashing Flames on one target I was thinking maybe Sundering would be a better talent instead. What do you think?

[@zorthas4114]

you can try it out, its probably too much st/prio loss though I think

[@lukegolden4443]

Insanely good.

[@AveRoMan]

Amazing guide dude

[@randonm99]

Any way we can get a link to that weakaura for your main hub of skills?

[@matths226]

Thanks for this guide. This class is kinda confusing at first to pick up

[@senfglas214]

Thank you for your great guide! Question: Why wouldn’t you talent Lava Bolt on single target? It does count for your spent maelstrom.

[@zorthas4114]

it does very low damage and does not count towards static accumulation refunds

[@Smackskull]

Hey Zor, can you share your thoughts on the Tempest aoe changes?

[@zorthas4114]

i think enhance will be fine. it was quite a bit ahead of most classes, it got buffed on 2-6 target aoe. going to be significantly worse on something like necrotic wake first pull though.

[@sumSOTY]

Question: at around 6:50 you use primordial wave and then chain lighting. Doesn't this eat the buff? Is the best rule to save primordial until we have tempest every time?

[@zorthas4114]

chain lightning does not consume primordial wave. only lightning bolt and tempest do.

[@sumSOTY]

​@@zorthas4114 Just discovered this yesterday (didn't run primordial in Shadowlands and skipped DF). Appreciate the response and the guide homie, has been really helpful

[@LorenzoTOP-pd6vr]

Brother, thank you so much for your time, i truly love it!.. in sigle target i do low dps, what could be ?

[@thegreekgeek7113]

Great vid - Can you link here or update description with ur weakauras. The Tempest Stack one listed is formatted weird and Im too bad with weakauras to fix it lol thanks

[@zorthas4114]

here wago.io/2YlD4Xzd_ I won't put it in description though becuase I didn't make it only modified

[@thegreekgeek7113]

@@zorthas4114 really appreciate it!! have a fun expansion

[@yesjoeri1]

Can i find all your enhance weakauras anywhere? Great guidr

[@zorthas4114]

I got a few people asking for it so here it is wago.io/M0yWHnkbV I might not have everything in there and somethings might break, I have a lot of separated things in my UI that might make it difficult to share

[@WINDSLVCKR]

Your guide is very helpful- I HAVE A QUESTION, I've been having an occurance maybe once every other pull.... where I will dump 10 stacks of maelstrom on EITHER Chainlightning or Lightning bolt and It will instantly give me 10 stacks of Maelstrom right back. This happens on single target bosses, on aoe pulls, inside and outside of ascendance, and doesnt seem to matter how many dogs I have up. It also seems to reoccur more oftan than it occurs, sometimes Ill go 10stackLB>10stackLB>10stack Tempest>10stackTempest>10stackLB>10stackLB all in a row. IO am not complaining- this is amazing, i love when it happens.... however I really would like to know WHY its happening, the tempests makes sense due to the final talent in stormbringer, but I really want to know why i am getting multiple 10 stacks in a row like that just so i can possibly predict it better.

[@zorthas4114]

Static Accumulation talent in bottom right of spec tree

[@freddielee3179]

very cool video thank you zorthas

[@andrewco186]

Just got an enhancement alt, I didn’t know we are all playing piano in our rotations 😅

[@corzooo]

this guide saved my life thank you zor thas

[@Holliday1217]

we want extreme 3

[@nikolaypavlov3525]

Question? Why go ice strike still if u are playing fire nova. Isnt it better to take sundering?

[@zorthas4114]

ice strike has a lower cooldown and gives a lot more maelstrom than sundering

[@Fiwren99]

Hey bro, which build do u recommend for solo zekvir on ?? difficulity

[@gooseg3822]

Perect guide ty👍🏼

[@avenire]

THANK U

[@akirameru675]

I have to know calculus to play this spec? Fuck this.

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

I need this, can’t decide if the frost spells are for PVP only or best for DPS

[@kalle058]

are all weakauras still working? On only crash lightning and tempest counter work

[@wwommy]

can you share your whole weakaura pack shown in the last necrotic wake clip? i like that one tbh

[@zorthas4114]

wago.io/M0yWHnkbV disclaimer: my weakauras are very disorganized some things might be missing and some things might not work

[@wwommy]

@@zorthas4114 thanks for putting it all together ill try it in a bit

[@mazor_17]

What a great guide. Tried the build and it is real fun

[@sadnath]

Can we please get extreme 3? thankyou

[@olivierderore1868]

When you are about to tempest after Primordial strike, do you need to be sure your previous was was lightning bolt and not chain lighting? or it doesn't matter? thx.

[@justsomeguywithamoustachea2712]

It doesn't matter for primordial wave, it only matters in ascendance when u use Windstrike it copies ur most recently used spender spell.

[@Aethytub]

Hey there, can you make a raiding version of this guide please? Thanks

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

I get so lost on the rotation because everything is up so fast, you can get lost so easily. I think I need to find some good WAs or something to keep track of everything

[@hattorihanzo562]

i dont seem to do any dmg on elementalist no matter how hard i try :/

[@Frogtea]

your tempest weakaura is a bit different than the one you linked, which has a progress bar instead of just numbers. was wondering if you had a link to the only numbered one?

[@zorthas4114]

i don't want to link mine but you can get it to look similar by reducing the alpha of the bar colour to 0 and making the text size bigger

[@Frogtea]

@@zorthas4114 would like to follow up and say thank you, few extra adjustments and i was able to make it perfect

[@Kingmaster64]

tried it out on live and its good i just wish flavourwise it was stormstrike interacting more in the built than lavalash but yeah the point difference is too high

[@yesjoeri1]

I feel the same on ST lava is boring to press. But spreading flame shocks into huge fire nova for 10 mealstorm feels good

[@takisdelijohn2098]

ty for the guide! now if only you could also make a raiding one too..:D

[@zorthas4114]

too busy progging the raid to make a guide on it lol

[@Fezno]

Hoping you do one for raiding!

[@eon993]

yeah why isnt the dwarf going down a hill, very fast?

[@mikethefnatic2523]

how are you managing to get a tempest ready for the first pull of mists?

[@zorthas4114]

3:22

[@BriantehBoss21]

When I enter ascendence, I lose tempest because of wind strikes. Is there any macro or alternative to avoid losing tempest?

[@Jhalborg]

If tabbing for lashing flames doesn't matter, and it's such a small % of damage, would it make sense to swap it out for Sundering for another AoE stop?

[@zorthas4114]

No because it is a lot of single target damage

[@holbroal]

Can you explain why during ascendance you want to spend manually at 8-10 stacks? Why not hit windstrike, since windstrike will also do a lighting/tempest on top?

[@zorthas4114]

because you will overcap as windstrike only spends 5

[@holbroal]

@@zorthas4114 ah gotcha, makes sense, thanks!

[@couds1330]

​​@@zorthas4114oh shit didnt know that, i was spamming wind strike over spenders thinking the same. Ty

[@bruddah_]

I really like sundering tho, it just feels cool to press. Kisses tho for sure.

[@zorthas4114]

if you want to play it can just swap ice strike for it. i think it's only a bit worse numerically, can be nice to have another stop

[@ArK0niX]

Insane thx! What about raid build?

[@zorthas4114]

raid build is a lot simpler should refer to written guides/sims and then logs after release

[@Fezno]

@@zorthas4114 Any written guides in particular or are they pretty much all the same eg. Icy Veins, Wowhead etc.

[@zorthas4114]

@@Fezno i think wowhead and icy veins are made by same person. both are good for raid but I think don't go into enough depth for m+

[@lazarbaltic6255]

Hi, what is the stat priority for this build? Is it live Agility - Haste - Crit or?

[@zorthas4114]

agility > haste > mast

[@lazarbaltic6255]

@@zorthas4114 Thank you!

[@lazarbaltic6255]

@@zorthas4114 and do you know what is the stat breakpoint?

[@zacjones6711]

Question, is this better than the storm build down left side with deeply rooted that Zuco and other use? Playing it seems to only work well if ascendance is up. Everywhere else gameplay feels so weak with this build. With the other build my current average in dungeon is north of 7-800k. With this build I am under 500k, yes 2mill+ pulls but overall is bad. Yes aware we are in heroics perhaps that will change M+ with longer fights?

[@zacjones6711]

P.S. if you read this that weak aura is amazing thanks for that.

[@zorthas4114]

@@zacjones6711 heroic dungeons are not a good measure for this build. The main issue is that mobs have so little health that your pwave lightning bolts will one shot them and you won't get full lightning rod value, and you will constantly need to re-spread flame shocks so you don't get full fire nova value. Additionally the tier set is high value. This guide can't really be practiced on live right now, it's more a build for 10+ keys

[@zacjones6711]

@@zorthas4114 I do see the difference, took time to learn but still using your build. I am up to 680kish overall and do notice things die too fast to get the full rotation out, I will say it is far more "involved" to get the flow down but great fun.

[@marvinandres4952]

hello does crash lightning really generated maelstrom? been reading tooltip it doesnt says it does. looking at talents i dont also see anything that affects it maybe i miss something

[@zorthas4114]

all melee hits have a chance to generate maelstrom additionally, crash lightning procs windfury on targets hit, which also generates maelstrom it is not guaranted like your other abilities

[@marvinandres4952]

@@zorthas4114 thank you so much for the answer. are you gonna make another guide with 11.0.5?

[@flyingcrisis7910]

Why do we want to manually press spenders at 8-10 stacks in ascendance rather than windstriking? Just because of overcapping?

[@zorthas4114]

yes

[@flyingcrisis7910]

@@zorthas4114 Hey thanks for the quick answer. I found different out comes with the Primordial Wave into Tempest. Rarely it actually casts tempest on all of them and mostly it just casts tempest on 1 and lightning bolt on the others. Do u know something about that? The damage difference is huge and i would love to know how to do that consistently

[@zorthas4114]

@@flyingcrisis7910 it is a bug that is getting fixed on the next reset

[@sdadsada8528]

do you have a log i could check out?