Why You Should & Shouldn't Play Enhancement Shaman in Dragonflight Season 2 - Patch 10.1

Moderna Publicado 30/04/2023 a las 10:08 por wordup

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Why You Should

Why You Shouldn't

Why You Should Play Enhancement Shaman in Dragonflight Season 2for the most parteverything that made it good before still present

Control Tools: Tótem capacitador (with Cayada del guardián for extra stuns, although they DR, or Carga estática for more frequent), Tormenta de truenos (with Choque de truenos), Hendimiento and even Lazo de relámpagos makes for an extremely strong lockdown toolkit.

Niche Tools: Tótem de tremor (Fear break), Purgar (offensive dispel), Tótem de limpieza contraveneno, Tótem Piel de piedra, Elemental de Tierra, Limpiar espíritu (Curse Dispel), Tormenta de truenos (without Choque de truenos), and Tótem Pillaterra all have extremely strong uses given the right situation. They're also only ever a single point away to grab from the most common loadouts should your group need them.

Healing Tools: Guía ancestral, Tótem Corriente de sanación, Escudo de tierra and Arma vorágine empowered Oleada de sanación / Sanación en cadena (though these last two cost damage) can bring some clutch group healing.

Corte de viento: Lowest cooldown interrupt in the game at 12 seconds (sometimes allowing you to solo things you otherwise couldn't), with the benefit of also being a 30 yard range.

Tótem Viento furioso: Unique to Enhancement, providing bonus damage to your party via extra Auto Attack procs.

Ansia de sangre: Burst Haste cooldown that virtually every group wants at least one of.

Tótem de Carga de viento: Provides additional burst movement for your group.

Granizada: Gives a near-constant 50% slow effect to up to 6 targets when used rotationally without impacting damage, as it's used rotationally.

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Incorpóreo - Requires CC: Maleficio can be taken and used to lock out a spawn, without eating into your primary control tools.

Aflicción - Dispels and Healing: Tótem de limpieza contraveneno will dispel these one by one, while Limpiar espíritu can be targeted. As a last resort you can also spend Arma vorágine empowered Oleada de sanación casts to top them off.

Enredadera - Periodic slow: Camino de espíritu and Zarpas atronadoras both break this affix instantly without requiring you to snap the vine.

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Espíritu feral - our core cooldown that's always taken because it provides so much in a tight package. This is thought less of a cooldown at this point due to the frequency with Linaje de médico brujo CDR, but it can be flexed between different bonuses depending on your selected build to round out selections thanks to Espíritus elementales and, when appropriate, Lobo alfa.

Ascensión - New to Season 2, the base ability is now somewhat desirable and even Elementalist that previously avoided it grabs this. While it's not the flashiest cooldown, it gives a window of near unlimited resource flood and a way to siphon it off thanks to the follow up talents in Acumulación estática and Invocación de Thorim (that are greatly improved in Season 2). Physical can even take this as it's a reasonably similar uptime - but more controlled - compared to Elementos muy arraigados in 10.1, which is much healthier.

Oleada primigenia - A simple big damage button that can flex into AoE, and thanks to Elementos astillados gives a massive followup window when extra targets are available. This is as simple as they come, press button and hit enemy hard, and since it sets itself up with Vorágine primigenia it's a core part of our burst AoE.

Hendimiento - Again new to Season 2, thanks to the newly introduced set bonus this is now an extremely strong burst window following each cast in both single target and AoE, and layers comfortably over all of our other effects.

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2-piece: Casting Hendimiento increases your Mastery by 24% for 15 seconds.

4-piece: Hendimiento also increases your Fire and Physical damage dealt by 20% for 15 seconds, and your next two Cadena de relámpagos casts within 15 seconds deal 100% additional damage and refund 50% of the Arma vorágine stacks spent.

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Nova de Fuego: Converted to Flamestrike (Fire + Physical) damage, allowing it to scale with baseline Espíritu feral buffs, Legado de la bruja de Escarcha and the new Hendimiento themed 4-piece. This is especially powerful for Physical builds, giving it a much better option to round out its previously struggling AoE toolkit. Choque de llamas has also been converted to Volcanic (Fire + Nature) damage, giving a small boost thanks to Furia de la Naturaleza and lightning wolves from Espíritus elementales.

Acumulación estática and Invocación de Thorim: Both been given powerful passive effects that are active even outside of the Ascensión effect, making the leaf significantly more desirable for Elementalist which previously avoided it.

Elementos muy arraigados: Has been made significantly more consistent, but also less frequent as a result. It's no longer the overriding goal of any Physical build and is more a short, big moment as extensions are now exceptionally unlikely. While this in isolation is a nerf, it's significantly healther for the playstyle and is more than compensated for with the follow up talent buffs. It also allows for Ascensión to come back in as a reasonable option to path through for controlled bursts.

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Maximize generation and management of Arma vorágine to avoid waste while also using it to fill empty spaces. This includes both pooling and burning at different spots.

Juggle and desync ability cooldowns to fit comfortably and avoid downtime.

Align multiplier buffs such as Golpe de hielo and Granizada.

React to Espíritu feral CDR via the Linaje de médico brujo effect as quickly as possible, while also trying to fuel Explosión elemental casts with Arma vorágine within the window.

Switch rotation to react to fast paced Mano caliente windows while weaving in between the cooldown, and reacting to unexpected Invocatormentas procs when in filler maintenance.

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Rebosante de vida - 8% flat max Health increase, so long as Reencarnación is NOT on cooldown

Resguardos elementales & Defensa ancestral - 4% Magic damage reduction, and 2% Leech/Avoidance respectively

Guardián de la Naturaleza - Emergency 20% Health heal that triggers when you fall below 35%, on a 45 second internal cooldown

Cambio astral - 2 minute cooldown, 40% damage reduction for 12 seconds. Can also be either reduced to 90 second cooldown with Trotaplanos, or a 60% reduction with Baluarte astral

Elemental de Tierra - 5 minute cooldown 15% Maximum health increase for 1 minute, so long as the Elemental lives.

Espíritu de lobo - stacking damage reduction while you remain in Lobo fantasmal, up to 20%.

Self Healing tools explained earlier

Rebosante de vida causes us to lose the 8% max Health if we ever use Reencarnación. This is our strongest passive survival tool, and often Ankhing at all in higher Mythic+ situations or raids means you're kicking the problem down the road - you've now fallen under the minimum threshold to survive things until it comes back (which may be the next dungeon, or 3 pulls down the line). This is one of the most egregious issues we have right now in my opinion and really has no good reason to do this.

Espíritu de lobo requires you to sit in Lobo fantasmal for 4 seconds before a damage event occurs to reach the full 20%, during which you do no damage at all, and pause your rotation entirely. Considering we're GCD locked at almost all times, this is especially punishing and doesn't mesh well with our playstyle compared to similar effects for other specs.

Elemental de Tierra not only has a long cooldown, but it can just straight up taunt a mob and die, leaving us without the benefit.

All of our Arma vorágine fueled off-healing tools come with an extreme penalty to damage that can take a long time (anywhere from 5-20 seconds of hoping) to recover the resources spent, is a random generation effect to begin with, and is limited by Mana that's shared with other utility tools such as Purgar.

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This guide is written by Wordup, a long-time Enhancement player and moderator on the Shaman Discord server, Earthshrine. I've played every iteration of Enhancement since Sunwell, and played in Echoes on Laughing Skull (EU) since Warlords of Draenor. You can catch me on Twitter, or in Discord if you have any guide related questions!

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