Elemental or enhancement?

Classes Shaman
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Hi, so I decided to feed my alt addiction. I just wanted to ask would you recommend elemental or enhancement as the main spec? Especially including how the specs preform in shadowlands. Obviously this may be subjective and down to personal tastes and whilst I’ve played a shaman some time ago, I felt that survivability as an enhancement was rather squishy.

So yeah, anyway any advice or recommendation would be really appreciated. :grin:

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  • At this very moment it is indeed very squishy.
  • There’s no plans to fix survivability. Blizzard using Menek officially announced that ‘Ankh’ is your defensive talent and you have to have a skill to use it.
  • Because of lack of survivability You have to play super safe to not die so you can do any damage.
  • According to DPS ranking for Shadowlands Both Enhancement and Elemental Shamans are at the very bottom of DPS charts. Search for “wow beta shadowlands dps-rankings” and see for yourself.
  • Single target DPS at this moment is
    • 2.46k for enh
    • 2.54k for ele
    • 3.98k is top dps and glory comes for sub rogue (61% better)
  • AOE DPS at this moment is
    • 2.8k for enh
    • 3.35 for ele
    • 5.66k for sub rogue (twice as enh shaman - 102% better))
  • With a minimum spell choices a rotation is awful with alot of gaps ( lvl 50 )
  • With max spell choices you can have simultaneously even 15+ different spells and 5 totems to press, so there’s no way you can press them all during a blood lust even (that’s also on lvl 50). Bare in mind at lvl 60 there will be more talents to press. Over complicated.

Enhancement Shaman is my main at the moment and my opinion is:
“Avoid”. Avoid both specs… avoid Shaman completely.
Enjoy spamming Blizzard for fixes.

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I’m starting to really miss the shaman in wrath. :sob:

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Completely agree with posters above. Avoid unless we see changes before SL launches which I doubt to be honest. I was hoping to have decent enough changes to the class so that I could main it again since I dropped it in Cata but alas…looks like it would remain yet another alt.

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Im thinking about which non-shaman class ill play in shadowlands

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Subtlety Rogue is shadowland’s top DPS atm, have some panic buttons, utilities and it’s ok for PVP. If you like its play style - go for it.

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Problems gonna be everyone’s gonna be a sub rogue by launch and it will be garunteed a hard nerf :rofl:

Blizzard generally nerf classes people congregate to espically during betas and prepatchs / launch’s my money will be on we will see another uldir.

Sub rogues overperformance will be noticed before or just after first raid tier and it will take several nerfs immediately.

Sub has always been broken during betas and more they never last and I wouldn’t put your money on it if Ur talking about only playing rogue for sub.

As a class rogue is safer then shaman tho. It seems like it’s a class blizzard can’t get right

Eles now doing over 5k DPS on the latest logs since it’s buffs tho (wowmeta is out of date now)

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