Enhancement is still quite weak in single target after the buffs.
This is especially problematic because the raid is quite melee-unfriendly. It makes it very hard to rationalize bringing an Enhancement shaman to raid, especially when Elemental exists.
It is especially bothersome when Enhancement wasn’t mentioned in the August 15th class tuning bluepost.
Especially since Fire mage got a rather substantial buff while being stacked in the RWF.
At the moment enh is lower middle of the pack, which is not “good” in any metric but not that bad either.
From past seasons the most probable thing is that if we fall behind even a little to get a 3-5% aura buff and MAYBE some specific buffs to totemic later down the line.
I wouldn’t hold my breath for some big buffs that change our relative ranking with other specs. It seems that we will not be the meta choice for this season, and it is ele’s time to shine (although I expect some nerfs to them after the raid).
its the lower middle of the pack because people are still getting tier set in week 1. Enhancement shaman can abuse the 2+2set combination pretty well early on. As more people get 4set, enhance will drop drastically. you can even see it already if you open up mythic first boss logs.
Its the same reason why Affliction lock is that high on heroic Soul Hunters. its just because they can abuse their old tierset
This does not change the fact that at the moment, the data shows enh doing pretty well (I stand corrected, it is not lower middle of the pack, it went in the middle of the pack).
When it drops off, then we might get a buff, but at the moment it seems quite far fetched, when we have half the spec doing worse than us. Not saying that it will not happen, just that at the moment I do not see it happening.
Sadly no more buffs till next week, until the tryhards finish their rwf.
100%. as long as ele exists the way it is right now, My raid denies me to come for myth prog. I have been there every tier, every raid. This tier, they dont take me because the eles…
We need help…
There is resto sham, that as a healer does well and ele that just is waaay too high rn. Those options bring everything enhance would bring. Thank you skyfury. Makes me want to get the old windfury totem back… At least then there was a justification even if the dps was lower.