Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Enchants & Gems for Enhancement Shamans in Cataclysm
All sections for Enhancement Shaman PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Enhancement Shaman in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will show you the best PvP enchants and gems that you can use as an Enhancement Shaman in Cataclysm Season 9.
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Best Enhancement Shaman Enchants
Helmet: Arcanum of Vicious Agility
Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Vicious Agility
Cloak: Swordguard Embroidery / Greater Critical Strike without Tailoring.
Chest: Peerless Stats / Mighty Resilience
Bracers: Agility
Gloves: Greater Mastery
Belt: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
Legs: Dragonscale Leg Armor
Boots: Mastery
Main-hand Weapon: Landslide
Off-hand Weapon: Pyrium Weapon Chain or Landslide.
Your helmet and shoulders enchants will be purchasable through PvP content using honor. Choosing Tailoring as your profession will allow you to craft the enchant, Swordguard Embroidery, for an occasional boost to your Attack Power. Any additional enchants can be purchased on the Auction House. Although Ebonsteel Belt Buckle is not technically an enchant, it give you one extra gem slot for minmaxxing secondary stats.
If you want to increase your overall damage output further into the season, you can purchase a third off-hand weapon and enchant that with Landslide. Since your weapons can be changed during arena, this creates a valuable quality of life enhancement for your throughput for compositions that do not have a Disarm effect. Also, your Boots are best enchanted to increase your secondary stats as opposed to movement speed modifiers, as these do not stack with your Ghost Wolf.
Best Enhancement Shaman Gems
Meta Gems: Agile Shadowspirit Diamond
Red Gems: Lucent Ember Topaz
Blue Gems: Stormy Ocean Sapphire
Yellow Gems: Mystic Amberjewel
There is one gem chosen for all gem slots. Make sure to socket these gems on your character’s gear to get the highest optimization before entering PvP combat.
- Meta gem slots will use Agile Shadowspirit Diamond for some Agility and bonus Critical Strike damage.
- Red gem slots will use Lucent Ember Topaz, as this allows us to maximize how much Agility and Resilience we have tied to our character.
- Blue gem slots will use Stormy Ocean Sapphire, as this will assist us with our Spell Penetration requirement.
- Yellow gems will use Mystic Amberjewel to optimize our tankiness in PvP combat. This is important to reach at least 3000 Resilience in order to gain a fair amount of damage reduction. Maximizing this stat will keep you alive longer in all matchups.
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