Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Enhancement Shamans in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Enhancement Shaman PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Enhancement Shamans in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Enhancement Shaman Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Enhancement Shaman Stat Priority

Versatility > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike

Starting off, we have Versatility as our highest priority. This stat is fundamental to your success and is a no-brainer for PvP; we are often attacked in a majority of matchups, and we naturally obtain this stat through our gearing process. You’ll want to reach up to 25% of this stat to increase both our survivability and throughput.

After Versatility, you’ll want to obtain as much Haste as you can. Our periodic effects tick more frequently depending on how much Haste we have, and if Ashen Catalyst is played we can increase our Lava Lash damage and reduce its cooldown relatively quick. This also reduces the global cooldown, allowing us to make ourselves feel global-capped to generate the most amount of Maelstrom Weapon stacks possible.

When playing Doom Winds, this stat makes our damage quite deadly as we can proc Windfury Weapon super quick for unpredictable burst.

Followed by Haste, we have Mastery. This is important to our rotation, as it provides us with more Maelstrom Weapon generation and Stormstrike uptime. We also gain more buffs to our throughput from this secondary stat.

Finally, we have Critical Strike as our weakest stat, which doesn’t synergize well with our tooltip and is essentially avoided during our gearing process.

BiS Enhancement Shaman PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Faceguard
Shoulders: Concourse of the Forgotten Reservoir
Chest: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Tunic or Algari Competitor’s Chain Chainmail with Mastery / Versatility
Gloves: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Handguards
Legs: Sarong of the Forgotten Reservoir

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Drape or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Cloak with Haste / Versatility
Belt: Algari Competitor’s Chain Girdle with Mastery / Versatility
Bracers: Algari Competitor’s Chain Cuffs with Haste / Versatility
Boots: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Sabatons or Algari Competitor’s Chain Treads with Haste / Versatility

Jewelry

Neck: Algari Competitor’s Amulet with Haste / Versatility
Ring 1: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Versatility
Ring 2: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Mastery / Versatility

Weapons

Main Hand: Algari Competitor’s Pickaxe with Haste / Versatility
Off Hand: Forged Gladiator’s Claws

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

For your first trinket, you’ll almost always use Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. We receive a constant flow of procs that buff our primary stat, and we receive even more Haste from equipping it.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

As an alternative pick, you may find use out of Forged Gladiator’s Emblem if you are the opposing team’s kill target. In order for this trinket to have high value, you’ll want to use it before you enter Crowd Control. This reduces the chance of your character dying in a setup.

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Best Enhancement Shaman Embellishments

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on Algari Competitor’s Pickaxe.
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any armor crafted slot.

Best Enhancement Shaman Gems

Core Gems: Enduring Bloodstone + Versatile Emerald
Alternative Gems: Versatile Onyx

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Mastery and Haste are your best secondary stats, aside from Versatility, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible.

As for our PvP exclusive gems, only one of these can be attributed on your character’s gem slots. We recommend using the Enduring Bloodstone as it gives you some additional damage reduction when affected by Crowd Control.

For all gem slots, we will use either Versatile Emerald or Versatile Onyx depending on which secondary stat you lack the most. If you feel like you lack Mastery, use Versatile Onyx. Otherwise use Versatile Emerald for the rest of your gem slots.