Yesterday night, I had a new low blow on my enhancement shaman (made me lol more than anything tho).

A friend of mine was in a WC group, and people kept dropping from the group, so I told him "Stay there, I'm going to run you trough". Being level 70... sure was going to be a quick run.

Then, a level 20 shaman in the group sent me a tell

"Hey, what spec are you"

I reply "Enhancement"

He quickly replies "Ok, bye", and disbands from the group

Of course, I lol, as I 1 shot right about everything from the instance... but that got me wondering... Is other player's perceptions of enhancement really that bad... that was pretty much... a low blow heh

rofl wow shut down by a lvl 20 thats gotta hurt mate

lawl, stuff like that is so funny. Other day i try to badmouth a ninja an trade channel and the responces i get: "lawl enhancement"

Yeah, it is pretty bad. I had an experience myself when lfg in trade channel. Typed "Enh shaman lfg heroics" and got replied "Yeah, coz everyone wants enh in their group", which of course offended me a bit. I guess these people are better off browsing armory than doing that. You think a toon is good then take him/her, if not leave him/her alone. That's what I think, coz some ppl gotta get the badges as well no matter how "inflexible" their classes are.

Or maybe I should QQ less~

Enhancement Shamans are incredible, in my opinion.

As my warrior and my rogue, there is nothing better than having one of you nearby.






I'm not being sarcastic.

@ OP

Who care about them?

Enhancement brings more DPS to the table in a properly specced melee group than any other class.

Don't get me wrong, I know what I bring to the table

We had a group this week, 2 enhancement shamans 2 warriors... (one tank & one DPS) and a feral druid

our DPS was pretty damn insane, plus the tank was getting some pretty nice buffs to improve his threat generation

What worries me though is the perception that a lot of people have of our class

You're better off then a Ret Paladin. You’ll never face as much discrimination as they have.

The 20 was just a tard.

When I do runs through instances level 25 and below, I generally gather like 50 things at once, pop a stoneskin totem, put RB on Ravager, and wait for the proc. It's fun.

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You're better off then a Ret Paladin. You’ll never face as much discrimination as they have.

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I've been leveling my shammy as an enhance spec, because my main is a 70 rogue. So I understand the melee DPS alot better than caster DPS. In my guild we have an amazing Enhancement shammy that i'm trying to emulate. I know once I hit 70, I'm going to face a huge delimma of staying enhancement (ie 2 melee DPS toons) or switching to full resto, which gives more opportunities but not quite as fun.

I agree that many DPS shammies get a bad rep unfortunately and people tend to look them over for whatever strange reason.

Ignore that 20, he's not worth the time.

Amnushiir

One of the best DPS'ers in my raid for a while was an enhance shaman [phractus of jaedenar]. Absolutely tore up the meters while doing spare heals and giving me beloved WF.

I admit, I gave him a lot of crap and skepticism when he joined about his spec, but he proved me wrong. Much respect for those of you enhance shamen that know your trade and can do the job well.

unfortunately yes, the enh shaman reputation is very bad

basically it has to do with several things

1) grabbing agro and then not being able to handle it taking up healing resources. hunters FD or kite, mages blink and ice nova and other stuff, rogues evade or do other stuff, etc. enh shamans go down like paper dolls when they get agro from rough stuff, they are right there in the action.

2) when things go wonky the ability to CC or direct the fight is minimal

3) totems aren't valued that much

4) side healing from enh shaman is quite poor

for dedicated raid teams enh shamans can find a spot with the totems and what not. and the tanks in dedicated raid teams are usually a whole heck of a lot better than pickup tanks.

elemental sham have similar problems. they are viewed as lower or equivalent damage mages with no CC (polymorph, ice block, blink, ice nova, fire stun, etc)

the only thing at high level that has any degree of respect is restoration shaman, and some people are bias against them too. maybe the mana burn rate is too high or something

shaman is the road of pain, especially for pickup teams

What made me hate being an enhancment shaman is going on the Test Realm and trying out a full enhance dual weilding spec made for *pvp* . Had 90+ dps hammers and what not and trying it out in the best gear the game had to offer. Not only was it terrible for pvp(meaning I never crit over 1k with WF) elemental/resto shaman would own me, and sometimes even 2 shot me.

After seeing how OP 40/0/21 was, I switched specs and have been owning 69 bracket for about a month now. Gettin about 10k honor a day. As a elemental shaman I find myself critting about 80% of the time with lightning bolt for a steady 2800 dmg, sometimes even getting a lucky proc on lightning overload witch would bring players to either dead or below 10% in a single hit.

I've done enhancment from 1-68 and thought it was the best. But its nothing to elemental.

i top dps meters in every 5man i've run, even when they're full of 70's not to mention i boost there dps with SoE, GoA, Wrath of Air, or WF totems.

Yah, i get the same thing being a moonkin, but its still fun and have no problem with people talking %@##. I still out DPS everyone when i raid in kara and in our 5man.

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What made me hate being an enhancment shaman is going on the Test Realm and trying out a full enhance dual weilding spec made for *pvp* . Had 90+ dps hammers and what not and trying it out in the best gear the game had to offer. Not only was it terrible for pvp(meaning I never crit over 1k with WF) elemental/resto shaman would own me, and sometimes even 2 shot me.

After seeing how OP 40/0/21 was, I switched specs and have been owning 69 bracket for about a month now. Gettin about 10k honor a day. As a elemental shaman I find myself critting about 80% of the time with lightning bolt for a steady 2800 dmg, sometimes even getting a lucky proc on lightning overload witch would bring players to either dead or below 10% in a single hit.

I've done enhancment from 1-68 and thought it was the best. But its nothing to elemental.

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Hah, you do not have 80% crit with lightning bolt. Please learn to read your character screen buddy.

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That 20 is stupid,

Same here, I top DPS charts and go armory me, LOL I just hit 70 and my gear is terribad and im topping dps over geared warlocks/mages...most of them do not know how to dps tho :( but yeah I don't care what anyone says enhancement is fun, always has been and im not going to re-spec because people can use resto more then enhancement, and I've herd Shamanastic Rage is getting a buff of 30% less dmg for 30 sec.