Enhancement Shaman Talents

Enhancement Shaman
Midnight Pre-Patch

Talents in World of Warcraft define your character's gameplay. They offer active abilities for offense and defense, major cooldowns, or passive enhancements to your stats and spells. Here are the current Enhancement Shaman talents for Midnight Pre-Patch.

Where to Find Talents

Talents can be found in the talent menu, which is accessible by pressing the N key (default) or by clicking the target icon in the micro menu:

Screenshot of the talents button in the micro menu

Class Talents

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Shaman specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Shaman class, offering a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Shaman's overall capabilities.

Name	Cast	Effect
Chain Heal	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Heals the friendly target for 891, then jumps up to 20 yards to heal the 3 most injured nearby allies. Healing is reduced by 30% with each jump.
Lava Lash	Instant - Melee Range - 18 Sec Cooldown	Charges your off-hand weapon with lava and burns your target, dealing 4 Fire damage. Damage is increased by 100% if your offhand weapon is imbued with Flametongue Weapon.
Chain Lightning	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 278 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets
Earth Shield	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Protects the target with an earthen shield, increasing your healing on them by 20% and healing them for 341 when they take damage. This heal can only occur once every 3 sec. Maximum 9 charges. Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman.
Ancestral Wolf Affinity	Passive	Cleanse Spirit, Wind Shear, Purge, and totem casts no longer cancel Ghost Wolf.
Fire and Ice	Passive	Increases all Fire and Frost damage you deal by 3%.
Spirit Wolf	Passive	While transformed into a Ghost Wolf, you gain 5% increased movement speed and 5% damage reduction every 1 sec, stacking up to 4 times.
Thunderous Paws	Passive	Ghost Wolf removes snares and increases your movement speed by an additional 25% for the first 3 sec. May only occur once every 20 sec.
Frost Shock	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Chills the target with frost, causing 272 Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Elemental Orbit	Passive	Increases the number of Elemental Shields you can have active on yourself by 1. You can have Earth Shield on yourself and one ally at the same time.
Spirit Walk	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Removes all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 8 sec.
Gust of Wind	Instant - 20 Sec Cooldown	A gust of wind hurls you forward.
Astral Shift	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Shift partially into the elemental planes, taking 40% less damage for 12 sec.
Nature's Guardian	Passive	When your health is brought below 35%, you instantly heal for 20% of your maximum health. Cannot occur more than once every 45 sec.
Encasing Cold	Passive	Increases the cooldown of Frost Shock by 15 sec, but Frost Shock now freezes targets in place for 4 sec.
Arctic Snowstorm	Passive	Enemies within 10 yds of your Frost Shock are snared by 30%.
Healing Stream Totem	Passive
Winds of Al'Akir	Passive	Increases your movement speed by 6% and the movement speed bonus of Ghost Wolf by an additional 10%.
Planes Traveler	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Astral Shift by 30 sec.
Astral Bulwark	Passive	Astral Shift reduces damage taken by an additional 20%.
Brimming with Life	Passive	Stamina increased by 10%. While you are at full health, Reincarnation cools down 100% faster.
Wind Shear	Instant - 30 Yd Range - 12 Sec Cooldown	Disrupts the target's concentration with a burst of wind, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec.
Elemental Resistance	Passive	Healing from Healing Stream Totem reduces Fire, Frost, and Nature damage taken by 6% for 3 sec.
Earthgrab Totem	Instant - 35 Yd Range - 30 Sec Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location for 20 sec. The totem pulses every 2 sec, rooting all enemies within 8 yards for 8 sec. Enemies previously rooted by the totem instead suffer 50% movement speed reduction.
Capacitor Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 1 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and explodes after 2 sec, stunning all enemies within 8 yards for 3 sec.
Spiritual Awakening	Passive	Mastery increased by 3%.
Enhanced Imbues	Passive	The effects of your weapon and shield imbues are increased by 30%.
Windveil	Passive	Interrupting a spell with Wind Shear reduces all spell damage taken by 15% for 12 sec.
Refreshing Waters	Passive	Your Healing Surge is 25% more effective on yourself.
Cleanse Spirit	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 8 Sec Cooldown	Removes all Curse effects from a friendly target.
Static Charge	Passive - 1 Min Cooldown	Reduces the cooldown of Capacitor Totem by 20 sec.
Wind Rush Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 2 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location for 15 sec, continually granting all allies who pass within 10 yards 40% increased movement speed for 5 sec.
Earth Elemental	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Calls forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect you and your allies, generating high threat and taunting enemies periodically for 30 sec.
Purge	Instant - 30 Yd Range	Purges the enemy target, removing 1 beneficial Magic effect.
Greater Purge	Instant - 30 Yd Range - 12 Sec Cooldown	Purges the enemy target, removing 2 beneficial Magic effects.
Nature's Fury	Passive	Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature spells and abilities by 4%.
Ascending Air	Passive	Wind Rush Totem's cooldown is reduced by 30 sec and its movement speed effect lasts an additional 2 sec.
Jet Stream	Passive	Wind Rush Totem's movement speed bonus is increased by 10% and now removes snares.
Primordial Bond	Passive	Your Earth Elemental no longer taunts nearby enemies or generates threat and instead increases your maximum health by 15% while active.
Hex	1.7 Sec Cast - 30 Yd Range - 30 Sec Cooldown	Transforms the enemy into a frog for 1 min. While hexed, the victim is incapacitated, and cannot attack or cast spells. Damage may cancel the effect. Limit 1. Only works on Humanoids and Beasts.
Spiritwalker's Grace	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Calls upon the guidance of the spirits for 15 sec, permitting movement while casting Shaman spells. Castable while casting.
Totemic Projection	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 10 Sec Cooldown	Relocates your active totems to the specified location.
Elemental Warding	Passive	Reduces all magic damage taken by 6%.
Totemic Focus	Passive	Increases the radius of your totem effects by 15%. Increases the duration of your Earthbind and Earthgrab Totems by 10 sec. Increases the duration of your Healing Stream, Tremor, Poison Cleansing, and Wind Rush Totems by 3.0 sec.
Graceful Spirit	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Spiritwalker's Grace by 30 sec and increases your movement speed by 20% while it is active.
Spiritwalker's Aegis	Passive	When you cast Spiritwalker's Grace, you become immune to Silence and Interrupt effects for 5 sec.
Mana Spring	Passive	Your Lava Burst casts restore 22 mana to you and 4 allies nearest to you within 40 yards. Allies can only benefit from one Shaman's Mana Spring effect at a time, prioritizing healers.
Tremor Totem	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at your feet that shakes the ground around it for 10 sec, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party and raid members within 30 yards.
Poison Cleansing Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 2 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at your feet that removes all Poison effects from a nearby party or raid member within 30 yards every 1.5 sec for 6 sec.
Therazane's Resilience	Passive	Earth Shield no longer loses charges and is 115% effective.
Reactive Warding	Passive	When refreshing Earth Shield, your target is healed for 830 for each stack of Earth Shield they are missing. Additionally, Earth Shield can consume charges 1.0 sec faster.
Voodoo Mastery	Passive	Your Hex target is slowed by 70% during Hex and for 6 sec after it ends. Reduces the cooldown of Hex by 15 sec.
Nature's Swiftness	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Your next healing or damaging Nature spell is instant cast and costs no mana.
Totemic Surge	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of most totems by 5 sec.
Instinctive Imbuements	Passive	Lightning Shield increases your Intellect by 3%. Casting Lightning Shield also applies Earth Shield to yourself and any weapon imbuements if known.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Enhancement Shamans with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. These talents differentiate Enhancement Shamans from other Shaman specializations, maximizing effectiveness in combat.

Name	Cast	Effect
Maelstrom Weapon	Passive	When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to generate Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time of your next Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning by 20% and increases its damage by 20%.
Windfury Weapon	Instant	Imbue your main-hand weapon with the element of Wind for 1 hour. Each main-hand attack has a 15% chance to trigger two extra attacks, dealing 9 Physical damage each.
Flametongue Weapon	Instant	Imbue your weapon with the element of Fire for 1 hour, increasing the damage of your Fire spells by 5.0%.
Forceful Winds	Passive	Windfury has a 10% additional chance to trigger and its damage is increased by 50%.
Crash Lightning	Instant - Melee Range - 12 Sec Cooldown	Electrocutes all enemies in front of you, dealing 53 Nature damage. Enhances your weapons for 12 sec, causing Stormstrike and Lava Lash to discharge 31 Nature damage split between up to 5 enemies in front of you.
Molten Assault	Passive	Lava Lash cooldown reduced by 6.0 sec, and if Lava Lash is used against a target affected by your Flame Shock, Flame Shock will be spread to up to 5 nearby enemies.
Unruly Winds	Passive	Windfury Weapon has a 100% chance to trigger a third attack.
Raging Maelstrom	Passive	Maelstrom Weapon can now stack 5 additional times. Consuming Maelstrom Weapon causes your next Healing Surge or Chain Heal to gain 100% of the benefits of Maelstrom Weapon based on the stacks consumed.
Ashen Catalyst	Passive	When Lava Lash strikes a target affected by your Flame Shock, its cooldown is reduced by 2.0 sec.
Stormblast	Passive	Stormstrike has an additional charge. Stormsurge now also causes your next Stormstrike to deal 25% additional damage as Nature damage, stacking up to 2 times.
Overcharge	Passive	The critical strike damage of your Nature abilities are increased by 40% of your critical strike chance.
Overflowing Maelstrom	Passive	Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning can consume up to 10 Maelstrom Weapon stacks.
Flurry	Passive	Increases your attack speed by 15% for your next 3 melee swings after dealing a critical strike with a spell or ability.
Hot Hand	Passive	Melee auto-attacks with Flametongue Weapon active have a 5% chance to reduce the cooldown of Lava Lash by 50% and increase the damage of Lava Lash by 40% for 8 sec. May not occur during an active Hot Hand.
Storm's Wrath	Passive	Increase the chance for Mastery: Enhanced Elements to trigger Windfury and Stormsurge by 150%.
Elemental Tempo	Passive	Elemental damage increased by 10%. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon consumed reduces the cooldown of Stormstrike by 0.3 sec and Lava Lash by 0.3 sec.
Voltaic Blaze	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 10 Sec Cooldown	Instantly shocks the target and 5 enemies within 10 yds with blazing thunder, applying Flame Shock and dealing 1,510 Nature damage. Always critically strikes. Generates 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Chaining Storms	Passive	Chain Lightning now jumps to 2 additional targets and deals 10% increased damage.
Converging Storms	Passive	Each target hit by Crash Lightning increases the damage of your next Stormstrike by 25%, up to a maximum of 6 stacks.
Stormflurry	Passive	Stormstrike has a 20% chance to strike the target an additional time for 40% of normal damage. This effect can chain off of itself.
Stormbind	Passive	Critical strikes of your Nature abilities reduce the target's movement speed by 60% for 5 sec.
Elemental Weapons	Passive	Each active weapon imbue Increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage dealt by 5.0%.
Fire Nova	Passive	Voltaic Blaze generates 2 additional Maelstrom Weapon and has a 30% chance to cause a Fire Nova. Fire Nova Erupt a burst of fiery damage from all targets affected by your Flame Shock, dealing 34 Volcanic damage to up to 6 targets within 8 yds of your Flame Shock targets.
Lashing Flames	Passive	Lava Lash and Sundering increases the damage of Flame Shock on its target by 100% for 20 sec.
Ride the Lightning	Passive	Stormstrike and Lava Lash unleash a Chain Lightning at 100% effectiveness that deals 20% reduced damage with each jump.
Doom Winds	Instant - Melee Range - 1 Min Cooldown	Unleash a devastating storm around yourself, dealing 42 Stormstrike damage every 1 sec to nearby enemies for 8 sec. Increases your chance to activate Windfury Weapon by 100%, and the damage of Windfury Weapon by 20%.
Sundering	Instant - 30 Sec Cooldown	Shatters a line of earth in front of you with your main hand weapon, causing 88 Flamestrike damage to any enemy hit.
Lightning Strikes	Passive	Consuming 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon increases the damage of your next Stormstrike or Lava Lash by 25% and causes them to generate a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Elemental Assault	Passive	Stormstrike damage is increased by 20%, and Stormstrike and Lava Lash have a 100% chance to generate 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Static Accumulation	Passive	During Doom Winds or Ascendance, you generate 2 Maelstrom Weapon stacks every 1 sec.
Feral Spirit	Passive	Casting Sundering summons 1 Fire Feral Spirit and Doom Winds summons 1 Nature Feral Spirits by your side for 8 sec. Feral Spirit An Elemental Spirit Wolf infused with Fire or Nature magic, granting the summoner with 5% increased Fire or Nature damage and 5% Physical damage for 8 sec.
Surging Elements	Passive	Casting Sundering grants you 15% Haste for 12 sec, and generates 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon.
Thunder Capacitor	Passive	Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning deal 20% increased damage and have a 20% chance to refund the Maelstrom Weapon spent.
Deeply Rooted Elements	Passive	Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon consumed has a 0.6% chance to activate Ascendance for 6.0 sec. Ascendance Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec and unleash Doom Winds, reducing the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 60%, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range.
Ascendance	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec and unleash Doom Winds, reducing the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 60%, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range. Maelstrom Weapon spenders have a 0.5% chance to unleash Doom Winds per Maelstrom Weapon spent while Ascendance is not active.
Thorim's Invocation	Passive	Doom Winds and Deeply Rooted Elements last 2 sec longer, and the cooldown of Ascendance is reduced by 60 sec. During Doom Winds or Ascendance, Stormstrike and Crash Lightning consume up to 10 Maelstrom Weapon to discharge a Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning at 100% effectiveness at your enemy, whichever you most recently used.
Primordial Storm	Passive	Sundering transforms into a single use Primordial Storm for 15 sec after it is cast. Primordial Storm Devastate nearby enemies with a Primordial Storm dealing 38 Flamestrike, 38 Froststrike, 38 Stormstrike damage, and unleashing a Lightning Bolt or a Chain Lightning at 150% effectiveness. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Consumes Maelstrom Weapon for increased damage.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow for deeper customization of the Enhancement Shaman class fantasy, further enhancing its combat effectiveness.

Totemic

Name	Cast	Effect
Surging Totem	Passive
Totemic Rebound	Passive	Chain Heal now jumps to a nearby totem within 20 yards once it reaches its last target, causing the totem to cast Chain Heal on an injured ally within 30 yards for 852. Jumps to 2 nearby targets within 20 yards.
Amplification Core	Passive	While Surging Totem is active, your damage and healing done is increased by 3%.
Oversurge	Passive	Surging Totem deals 50% more damage while Ascendance or Healing Tide Totem is active.
Lively Totems	Passive	When you summon a Healing Tide Totem, Healing Stream Totem, or Spirit Link Totem you cast a free instant Chain Heal at 100% effectiveness.
Totemic Momentum	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Healing Stream Totem by 3 sec.
Oversized Totems	Passive	Increases the size and radius of your totems by 15%, and the health of your totems by 30%.
Swift Recall	Passive	Successfully removing a harmful effect with Tremor Totem or Poison Cleansing Totem, or controlling an enemy with Capacitor Totem or Earthgrab Totem reduces the cooldown of the totem used by 5 sec. Cannot occur more than once every 20 sec per totem.
Wind Barrier	Passive	If you have a totem active, your totem grants you a shield absorbing 1,833 damage for 30 sec every 30 sec.
Splitstream	Passive	Your Healing Stream Totems heals an additional ally at 30% effectiveness. Healing Tide Totem healing increased by 25%.
Elemental Attunement	Passive	Mastery increased by 2%.
Imbuement Mastery	Passive	Increases the duration of your Earthliving effect by 3 sec.
Pulse Capacitor	Passive	Increases the healing done by Surging Totem by 25%.
Supportive Imbuements	Passive	Learn a new weapon imbue, Tidecaller's Guard. Tidecaller's Guard Imbue your shield with the element of Water for 1 hour. Your healing done is increased by 2.0% and the duration of your Healing Stream Totem is increased by 3.0 sec.
Totemic Coordination	Passive	Chain Heals from Lively Totem and Totemic Rebound are 25% more effective.
Earthsurge	Passive	Allies affected by your Earthliving effect receive 15% increased healing from you.
Primal Catalyst	Passive	Healing Stream Totem and Healing Tide Totem healing has a 20% chance to apply Earthliving to allies it heals.
Whirling Elements	Passive	Elemental motes orbit around your Surging Totem. Your abilities consume the motes for enhanced effects. Water: Your next Healing Wave also heals an ally inside of your Healing Rain at 50% effectiveness. Air: The cast time of your next healing spell is reduced by 40%. Earth: Your next Chain Heal applies Earthliving at 150% effectiveness to all targets hit.

Stormbringer

Name	Cast	Effect
Tempest	Passive	Each Maelstrom Weapon spent has a 2.00% chance to upgrade your next Lightning Bolt to Tempest.
Unlimited Power	Passive	Spending Maelstrom Weapon stacks grants you 1% haste for 15 sec. Multiple applications may overlap.
Stormcaller	Passive	Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature damage spells by 5% and the critical strike damage of your Nature spells by 5%.
Lightning Conduit	Passive	You have a chance to get struck by lightning, increasing your movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. The effectiveness is increased to 100% in outdoor areas. You call down a Thunderstorm when you Reincarnate.
Electroshock	Passive	Tempest increases your movement speed by 20% for 5 sec.
Stormwell	Passive	Storm Elemental lasts 2 sec longer, and Stormkeeper generates 10 Maelstrom.
Storm Swell	Passive	Tempest grants 7% Mastery for 6 sec.
Supercharge	Passive	Lightning Bolt, Tempest, and Chain Lightning have a 35% chance to refund 2 Maelstrom Weapon stacks.
Arc Discharge	Passive	Tempest causes your next Chain Lightning to be instant cast, deal 20% increased damage, and cast an additional time. Can accumulate up to 2 charges.
Rolling Thunder	Passive	Doom Winds summons a Nature Feral Spirit for 12 sec. Feral Spirit An Elemental Spirit infused with Nature magic, granting the summoner with 5% increased Nature damage and 5% Physical damage for 12 sec.
Natural Gift	Passive	Nature damage is increased by 2%
Voltaic Surge	Passive	Crash Lightning and Chain Lightning damage increased by 15%.
Conductive Energy	Passive	Gain the effects of the Lightning Rod talent: Lightning Rod Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning make your target a Lightning Rod for 8 sec. Lightning Rods take 10% of all damage you deal with Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning.
Nature's Protection	Passive	Lightning Shield reduces the damage you take by 3%.
Surging Currents	Passive	Casting Tempest grants Surging Currents, increasing the effectiveness of your next Chain Heal or Healing Surge by 20%, up to 100%.
Descending Skies	Passive	Casting Ascendance upgrades your next Lightning Bolt to Tempest.
Awakening Storms	Passive	Stormstrike has a small chance to upgrade your next Lightning Bolt to Tempest.

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with War Mode enabled, these talents optimize a Enhancement Shaman 's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players.

Name	Cast	Effect
Shamanism		Your Heroism spell now has a 60 sec cooldown, but increases Haste by 20%, and only affects you and your friendly target when cast for 10 sec. In addition, Heroism is no longer affected by Exhaustion.
Totem of Wrath		Primordial Wave summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec that increases the critical effect of damage and healing spells of all nearby allies within 40 yards by 15% for 15 sec.
Counterstrike Totem		Summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec. Whenever enemies within 20 yards of the totem deal direct damage, the totem will deal 100% of the damage dealt back to attacker.
Grounding Totem		Summons a totem at your feet that will redirect all harmful spells cast within 30 yards on a nearby party or raid member to itself. Will not redirect area of effect spells. Lasts 3 sec.
Static Field Totem		Summons a totem with 4% of your health at the target location for 6 sec that forms a circuit of electricity that enemies cannot pass through.
Burrow		Burrow beneath the ground, becoming unattackable, removing movement impairing effects, and increasing your movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. When the effect ends, enemies within 6 yards are knocked in the air and take 2,508 Physical damage.
Electrocute		When you successfully Purge a beneficial effect, the enemy suffers 1,596 Nature damage over 3 sec.
Lightning Lasso		Grips the target in lightning, stunning and dealing 2,660 Nature damage over 5 sec while the target is lassoed. Can move while channeling.