Enhance at end game-worthwhile?Follow

Is Enhance worthwhile at end game and more importantly are there guilds out there that will accept you?......just wanting to know if its worth levelling mh shammy who I really like or whether i should stick to my lvl 22 Holy paladin.... I am wanting to play Holy at end game with the pally but i dont want to be helaer with the Shaman.........

Get an enhance shaman into a melee group in a raid, and he's well worth having for the sake of the DPS of the group. Improved Weapon Totems and Improved Enhancing Totems can really drive DPS when you have Windfury and Strength of Earth totems down.

The problem is tho that most raids would probably rather have you in a caster and healer group as Resto with Mana Tide, and an Earth Shield on the MT.

But IMO, there are enough Resto Shamans out there and few enough Enhancement at 70 that hopefully your raid has a Resto shammy already squatting with the casters so you can chill in with the Melees as Enhance.

So yeah, its basically down to whether your guild is willing to let you fulfill that role or not. If they already have some great Resto Shammies, and understand what you can bring to the table for the Melees as Enhance (the trouble is that many don't), you could have a very fulfilling life with your Enhance Shaman.

WTB more guilds out there with that sort of understanding.

Fortunately for me, my guild is cool with me being whatever spec as long as I perform the role well. I'm lucky to have them.

lol.

Gaudion, you have some great posts, but you are so down on shaman sometimes. Considering I'm usually top at 30-40% of grp dps in heroics, can offheal in place of CC, heroism for easy boss kills, buff the party...I very much doubt that shaman are worthless in heroics...

Same goes for Kara, though the dps lead is much lower % wise with other geared folk, I'm still top dps.

Granted I'm nearly full epics, but they are the crafted LW set and heroic/badges gear, so not that great. I'm elemental, but I'm now gearing for enhancement.

Point is, dps shaman are great for heroics and kara, as well as 25-mans. Granted, for heroics if you have a decent tank or a couple CC it makes things easier. But I was 3-man'ing heroic bot with 2 pally's the other day :) Get a pally tank and some purples and you'll have no worries.

Enhancement is an underplayed spec at 70 and some guilds will die to have a windfury bot in their group lol. That's why I'm gearing up :)

That's pretty much it and anyone who says otherwise is either used to running in full Tier 4-6 or is selling something.

Your damage means precisely jack in heroics. You could be doing 100% of your party's damage and it still would not matter one bit more. Heroics are all about the tank's gear, the heals, and the CC. DPS is by far the least important thing on the table.

Kara, likewise, has certain CC requirements. Thankfully, it's much more forgiving than heroics, only two of your five DPS really need CC, which is why DPS Shaman can get in, but only if and only after those CC requirements are met. If your raid had, for example, a Rogue, a Fury Warrior, a Balance Druid, and a Shadow Priest DPS'ing, and their choice was either you or another Shadow Priest... they're going to take the Shadow Priest because they want that shackle. Doesn't matter how much better your damage is than that Priest's, it doesn't even begin to factor into the equation.

I honestly don't see what the problem is with shamans and kara. My guilds team 4 has 3 shaman (2 elemental, 1 enhancement) and they were the first to down nightbane, and netherspite.