How to gear for enhancement?
Four stats are important for enhancement shamans. They are: – Tohit: If you don’t hit, you can’t WF. WF procs give damage, crits for flurry and unleashed rage, and mana with shamanistic rage. Enhance/resto shamans can get 9% tohit from talents. The first 5% is absolutely essential and should be your top talent/gear priority, as 5% is required to totally eliminate misses with WF and stormstrike. – Attack power: Measures how hard you hit. 1 STR = 2 AP. – Crit: Crits do damage and proc flurry and unleashed rage. Enhance shamans can get 5% crit from talents, but this doesn’t apply to WF or stormstrike. – Haste: Due to the 3s windfury cooldown period, haste is less desirable for shamans than other classes. Unless it pushes you through a threshold where your weapon attacks faster than 1.5s or 3.0s, haste will still be a buff, and will still increase the number of windfury, unleashed rage, and flurry procs. Tests have shown that haste is still the most valuable use of item budget point for po
