Enhancement Shaman Hero Talent Showdown in The War Within - Stormbringer vs. Totemic

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Unsure what Hero Talents to play for Enhancement in The War Within? Our Enhancement Writer, Wordup, pits both Hero Talent against each other in a variety categories to determine which reigns supreme for the content you're looking to do in the upcoming expansion. Join us as we explore The War Within Enhancement Shaman!

Enhancement Shaman in the War Within

Enhancement Shaman going into The War Within is in a very interesting spot. Throughout Dragonflight it had two sub-specs (Elementalist and Storm) that co-existed and fought each other for viability, and that's looking like it will continue forward despite the addition of Hero Talents. That means that, while there are some structural changes to how each of them operate in context with the new trees, there's potentially four variants in the spec at once, which while cool means it may be a bit overwhelming deciding what to play going forward.

The core spec gameplay remains mostly the same, and it got the desperately needed talent point reductions to make all this happen. While it was a bit of a strange beta period with some very late changes coming in under the wire, they did wonders for broadening us out into a more robust spec without losing the identity of either sub-spec. While it still has some wrinkles and there are definitely some quirks that could do with being addressed in the future (such as bloat and abandoned talents) that some people are rightfully unhappy about, the overall state of spec in terms of both tuning and flexibility is looking bright.

Hero Talent Showdown: Stormbringer vs. Totemic

As Enhancement Shaman has spent the past expansion with two separate builds, injecting hero talents in is a bit more complicated than others. Interestingly enough, both of our