Enhancement Shaman

Stormbringer

Reliable ⓘPatched ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Enhancement Shaman (Stormbringer) deals 78% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 39 of 51) and 79% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 36 of 51). In M+, SimulationCraft's build is already the best we found for the button.

At a glance

4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	368,472	77.9%−22.09%	56.6%−43.38%	93.2%−6.83%	39 of 51
Raid boss	248,221	79.1%−20.86%	58.1%−41.87%	94.5%−5.49%	36 of 51

Against real +15 players

Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026

−7%damage with the button and cooldowns, simulated on real +15 routes, against typical Enhancement Shaman (Stormbringer) players, from 764 real runs.

All specs against real players, and how it is measured

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What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

78%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 57%, Assisted Highlight 93%.

Manual368.7Kreference
SBA + cooldown287.5K78% of manual
SBA alone208.5K57% of manual
Assisted Highlight344.1K93% of manual

The assistant uses Chain Lightning 68% less.Chain Lightning: 25.3 casts in manual play (6.4% of its damage), 8 with SBA + cooldown. This is a real loss of the assistant: the figure stands.

Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0002-shaman-enhancement-sba-auto-attack. Blizzard's list has no weapon-swing line and SimulationCraft never started the swings (in the game any melee ability does). The patch starts them. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Patched: SimulationCraft needs a fix to play Blizzard's list for this spec.Patch 0009-shaman-sba-flame-shock-becomes-voltaic-blaze. In the game the Flame Shock button becomes Voltaic Blaze when it is talented; SimulationCraft never pressed Voltaic Blaze. The patch lets the button become Voltaic Blaze. Without the fix (SimulationCraft as published, or Raidbots) the assistant's figures differ; manual play is not affected.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

SimulationCraft's build is already the best we found for one-button play in M+.

Best of 13 builds tested with the button (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-10-30: SimulationCraft's own build.

SimulationCraft's build (best in M+ for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

CcQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMzMzgZmZmZmhZmZAAAAAAAAA2AsZGDLkFYGGawCAzyMmxYZZGYmZbsMzMzMGGzAAMDjZGGBmZwgxA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

SimulationCraft's raid build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-10): it starts from SimulationCraft's raid build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats SimulationCraft's raid build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps SimulationCraft's raid build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

SimulationCraft's raid build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

CcQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMzMzgZmZmZmhZmZAAAAAAAAA2AsZGDLkFYGGawCAzyMmxYZZGYmZbsMzMzMGGzAAMDjZGGBmZwgxA

In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Lightning Rod	29.8K8.1% · 626.2 casts	17.9K6.2% · 403.1 casts	−11.9K
Crash Lightning (Proc)	27.5K7.5% · 162 casts	16.7K5.8% · 115.4 casts	−10.8K
Fire Nova (Explosion)	24.4K6.6% · 98.6 casts	21.6K7.5% · 84.7 casts	−2,825
Chain Lightning (Ti)	23.7K6.4% · 25.3 casts	7,5132.6% · 8 casts	−16.2K
Chain Lightning	19.1K5.2% · 20.7 casts	22.3K7.7% · 17 casts	+3,192
Crash Lightning (Unleashed)	22.1K6.0% · 288.6 casts	19.5K6.7% · 242.9 casts	−2,672
Tempest	21.8K5.9% · 15.9 casts	11.4K4.0% · 11.7 casts	−10.4K
Crash Lightning	21.6K5.9% · 60.5 casts	18.9K6.6% · 51.3 casts	−2,642
Tempest (Ti)	17.8K4.8% · 13.1 casts	14.7K5.1% · 11.9 casts	−3,156
Doom Winds (Damage)	17.0K4.6% · 65.9 casts	13.9K4.8% · 63.5 casts	−3,036
Chain Lightning (Ss Rtl)	15.3K4.2% · 113.8 casts	11.1K3.9% · 78.4 casts	−4,163
Voltaic Blaze	14.4K3.9% · 31.8 casts	11.9K4.1% · 26.2 casts	−2,503
Perfected Guillotine	10.8K2.9% · 24.7 casts	10.9K3.8% · 24.5 casts	+73
Stormstrike (MH)	9,0562.5% · 113.8 casts	7,2482.5% · 78.4 casts	−1,808
Windfury Attack	9,0462.5% · 828.4 casts	7,8232.7% · 695.2 casts	−1,223
Chain Lightning (Ws Rtl)	7,5522.0% · 37.1 casts	4,8991.7% · 30.2 casts	−2,653
Lightning Bolt	6,0761.6% · 20.7 casts	7,4072.6% · 23.4 casts	+1,331
Lightning Bolt (Ti)	6,7001.8% · 22.5 casts	6,4492.2% · 22.5 casts	−251
Main-Hand Swing	5,8991.6% · 241.7 casts	6,1112.1% · 234 casts	+212
Windstrike (MH)	5,6821.5% · 37.1 casts	4,1421.4% · 30.2 casts	−1,540
Flametongue Attack	5,1101.4% · 1821.9 casts	4,4651.5% · 1547.9 casts	−645
Flame Shock	4,7731.3% · 101.6 casts	4,9251.7% · 91.6 casts	+152
Stormstrike Off-Hand	4,4721.2% · 113.8 casts	3,5831.2% · 78.4 casts	−889
Chain Lightning (Ad Rtl)	3,9161.1% · 23 casts	3,1831.1% · 20.6 casts	−733
Chain Lightning (Ad)	3,6171.0% · 5.1 casts	1,3520.5% · 1.9 casts	−2,265
Off-Hand Swing	2,8620.8% · 237.6 casts	2,9651.0% · 229.8 casts	+103
Windstrike Off-Hand	2,8070.8% · 37.1 casts	2,0480.7% · 30.2 casts	−759
Venomfang Burst	2,5250.7% · 73.2 casts	2,5790.9% · 72.5 casts	+54
Windlash	2,4970.7% · 51.7 casts	2,1060.7% · 45.1 casts	−391
Devour Morsel	1,8010.5% · 34.4 casts	2,2760.8% · 43.6 casts	+475
Stormblast (Stormstrike MH)	2,2180.6% · 48.9 casts	1,6010.6% · 31.5 casts	−617
Acidbrood Scourge	2,0880.6% · 24.6 casts	2,1220.7% · 24.4 casts	+34
Void Eruption	2,0250.5% · 33.4 casts	2,0560.7% · 33.3 casts	+31
Venomfang	1,9050.5% · 76.8 casts	1,9230.7% · 76.1 casts	+18
Lava Lash	1,6850.5% · 11 casts	1,2300.4% · 6.9 casts	−455
Chain Lightning (Ll Rtl)	1,3390.4% · 11 casts	1,5170.5% · 6.9 casts	+178
Stormblast (Windstrike MH)	1,4900.4% · 15.5 casts	1,0160.4% · 12.1 casts	−474
Ascendance (Damage)	1,2440.3% · 3.3 casts	1,0530.4% · 3.5 casts	−191
Windlash Off-Hand	1,2220.3% · 51.4 casts	1,0450.4% · 45.1 casts	−177
Stormblast (Stormstrike Offhand)	1,0950.3% · 48.9 casts	7920.3% · 31.5 casts	−303
Rune of Unleashed Fire	9240.3% · 54.3 casts	9200.3% · 54.1 casts	−4
Stormblast (Windstrike Offhand)	7360.2% · 15.5 casts	5030.2% · 12.1 casts	−233
Melee (Lightning Wolf)	5060.1% · 112.8 casts	4930.2% · 106.2 casts	−13
Rune of Lingering	2670.1% · 54.3 casts	2660.1% · 54.1 casts	−1
Total	368.6K	288.5K	−80.1K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Enhancement Shaman (Stormbringer)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Enhancement Shaman (Stormbringer) with the one-button rotation?

SimulationCraft's build: it was the best of 13 builds tested with the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

How much DPS does Enhancement Shaman (Stormbringer) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Enhancement Shaman

Enhancement Shaman · TotemicM+ −18.65% · raid −21.22%

Other Shaman specs

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.